Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-05-13

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Lord and my God, make me, and all who
hear me this day, ami all to whom these
words shall come. Thy repeniant. believing.
sworn, consecrated and ransomed followers
forever.
What q day 1t will bel This entire
assemblsge would rise to its fest H. you could
realize II, the day in which Christ shall, in
fulhllmenf OF my text, divide the spoil.
1t was great day when Queen Victoria, in
the midst OF the Crimean War, distributed
medals to the soldiers who had come home
sick and wounded. At the Horseguards. I'm
presence Of the Royal family. the iniursd
men were carried In or came on crutches-
Colonel Trowbridge. who lost both foet at
1nkermann, and Captain Sayer, who had the
and Captain Ourre, his disabled limb sup
ported by soldier, and others maimed and
disfgured and exhausted-and with her own
hand the Queen gave each the Crimean
medal. And what triumphant days for
those soldiers when, farther on, they received
the French medal. with the imperial eagle.
and the Turkish medal, with its repre-
sentation of four nags-Francs, Turkey,
England and Sardinia-and beneath II
map Of the Crimea spread over a
gun wheel And what rewards ara
suggested to all readers OF history by
mere mention Of the Waterloo medal, AMI
the Cape medal, and the Gold Cross medal,
and the medals struck for bravery in our
American warsl But how insignificant all
these compared with the day when the gooi
soldiers of Jesus Christ shall come In out Of
the battles Of this world. and in the presence
Of all the piled up galleries OF the reieamsi
and the unfallen. Jesus, our King. shall III
vide the spoil! The more wounds the greater
tho inheritance. The longer the foroal
march the brighter the trophy. The moro
terrible the exhaustion the more glorious tho
transport. Not tho gift OF a brilliant ribbon,
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kingdom in which We are to reign forever
and ever. Mansions on the eternal hills.
Dominions OF unfading power. Empires OF
amending love. Continents Of everlasting
light. Atlantic and Pacific Oceans OF biilOw-
Ing Joy.
Roman emperor. came back from hts vic
tories. In the front Of the procession were
wild beasts from all lands, sixteen hundred
gladtators richly clad, wagon loads OF
crowns and trophies presented by conquered
cities. Among the captives Syrians, Egyp-
tians. Goths, VRndals. Sanaritans, Franks.
and Zenobia. the beautiful captive queen, on
foot in chains OF gold that slave ha to
help her carry and jewels under the weight
of which she almost tainted. And then came
tho chariot OF Aurelian drawn by iour ele-
puants in gorgeous caparison, and followed
by the Roman senate and the Roman army,
and from dawn till day the procession
was passing. Rome in all her his
tory never saw anything mors mag
nifcent. But how much greater the
day when our conqueror. Jesus.
shall ride under the triumphal arches Of
heaven. His captives, not on foot. but in
chariots, all the kingdoms OF earth and
heaven in procession. The armies celestial
on white horses. Rumbling artillery OF
thunderbolts never again to be unlimbered.
Kingdoms in line, centuries in line, sanity.
cherubic, seraphic, archangelic splendors In
line, and Christ seated on one great rolling
hosanna, made out Of all halleluiahs of all
worlds, shall cry halt to the procession. And
not forgetting even the humbost in all thu
reach Of His omnipresence. He shall rise.
and then and there, His work done and HIS
glory yconsummated, proceed. amid AN ecstasy
such as neither mortal nor immortal ever i'm
agined. to divide the spoil.