The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1895-06-23
As IN THE CASE OF MOSES AND ELIAS.

" L.
Robson at the tabernacle Thursday |
night.
After prayer by Rev. Volney John
son, the choir sang,
There are mansions for the blest,
Where we evermore shall rest.
When we all get home over there;
We shall never know a sigh,
In those mansions bright on high,
When we all get home over there"
Brother Robson read for his text,
John xiv:2, "In my Fathers house
are many mansions; if it were not
so, would have told you. l go to
prepare place for you.'
lie said: The foundation of my re-
marks is, 81 go to prepare a place
for you" Agnostics contend that
no man knows where we will go to
after death. The same book that
tells me where | come from, tells me
where I am going to. l know from
whence | originated; l know my ia
ther and my mother. If l didn't
know where l am going to, couldn't
know where | come from, and I've
got to evolute myself up from the
tadpole. You viii always find that
these fellows who say that the soul
simply sleeps after death are soul
slcepers here, and when you find a
soul-sleeper you viii find a man who
denies an eternal hell. You often
see or hear the. quotatiOn-"Our
friends are gone to that bourne from
whence no traveller ever returns. ;"
That quotation is false, for there is
nothing in the Bible that teaches it.
And you hear preachers quoting the
text, Eye hath not seen, nor ear
heard, neither have entered into the
heart of man, the things which God
hath prepared for them that love
him. That quotation is incomplete,
for in the next breath the apostle
says: "But God hath revealed them
unto us by his spirit So you see
how erroneous ideas can be planted
in the minds of the people through
misquoting or incorrectly quoting
the Bible. l can prove to you by the
same process that you ought to go
hang yourself-iust by quoting a few
incomplete passages of scripture.
PREPARE A PLACE.
Jesus said to his disciples, 81 &c
10 prepare a place for you" In this
announcement we have great fact
such an one as to need no demonstra'
ton, yet we are not left to guess thai
there is such a place prepared. IN
Heb. kills we find this definition O
it: ':But now they desire a better
country, that is, an heavenly: where
fore God is not ashamed to be calleC
their God: for he he hath prepared
for them a city" Here we fine
the same word, prepared" and tina
il was a city prepared.
Again we turn to Johns vision anC
we find this striking language in Rev
xxi:2: "And l, John, saw the hol.
city, new Jerusalem, coming dow
from God out of heaven, prepared a
a bride adorned for her husband.
Now, do you see it? Sixty-thre
years after Christ made this promise
It was revealed to John as brid
adorned for her husband; and let m
make remark right here, God neve
made promise that has not bee
fu!fned. Christ said TO the thief o
the cross, luke xxiii:43) "Toda
shalt thou be with me in paradise.
What the Lord meant will be easil
understood when we take the wor
paradise, !" as it only occurs thre
times in the Bible, and it NEAR
pleasant home, pleasant garden
pleasant place. Paul uses it in
Cor. xii:2-4 He says: 81 knew
man in Christ above fourteen yea
ago, such an one caught up to II
third heaven. And l knew such
man, how that he was caught up in
paradise. BY careful eXaminatiC
YOU will discover that the third hea
en- was the same as paradise, al
that Paul referred to himself becRu
he heard unspeakable words al
they were not lawful for man
utter. The first heaven is where &
birds fly; the second heaven IS whe
the stars are, and the third is 4
real heaven. Now turn with me
the third and last place where Il
word occurs, Rev. ii:7-''To him tn
oyercometh will give to eat of [
tree of life, which is in the midst
the paradise of God" In this scriI
ure we have tha tree of life in I
midst of the paradise. To locate Il