The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1896-05-09

rical stuff we have within the last few
wears had brought to orr shores! Ana
professors of religion patroniZin% such
thinrSl Having sold out to the devil,
why don't YOU deliver the goods ana
90 over To him pnblicly body, mind
and soul, and withdraw your name
from Christian churches and say:
know all the world by these presents
that | am n patron of uncieanllness
and a child OF hell Sworn to he the
Lords, Won are periTrers. If you THINK
thCee OfrcuseS are to go on forever, YOU
do not know who the Lord Is. Tod
will not wait for the day of Judgment,
All these palaccs Of sin will iecome
palaces of righteousness. They Will
come intothe possession of those strong
for virtue and strong for cod lie
shall divide the spoil with the strong.
China and Africa, the two richest
portions of the earth by reason of
metals and rare woods, and lneNhaustl'
BILE productiVeness, are not yet divided
up AMONG the good because they are
not ready to lie divided. Wait until
all the doors that LIVINGSTON opened
in Africa shall be entered, and Bishop
TAYLOR, with his band of self-snpport-
ing missionaries, have done their
work. and the A~shantees and Sene-
oambians shall know Christ as we'll as
YOU know Him, and there shall be on
the banlls of the Nile and the Niger
a higher civilization than is now to
be found on the banks of the
Potomac or the Hudson, then Christ
will divide up hat continent
among His friends. Wait until China,
which is half as large as all Europe,
shall have developed her capacities for
rice and tea and sugar among edibles;
and her amethyst and sapphire and
topaz and opal and jasper and por-
phyry, among precious stones; and her
wood and ebony and camphor and
varnish trees, among precious woods;
and turned up from her depths n half
dozen of Pennsylvania of coal and
iron, and 20 Nevadas of silver, and so
CALIFORNIA; of gold, and 500, 600, 900 of
people shall be evangelical; then the
Lord will divide it up among the
rood.
If my text be not n deception, but
the eternal truth, then the time is com
in" when all the farms will be owned
by Christian farmers, and all the com
merce controlled by Christian. mer-
chants, and all the authority held by
CHRISTIAN oilclHiS, anu dil Lut ShlpS
commanded by Christian captains, and
all the universities under the instruc-
ton of Christian professors; Christian
kings, Christiln presidents, Christian
governors, Christian mayors, Christian
common council. Yet, what a scour-
ing out! what an u%pturning! what a
demolition what Il resurrection must
precede the new appOrtionmentl
But" you say, this is pleasant
to think of for others, but before
that time l shall have passed up into
another existence, and ! shall get no
advantage from that new apportion-
ment." All, you nave only driven me
to the other more exciting and trans
porting consideration, and that is that
Christ is going to divide up eaven in
the same way. There are old estates
in the celestial world hat have been
in the possession of the inhabitants for
thousands of years, and they shall re-
main as they are. There are old
family mansions in Heaven filed with
whole generations of kindred, and
they shall never be driven out.
Many of the victors from earth have
already got their palaces, and they are
pointed out to those newly arrived.
ADOoA 4 CHA bNN6 49, "A'A
ask to be shown the apostolic resi-
dences. and ask where does Paul live,
and. John; and shown the patriarchal
residences, and shall say; Where does
Abraham live, or Jacob?" and shown
the martyr residences and say: where
does John Huss live, and Ridley?"
We shall want to see the boulevards
where the chariots of ~nquero roll.
| will want to see the garden where
the princes walk. We viii want to see
Music row, where Handel and Haydn
and Mozart and Charles Wesley and
Thomas Hastings and Bradbury have
their homes, ont of their windows, ever
and amor rolling some snatch of an
earthly oratorio or hymn transported
with the
But brilliant as the sunset and like
the leaves for number, Are the celestial
homes yet to be awarded, when Christ
the spoil. What do you want
there? You shall nave il. An orchard? J
There it is; II manner of fruits,
and fruit every month. Do you want
scenery? Take your choice on
banks of the river, in longer,
wider, deeper roll than Danube or
Amazon or Mississippi if mingled in
one, and e~mptying into the sea of
glass, mingled with fire. Do you
your kindred back againP
Go out and meet your father
and mother without the staff
or the stoop, and your children
in "A dance of immortal glee. Do
you want a throne? Select it from the
FURNISHED elevations. Do you
a crown? Pick it out of that
mountain of diamond c~oronets. Do
You want your old church friends of
earth around you? Begin to hum an
old revival tune and they will flock
from all quarters to revel with you in
sacred reminiscence. All the earth for
those who are here on earth at the
time of continental and planetary dis
tribution, and all the Heavens for
those who are there. That heavenly
distribution of spoils will be a surprise
to many. Here enters Heaven the
soul of n man who took up n great deal
Of room in the church on earth but
sacrificed little, and among his good
works selishness was evident. lie
Just crowds through the shining gate,
but it's n very tight squeeze, so that
he doorkeeper has to pull hard
o get him in; and this man
half of Heaven for his share of
and he would like n monopoly
If all its %splendor, and to purchase lots
n the suburbs, so that he could get
of the growth of the city.
Well, little by little he gets grace of
leart, just enough to get him through,
to him is given a secondhand
,rown, which one of the saints wore at
he start, but exchanged for "A brighter
as he went on from glory to glory.
And he is put in an old house once oc-
by an angel who was hurled
mt of Heaven at the time of satan's
Right after him comes a soul that
makes II great stir among the celes-
.ials, and the angels rush to the scene,
'ach bringing to'her Il dazzling coro-
net Who is she? Over what realm
III earth was she queen? In what
'reat Dusseldorf festival was she the
.antatrice? Neither. She was an in
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