The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-04-12

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that bear ~ manner Of fruit.
4 While speak an everlasting thron
is pouring through the gates. The
are going up from Senegambia, fror
Patagonia, from Madras, from Hon.
Kong What" you say, do you in
troduce all the heather into glory?
/ tell you the fact is that a majority O
the people in those chimes die in in
fancy, and the infants all go straigh
into eternal life, and so the vas
majority of those who die in China ant
India, the vast majority of those VIII,
die in Africa go straight into thu
slSies-they die in infancy. One hun
dred and sixty generations have beer
| born since the world was created, ant
SO estimate there must be Is, 600 600,
600 children in glory. If at a concert
1000 children sing, your soul is rap
tured within you. Oh, the transport
when $1,000, 600, 600 little ones stand ur
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 yet.
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
colporteurs 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.
But / notice when John saw these
gates they were open-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 come home.
Every crown 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.
in, and the seventh gate shut.
Norway in, and the eighth gate shut.
Switzerland in, and the ninth gate
shut. Hindustan in, and the tenth
rate shut. Siberia in, and the elev-
nth gate shut. All the gates are
.losed but one. Now, let America go |
n with all the islands of the sea and |
III the other nations that have called
IN God. The captives all freed. The
all gathered. The nations all
aved. The flashing splendor of this
asst pearl begins to move on its hinges
let two mighty angels put their
houlders to the gate and heave it to
With silvery clang. 1t is done. 1t
numbers. The twelfth gate shut.
Once more want to show you the
atekeepers. There is one angel at
ach one of those gates. You say that
! right OF course it is. You know
hat no earthly palace or castle or fort
ess would be safe without a sentry
acing up and down by night and by
ay, and if there were no defenses be-
ore Heaven, and the doors set wide
pen with no one to guard them, all
he vicious of earth wonld go up after
while, and all the abandoned of hell
'ould go up after awhile, and Heaven,
lstead of being world of light and
" and peace and blessedness, would
e world of darkness and horror. So
am glad to tell you that while these 8
gates stand open to let great
altitude in, there are IL angels to
eep some people out. Robespieire J
IN not go through there, nor Hide
and, nor Nero, nor any of the de-
auched of earth who have not repented /
their wickedness. If one of those b
,farious men who despised God should Q
me to the gate, one of the keepers
ould put his hand on his shoulder and q
lsh him into outer darkness There I
no place in that land for thieves and
IRIS and whoremongers and defraud-
S and all those who disgraced their "
ce and fought against their God. If b
miser should get in there, he would
ii up the golden pavement If house
rner should get IN there he would b
fire to the mansion. If libertin~ b
ould get in there, he would whisper II
5 denominations standing on the white ;,
raj of the sea beach. Only those il
10 are blood washed and prayer [,