The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-04-17

America. 1t does not make any diff
faced men may be. They will find
gate right before them Those pluckeG.
bananas under a tropical sue. These
shot across Russian SHOWS b. hind rein
deer From Mexican planteau, from
Roman campania, from Chinese tea
field, from Holland Dyke, from Scotch
highlands, they come. they come.
Heaven IS not a monopoly for 4 few
precious souls. 1t is not Windsor
castle built only for royal families. 1t
IS not small town with small popula-
ton. but John saw it, and he noticed
that an angel was measuring it, and
he measured it this way, and then be
measured it that way. and which ever
way he measured it it was 1,500 miles,
so that Babylon and Tyre and Nine
yah and st. Petersburg and Canton
and Peking and Paris and London
and New York and all the dead cities
of the past and all the living cities of
the present added together would not
equal the census of that great metro
polls.
Walking along street, you can, by
the contour of the dress, or of the face,
guess where man comes from. You
say, THAT is a Frenchman; that is a
Norwegian; that is an American >
But the gates that gather in the right
eoNs will bring them in irrespective Of
nationality. Foreigners sometimes
get homesick. Some of the tenderest
and most pathetic stories have been
told of those who left theis 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 luxu-
RANT harvest field he left now that he
hears the hum and the rustic of the
harvests Of everlasting light. The
roval ones from earth will not long to
90 back again to the earthly court now
that they stand in the places 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 -
manner of fruit.
While l speak an ever increasing
throng is pouring through the gates.
They are going up from Senegambla,
from Patagonia, from Madras. from
Hongkong. What" you say, do
you Introduce all the heather into
glory" I tell you the fact is that a
majority of the people in those climes
die in infancy, and the infants all go
straight into eternal life, and so the
vast majority of those who die in Chi
ma and India, the vast majority of
those who die in Africa 60 straight
into the skies-they die in infancy.
One hundred and sixty generations
have been born since the world was
created, and so I estimate that there
must be $4,000, 100000 children in
glory. If at concert 1000 children
sing, your soul is raptured within you.
Oh, the transport when Is, 600, 900, 600
little ones stand up in white before
the throne of God, their chanting
drowning out all the stupendous har-
monies of Dusseldorf and Loipsic.
Pour in through the II gates.
Oh, We redeemed, banner lifted, rank
after rank, saved battalion after saved
battalion, until all the city of God
shall hear the tramp, tramp, Crowd
all the u gates. Room yet. Room on
the thrones. Room in the mansions.
Room on the river bank. Let the
trumpet of invitation be sounded until
all earth's mountains hear the shrill
blast and glens echo it. Let mission
aries tell it in pagoda and colporteurs
sound it across the western prairleS.
Shout it to the Laplander on his swift
sled, halioo it to the Bedouin career
ing across the desert. News. News. A
glorious heaven and 12 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 inhabitants painting under
equatorial heats-on the south three
gates.
But notice when John saw these
gates they were open-wlde open.
They will not always be so. After
awhile heaven will have gathered up
all its intended population, and the
children of God will have come home.
Every crown is taken. Every harp
struck. Every throne mounted. All
the glories of the universe harvested
in the great garner. And, heaven
being made up, of course the gates
will be shut. Austria in, and the first
gate shut. Russia in, and the second
gate shut. Italy in, and the third
gate shut. Egypt in, and the fourth
gate shut. Spain in, and the fifth
gate shut. France IN, and the sixth
gate shut. England in, and the sew
enth gate shut. Norway in, and the
eighth gate shut. Switzerland in, and
the ninth gate shut. Hindustan in,
and the tenth gate shut. Siberia in,
and the eleventh gate shut. All the
gates are closed but one Now, let
America 60 in with all the Islands Of
the sea and all the other nations that
have called on God. The captives all
freed. The harvests all gathered. The
nations all saved. The flashing splen-
dor of this last pearl begins to move
on its hinges. Let two mighty angels
put their shoulders to the gate and
heave it to with silvery clang 1t is
done. It thunders The twelfth gate
shut.
Once more I want to show you the
gatekeepers. There is one angel at
each one of those gates. You say that
is right. Of course it IS. You know
that no earthly palace or fortress
would be safe without sentry pacing
up and down by night and by day,
and if there were no defenses before
heaven, and the doors set wide open
with no one to guard them, and the
vicious of earth would 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
joy and peace and blessedness, would