The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1895-09-13

lily OF tne redeemed nave their palaces
there, and there is congress of many
nations and parliament of all the world.
Yea, as Daniel had kindred in Jerusa-
lem of whom he often thought, though
ho left home when very young man,
perhaps father and mother and brothers
and sisters still living. and was home
sick to see them, and they belonged to
the high circles Of royalty, Daniel him
self having royal blood in his veins, so
we have in the New Jerusalem great
many kindred, and we are sometimes
homesick to see them, and they are all
princes and princesses, in them the
blood imperial, and we do we'll to keep
our windows open toward their eternal
residence.
1t is a joy for us to believe that while
we are interested in them they are in
terested in us, Much thought Of heaven
makes one heavenly. The airs that blow
through that open window are charged
with life, and sweep up to us aromas
from gardens that never wither. under
skies that never cloud, in spring tide
that never terminates. Compared with
it all other heavens are dead failures
Homer's heaven was an elysium
which he describes as plain at the end
of the earth or beneath, with no snow
nor rainfall. and the sun never goes
down, and Rhadamanthus, the justest Of
men, rules. Hesiods heaven is what he
calls the islands Of the blessed, in the
midst of the ocean, three times year
blooming with most exquisite flowers,
and the air is tinted with purple, while
games and music and horse races occupy
the time. The Scandinavian heaven
was the hall of Walhalla, where the
god Odin gave intending wine suppers
to earthly heros and heroines. The Mo-
hammedan's heaven passes its disciples
in over the bridge Al-Sirat, which is
finer than hair and sharper than a
sword. and then they are let loose into
a riot Of everlasting sensuality.
The American aborigines look for
ward to a heaven of illimitable hunting
ground, partridge and deer and wild
duck more than plentiful, and the
hounds never off the scent, and the
guns never missing fire. But the geog-'
rapher has followed the earth round
and found no Homer's elysium. Voya-
gers have traversed the deep in all direc-
tions and found no Hesiod's islands of
the blessed. The Mohammedan celes
tial debauchery and the indiana eternal
hunting ground for vast multitudes
have no charm. But here rolls in the
Bible heaven. No more sea-that is, no
wide separation. No more night-that
is, no insomnia No more tears-that
is, no heartbreak. No more pain-that
is, dismissal of lancet and bitter draft
and miasma and Punishment of neural
gias and catalepsies and consumptions.
All colors in the wall except gloomy
black. All the music in the major key
because celebrative and jubilant.
River crystalline, gate crystalline and
skies crystalline because everything is
clear and without doubt. White robes,
and that means sinlessness. Walls full
of odors, and that means pure regale
ment of the senses. Rainbow, and that
means the storm is over. Marriage sup
per, and that means gladdest festivity.
Twelve manner of fruits, and that
means luscious and intending variety.
Harp, trumpet, grand march, anthem,
amen and halleluiah in the same orches-
ira. Choral meeting solo, and overture
meeting antiphon, and strophe joining
dithyramb, as they roll into the ocean
of doxologies. And you and l may have
all that, and have it forever through
Christ if we will let him with the
blood of one wounded hand rub out our
sin, and with the other wounded hand
swing open the shining portals.
Think, Talk, Dream.
Day and night keep your window
open toward that Jerusalem. Sing about
it. Pray about it. Think about it. Talk
about it. Dream about it. Do not be in
consolable about your friends who have
gone into it. Do not worry II some
thing in your heart indicates that you
are not far off from its ecstasies. Do not
think that when a Christian dies he
stops, for he 6 .es on.
An ingenious man has taken the
heavenly furlongs as mentioned in Rev
citation and has calculated that there
will be in heaven 100 rooms 16 feet
square for each ascending soul, though
this world should lose 100, 900, 900
yearly. But all the rooms of heaven
will be ours, for they are family rooms,
and as no room i'll your house is too
good for your children, SO all the rooms
of all the palaces of the heavenly Jeru
salem will be free to God S children, and
even the throneroom will not be de-
MED, and you may run up the steps of
the throne, and put your hand on the
side Of the throne, and sit down beside
the King according to the promise, ITO
him that overcometh will grant to sit
with me in my throne.
But you cannot go in except as con-
querors. Many years ago the Turks and
Christians were in battle, and the Chris
tians were defeated, and with their
commander Stephen fled toward fort
ress where the mother of this com
mander was staying When she saw her
son and his army in disgraceful retreat,
she had the gates of the fortress rolled
shut, and then from the top of the bat
Element cried out to her son, You can
not enter here except as -conqueror. "
Then Stephen rallied his forces and re-
sumed the battle and gained the day,
10000 driving back 200, 900. For those
who are defeated in battle with sin and
death and hell nothing but shame and
contempt, but for those who gain the
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the gates of the new Jerusalem will
hoist, and there shall be an abundant
entrance into the everlasting kingdom
of our Lord, toward which you do well
to keep your windows open.
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