Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-05-09

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are pointed out to those newly arrived.
Soon after our getting there we will ask
to be shown the apostolic residences,
and ask where does Paul live and John,
and shown the patriarchal residences,
and shall say, "Where does Abraham
live or jacob" and shown the martyr
residences and say, "Where does John
Huss live and Ridley?" We will want
to see the boulevards, where the chariots
of conquerors roll. I will want to sec
the garden where the princes walk. We
will want to see Music row, where
Handel and Haydn and Mozart and
Charles Wesley and Thomas Hastings
and Bradbury have their homes, out of
their windows, ever and anon, rolling
some snatch Of an earthly oratorio or
hymn transported with the composer
We will want to see Revival terrace,
where Whitefeld and Nettleton and
Payson and Rowland Hill and Charles
Finney and other giants of soul reaping
are resting from their almost supernat-
ural labors, their doors thronged with
converts just arrived, coming to report
themselves.
But brilliant as the sunset and like
the leaves for number are the celestial
homes yet to be awarded when Christ
to you and millions of others shall dl-
vide the spoil. What do you want there?
You shall have it. An orchard? There
it is-12 manner of fruits, and fruit ev-
cry month. Do you want river scenery?
Take your choice on the banks OF the
river, in longer, wider. deeper roll than
Danube OF Amazon or Mississippi, If
mingled in one, and cmptying into the
sea of glass, mingled with fire. Do you
want your kindred back again: Go out
and meet your father and mother, with
out the staff or the stoop, and your chill
dren in a dance of immortal glee. Do
you want a throne? Select it from the
million FURNISHED elevations. Do you
want crown? Pick it out of that noun
tain of diamonded coronets. Do you
want your old church friends of earth
around you? Begin to hum an old re-
vival tune, and they will flock from all
quarters to revel with you in sacred REM
iniscence. All the earth for those who
are here on earth at the time of CONT
mental and planetary distribution and
all the heavens for those who are there.
Conspicuous Souls.
That heavenly distribution of spoils
will be q surprise to many. Here enters
heaven the soul of man who took up
a great deal of room in the church on
earth, but sacrificed little, and among
his good works selfshness was evident.
He just crowds through the shining gate,
but it's a very tight squeeze, SO that the
doorkeeper has to pull hard to get him
in, and this man expects half of heaven
for his share of trophies, and he would
like monopoly of all its splendor and
to purchase lots in the suburbs, so that
he could get advantage of the growth Of
the city. Well, little by little he gets
grace of heart, just enough to get him
through, and to him is given second
hand crown which one of the saints
wore at the start, but exchanged for a
brighter one as he went on from glory
to glory. And he is put in an old house
once occupied by an angel who was hurl-
ed out of heaven at the time of satan's
rebellion.
Right after him comes soul that
makes q great stir among the -celestials,
and the angels. rush to the scene, each
bringing to her dazzling coronet. Who
is she? Over what calm on earth was
she queen? In v 1at great Dusseldorf
festival was she ne cantatrice? Neither
She was an invalid who never left her
room for 30 years, but she was strong
in prayer, and she prayed down revival
after revival and pentecost after pente-
cost upon the churches, and with her
pale hand she knit many mitten or
tippet for the poor, and with her con-
trivances she added joy to many holt
day festival, and now with those thin
hands so strong for kindness and with
those white lips so strong for supplica-
ton she has won coronation and in
thronement aud jubilee. And Christ
said to the angels who have brought
each crown for the glorified invalid:
"No, not these. They are not good
enough. But in the jeweled vase at
the right hand side Of my throne there
is one that have been preparing for
her many q year, and for her every
pang have set all amethyst, and for
her every good deed have set pearl.
Fetch it now and fulfill the promise 1
gave her long ago in the sickroom, BE
thou faithful unto DEATH and will give
thee a crown. "
But notice that there is only one Be
ing in the universe who can and will
distribute the trophies of earth and
heaven. 1t is the Divine Warrior, the
Commander In Chief Of the Cen lurif,
the Champion Of Ages the Univerl-l
Conqueror, the Son of God, Jesus. You
will take the spoils from his hand or
never take them at all. Have his friend
ship, and you may defy all time and
all eternity, but without it you are
pauper, though you had universe at
your command. We are told in Revela-
ton that Jocob's 10 SONS were so hon
ored as to have the 10 gates of heaven
named after then-over one gate Of
heaven Naphtali, over another sate Of
heaven Issachar, over anot,-er Dan, over
another Cad, over another Zebulon,
over another Judah, and so on. But
Christ's name is written over all the
gates and on every panel Of the gates,
and have his help, his pardon, his inter-
cession, his atonement, must or be
forlorn wretch forever. My Lord and
my God, make me, and all who hear me
this day, and sll to whom these words
shall come, thy repentant, believing,
sworn, consecrated and ransomed fol-
lowers forever!
The Final Triumph.
What day it will bel This entire
assemblage would rise to its feet if you