Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-05-04

ing to be wiser iian any generatlon
since the world stood The kingdom is
coming. Gcd can do it. No housewife
with q cha1lois cloth ever polished a
silver teaspoon with more case than
Christ will rub eff from this world the
tarnish and brighten it up till it CLOVIS
like heaven, and then the glorious APP
nortionment, for my text is REINFORCED
by q score of other texts, when it says CT
Christ, "He shall divide the spoil with
the strong.
Some Grand Sights
ssBut," you say, s'this is pleasant
to think Of for others, but before that
time I shall have passed up into an
other existence and / shall get no adj
vantage from that new apportionment. "
All, you have only driven me to the
other more exciting and Transporting
consideration, and that is that Christ
is going to divide up heaven in the same
way. There are old estates in the celes-
tial world that have been in the posses
sion of the inhabitants for thousands Of
years, and they shall remain as they
are. There are old family mansions in
heaven filled 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.
Soon after our getting there we will ask
to be shown the apostolic residences,
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 will want
to see the boulevards, where the chariots
Of conquerors roll. [ will want to sec
the garden where the princes walk. We
will want to see Music row, where
Handel and Haydn and Mozart and
Charles Wesley and Thomas Hastings
and Bradbury have their homes, out of
their windows, ever and anon, rolling
some snatch of an earthly oratorio on
hymn transported with the composer.
We will want to see Revival terrace,
where Whitefeld and Nettleton and
Payson and Rowland Hill and Charles
Finney and other giants Of soul reaping
are resting from their almost supern2t-
ural labors, their doors thronged with
converts just arrived, coming to report
themselves
But brilliant as the sunset and like
the leaves for number are the celestial
homes yet to be awarded when Christ
to you and millions of others shall di-
vide the spoil. What do you want there:
You shall have it. An orchard? There
it is-12 manner Of fruits, and fruit ey
cry month. Do you want river scenery!
Take your choice on the banks cf the
river, in longer, wider, deeper roll than,
Danube OF Amazon or Mississippi, il
mingled in one, and emptying into tie
sea of glass, mingled with fire. Do you
want your kindred back again: Go out
and meet your father and mother with.
out the staff or the stoop, and your chill
dren i'll Il dance Of immortal glee. Dc
you want a throne? Select it from the
million FURNISHED elevations. Do you
want crown? Pick it out of that noun
tain of diamonded coronets. Do you
want your old church friends Of earth
around you? Begin to hum an old re-
vival tune, and they Will flock from al
quarters to revel with you in sacred rem
iniscence. All the earth for those who
are here on earth at the time of cont.
mental and planetary distribution and
all the heavens for those who are there.
Conspicuous Souls.
That heavenly distribution Of spoils
will be surprise to many. Here enters
heaven the soul of a man who took up
a great deal of room in the church on
earth, but sacrificed little, and among
his good works selfshness was evident.
He just crowds through the shining gate,
but it's a very tight squeeze, SO that the
doorkeeper has to pull hard to get him
in, and this man expects half of heaven
for his share of trophies, and he would
like monopoly of all its splendor and
to purchase lots in the suburbs, SO 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 second
hand crown which one of the saints
wore at the start, but exchanged for
brighter one as he went on from glory
to glory. And he is put in an old house
once occupied by an angel who was hurl-
ed out of heaven at the time of satan's
rebellion.
Right after him comes a soul that
makes a great stir among the celestials
and the angels rush to the scene, each
bringing to her a dazzling coronet. Who
is she? Over what realm ON earth was
she queen? lin what great Dusseldorf
festival was she the cantatrice? Neither.
She was an invalid who never left her
room for 30 years, but she was strong
in prayer, and she prayed down revival
after revival and pentecost after pente-
cost upon the churches, and with her
pale hand she knit many mitten or
tippet for the poor, and with her con-
trivances she added joy to many a holt
day festival, and now with those thin
hands so strong for kindness and with
those white lips SO strong for supplica-