Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1896-10-03

There will he new generations coming
into heaven. and / 900 years from now
from this ar from other planet souls may
enter the many mansiuned residence. and
though your name were once plainly on
the books suppose 1t should fade out:
How could yuu prnVc To tho newcomers
that ii had ever been written there AT all:
lndeliblc! Incapable uf being Cancelled :
Eternity as helpless aS time in any n
tempt at crasurcl What - reinforcing.
uplifting thought Other records in hcay-
en- may give out and VIII give out There
are records there in which the recording
angel writes down our sins hut 1t Is "a
book fun of hllts, - that much Of the
writing there cannot DC read or even
guessed at The recording angel did the
writing, but our saviour put in the hlotS,
for did he not promise. II will blot out
their transs,rcssi0ns And il sono ono
In heaven should remember some ~ our
earthly impurities and ask God about them
the Lord would say: Oh, forgot them 4,
completely forgot those sins for prom
iscd, Their sins and their iniqutcs will
remember no more =" In the fires that
burn up our world all the safety deposits
and all the title deeds. and all the halls of
record, and I'LL the libraries viii disappear
worse than when the 2O0. 600 volumes and
| the 200. 600 manuscripts Of the AlcXan-
drian library went down under the torch
Of Omar, and not "a leaf or word Will
escape the flame in that last conilagration
which think will he witnessed hy other
planets, whose inhabitants will cxclaim
Look, there is IL world on fire But
! there will tie only one cunilagrItiOn in
heaven. and that will not destroy. but ir-
radiatc. | mean the cnniagration Of
/ splcndors that blaze on the towers and
domcs and temples and thrones and rubbed
and diamondcd walls in the light II the
sun that never sets. Indelihlci
There is not ON earth an autograph letter
or signature Of Christ The only time he
wrote out word ON earth, though lac
knew 50 well how to write, he wrote with
reference to having il soon shuillcd out by
/ human foot, the time that lie stopped
down and with his finger wrote on the
/ ground the hypocrisy of the PharisecS But
when he writes Your name in the heavenly
archives ~ believe he has or hope he
may IL is to stay there from age To age,
/ from cycle To cycle from con TO con. And
so for all you Christian people do what
John G. Whittier, the dying poet, said he
wanted done IN his home Lovely man lie
was! | sat with him in II hnymow a
whole summer afternoon and heard him
tell the story of his life. He had for many
\ years been troubled with insomnia and
was very poor sleeper, and he always had
the window curtain uf his room up So as To
see the first intimation Of sunrise When
he was breathing his last In the morning
hour, in his home in the Massachusetts
village, the nurse thought that the light Of
the rising sun was too strong for. him and
/ so pulled the window curtain down. The
/ last thing the great Quaker poet did was
/ TO wave his hand to have the curtain up.
He wanted 10 depart in the full gush Of the
morning And l thought il might DC help
full and inspiring 10 all Christian souls To
have more light about the future, and so |
| pull up the curtain In the glorious sunrise
of my text and say, Rejoice that your
names are written in heaven" Bring on
/ your doxologies! Wave your palms! Shout
I your victories. Pull up all the curtains II
bright expectations! Yea hoist the win
dow itself, and let the perfume OF the
morning glories' Of the Kings garden
come in, and the music OF hurps all a-trem-
BILE with symphonies, and the sound Of the
surf of seas dashing to the foot of the
throne Of God and the Lamb.