The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-04-12

third gate" ssCranmer, how did Won
get IMP" II came through the eighth
gate" ''Adoniram Judson, how did
you get through7'' 81 came through
the seventh gate" Hugh McKaiI,
the martyr, how did you get through?''
Il came through the twelfth gate"
Glory to God, twelve gates but one
Heaven.
In the third place, notice the points
OF the compass toward which these
I gates look. They are not on one side,
or on two sides, or 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 national.
tiles are included, and it does not make
any difference from what quarter of the
earth 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
Hindustan and Algiers and Ethiopia.
On the east three gates. That means
salvation for China Japan and BOrneo.
On the west three gates. That means
redemption for America. 1t does not
make any difference how dark skinned
or how pale faced men may
be. They find gate right before
them. Those plucked bananas under
tropical sun. These shot across Rus
sian SHOWS behind reindeer. From
Mexican plateau, from Roman cam
pania, from Chinese tea field, from
Holland dixie, from Scotch highlands,
they come, they come. Heaven is
not monopoly for few precious
souls. 1t is not Windsor castle built
only for royal families. 1t is not
small town with small population, but
John saw it, and he noticed that an
angel was measuring it, and he meas
ured it this way, and then he measured
it that way, and whichever way he
measured it it was 1880 miles, so that
Babylon and Tyre and Nineveh and
ST. Petersburg and Canton and PEEK n
and Paris and London and New York
and all the dead cities of the past and
all the living cities of the present add
ed together would not equal th's GEN.
sus of that great metropolis.
Walking along a street. you can, by
the contour of the dress, or the face,
guess where man comes from. You
say, THAT is Frenchman; that is
Norwegian; that is an American But
the gates that gather in the righteous
will bring them in irrespective of ma
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 NOR
for the luxuriant harvest field he left |
now that he hears the hum and the |
rustic of the harvest of everlasting |
light. The royal ones from earth will |
not long to go back again to the earth
ly 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 - manner of fruit.
While speak an everlasting throng
is pouring through the gates. They
are going up from Senegambia, from
Patagonia, from Madras, from Hong
Kong. What" you say, do you in.
troduce all the heather into glory?"
l tell you the fact is that majority OF
the people in those chimes die in in.
fancy, and the infants all go straight
into eternal life, and so the vast
Of y1,n Il mi |, nd |
India, the vast majority of those who
die in Africa go straight into the
skies-they die in infancy. One hun
dred and sixty generations have been
born since the world was created, and
so / estimate there must be Is, 200, OO0.-
600 children in glory. If at concert
2, 600 children sing, your soul is rap
tured within you. Oh the transport
when Is, 900, 600, 900 little ones stand up
in white before the throne of God,
their chanting drowning out all the
harmonies of Dusseldorf
and Leipsic. Pour in through tho
twelve gates.
Oh, We redeemed, banner lifted
rank after rank, saved battalion aft
saved battalion, until the city of G Z
shall hear the tramp, tramp. Crowd
all the twelve gates. Room yet.
Room on the thrones. Room in the
mansions. Room on the river bank.
Let the trumpet of invitation be sound
I'd until all earth's mountains hear
the shrill blast and gleus echo it.
Let missionaries tell it in pagoda, and
sound it across the west
srn prairies. Shout it to the Lap
ander on his swift sled, halloo it to
.he Bedouin careering across the des-
srt. News! News! A glorious Heaven
Ind twelve gates to get into it, Hear
t! Oh, you thin-blOoded nations OF
eternal winter-on the north three
rates. Hear it! Oh, you bronzed in
labitants painting under equatorial
leats-on the south three gates.
Once more want to show you the
There is one angel at
Zach one of those gates. You say that
s right. OF course it is. You know
hat no earthly palace or castle or fort