Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-12-07

saw the mountains filled with celestial
cavalry. St John said, ''The armies
which are in heaven followed him on
white horses Now, when those who
had the military spirit on earth sancti.
fed entered glory, ! suppose they right
away enlisted in some heavenly cam
paign. They volunteered right away.
There must needs be in heaven soldiers
with soldierly spirit. There are grand
parade days, when the @ing reviews the
troops. There must be armed escort
sent out to bring up from earth to
heaven those who were more than con-
uuerors. There must be crusades ever
being fitted out for some part of Gods
dominion-battles blfa1less, groanless,
painless-angels of evil to be fought
down and fought out, other rebellious
worlds to be conquered, worlds to be
put to the torch, worlds to be saved,
worlds to be sunk, worlds to be hoist
ed. Besides that, in our own world there
are battles for the right and against the
wrong where we must have the heaven
ly military. That is what keeps US
Christian reformers SO buoyant, So few
good men against SO many bad men; so
few churches against SO many grog-
shops; SO many pure printing presses
against SO many polluted printing press
es, and yet we are buoyant and coura-
geous, because, while we know that the
armies of evil in the world are larger
in numbers than the army Of truth,
there are celestial cohorts in the air
fighting on our side.
7 have not SO much faith in the army
on the ground as haze in the army in
the air. O God, open our eyes that
we may see them-the military spirits
that went up from earth to join the
military spirits before the throne-Josh-
IA and Caleb and Gideon and David
and Samson and the hundreds of Chris
tian warriors who on earth fought with
feshly arm, and now, having gone up
on high, are coming down the hills OF
heaven ready to fgEss among the invisi-
bles. Our departed Christian friends
who had the military spirit in them
sanctifed are in the celestial army.
Whether belonging to the artillery, or
the cavalry, or the infantry, know not.
I only know that they have started out
for fleet service and courageous service
and everlasting service. Perhaps they
may come this way to fight on our side
and drive sin and meanness and satan
from all our hearts. Yonder they are
coming. Did you hear them as
they swept by?
Everlasting Metaphysics.
But what are our mathematical
friends to do in the next world? They
found their joy and delight in mathe-
matics There was more poetry to them
in Euclid than in John Milton. They
were as passionately fond Of mathemat-
les as Plato, who wrote over his door,
"Let no one enter here who is not ac-
quainted with geometry. What are
they doing now? They are busy with
figures yet. No place in all the universe
like heaven for figures. Numbers inf
mite, distances infinite, calculations in
finite; if they want them, arithmetics
and algebras and geometries and trig-
Onometries for all eternity. What fields
of space to be surveyed What magni
tudes to measured What diameters, what
what triangies, what
quaternions, what epicycloids, what
parallelograms, what comic sections!
The didaotic Dr.. Dick said he really
thought that the redeemed i'll heaven
spent some of their time with the high
er branches CT mathematics. So Of our
and transported metaphysi-
clans What are they doing now? Study
ing the human mind, only under better
than they used to study
it. They used to study the mind sheath
ed in the dull human body. Now, the
spirit unsheathed-now they are study
ing the sword outside the seabbard.
Have you any doubt about what Sir
William Hamilton is doing in heaven,
or what Jonathan Edwards is doing in
heaven, or the multitudes on earth who
had passion for metaphysics sanctified
by the grace Of God? No difficulty in
guessing. Metaphysics, glorious meta
physics, everlasting metaphysics.
What are our departed Christian
friends who are explorers doing now?
yet, but with lightning To-
oomotion, with vision microscopic and
at the same time. A conti-
nent at glance, q world in a second,
3 planetary system in day. Christian
John Franklin, no more in disabled Ere
bus pushing toward the north pole;
christian de Long. no more trying to
free blockaded Jeanette from the ice
Christian Livingstone, no more amid
African malarias, trying to make reve-
Iation Of a dark continent, but all of
them in the twinkling of an eye taking
in that which was once unapproachable.
Mont Blanc scaled without alpenstock,
the coral depths Of the ocean explored
without diving bell, the mountains
anbarred and opened without Sir Hum
phrey Davy's safety lamp.
The Library of the Universe.
What are our departed friends who
found their chief joy in study doing
now? Studying yet, but, instead of a
few thousand volumes on few shelves,
al the volumes of the universe open
before them = geologic, ornithologic,