Connecticut western news., 1895-04-11

three gates. l0aG IueduS TeueHp1iou for America. It does not make any diff ference how dark skinned or how pale faced men may be, they will find gate right before them. Those plucked ban- anas under tropical sun. These shot across Russian SHOWS behind reindeer. From Mexican plateau, from Roman campania. from Chinese teafield from Holland dike, from Scotch highlands they come, they come. Heaven is not monopoly for few precious souls. It is not a Windsor castle, built only for royal families. It is not a small town with small population, but John saw it, and he noticed that an angel was measuring it, and he measured it this way, hnd then he measured it that way, and whichever way he measured 1t 1t was 300 miles, so that Babylon and Tyre and Nineveh and St. Petersburg and Canton and Peking and Paris and London and New York and all the dead cities of the past and all the living cities of the present added together would not equal the census of that great metrop- oils.
 Walking along street, you can, by the contour of the dress or of the face, guess where man comes from. You say: "That is Frenchman; that is o Norwegian; that is an American. But the gates that gather in the righteous will bring them in irrespective of na- tionality. Foreigners sometimes get homesick. Some of the tenderest and most pathetic stories have been told of those who left their native cline and longed for it until they died. But the Swiss, coming to the high residence of heaven, will not long any more for the Alps, standing amid the eternal hills. The Russian will not long any more for the luxuriant harvest field he left now that he hears the hum and the rustic of the harvests oi everlasting light. The royal ones from earth will not long to go back again to the earthly court now that they stand in the palaces of the sun. Those who once lived among the groves of spice and oranges will not long to return now that they stand under the trees of life that bear 12 manner of fruit.
 Pouring Through In Throngs.
 While speak an everlasting throng is pouring through tue gates. They are going up from SenegaInbia, from Pata- gonia, from Madras, from Hongkong. What" you say, ''do you introduce all tho heathen into glory?" l tell you the fact is that majority of the people of those cl:mes die ill infancy, and the infants all go straight into everlasting life, and so the vast majority of those who die in China and India, the vast majority who die in Africa, go straight into the sk;es-they dio in infancy. One hundred and sixty generations have been born since the world was created. and so l estimate that there must be 15, 900, 900, 900 children in glory. If at concert ,, 900 children sing your soul is raptured within you. Oh, the trans port when l5,000, 000, 900 little ones stand up in white before the throne of God, their chant drowning out all the stupendous harmonies of Dusseldorf and Leipsic. Pour ill through the 12 gates
 Oh, ye redeemed, banner lifted, rank after rank, saved battalion after saved battalion, until all the city of God shall hear the tramp, tramp! Crowd all the l2 gates. Room yet. Room on the thrones Room in the mansions. Room on the river bank. Let the trumpet of invitation be sounded until all earth's mountains hear the shrill blast and the glens echo it. Let missionaries tell it in pagoda and colporteurs sound it across the vest ern prajries. Shout it to the Laplander on his swift sled. Hallo it to the Bed- ouin careering across the desert. News, newsl A glorious heaven and l2 gates to get into it Hear it. o you thin blood ed nations of eternal winter-on the north three gates Hear it, O you bronzed inhabitants panting under equatorial heats-on the south three gates
 But I notice when John saw these gates they were open-wide open. They will not always be so. After awhile heaven will have gathered up all its intended population and the children of God will have come home. Every crown taken. Every harp struck. Every throne mounted. All the glories of the universe harvested in the great garner. And heaven being made up, of course tho gates will Do shut. Russia in, and the second gate shut. Italy in, and the third gate shut. Egypt in, and the fourth gate shut Spain in, and the fifth gate shut. Franco i'll. and the sixth gate shut. England i'll, and the seventh gate shut. Norway in, and the eighth gate shut Switzerland in, and the ninth gate shut. Hindustan in, and the tenth gate shut. Siberia in and the eleventh gate shut. All these gates are closed but onel Now, let America go in with all the islands of the sea and all the other nations that have called on God. The captives all freed. The harvests all gath ered The nations all saved. The fash ing splendor of this last pearl begins to move on its hinges. Let two mighty an gels put their shoulders to the gate and heave it to with silvery clang. It is donel It thunders! The twelfth gate shut!
 Open and Wide.
 Once more I want to show you the gatekeepers. There is one angel at each one of those gates. You say that is right. Of course it is. You know that no earth ly palace or castle or fortress would be safe without a sentry pacing up and down by night and by day, and if there were no defenses before heaven. and the doors set wide open with no one to guard them, all tho vicious of earth would go | up after awhile, and all the abandoned of he'll would go up after awhile, and heaven, instead of being world of light and joy and peace and blessedness, would be a world of darkness and hor- TOT. So I am glad to tell you that, while these 12 gates stand open to let great multitude ill, there are 12 angels to keep some people out. Robespierre can not go through there, nor Hildebrand, nor Nero, nor any of the debauohed of l earth who have not repented of their | wickedness. If one of those nefarious men who despised God should come to