Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-02-23

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blacliness over the heavens, our Lore! set
US forever free. Making 10 apology for
any one of the million sins Of our life,
but confessing all of them, we can point
to that cliff of limestone and say, There
was paid our Indebtedness, and God
never collects bill twice - Glad am
that all tho Christian poets havo xerted
their pen in extolIing tho matches one
of this gospel. Isaac Watts, how do you
feel concerning him? And he writes,
II am not ashamed to own my Lord. "
Newton what do you think of this Sos
pei: And be writes. Amazing grace,
how sweet the sound" Cowper, what
do you think of him? And the answer
comes, There is fountain filed with
blood " Charles Wesley, what do you
think of him? Aad he answers. Jesus,
lover of my soul. " Horatius Bonar,
what do You think of him? And he re-
spends, Il lay my sins on Jesus. Ray
Palmer, what do you think of him? And
he writes, My faith looks up to thee "
Fannie Crosby, what do you think of
him? And she writes, blessed assur-
ance, Jesus is mine. But take higher
testimony: Solomon, what do you think
of him? And the answer is, Lily Of
the valley" Ezekiel, what do you think
of him? And the answer is, "Plant of
renown. David, what do you think of
him? And the answer is, my shop
herd. p" st. John, what do you think Of
him? And the answer is, Bright and
morning star. st. Paul, what do you
think of him? And the answer comes,
Christ is all in all" Do you think as
we'll Of him, o man, o woman of tho
blood bought immortal spirit? Yes, Paul
was right when he styled it "the gle
rious gospel
And then as druggist. while you are
waiting for him to make up the doctor S
prescription, puts into bottle so many
grains of this, and SO many grains Of
that, and SO many drops of this, and so
many drops of that, and the intermiX-
ture taken, though sonr or bitter, re-
stores to health. So Christ, the divine
physician, prepares this trouble of our
lifetime, and that disappointment, and
this persecution, and that hardship, and
that tear, and we must take the inter
mixture, yet though it be bitter draft
Under the divine prescription it admin
listers to our restoration and spiritual
health, call things working together fer
god. Glorious gospel
The Roya! Castle.
And then tho royal castle into which
we step out of this life without 50 much
as soiling our foot with the upturned
earth of tho grave. They shall reign
forever and ever " Docs not that mean
that you are, if saved, to be kings and
queens, and do rot kings and queens
have castles? But the one that you are
offered was for 33 years an abandoned
castle, though now gloriously inhabited
There is an abandoned royal castle at
Amber, India. Ono hundred and seven
ty years ago king moved out of it new
er to return. But the castle still stands
in Undesirable grandeur, and you go
through brazen doorway after brazen
doorway, and carved room after carved
room, and under embellished ceiling
after embelIished ceiling, and through
halls precious stoned into wider halls
precious stoned, and on that hill are pa
vilions deeply dyed and taSseled and
arched, tho fire of colored gardens cooled
by the snow of white architecture; birds
in arabcsque SO natural to life that
while you cannot hear their voices you
imagine you sec tho flutter Of their
wings while you are passing; walls
pictured with triumphal professions;
rooms that wero called "Alcove Of
Light" and Hall of Victory" marble,
white aud black, like mixture of morn
and night: alabaster, and mother of
pearl, and lacquer work.
Standing before it the eye climbs from
step to latticed balcony, and from lat
ticed balcony to oriel, and from oriel to
arch, and from arch to roof, and then
descends on ladder of all colors, and by
stairs of perfect lines to tropical gar
dens of p0megranato and pineapple
Seven stories Of resplendent architec-
turel But the royal castle provided for
you, if you will only take it on the pre-
scribod terms, is grander than all that.
and, though an abandoned castle while
Christ was here, achieving your redemp-
ton, is again occupied by the "chief
among ten thousand, and some Of
your own kindred who have gone up
aud waiting for yon are leaning from
the balcony. The windows Of that castle
look off on the Kings gardens where
immortals walk linked in eternal friend
ship, and the banqneting hall of that
castle has princes and princesses at tho
table, and the wine is "tho new wine of
the kingdom, and the supper 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 beclouded, and
there is the kiss of those reunited after
long separation. More nerve will we
have there than now or we would swoon
away under the raptures. Stronger Wis
ion will we have there than now, or our
eyesight would be blinded by the bril-
lance. Stronger ear will wo have there
than now, or under the roll of that min
strelsy, and the clapping Of that accla-
nation, and the boom of that halleluiah
we would be deafened
The Coronation.
Glorious gospel You thought religion
was straitjacket; that it put you on
the limits; that thereafter you must 90
cowed down. No. no, mol Its to be cas-
tellated. BY the cleansing power of the
shed blood of Golgotha set your faces
toward the shining pinnacles. Oh, it
does not matter much what becomes Of
us here-foT 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 Wyclif among
the martyrs, and Bourdaloue among the
preachers, 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 dar-
liDgs Of the heart, their absence some
times almost unbearable, and, mention
ed in this sentence last of all because /
want the thought climacteric, our bless
ed Lord, without whom we could never