Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-10-08

think that there will be 50 many of Ls
in Heaven that we will be lost In
the crowd. No. Each one of us will
be distinctly picked ont and recog-
nized as was Abel when he entered
from earth, the very first sinner
saved, and ut the head of that long
procession of sinners saved in all the
centuries. My dear hearers if we once
get there, do not want it left uncer-
tain as to whether we are to stay there.
After You and | get fairly settled
there, in our Heavenly home, we do not
want our title rovcd defective. We do
not want to he elected from the lIeav-
emily premises. We do not want some
one tO say, 9Th is not your room in
the housc of ma nv mansions, and you
have ON an attire that you ought not to
have taken from the Heavenly ward
robe, and that is not really your name
ON the books. If you had more carefully
examined the writing in the register
at the gate you would have found that
the name was not yours at all, but
mine. Now move out, while | move
in" Oh, what wretchedncss, after
bhtt III NtHlp pies,
to he compelled To turn your back ON
the music, and after having joined the
society of the blessed. to he forced to
quit it forever. and after having clasp
ed our long-lost kindred In heavenly
embrace. to have another separation!
| What agony there would be in such
good-hy to Heaven! Glory he to- God
ON High that our names will
be 50 plainly written in those
volumes that neither saint, nor
cherub. nor scraph, nor Grchangcl
shall doubt it for one moment, for
| 800 eternities, if there were room for
so many. The oldest inhabitant of
| Heaven can not read it, and the child
/ that left its mothers lap last night for
I Heaven can read it. You will not Just
| look at your name and close the book
| but you will stand, and soliloquize, and
say, is it not wonderful that my name
/ is there at all? How much it cost my
/ Lord to get it there? Unworthy am |
| To have il in the same book with the
sons and daughters of martyrdom and
with the choice spirits of all time.
| But there it is, and So plain the word
{
/ you will turn forward and back
ward the leaves and see other
names there, perhaps your fathers
name, and your mothers name, and
| your brothers name, and your sisters
name, and your wifc's name, and apos-
| tolic names. and say: Il am not sur
prised that those names are here re
corded They were better than ever
was. But establishment overwhelming
that my name is in this book And
/ turning back to the page on which is
| inscribed your name, you will stand
and look at il, until seeing the others
are waiting to examine the records
with re ference to their own names, you
will step back into the ranks of the re-
deemed, with them to talk over the
wonderment.
Again, if you are SO happy as to find
your name in the volumes of eternity,
| You will find il written indelibly. Go
up to the state department in this ma
tional capital and see the old treaties
signed by the rulers of foreign nations
! just before or just after the beginning
of this century, and you will find that
some of the documents are so faded out
that you can read only here and there
n word. From the paper, yellow with
age, or the parchment unrolled
before you, time has effaced line
after line. You have to guess at the
name, and perhaps guess wrongly.
| Old Time is represented as carrying n
scythe, with which he cuts down the
| generations; but he carries also chem
icals with which he eats out whole
paragraphs from important documents.
! We talk about indelible ink, but here
is no such thing as indelible ink. II
is only question of time, the com.
plete obliteration of all earthly
| signatures and ENDORSEMENTS But
your mare, put in the Heavenly
rc-crd-all the millenniums of Heaven
can not dim it. After you have
been So long in glory that. did you not
possess imperishable memory, you
would have forgotten the day of youI
entrance, your name on that page will
glow as wildly as on the instant it was
traced there by the finger of the Great
Atoner. There will be new genera.
| tions coming into Heaven, and IA thous-
and years from now, from this or from
other planets, souls may enter the
many mansioned residences and
though your name were once plainly
on the books, suppose it should fade
out. How could you prove to the new
corners that it had been written
there at all? lndeliblel incapable
of beng cancelled! Eternity as
helpless as time in any attempt at eras.
ure! What a reinforcing, uplifting
thought! Other records in Heaven
may give out, and will give out. There
are records there in which the Record
ing Angel writes down our sins, but
it is book full of blots, so that much
of the writing there can not be read or
even guessed at The Recording An
gel did the writing, but our Saviour
put in the blots; for did he not prom
Use, Il will blot out their transgres-
!