The Penn's Grove record., 1895-04-12

oil about Gods DEGREES, and they want to
know who are elected to be saved and who
are reprobated to be damned, and they are
keeping or discussing that subject wher
there are millions Of souls who need to have
the truth put straight at them. They sit
counting the number Of teeth In the jawbone
with which Samson slew the Philistines.
| They sit on the beach n see a
| vessel going to pieces in the oflng,
and instead of getting into q boat and
pulling away for the wreck, they sit discuss
ing the different styles OF oarlocks. God in-
tended US to know some things and intended
| us not to know others. / have heard scores
of sermon explanatory of Gods DEGREES, but
came away more perplexed than when ]
went. The only result of such discussion Is
a great fog. Here are two truths which are
10 conquer the world: Man, a sinner; Christ,
Saviour. Any man who adopts those two
theories in his religious belief shall have my
right hand In warm grip of Christian brother
hood.
A man comes down to a river in time Of
ireshet. He wants to get across. BE has to
swim. What does he do? The first thing ia
to put off his heavy apparel and drop every,
thing he has in his hands. He must go
empty handed If he Is going to the Other
bank. And I tell you when we have CONT
down to the river OF death and find 1t swift
and raging we will have to put off all out
sectarianism and lay down oil u cumbroui
creed and empty handed put out for the othel
shore. what" say you, would you
resolve all the Christian church into
one kind of church? Would you make
all Christendom worship in the same
way, by the same forms2" Oh,
no. You mightas well decide that all PEG
pie shall eat the same kind Of food without,
reference to appetite, or wear the same kind
OF apparel without reference to the shape oil
their body. Your ancestry, your temper@
ment, your surroundings will decide whether
you go to this or that church and adopt this
or that church polity. One church will best
get one man to heaven and another church
another man. l do not care which one Of
the gates you go through If you only go
through one Of the twelve gates that Jesus
lifted.
y Well, now I see all the redeemed Of earth
coming up toward heaven. Do you think
they will all get in2 Yes. Gate the first, the
Morayians come up; they believed in thu
Lord Jesus; they pass through. Gate thu
second, the Quakers come up; they lave
received the inward light; they have trusted
in the Lord; they pass through. Gate tn,
third, the Lutherans com up; they had tn,
same grace that made Luther what he was,
and they pass through. Gate the fourth, the
: 3aptists pass through. Gate the fifth, thu
/ Free Will Baptists pass through. Gate thu
sixth, the Reformed Church passes through
Gate the seventh, the Congregationalists
pass through. Gate the eighth, the German
Reformed Church passes through. Gate
the ninth, the Methodists pass through
Gate the tenth, the Sabbatarians pass
through. Gate the eleventh, the Church oil
the Disciples pass through. Gate thetwelfth,
the Presbyterians pass through. But there
are q great part of other denominations who
must come in, and great m%ultitudes who con,
nected themselves with no visible church
but felt the power of godliness in their hear
and showed it in their life. Where Is theil
gatel Will you shut all the remaining
host out of the city2 No. They MAJ
come In at our gate. Hosts of God, Il
entrance, ZONE In at the twelfth gate. Nov
they minsle before the throne.
Looking up at the one hundred and forty
and four thousand, you cannot tell which
gate they came in. One Lord, one faith, one
baptism, n CLASSY sea, one doxology, on
triumph, one heaven! "Why, Luther, how
did You get IMP" II came through the third
gate" "Crammer, how did you get imp %
came through the eighth gate" "Adonirau
Judson, how did you get t~hrough2'' 81 CANT
through the seventh gate" ssHugh McKaiI
the martyr, how did you get through" a
came through the twelfth gate" Glory tt
God, twelve gates, but one heaven!
In the third place, notice the points of thu
compass toward which these gates look.
They are not on one side, or on two sides, OF
on three sides, but on four sides. This Is nc
fancy of mine, but q distinct announcement.
On the north three gates, on the south three
| gates, OF the east three gates, on the west
three gates. What doesthat mean? Why, II
means all ~nationalities are included, and II
| does not make any difference from what
| quarter Of the earth a man comes up; If hi
heart is right, there Is a gate open befort
| him. On the north three gates. That mean
mercy for Lspland and Siberia and Norwa,
and Sweden. On the south three gates
That means pardon for Hindostan ant
Algiers and Ethiopia On the east thre,
gates. That salvation for Chin,
and Japan and Borneo. On the ives
three gates! That means redemption fol
| America, 1t does not make any differ
ence how dark skinned or how palt
faced men may be, they will find a gate
right before them. Those plucked bananas
under a tropical sun. These shot across
Russian SHOWS behind reindeer. From Mex
lean plateau, from Roman campania, from
Chinese teaield, from Holland dyke, from
Scotch Highlands they come. they come.
Heaven Is not q monopoly for a few precious
souls. 1t Is not a Windsor castle, built only
for royal families. 1t is not a small tow
with small population, but John saw 1t, and
he noticed that an angel was measuringit, and
he measured it this way, and then he meas.
ured it that way, and whichever way he
measured it 1t was 1900 miles, so that Baby.
lon. and Tyre and Nineveh and st. Peters.
burg and Canton and Pekin and Paris and
London and New York and all the dead cities
Of the past md all the living cities of the
present added together would not equal the
census OF that great metropolis.
Walking along a street, you can, by tn,
,ontour Of the dress or of the face, guess
whore q man comes from. You say: "That
Is a Frenchman; that is a Norwegian; that IL
an American" But the gates that gather in
the righteous will bring them in irrespective
Of nationality. Foreigners sometimes get
homesick. Some of the tenderest and most
pathetic stories have been told of those who
left their native cline and longed for 1t until
they died. Butthe 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 he
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 n oranges will
not long to return now thatthey stand under
the trees of life that bear twelve manner Of
fruit.
While 1 speak an everlasting throng Il
pouring through the gates. They are going
up from Senegambia, from Patagonia, from
Madras, from Hong Kong. what you say
edo you introduce all the heather into
glory2as tell you the fact is that a major
lily OF fhe people OF those chimes die In in
fancy, and the infants all go straight int
everlasting life, and so the vast majority o
those who die in China and India, the vas
majority who die in Africa, go straight int
the skns-they die in infancy. One huadret
and sixty generations have been born sine
ne world was created. ana so Iestimate that
there must be Ii, 900, 900 children in glory. II
At a concert 1000 children sing, your soul Is
raptured within you. Oh, the transport
when i5,000, 900 little ones stand up in white
before the throne Of God, their chant drown
Ing out all the stupendous harmonies ofDus
seldorf and Leipsic. Pour in through the
Twelve gates.
Oh, ye redeemed, banner lifted, rank after
rank, saved battalion after saved battalion,
until all the city OF God shall hear the
tramp, trampi 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 soundedun-
Ill all earth's mountains hear the shrlll blast
and the glens echo 1t. LET missionaries tell
It in pagoda and colporteurs sound 1t across
the western prairies. Shout II to the Laplan-
der on his swift sled. Halo II to the Bedouin
careering across the desert. News, newsl
A glorious heaven and twelve gates to get