The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1895-04-05

gates, and let this man come inn TIL
dying thief went in. Richard Baxte
y and Robert Newton went in. Eu
rope, Asia, Africa, North ant
South America may yet go through
this wide door without crowding. Ho
Q every one--all conditions, all ranks, al
people! Luther said that this trutl
was worth carrying on ones knees
from Rome to Jerusalem, but think
it worth carrying all around the globe
n and all around the heavens that God
!, so loved the world that He gave His
only begotten Son, that whatsoever be-
lieveth in Him should not perish, but
have everlasting life" Whosoever
will, let him come through the large
door. Archimedes wanted a fulcrum
on which to place his lever, and then
he said he could move the world. Cal
vary is the fulcrum, and the cross OF
Christ is the lever, and by that power
all nations shall yet be lifted.
Further, it is door that swings both
ways. l do not know whether the door
of the ancient ark was lifted or rolled
on hinges but this door of Christ op-
ems both ways. 1t swings out toward
all our woes; it swings in toward the
raptures of Heaven. 1t swings in to let
us I'M it swings out to let our minister
ing ones come out. All are one in
in Characterization on earth and
saints in Heaven.
One army of the living God,
| At his command we bow,
Part of the host have crossed the flood,
And part are crossing now.
Swing in, o blessed door, until all
the earth shall go in and live. Swing
out until all the heavens come forth to
celebrate the victory.
But. further, it is door with fasten-
ings. The Bible says of Noah: ''The
Lord shut him in" A vessel without
bulwarks or doors would not be a safe
vessel to go in. When Noah and his
family heard the fastening of the door
of the ark. they were very glad. I'm
less these doors were fastened the first
heavy surge of the sea would have
whelmed them, and they might as well
have persisted outside the ark as in
side the ark. 1.-THE Lord shut him in"
Oh, the perfect safety of the ark!
The surf of the sea and the light
nings of the sky may be twisted in
to a garland of snow and fire-deep
to deep, storm to storm, darkness
to darkness-but once in the ark all
is well. God shut him in" There
comes upon the good man deluge of
financial trouble. He had his thou
sands to lend. Now he can not borrow
a dollar. He once owned store in
New York and had branch houses in
Botson, Philadelphia and New Orleans.
He owned four horses and employed
a man to keep the dust off his coach,
phaeton, carriage and curricle; now
he has hard work to get shoes
IN which to walk. The great
1eep of commercial disaster was
broken up, and fore and aft and
across the hurricane deck the waves
struck him. But he was safely shell
cred from the storm ''The Lord shut
lin in" A flood of domestic troubles
ell on him" Sickness and bereave-
nent came The rain pelted; the winds +
,lew. The heavens are afame. All a
he gardens of earthly delight are I
washed away. The mountains of joy
re buried Is cubits deep. But, stand /
ng by the empty crib and in the desc a
ated nursery and in the doleful hall, t
nee airing with merry voices, now S
ilent forever, he cried, "The Lord g
ave, the Lord hath taken away; S
lessed be the name of the Lord" S
The Lord shut him in
All the sins of lifetime clamored D
or his overthrow. The broken vows, a
ne dishonored Sabbaths, the outrage g
us profanities, the misdemeanors of P
years, reached up their hands to the Il
Dor of the ark to pull him out. The k
oundless ocean of his sin surrounded G
is soul, bowling like sim DOM, raw h
Ig like an eurocyldron. But, looking d
1T of the window he saw his sin sink W
Ike lead into the depths of the sea. "
he dove of Heaven brought an olive
'anch to the ark. The wrath of the ri
llow only pushed him toward Heav- IL
/. THE Lord shut him in!' o.
The same door fastenings that kept Sc
oah in keep the troubles out l am s.
ad to know that when a man reaches Il
eaven all earthly troubles are done
it'll him. Here he may have had it in
lrd to get bread for his family; there II
will never hunger any more. Here w
may have wept bitterly; there 1.-THE II
amb that is in the midst of the throne ri
i'll lead him to living fountains of h,
ater, and God will wipe away S,
| tears from his eyes" Here I'll
may have hard work to get al
house, but in my Fathers house ca
e many mansions, and rent day w
yer comes. Here there are death DE-
DIS and collins and graves; there no Y
,kness, no weary watching, no chok- tn
g cough, no consuming fever, no to
altering chill, no tolling bell, no T.
ave. The sorrows of life shall come to