The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1895-04-17
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& ssssss BY REV. DR. ii AlMAGE.

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S3S, lecopors and tho PassWord-.A Fow Words
About nigotry aud sseetarianism- some
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u II NEW ~ YoRK, April 7.Tho bright
3 s1ring Weather has brought still larg-
4 SSpI'ScIUwds 10 the Sunday afternoon
services conducted by the RoY. Dir.
sg,Ialmage He took for his subject to-
day "tIhe Gates Of Heaven" the text
& being Revelation XXI, 49, son the
east three gates; on the north threo
s. gates; on the south three gates; on the
s west three gates"
The Cashmere gate Of Delhi where
conyerged o heroism that makes ones
& nerves Hngle, the Lucknow gate still
dented and SCARED with sepoy bonn
bardment, the Madeline gate, with its
s emblazonry in bronze, the hundred
h gates Of Thebes, the wonder of centu-
q ries, oil go out of sight before the gates
of my text.
Our subject speaks of a great mo-
VI BtrOpolis, the existence of which many
K have doubted. Standing OH the wharf
Il B and looking off upon the harbor and
seeing the merchantmen coming up
n the bay, tho flags Of foreign nations
3 streaming from the topga]lants, you
Il Immediately make up your mind that
IS those vessels come from foreign ports,
4. and you say, That is fHcm Hamburg,
& and that is from Marseilles, and that is
! from Southampton, and that is from
II Havana" and your supposition is ac-
curate. But from the city of which
Il am now speaking no weather beaten
merchantmen or frigates with SCARED
u bulkheads have ever come. There
has been vast emigration into that
city, but no emigration from it so far
as our natural vision can descry.
There is no such city" says the
undeyout astronomer. II have stood
in high towers with a mighty telo-
4 scope and have swept the heavens,
y and have seen spots on tho sun and
b caverns in the moon, but no towers
have ever risen OH my vision, no pal
aces, no temples, no shining streets.
no massive wall There is no such
city, Even very good people tell
me that heaven is not a material or
z ganism, but q grand spiritual fact, and
that the Bible description Of it are in
oil cases to be taken figurativcly. I
bring in reply to this what Christ said,
and he ought to know, "I go to pro
pare" not theory, not a principle,
not q sentiment, but II go to prepare
q place for you" Tho rcsurrcctcd
II body implies this. If my foot is to bc
reformed from the dust, it must have
something to tread on. If my hand
is to be reconstructed it must have
something to handle. If my eye, hav-
ing gone out III death, is to be relkin-
died, I must have something to gaze
on. Your adverse theory seems to
imply that the resuwected body is to
be hung OH nothing, or TO walk in air,
or to float amid the intangibles You
may say if there be material organ
isms then soul in heaven will be
cramped and hin,lcrcd in its enjoy
ments, but I answer, Did not Adam
and Eve have plenty room i'll the gar
8 den of Eden2. Although only few
miles would have described tho cir
cumference Of that place, they had
ample room. And do you not sup
pose that God, in the immensites, can
build place large enough to give the
whole race room, even though there
8 be material organisms2
Herschel looked into the heavens
IS AS a Swiss guide puts his Alpine
stock between the glaciers and crosses
over from crag to crag, SO Herschel
planted his telescope between the
worlds and glided from star to star
until he could announce to us
that we live in part of the universe
4 but sparsely strewn with worlds, and
he peers out into immensity until he
finds a region no larger than our solar
system in which there are $4,000
worlds moving. And Professor Lang
says that by a philosophic reasoning
there must be somewhere world where
there is no darkness, but everlasting
sunshine, so do not know but that it
is simply because we have no telescope
powerful enough that we cannot sec
2 into the land where there is no dark
ness at all and catch q glimpse Of the
! FURNISHED pinnacles. As a conquer
ing army marching on to talo city
comes at nightfall to the crest of a
mountain from which, in the midst of
the landscape, they see the castles they
are to capture, and rein in their war
chargers, and halt to take O good look
before they pitch their tents for the
night, so now, coming as we do on
this mountain top Of prospect, I com
mand this regiment Of God to rein in
their thoughts and halt, and before
they pitch their tents for the night
take one good, long look at the gates
of the great city. ''On the east three
gates; on the north three gates on the
south three gates, and on the west
three gates"
In the first place I want you to ex-
anime tho architecture Of these gates.
Proprietors Of large estates are very
apt to have an ornamentcd gateway.
Sometimes they spring an arch of ma
sonry, the posts Of the gate fanled
with lions in statuary; the bronze gate
representation of INTERVIEWING foliage,
bird haunted, until the hand Of archi.
tectural genius drops exhausted, all its
life frozen into the stone. Gates of
wood and iron and stone guarded
nearly all the old cities Moslems
have inscribed upon their gateways
Inscriptions from the Koran of the
Mohammedan. There have been q
great many fine gateways, but Christ
sets his hand to the work, and for the
upper city swung gate such as no
eye ever gazed on, untouched Of in
spiration. With the nail Of his own
cross he cut into it's wonderful tracer
les stories of past suffering and OF
gladness TO come. There is no wood
or stone or bronze in that gate, but
from top to base and from side to size
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