The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-11-02

and the royal family OF the redeemed
have their palaces there, and there Is
a congress of many nations and tho
parliament of all the world. Yea. as
Daniel had kindred in Jerusalem OF
whom he often thought. though he left
home when a very young man, per
haps father and mother and brothers
and sisters still living. and was home-
sick to see them. and they belonged to
tie high circles of royalty, Daniel
himself having royal blood in his
veins; so we have in the new Jerusa-
lem 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 joy for us to believe that
while we are interested in them they
are interested in US. Much thought OF
Heaven makes one heavenly. The airs
that blow through that open window
are charged with life and sweep mp 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. Hesiod's 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's heaven was the hall
of Walhalla, where the god Odin gave
amending wine suppers to earthly
/ heroes and heroines. The Mohamme-
dams heaven passes it's disciples in
over the bridge Al-Sirat, which Is finer
than hair and sharper than sword,
and then they are let loose into . riot
of everlasting sensuality.
The American aborigines look for
ward to heaven of illimitable hunt
ing ground, partridge and deer and
! wild duck more than plentiful, and the
hounds never off scent and the guns
never missing fire. But the geographer
| has followed the earth round and
found no Homer's elysium. voyagers
have trayersed the deep in all direc-
tions and found no Hesiod's islands OF
the blessed. The Mohammedan's celes-
tial debauchery and the Indians
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 draught
and miasma, and Punishment of neu-
ralgias, and catalepsies, and consump-
lions. All colors in the wall except
gloomy black; all the music in the ma
jor key, because celebrative and jubi-
liant. River crystalline, gate crystal
line, and skies crystalline, because
everything is clear and without doubt
: White robes. and that means slnless
ness. Walls full of odors, and thai
means pure regalement of the senses
Rainbow, and that means the storm
is over. Marriage supper, and thai
means gladdest festivity. Twelve
manner of fruits, and that means lus
cious and amending variety. Harp
trumpet, grand march, anthem
amen, and ha1lelujah, in the same or
chestru. Choral meeting solo, ant
overture meeting antiphon, and
,, strophe joining dithyramb, as the.
roll into the ocean Of doxologies. Ans
you and may have all that, and hav'
!, it forever through Christ, If we vii
let Him with the blood of ono wound
ed hand rub out our sin, and with tn
other wounded hand swing open tn
shining portals.
Day and night keep your window
open toward that Jerusalem. SIM
about it. Pray about it. Think abou
| it. Talk about it. Dream about II
Do not be inconsoiable about you
. friends who have gone into 1t. DO no
r worry if something in your heart indi
Gates that you are not far of from 1t
!, ecstasies. DO not think that when
!, Christian dies he stops, for he goes on
An ingenious udu Hos t0hCA IA
{ heavenly furlongs as mentioned Il
4 | Revelation, and has calculated tina
8 there will be in Heaven one hundre
. rooms sixteen feet square for each o.
: cending soul. though this world shout
. lose a hundred million souls yearly
But all the rooms of Heaven will b
Il ours, for they are family rooms; an
i as no room In. your house is to
d good for your children, so all tn
d rooms of all the palaces OF til
IS heavenly Jerusalem will be free
a Gods children. and even the thron
d rooln will not be denied, and you ma
It run up the steps OF the throne, an
!. put your hand on the side of tn
n throne. and sit down by the King o.
E cording to the promise: ITO him tbs
n overeometh will ! grant to sit wit
n me in my throne"
r But you cannot GO in except as COL
A. querors. Many years ago the Turl
le and Christians were in battle, and ii
1t Christians were defeated, and wilt
l. their commander Stephen fed towal
ID fortress where the mother OF tn
commander was staying. When she 50
d her son and his army in disgraceful r
n treat she had the & ties of the fortre
OF ~oll,l el,uf and then from thu ton