Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-11-20

are small Walls OF medicines, and another
bundle In which are biscuits? How dare she
risk herself among those "roughs," and
where is she golng2 She Is one OF the queens
OF heaven hunting up the sick and hungry;
and before night she will have read Christ's
"Let not your heart be troubled" In eight or
ten places, and counted out from those Vlas
the right number OF drops to case pain, ana
given food to family that would otherwise
have had nothing to eat to-day, and taken
the measure of a dead child that she may
prepare for 1t shroud-her every act OF
kindness for the body accompanied with
benediction for the soul. You see nothing
but the filthy street along which she walks
and the rlcketY stairs up which she Climbs,
but she Is accompanied by an unseen conore
of angels with drawn swords to defend hef,
and with garlands twisted for her victories
all I'D and down the tenement house dis
trlcts. / tell you there was not 80 mucn
excitement when Anne Boleyn, on her
way to her coronation, found the Thames
stirred by fifty gilded barges, With bril-
liant flags, in which hung small Dels
rung by each motion OF the wind, NOBLE
men standing In scarlet, and wharf spread
with cloth of gold, and all the gateways
surmounted by huzzaing admirers, and tho
streets hung with crimson velvet, ana trum,
pets and cannon sounding the jubilee, anu
Anne, dressed in surcoat OF silver tissue, ana
brow cleaning with clrclet OF ruoies, ana
amid fountains that poured Rhenish Wine
passed on to Westminster Hall and rode In
on a caparisoned palfry, its hoois Gathering
on the classic floor, and, dismountlng,
passed into Westminster Abbey and between
the choir and high altar was Gro yned queen
amid organs and choirs chanting the lie
Deum"-I say there was not mucn 10 all
that glory which dazzles the eyes OF history
when 1t is compared with the heavenly re-
ception which that ministering spirit OF tne
back alley shall receive when she goes up 10
coronation. When she goes In, what wei,
come on the river Of life, its banks OF pearl
lined with splendors seraphic and In Temples
of eternal worship, whose music IS com,
manded by swing OF archangellc scepter and
before thrones where sit those who have
reicned thousand years but have JUST
begun their dominion. Poor Anne Boleyn,
in two years after that pageant, lost lie ano
throne bv one stroke Of headsman, put tnoSo
who on earth have divine passion Tor SOUS
shall never lose their thrones. "Ihey snal'
reign forever and ever"
But. after all, the best way to cultivate
that divine passion for souls is 10 work loi
their salvation. Under Go1 save one, anu
Won will want right away to save two. save
fen. and YOU will want to save twenty. save
twenty. and you will want to save hundred.
Save hundred, and you will want 70 save
everybc dv And what is the use OF talking
abont il when the place to begin is here and
the time Is now? And while you pray VIII
In one minute tell all there is OF 1t. Full
nardon for the worst man on earth II he VIII
believe in Christ, whose blood can instantly
wash away tine foulest crimes. Fun comfort
for the most narrowing distress that ever
crushed a human being. At your nrs'
moment OF belief, a process by wnicn tne
whole universe of God will turn clear
around for your eternal advantage. For the
mere asking. II the asking be in earnest, and
YOU throw everything into that asking. COM
nlete solace and hepfulness for the few
wears OF this life, and then Wide ope7
heaven which you can reach In less tlns
than it takes me to pronounce that Imperial
word. flashing with all the joy that an in'
finite God knows how to bestow-heaven,
In this world God never does His best. he
! can hang on the horizon grander mornings
than have ever yet been kindled, ana ram
bow the sky with richer colors than nave
ever been arched, and attune the oceans 70
more majestic doxologles than have ever ye!
heen attained: but as near as l can tell. and
I speak it reverently, heaven Is the place
where God has done His best. He can build
no greater Joys, lift no mightier splendors
roll no loftier anthems, march no more I'M
nosing PROFESSIONS, build no greater palaces,
and spread out and intefioin and wave no
more transporting magnihcence. 1 thlnS
heaven Is the best heaven God can construct
land 1t is all yours for the serious asking.
How do you like the ofrerl DO you rea.ly
think 1t Is worth acceptingf III So pray Ioi
It, Get not up from that pew where you are
,r1 frnpn
are standing, before you get full title lor
| II. written in the blood OF the Son OF Goa,
who would have all men come to life present
| and life everlasting.
If YOU have been in military life, you know
what soldiers call the "long roll. All t1o
! drums beat ii because the enemy Is approacn'
ing. and ali the troops must Immediately
yet into line. What scurry1ng around tne
camp and putting of the arms through the
straps OF the knapsack, and saying goou,p}
to comrades you may never meet a9ain'
Some of you Germans or Frencnmen may
have heard that long roll Just before SEDAN
Soroe of you Italians may have heard that
long roll Just before Bergamo. Some Oh you
Northern and Southern men may have heart
it lust before the battle OF the Wilderness
| You know its stirring and solemn mean
ing. and so sound the long roll to-day.
beat this old gospel drum that has for GEN.
| turies been calling thousands to take
their places In line for this battle, on ons
side of which are all the forces beathc and
on the other side all the forces demonisc.
Here the long roll call, "Who is on thc
Lords side?" "Qult yourselves like men.
In solemn column march for God and happi'
ness and heaven. So glad am I that dc
t have to "wish myself accursed" and
throw away my heaven that you may win
your heaven, but that We may have whols
convention OF heavens-heaven added to
heaven, heaven built on heaven. And willis
1 dwell upon the theme l begin TO expert
ence in my own poor self that which take
TO be something like passion orsouls. And
now unto God, tho only wise, the only good
the only great, be glory forever. Amen!