Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1895-03-06
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Christian poets have e1erted their pen in e1-
tolling the matchless one Of this gospel.
! Isaac Watts, how do you feel concerning
i!san., Hin, And h. he writes I'D y aS sS not
what do you think Q; this gospel
sWee. @ the sound" cowper. per- what
80 you think Of Him? And the answer comes,
"There is q fountain filed with blood :"
Charles Wesley, what do you think Of Himi
And he answers, "Jesus, lover Of my soul. !"
Horatius Bonar; what do you think of Him?
And he responds, 81 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 assurance, Jesus is
mine" But take higher testimony Solo
mon, what do you think Of Him? And the
answer ts, 'Illy of the valley" Ezekiel,
! is, "Plant of renown." David, what do you
| think of Him? And the answer is, "My shep-
herd"- St. John. what do you think OF Him2
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 es well OF Him, man, o wo-
man Of the blood bought immortal spirit?
| Yes, Paul was right when he styled it "the
| glorious gospel"
And then as 8 druggist, while you are
| waiting FOR him to mako up the DOCTORS
| prescription, puts into bottle SO many
| grains Of this, and 50 many grains of that,
| and 80 many drops of this, and 80 many
drops OF that, and the internixture taken,
though sour or bitter, restores to health.
SO Christ, the Divine Physician. prepares
this trouble OF our lifetime and that disap-
pointment, and this persecution, and that
hardship, and that tear, and we must take
the interniIture. vet though It be bitter
draft. Under the divine prescription It ad-
ministers to our restoration and spiritual
health. DALI things working together for
God" Glorious gospel!
And then the royal castle into which We
step out Of this life without so much as soil
ing our foot with tho upturnei earth of tho
grave. "They shall reign forever" 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 gloriously in
habited. There is an abandoned royal castle
at Amber, India. One hundred and seventy
years ago king moved out Of it never to
return. But the castle still stands in indie
scribable grandeur, and you go through
brazen doorway after brazen doorway,
and carved room after carved room.
and under embellished ceiling Rf-
ter embeillshed ceiling, and through
halls precious stoned into wider halls prec-
ious stoned, and on that hill are pavilions
deeply dyed and tasseIed and agched, the fire
of colored gardens cooled by the snow Of
white architecture, birds in the arabesQue So
natural to life that while you cannot hear
OF their wings while you are passing; walls
pictured with triumphal procession; rooms
that were called "Alcove OF Light and
..Hall of Victory" marble. white and black,
and mother Of pearl, and lacquer work.
Standing before it the eye climbs from step
to latticed balcony, and from latticed bal
cony to oHel, and from onel to arch, and
from arch to roof, and then descends on lad
der OF all colors, and by stairs OF perfect
lines to.tropical gardens of pomegranate and
pineapple. Seven stories OF resplendent
architecture But the royal castle provided
for you, If you will only take it on the pre-
scribed terms, Is grander than all that; and,
though an abandoned castle while Christ was
here, achieving your redemption, is again oc-
,cupied by the "chief among ten thousand"
and some Of your own kindred who have
gone up and waiting for You are leaning
castle look Off on the Kings gardens where
immortals walk linked IN eternal friend
chip, 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 supper Of tho
Lamb, and there are fountains into which no
tear ever fell, and there is music that trem-
bles with no grief, end tho light that falls
upon that scene is never beclouded, and there
Is the kiss of these reunited after long sepa-
ration. More nerve will We have there than
now, or We would swoon away under the
raptures. 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 claPpinS OF that tccla-
nation, and the boom Of that halleluiah we
ould be defeated.
Glorious gospel You thought religion
was straitjacket: that it put you on the
limits; that thereafter you must go cowed
down. No, no, mol It "a to be castelIated.
By the cleansing power OF the shed blood OF
Golgotha set your faces toward tho shining
pinnacles. Oh. It does not matter much
what becomes of US here-for at the longest
our stay fs short-if We can only land there.
You see there are SO many 1 do want to
meet there. Joshua, my favorite prophet,
and John among the evang slists, ani Paul
among the apostles, and Wycif among the
ers, and Dante among the poets, and
Havelook among the heroes, and
our loved ones whom we haYo 30 much
missed since they left 50 many darlings OF
the heart, their absence sometimes almost
unbearable, and, mentioned In this sentence
last Of all because Iwant the thought climac-
teric, our blessed Lord, without whom we
could never reach the old castle at ell. he
took our place. He purchased our ransom.
He wept our woes. He suffered our stripes
He died our death. He assured our resurrec-
ton. Blessed be His glorious name forever!
Surging to His ear be all the aDthemsl Facing
Him be ali the thrones
Oh, I want to see II, and 1 will see 1.-THE
udy Ol Ills On u llIOno hlredlY.
Methinks the day will come when in some
great hall Of eternity all the Nations Of earth
whom He had conquered by His grace will
assemble again to crown Him. Wide and
high and immense and upholstered rs with
the sunrise and sunsets Of 1000 years, great
audience room of heaven. Like the leaves
Of an Adirondack forest the ransomed multi
tudes, and Christ standing on. q high place
surrounded by worshtpers and subjects. They
shall come out OF the farthest past led on by
the prophets; they shall como out OF the
early gospel days led on by the apostles; they
shall come out Of the centuries still ahead Of
US led on by champions of the truth, heroes
and heroines yet to be born.
And then from that vastest audience ever
assembled in all the universe there will coup
the shout: "Crown Him! Crown. Him! Crown
HimI" and the Father who long ago prom
ised this His only begotten Son, 81 viii give
Thee the heather for Thine inheritance and
the uttermost parts Of the earth for Thy pos
session" shall set the crown upon the fore
head yet SCARED with crucidxion bramble,
and all the hosts of heaven, down on the
levels and up in the galleries, will drop on
their knees, crying: Hail, King Of earthl
King Of heaven! King of saints! King of
seraphs! Thy kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom, and to Thy dominions there shall
be no endI Amen and amen! Amen and
amenI'
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