The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1895-04-12

third gate" "Cranmer, how did You
get imp Il came through the eighth
gate" ''Adoniram Judson, how did
you get through?" 81 came through
the seventh gate" Hugh McKail,
the martyr, how did you get through"
81 came through the twelfth gate
Glory to God, twelve gates but one
Heaven.
In the third place, notice the points
of the compass toward which these
gates look. They are not on one side,
or on two sides, or three sides, but on
four sides This is no fancy of mine,
but distinct announcement. On the
north three gates, on the south three
gates, on the east three gates, on the
west three gates. What does that
mean? Why, it means that all national
tiles are included, and it does not make
any difference from what quarter of the
earth man comes up. If his heart is
right, there is a gate open before him.
On the north three gates. That means
mercy for Lapland and Siberia and
Norway and Sweden. On the south
three gates. That means pardon for
Hindustan and Algiers and Ethiopia.
On the east three gates. That means
salvation for China Japan and Borneo.
On the west three gates That means
redemption for America. 1t does not
make any difference how dark skinned
be. They find a gate right before
them. Those plucked bananas under
tropical sun. These shot across Rus
sian SHOWS behind reindeer. From
Mexican plateau, from Roman cam
pania, from Chinese tea field. from
Holland dixie, from Scotch highlands,
they come, they come. Heaven IS
not a monopoly for a few precious
souls. 1t is not Windsor castle built
only for royal families. 1t is not
small town with small population, but
John saw it, and he noticed that an
angel was measuring it, and he meas
ured it this way, and then he measured
it that way. and whichever way he
measured it it was 1900 miles, so that
Babylon and Tyre and Nineveh and
st. Petersburg and Canton and PEEK
and Paris and London and New York
and all the dead cities of the past and
all the living cities of the present add
ed together would not equal the CEN
sus of that great metropolis.
Walking along street. You can. by
the contour of the dress, or the face.
guess where man comes from. You
say, THAT is a Frenchman; that is
Norwegian; that is an American But
the gates that gather in the righteous
will bring them in irrespective of ma
tionality. Foreigners sometimes get
homesick Some of the tenderest and
most pathetic stories have been told of
those who left their native CLINE, and
longed for it until they died. But the
Swiss. coming to the high residence of
Heaven, will not long any more for the
Alps. standing amid the eternal hills.
The Russian will not long any more
for the luxuriant harvest field he left
now that he hears the hum and the
rustic of the harvest of everlasting
light. The royal ones from earth will
not long to go back again to the EARTH
" court now that they stand in the
palaces of the sun. Those who once
lived among the groves of spice and
oranges will not long to return now
that they stand under the trees of life
that bear 10 manner of fruit.
While speak an everlasting thronR
is pouring through the gates. They
are going up from Senegambia. fro1n
Patagonia. from Madras, from Hong
Kong. What" you say, do you in
troduce all the heather into glory?"
tell you the fact is that a majority Of
the people in those chimes die in in
fancy. and the infants ali go straight
into eternal life. and SO the vast
majority of those who die in China and
India, the vast majority of those who
die in Africa go straight into the
skies-they die in infancy. One hum
dred and sixty generations have been
born since the world was created, and
so l estimate there must be $1,000 O00,-
900 children in glory. Ii at Il concert
1000 children sing, your soul is rap
tured within you. On, the transport
when $1,000, 600, 900 little ones stand up
in white before the throne of God,
their chanting drowning out all the
stupendous harmonies of Dusseldorf |
and Leipsic. Pour in through the
twelve gates.
Oh. We redeemed, banner lifted, |
rank after rank, saved battalion after |
saved battalion. until the city of God |
shall hear the tramp, tramp. Crowd |
all the twelve gates. Room vet. |
Room on the thrones. Room in the |
mansions. Room on the river bank.
Let the trumpet of invitation be sound
ed until all earth's mountains hear
the shrill blast and glens echo it.
Let missionaries tell it in pagoda, and
sound it across the west
ern prairies. Shout it to the Lap
lander on his swift sled, halloo it to
the Bedouin careering across the des-
ert News! News! A glorious Heaven
and twelve gates to get into it, Hear
it! Oh, you thin-blooded nations of
eternal winter-on the north three
gates. Hear it! Oh, You bronzed in
habitants painting under equatorial
heats-on the south three gates
Once more l want TO show you the
There is one angel at
each one of those gates. You say that
is right. OF course it is. You know
thatno earthly palace or castle or fort
ress would be safe without a sentry
pacing up and down by night and by
iav, and if there were no defenses be-
fore Heaven, and the doors set wide
open with no one to guard them. all
the vicious of earth wonld go up after
awhile. and all the abandoned of hell
would go up after awhile, and Heaven,
instead of being a world of light and
1,1oSsad,,aSe would |