Milford chronicle., 1896-05-08
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY, MAY s. 1896.

trophies, ana no would like monopoly OF
all its splendor, and to purchase lots In
the suburbs, 50 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 a
secondhand cruwn, which one OF the
saints wore at tho start, but exchanged for
brighter one ms nc went ON from glory to
glory. And he is put in an old house once
4 occupied by an angel who was hurled out
of heaven at tho time Of satan's rebellion.
Right after him comes a soul that
makes great stir among the celestials
and the angels rush TO the scene, each
bringing To her dazzling corOnet. Who
is sheY Over what realm ON earth was she
/ queen? In what great Dusseldorf festival
was she tho cantatriceY Neither. She was
an invalid who never left her room for 20
years, but she was strong in prayer and
she prayed down revival after revival and
| pentecost after pcntecost upon tho churches
and with her pale hands she knit many a
milton or tippet for tho poor, and with her
contriyances she added joy to many holt
/ day festival, and now with those thin
hands 50 strong for kindness and with
those white lips so strong for supplication
/ she has won coronation and inthrOnement
and jubilee. And Christ said TO the angels
who have brought each crown for the
glorified invalid: mo, not these; they are
lot good enough. But in the jewelod vase
at the right hand side of my throne there
is ono that l have been preparing for her
many year and for her every pang l have
SCI an amethyst and for her every good
deed lave set u pearl. Fetch it now and
fulfill the promise l gave her long ago in
tho sickroOnl, Bo thou faithful unto death
and 1 will give thee Il crown
But notice that there is only one Being
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 Centuries, the Champion of Ages,
tho Universal Conqueror, the Son Of God,
Jesus. You will take the spells from his
hand, III never take them at all. Have his
friendship and you may defy all time and
all eternity, but without it you are n pau
per, though you had a universe at your
command. We are told in Revelation that
Jacobs L. sons were so hUnored as to have
tho IL gates of heaven named after Thorn
over ono gate of heaven Nuphtali, over an
other cato OF heaven Issachar, over another
Dan, over another Cad, over another Zeb-
ulon 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 interCession, his
atOnement, must, or be IA forlorn wretch
forever. My Lord and my God, make me
and all who hear ne this day and all TO
whom these words shall come, thy repent
ant, believing, sworn, consecrated and
ransomod followers forever.
A Day of Triumph.
What a day it will bel This entire as
semblago would Iiso to its feet if you could
realize it, the day in which Christ shall,
in fulfllment of my text, divide the spoil.
1t was "a great day when Queen Victoria,
in the midst Of the Crinean war, distrib-
utCd medals 10 the soldiers who had come
homo sick and wounded. At the Horse
guards, in presence Of the royal family,
tho injured men were carried in or came
on crutohus- Colonel Irowbrdge, who |
lost both feet at Inkermann, and Captain |
Sayer, who had the ankle joint of his right !
leg shot oil at Alma, and Captain Cure, |
his disabled limb supported by soldier, |
and others MANNED and dis1gured and 4
exhausted--and with her own hand the |
queen gave each the Crimean medal. And |
what triumphant days for those soldiers /
when, further on, they received the French !
medal with the imperial eagle, and the |
Turkish medal with its representation Of 4
four fiags-tranco. Turkey, England and !
Sardinlu-and beneath it Il map of the Cri- |
mea spread over gun wheel. And what |
rewards are suggested to all readers OF bis |
tory by nero mention Of the Waterloo /
medal, and the Cape medal, and the Gold |
Cross medal and the medals struck for |
bravery in our American wars But how |
Insignificant all these compared with the
day whom the good soldiers Of Jesus Christ |
CHI. in mt rf tho hafflQq Of this /
world, and, in the presence of all the piled
up galleries Of the redeemed and the I'M
fallen, Jesus, our King, shall divide the
spoil Tha moro wounds tho greater the
inheritance. Tho longer the forced march
the brighter tho trophy. The more ter
rible the exhaustion the moro glorious the
transport. Not tho gilt of brilliant rib
bon OF medal Of brass or silver or gold,
but Kingdom in which we arc to reign
for ever and ever Mansions on the eternal
hills. DominiOns of unfading power En-
pires of unending love. Continents Of ever
lasting light Atlantic and Pacific oceans
of billowing joy.
1t was great day when Aurelian, the
Roman emperor, came back from his vic
tories In the front of the procession wore
wild beasts from all lands, 900 gladia-
tors, richly clad; wagon loads of crowns
and trophies presented by conquered cities,
among the captiyes Syrians, Egyptians,
Goths Vandals, Sarmatians, Franks, and
Zenobia, the beautiful captive queen, on
foot in chains of gold that "a slave had to
help her carry, and jewels under the
weight of which she almost tainted, and
then came the chariot Of Aurelian drawn
by four elephants in gorgeous caparison
and followed by the Roman senate and the
Roman army, and from dawn till dark
the procession was passing. Rome In all
her history never saw anything more mag
nificent But how much greater the day
when our Conqueror, Jesus shall ride I'M
fer tho triumphal arches Of heaven, his
,aptiyes, not on foot, but in chariOts, all
The kingdoms of earth and heaven in nrn-
cession, the armies celestial on white
horses Rambling artillery Of thunder
bolts never again to be unlimbered. King
doms in line, centuries In line, sanity,
cherubic, seraphic, archangelic splendors
in line, and Christ seated on ono great
rolling hosanna, made out Of all hallelu-
iahs of all worlds shall cry halt to the
And not forgetting oven the
humbest in all the reach of his ompipres-
enco he shall rise, and then and there, his
work dono and his glory consummated,
proceed, amid an ecstasy such as neither
mortal nor immortal ever imagined, to di-
yido the spoil.
CUMMINGS DEER HUNT.
r. r,o,,, Tn october 1908. and the Deer