Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-02-21

all that. and though an abandoned cas-
tie while Christ was here achieving
your redemption, is again occupied by
the "Chief among ten thousand" and
some of your own kindred who have
gone up and, waiting for you, are lean
ing from the balcony. The windows of
that castle look off on the kings gar
dens where immortals walk linked in
eternal friendship; and the banquet hall
of that castle has princes and princess
es at the table; and the wine is 1.-The
new wine of the kingdom" and the sup
per is the marriage supper of the lamb;
and there are fountains into which no
tear ever fell and there is music that
trembles with no grief and the light that
falls upon that scene is never becloud-
ed and there is the kiss of those re-
united after long separation. More
nerve will we have there than now or
we would swoon away under the rap
lures. Stronger vision will we have
there than now or our eyesight would
be blinded by the brilliance. Stronger
ear will we have there than now or un-
der the roll of that minstrelsy and the
clapping of that reclamation and the
boom of that hallelujah we would be
deafened. Glorious gospel! You
that it put you on the limits, that there
after you must go cowed down. No, no,
no. 1t is to be castellated. BY the
cleansing power Of the shed blood Of
Goigotha set your faces toward the shin
ing pinnacles. Oh, it does not matter
much what becomes of us here-for at
the longest our stay is short-if we can
only land there. You see there are so
many do want to meet there. Joshua,
my favorite prophet; and John among
the evangelists; and Paul among the
apostles, and Wycliffe among the mar
tyrs, and Bourdaloue among the preach
ers, and Dante among the poets, and
Havelock among the heroes, and our
loved ones whom we have so much
missed since they left us, so many
darlings of the heart, their absence
sometimes almost unbearable; and,
mentioned in this sentence last of all
because want the thought climacteric,
our blessed Lord, without whom we
could never reach the old castle at all.
He took our place. He purchased our
ransom. He wept our woes. He suf-
fered our stripes. He died our death.
He assured our resurrection. Blessed
be his glorious name forever! Surging
to his ear be all the anthems! Facing
him be all the thrones!
Oh, want to see it and will see it
the day of his coronation. On a throne
already, methinks the day will come
when in some great hall of eternity all
the nations of earth whom he has con-
quered by his grace will assemble again
to crown him. Wide and high and i'm
mense and upholstered as with the sun
rises and sunsets of thousand years,
great audience room of heaven. Like
the leaves Of an Adirondack forest the
ransomed multitudes, and Christ stand
ing on high place surrounded by wor-
shippers and subjects. They shall come
out Of the farthest past led on by the
prophets; they shall come out of the
early gospel days led on by the apostles;
they shall come out of the centuries still
ahead Of us, led on by champions of the
truth, heroes and heroines yet to be
born.
And then from that vastest audience
ever assembled in all the universe there
will go up the shout, Grown him!
Crown him! Crown him" and the
Father who long ago promised his only
begotten Son, II will give thee the
heather for thy inheritance and the ut
termost parts of the earth for thy pos
session." shall set the crown upon the
forehead yet SCARED with crucifixion
bramble, and the hosts of heaven, down
on the levels and up in the galleries will
drop on their knees crying, Hail king
of earth! King of heaven! King OF
saints! King Of seraphs! Thy kingdom
is an everlasting kingdom, and to thy
dominions there shall be no end! Amen
and Amen! Amen and Amen!'