The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1895-04-17


America. Tt does lot ina lse any diff;
| ference ow{darlS skinned OF how pnle
faced mon may be. They will find 8
gate right before them. Those plucked
bananas under q tropical sue. These
shot across Russian SHOWS behind roin-
deer. From Mexican planteau, from
Roman campania, from Chinese tea-
Held, from Holland Dyke, from Scotch
highlands, they come, they como.
tieayen is not monopoly fc. 9 fc;;
precious souls. 1t is not a Windsor
castle built only for royal families. 1t
Is not q 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 he
measured it that way, and which ever
way lie measured it it was /, 500 miles.
so that Babylon and Tyre and Nine,
yah and st. Petersburg and Canton
and Pelsing 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
tho contour of the dress, or OF tho face.
guess where man comes from. You
say, "That is Frenchman that is q
Norwegian; that is an American. I"
But the gates that gather in the right
COWS will bring them in irrespective of
nationality. Foreigners sometimes
get homesick. Some of tho 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 tho
harvests of everlasting light. The
royal ones from earth will not long to
go back again to tho 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 10
manner of fruit.
While | speak an over increasing
throng is pouring through the gates.
They are going up from Senegambia,
from Patagonia, from Madras. from
Hongkong "What," you say edo
you introduce all the heathen into
glorya" I tell you the fact is that a
majority OF tho people in those climcs
die in infancy, and the infants all go
straight into eternal life, and so the
vast majority of those who die in Chi
na and India. the vast majority of
those who die in Africa 90 straight
into the skies they die in infancy.
One hundred and sixty generations
have been born since the world was
created, and SO estimate that there
must be $4,000, 100000 children in
glory. If at q concert 1000 chiltlrcn
sing, your soul is raptured within you.
Oh, the transport when Is, 600 600, 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 III through the 10 gates.
Oh, ye 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 IL gates. Room yet. Room OH
the thrones. Room in the mansions.
Room on tho 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 prairies.
Shout it to the Laplander on his swift
sled, halloo it to the Bedouin career
ing across the desert News News A
glorious heaven, and 10 gates to get
into it! Hear it Oh, you thin blooded
nations of eternal wintcr-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 opcn-wide 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 como home
Every crown is taken. Every harp
struck. Every throne mounted. All
the glories Of the universe harvested
III 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 tho 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 thor shoulders to the gate and
heave it to with silvery clang It is
done. It thunders. The twelfth gate
shut.
Once moro 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 q 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 ono 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 q world of light and
JOY and peace and blessedness would
be the world of darkness and horror.
So | am glad to tell you that while