The morning times., 1896-02-24

There was paid our Indebtedness, and
God never collects a bill twice"
Glad am / that all the Christian poets
have exerted their pen in extolins the
matchless one of this gospel. Isaac watts,
how do you feel concerning Him? And he
writes; Il am not ashamed to own my
Lord Newton what do you think OF
this gospel? And he writes; Amazing
grace, how sweet the sound" Cowper,
what do you think of Him?
And the answer comes, There is a
fountain filled with blood Charley Wes-
ley, what do you think of Him? And he
answers, Jesus lover of my SOUL Horatius
Ronar. what do you think of Him? And he
responds, L lay my sins on Jesus
THE ROYAL CASTLE.
And then the royal castle into which we
step out of this life without SO much as soil
ing our foot with the upturned earth of the
grave. They shall reign forever and ever. :
Does not that mean that you are 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 gioriously
| inhabited.
There is an abandoned royal castle al
Amber. India. One hundred and seventy
! years ago a king moved out of il, never
to return. But the castle Stif stands, an
| indescribable grandeur, and you go through
| braZen doorway after braZen doorway
and carved room after carved room. and
under Gmbellished ceiling after embellisbed
ceiling, ana through Lails precious stoned
into wider halls prccious-stoned, and on
that hill are pavilions deeply dyed, and
tas, elled, and arched, the fire OF oOlored
gardens cooled by the snow OF white arch
| tccture; birds in arabesquc so natural to
| life that while you cannot hear their voices
you imagine you see the flutter OF their
wings while you are passing; walls. pic
tured with triumphal procession; rooms
that were called 'Alcove OF Light and
Hall of Victory marble, white and black,
like mixture of nom and night; alahaster
ard mother of-pearl ana Iacquerwork.
standing before il, the eye climbs from
step TO latticed balcony, and from lat
ticcd balcony to oricl, and from oriel to
arch, and from arch to roof and then
deScends on a ladder of all colors, and by
stairs Of perfect lines of tropical gardens
of pomegranite and pineapple. Seven
stories OF respondent Architectural But
the ROYAL Castle provided for you, If you
will only take it on the prescribed terms,
is grander than all that, and although an
bandoned castle while Christ was here
achieving your redemption, is again oc-
cupied by the Chief among ten thousand
WILL MEET THERE.
"Oh, IL does not matter much what
stay is short-if We can only land there.
| az N
| meet there.
Joshua my favorite prophet; and John
among the evangeliSts; and PAU among
! the apostles; and Wycliffe among the
martyrs; and Bourdaloue among the preach
| ers; and Dante among the poets; ard
Havelock among the heroes; and our loved
| ones whom we have so much missed since
| they left us, so many darlings of the heart
! their absence sometimes almost unbearablc
| and, mentioned in this sentence last of all
| because l want the thought climacteric
our Blessed Lord. without whom we could
never reach the old castle at all. He took
our place.
And then from that vastest audience
ever assembled in all the universe there will
| go up the shout Crown Hint Crown Him!
| Crown Hint and the Father who long go
promised this His only begotten son, / will
give Thee the heather for Thine inheritance
and the uttermost parts of the earth for Thy
possession shall set the crown upon the
| forehead yet scared with crucifiXion
bramble, and all the hosts of hea ven. down
| on the levels and up in the galleries, will
| drop on their knees, crying. Hail king of
earth! King of heaven! King of saints!
King of seraphs, Thy kingdom is an ever
lasting kingdom. and TO Thy dominons here
shall be no end! Amen ardamen! Amen and
| ameni'