The Sussex Republican., 1895-04-13
igious belief shall have my right mana
in warm grip of Christian brotherhood.
Empty Handed.

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o Of freshet He wants to get across 6
I has to swim. What does he do? I'll
: first thing is to put off his heavy al
= parel and drop everything he has in h
/ hands. He must go empty handed if b
( Is going to the other bank. And TEL
: you when we have come down to th
+ river of death and find it swift and rag
: ing we will have to put off all our sec
tarianism and lay down all our cum
. brous creed and empty handed put ou
J for the other shore What" say you
! would you resolve all the Christial
! church into one kind Of church? Woul
You make all Christendom worship il
the same way, by the same forms?" oh
no. You might as well decide that al
people shall eat the same kind of foo,
without reference to appetite or wea
|, hesame kind of apparel without refer
enoe to the shape of their body. You
, ancestry, your temperament your sur
roundings, will decide whether you q
to this or that church and adopt this O
that church polity One church will
best get one man to heaven and anothei
church another man. l do not car,
which one of the gates you go through
II you only go through one of the Il
gates that Jesus lifted.
Well, now | see all the redeemed oi
earth coming up toward heaven. Foyor
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 Quslrers
come up; they have received the inward
light; they have trusted in the Lord;
they pass through. Gate the third, the
Lutherans oome up; they had the same
grace that made Luther what he was,
and they pass through. Gate the fourth,
the Baptists pass through. Gate the
fifth the Free Will Baptists pass
through. Gate the sixth, the Reformed
church passes through. Gate the sew
entb, 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
of the Disciples pass through. Gate the
twelfth, the Presbyterians pass through.
But there are great part Of other de-
nominations who must come in, and
great multitudes who connected them
selves with no visible church, but felt
the power Of godliness in their heart and
showed it in their life. Where is their
gate? Will you shut all the remaining
host out of the city? No. They may
come in at our gate. Hosts of God, il
you cannot get admission through any
other entrance, come in at the twelfth
gate. Now they mingle 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, one CLASSY sea,
one doxology, one triumph, one heavenl
'Why, Luther, how did you get inY''
II came through the third gate
"Crammer, how did you get in?'' 81
came through the eighth gate. y "Adon-
Tram Judson, how did you get thrpugh?''
II came through the seventh gate. "
Hugh McKail, the martyr, how did
you get through?'' 81 came through
the twelfth gate. Glory TO God, 10
gates, but one heayeni
Eotntb OF bne Gomphshs
In the third place, notice the points
of the compass toward which these
gates look. They are not ON one side, or
on two sides, or on three sides, but on
four sides. This is no fancy of mine,
but distinct announcement. On the |
north three gates, on the south three |
gates, on the east three gates, on the |
west three gates. What does that mean? |
Why, it means that all nationalities are
included, and it does not make any diff
ference from what quarter of the earth
q man comes up; if his heart is right,
there is gate open before him. On the
north three gates. That means mercy
for Lapland and Siberia and Norway
and Sweden. On the south three gates.
That means pardon for Hindostan and
Algiers and Ethiopia. On the east three
gates. That means salvation for China
and Japan and Borneo. On the west
three gates That means redemption
for America. 1t does not make any diff
ference how dark skinned or how pale
faced men may be, they will find gate
right before them. Those pluoked BAN
anas under tropical sun. These shot
soross Russian SHOWS behind reindeer.
From Mexican plateau, from Roman
from Chinese teafield, from
Holland dixie, from Scotch highlands
hey come, they come. Heaven is not
monopoly for few precious souls 1t is
lot Windsor castle, built only for
'oyal families. 1t is not small town
with small population, but John saw
t, and he noticed that an angel was
Measuring it, and he measured it this
way, and then he measured it that way,
md whichever way he measured it it
vas l, 500 miles, SO that Babylon and
Tyre and Nineveh and St. Petersburg
md Canton and Peking and Paris and
london and New York and all the dead
titles of thepast and all the living cities
1 the present added together would not
quail the census of that great metrop-
lis
Walking along street. you can, by
he contour of the dress or of the face,
uess where a man comes from. You
ay: "That is Frenohmau; that is a
that is an American. !" But
be gates that gather in the righteous
'ill bring them in irrespective of ma s.
lonality. Foreigners sometimes get
omesiok. Some of the tenderest and 4
lost pathetic stories have been told OF
nose who left their native CLINE and
,nged for it until they died. But the
wiss, coming to the high residence of .
eaven, will not long any more for the
lps, standing amid the eternal hills.
he Russian will not long any more for !
,e luxuriant harvest field he left now
lat he hears the hum and the rustic of '
10 harvests of everlasting light. The
,yal ones from earth will not long to =
. back again to the earthly court now 7
rat they stand in the palaces of the sun. .
hose who once lived among the groves y y
spice and oranges will not long to = !
turn now that they stand under the .
ees of life that bear 10 manner of u
uit. 9
Pouring Through In ThronEs. .,
While 1 speak an everlasting throng 81
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