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

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would You resolve all the Christian
; church into one kind of church? Would
} you make all Christendom worship Il
J the same way. by the same forms?'
Oh, no. You might as well decide tina
all people shall eat the same kind o.
food without reference to appetite OF
wear the same kind of apparel without
reference to the shape of their body
Your ancestry, your temperament
your surroundings, will decide wheth'
er you go to this or that church and
adopt this or that church polity. One
church will best get one man to Heav-
en- and another church another man.
do not care which one of the
gates you go through if you only go
through one of the - gates that Jesus
lifted.
Well, now, see all the redeemed of
earth coming up toward Heaven. Do
you think they will all get in? Yes.
Gate the first, the Moravians come up;
they believed in the Lord Jesus; they
pass through. Gate the second, the
Quakers come up; they have received
the inward light they have trusted in
the Lord; they pass through. Gate the
third, the Lutherans come up;
they had the same grace that made
Luther what he was, and they
pass through. Gate the fourth, Bap-
lists pass through. Gate the fifth, the
Free Will Baptists pass through. Gate
the sixth, the Reformed church passes
through. Gate the seventh, the Congre-
gationalists 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 of the Disciples pass
through. Gate the twelfth the Presby-
terians pass through But there are
great part of other denominations who
must come in, and great multitudes
who connected themselves with no Wis
ible church but felt the power of godli-
ness in their heart and followed it in
their life. Where is their gateo Will
you shut all the remaining hosts out of
the city? No. They may come in at
our gate. Hosts of God, if you can not
get admission through any other en-
trance come in at the twelfth gate |
Now they mingle before the throne.
Looking up at the one hundred and |
forty and four thousand, you can tell
which gate they come in. One Lord.
One faith. One baptism. One CLASSY
sea. Quo doxology. One triumph
One Heaven! "Why, Luther, how did
you get IMP" 81 came through the
third gate" "Cranmer, how did you
ret IMP" II came through the eighth
gate" "Adoniram Judson, how did
you get through?' 81 came through
he seventh gate" Hugh McKail.
he martyr, how did you get through"
i came through the twelfth gate"
2lory to God, twelve gates but one
1eaven.
In the third place, notice the points
# the compass toward which these
.ates look. They are not on one side,
# on two sides, or three sides, but on
our sides. This is no fancy of mine,
nut distinct announcement. On the
orth three gates, on the south three
ates, on the east three gates, on the .
rest three gates. What does that
,ean? Why, it means that all national
lies are included, and it does not make
ny difference from what quarter of the
arth man comes up. If his heart is :
ight, there is a gate open before him. !;
n the north three gates. That means ,
,ercy for Lapland and Siberia and I.
'orway and Sweden. On the south !,
nree gates. That means pardon for !
Iindustan and Algiers and Ethiopia. {
n the east three gates. That means :
aviation for China Japan and Borneo.
n the west three gates. That means =
sdemption for America. 1t does not :
AXE any difference how dark skinned |;
: how pale faced men may :
=. They find gate right before :
lem. Those plucked bananas under
optical sun. These shot across Rus !,
an SHOWS behind reindeer. From :.
exican plateau, from Roman cam :.
mia, from Chinese tea field, from :
olland dixie, from Scotch highlands,
ley come, they come. Heaven is =
1t monopoly for a few precious =
uls. 1t is not Windsor castle built -
lily for royal families. 1t is not -
nall town with small population, but - :.
,hn saw it, and he noticed that an v
lgel was measuring it, and he meas =
ed it this way, and then he measured ~
that way, and whichever way he -
ensured it it was 1900 miles, so that 81
lbylon and Tyre and Nineveh and
/. Petersburg and Canton and Pekin .
d Paris and London and New York =
d all the dead cities of the past and ~
the living cities of the present add s se
together would not equal the CEN %.
S of that great metropolis. =.
along a street, you can, by ~
9 contour of the dress, or the face, w