Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1895-03-07

think OF Him? And the answer comes.
There is fountain filed with blood. :"
Charles Wesley, what do you think Of
HIM? And he answers, Jesus, lover
OF my soul" Horatius Bonar, what do
you think of Him? And he responds,
II 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 NINE" But take
higher testimony: Solomon, what do
you think of Him? And the answer
Is, Lilly of the valley" Ezekiel.
what do you think of Him? And
the answer is, PLANT of renown."
David, what do you think of HimP
And the answer is, 'My Shep-
herd" 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
well OF Him. Oh man, Oh woman, of the
blood-bought immortal spirit? Yes,
Paul was right when he styled it "the
glorious gospel" And then as drug
gist, while you are waiting for him to
make up the doctors prescription, puts
into bottle SO many grains OF this
and so many grains of that and so
many drops of this and so ~ drops
Of that, and the intermixJure taken,
though sour or bitter, restores to
health; SO Christ, the Divine Physi-
clan, prepares this trouble of our
lifetime, and that disappointment,
and this persecution, and that hard
ship, and that tear, and we must
take the intermixture, yet though it be
a bitter draught, under the divine pre-
scription it administers to our restora-
ton and spiritual health, ''all things
working together for good" Glorious
gospel.
And the royal castle into which we
step out of this life, without so much
as soiling our foot with the upturned
earth of the grave. "They shall reign
forever and ever" Does not that mean
that you are If saved to be kings and
queens, and do not kings and queens
have castles? But the one that you are
offered was for thirty-three years an
abandoned castle, though now glori-
ously inhabited.
Though an abandoned castle while
Christ was here achieving your re-
demption, it is again occupied by the
''Chief among ten thousand, and some
of your own kindred who have gone
up, and waiting for you are leaning
from the balcony. The windows of the
castle look off on the kings gardens
where immortals walk linked in eter
nal friendship; and the banqueting
hall of that castle has princes. and
princesses at the table; and the wine
is ''the new wine of the kingdom"
and the supper is the marriage sup
per of the lamb; and there are four
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
bWOOn away tuS idPtulGos
Stronger vision will we have there
than now, or our eyesight would be |
blinded by the brilliance. Stronger ear |
will we have there than now, or under |
the roll of that minstrelsy, and the
clapping of that reclamation and the
boom of that hallelujah we would
be deafened. Glorious gospel! You
thought religion was straight-jacket,
that it put you on the limits, that here
after you must go cowed down. No, |
no, no. 1t is to be castellated BY the
cleansing power of the shed blood OF
Golgotha set your faces toward the
shining pinnacles. o, it does not matter
much what becomes of us here-for 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 Wycliffe among the mar
tyrs, and Bourdaloue among the
preachers, and Dante among the poets,
and Haveloclx among the heroes, and
our loved ones whom we have so much
missed since they left us, so many
darlings of the heart, their absence
some times almost unbearable; and
mentioned in this sentence last of all
because want the thought climacteric,
our blessed Lord without whom we
could never reach the old castle at all.
He took our place. He purchased our
He wept our woes. He suf-
fered our stripes. He died our death.
He assured our resurrection. Blessed
be His glorious name forever! Surging
to His ear be all the anthems! Facing
Him be all the thrones
0, want to see it, and will see it
the day of His coronation. On throne
methinks the day will come
when in some great hall Of eternity all
the nations of earth whom He has con-
quered by His grace will assemble
again to crown Him. Wide and high
and immense and upholstered as with
the sunrises and sunsets OF thousand
years, great audience room of Heaven.
Like the leaves of an Adirondack for
est the ransomed multitudes and
Christ standing on high place sur
rounded by worshipers and subjects .
They shall come out of the farthest
past led on by the prophets; they shall
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