Democratic Northwest and Henry County news. [volume] (Napoleon, O. [Ohio]) 1894-1905, 1895-04-11

tnTOuRnf came through the lWolltl
gate Glory to God. l2 gates, but one
heaven.
In the third place, notice the points of
the compass toward which these gates
ook They are not on one side, or on two
sides, or ON three sides. but ON four sides
This is no fancy of mine, but distinct
announcement. On the north three gates,
IN the south three gates, ON the east three
| gates on the west three gates. What does
4 that meani Why, it means that all M
| tionalities nre included, and it docs not
make any difference from what quarter Of
| the earth man comes up. IL his heart Is
right there is a gate open before him. On
| the north three gates. That means mer-
\ cy for Lapland and Siberia and Norway
and Sweden. On the south three gates.
| That means pardon for Hindustan and
1 Algiers and Ethiopia. On the east three
i gates. That means salvation for China
| and Japan and Borneo. On the west three
1 gates That means redemption for Amer
| lea. 1t does not make any difference how
4 dark skinned or how pale faced men may
be. They will find a gate right before
| them. Those plucked bananas under
| tropical sun. These shot across Russian
| SHOWS behind reindeer. From Mexican
plateau, from Roman campania, from
| Chinese teafield, from Holland dixie, from
Scotch highlands, they come, they come.
Heaven is not monopoly for few pre-
1 cious souls. 1t is not Windsor castle
built only for royal families 1t is not a
small town with small population, but
John saw 1t, and he noticed that an angel
was measuring it, and he measured 1t this
| way, and then lie measured it that way
| and which ever way he measured 1t it was
| /, 500 miles, so that Babylon and Tyre
and Nineveh and st. Petersburg and Can
ton and Peking and Paris and London
and New York and all the dead cities of
the past and all the living cities of tho
present added together would not equal
the census of that great metropolis.
Walking along street, you can, by the
contour of the dress, or of the face, guess
where man comes from. You say, THAT
is Frenchman; that is a Norwegian; that
is an American. But the gates that gath
er in tho righteous will bring them in ire
spective of nationality. Foreigners some
times get homesick. Some of the tender
est and most pathetic stories have been
told of those who left their 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
luxuriant harvest field he left now that
be hears the hum and the rustic of the
harvests of everlasting light. The royal
ones from earth will not long to go back
again to the earthly court now that they
stand in the palaces 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 l2 manner Of fruit.
Room For the Little Folk.
While speak an ever increasing throng
is pouring through the gates. They are
going up from Senegambia, from Patago-
mia, from Madras, from Hongkong.
what" you say, ''do you introduce all
the heather into gloryf" tell you the fact
is that 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 China
and India, the vast majority of those
who die in Africa go 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 15, 600, 600, 600 children
in glory If at a concert 1000 children
sing, your soul is raptured within you.
, Oh, tho transport when 10, 1000, 600, 600
little ones stand up in white before the
, throne Of God. their chanting drowning
out all the stupendous harmonies of Dus-
seldorf and Leipsic Pour in through the
, 12 gates
Oh, ye redeemed, banner lifted, rank
after rank, saved battalion after saved
, battalion, until all the city of God shall
hear the tramp, trampl Crowd all the IL
, gates. Room yet Room on the thrones.
, Room in tho 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 missionaries tell it in pagoda and col
porteurs sound it across the western prai-
ries. Shout it to the Laplander ON his
, swift sled, halloo 1t to the Bedouin career
| ing across the desert Newsl News A
glorious heaven and 10 gates to get into
, it! Hear it! Oh, you thin blooded ma
, tions Of eternal winter-on the north three
, gates. Hear it'll Oh, you bronzed inhabit-
ants painting under equatorial heats-on
, the south three gates.
But notice when John saw these gates
j they were open-wide open. They will
not always be so. After awhile heaven
, will have gathered up all its intended pop
ulation, and the children of God will have
, come home Every crown is taken. Ev.
cry harp struck. Every throne mounted.
4 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. Rus
sia 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
, seventh gate shut. Norway in, and the
, eighth gate shut Switzerland in, and the
i ninth gate shut. Hindustan in, and the
tenth gate shut. Siberia in, and the elev
enth gate shut. All the gates are closed
but one Now, let America go in with al
. the islands of the sea and all the other ma
tions that have called on God. The cap
: tives 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 theil
shoulders to the gate and heave it to with
silvery clang. 1t is done, 1t thunders
The twelfth gate shut
Twelve Doorkeepers.
Once more Iwant to show you the gate
keepers. There is one angel ut each one Of
! those gates You say that is right. Of
course it is. You know that no ea1 1thly
palace or castle or fortress would be safe
without sentry pacing up and down by
: night and by day. and If there were nc
defenses before heaven, and the doors sci
q wide open with no one to guard them, al
tho vicious of earth would go up after
awhile, and all the abandoned of he'll
: would go up after awhile, and heaven, in
stead of being world of light and JOY
, and peace and blessednoss, would be {
, world of darkness and horror. So an