The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1896-10-09

way. Not put into glorlneu moD'
No, no! Though you came up, the
worst sinner that was ever saved. ana
somebody, who knew you in this world
at one time as absolutely abandoned
and dissolute, should say, Il never
heard of your conversion and 90 not
believe you have right to be here,
you could just laugh a laugh OF tri-
umph, and turning over the leaves con-
tanning the names of the redeemed,
say, Read it for yourself That is
my name, written out in full, ana 40
you not recognize the handwriting! |
No young scribe of heaven entered
that. No anonymous writer put II |
there. Do you not see the tremor in |
the lines? Do you not also see the bold
ness of the letters? Is it not as plain
as yonder throne, as plain as yonder
and the handwriting unmistakable?
and the handwriting unmistakable@s
The crucified Lord wrote II there the
day l repented and turned. Hear 1t!
Hear it! My name Is written there!
There"
l have sometimes been tempted to
think that there will be so many OF Us
in heaven that we will be lost in the
crowd. No. Each one of us will be as
distinctly picked out and recognized as
was Abel when he entered from earth,
the very first sinner saved, and at the
head of that long procession of sinners
saved in all the centuries. My dear
hearers, If we once get there, l do not
want it left uncertain 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 proved
defective. We do not want TO be eject
ed from the heavenly premises. We do
not want some one to say, This Is not
! your room in the house OF many man
sions, and you have on an attire that
! you ought not to have taken from the
heavenly wardrobe, and that is not
really your name on the BOOKS. IL
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 iaoVe
out, while | move in" Oh. what
wretchedness, after once worshippinG
in heavenly temples to be compelled
TO turn your back on the music, and
after having Joined the society of the
blessed, to be forced TO quit 1t forever,
and after having clasped our long-lost
kindred in heavenly embrace, to nave
another separation! What an agony
would there be in such a good-by 10
heaven! Glory be to God on high that
our names will be so plainly written in
those volumes that neither saint, ncr
cherub. nor seraph, nor archangel shall
doubt it for one moment, for five hum
dred eternities, if there were room for
so many. The oldest inhabitant of
heaven can read it, and the child that
left its mothers lap last night for
heaven can read it. You will not just
look at your name and close the book,
but YOU will stand. and soliloquize, and
say lis it not wonderful that my name
is there at all? How much it cost my
Lord TO get il there? Unworthy am |
to have it in the same book with the
sons and daughters of martrydom and
with the choice spirits of all time! But
there it is. and so plain the word and
so plain all the lettersw And you will
turn forward and backward 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 wife's
name. and apostolic names, and say,
: 81 am not surprised that those names
are here recorded. They were better
than | ever was. But establishment
overwhelming, that my name is in this
bookw And turning back to the page
on which is inscribed your name, you
will stand and lock at it. until seeing
that others are waiting to examine the
records with reference TO their own
! names. you step back into the ranks
of the redeemed, with them to talk over
the wonderment.
: Again, if you are so happy as to find
your name in the volumes of eternity
Won will find it written indelbly. &C
IN to the State Department in this Ea'
! tional capital and see the old treaties
. signed by the rulers of foreign nation!
, lust before or just after the beginning
of this century. and you will find thai
some of the documents are GO FADED
j out that you can read only here ant
e there a word From the paper, yellow
!. with age, or the parchment unrollet
e before you, time has effaced line after
s line. You have to guess at the name
e and perhaps guess wrongly. Old Time
d is represented as carrying a scythe
s with which he cuts down the genera
e tons; but he carries also chemical
S with which he eats out whole para
L graphs from important documents. W.
: talk about indellble ink; but there j
L no such thing as indelible ink. 1t i
k only a question of time. the complet
v obliteration of all earthly signature
II and ENDORSEMENTS. But your name
e put in the heavenly record, all the mil
/. lenniums of heaven cannot dim 1t. Al
n ter you have been so long in glory tna'
n did you not possess imperishable mem
}; DRY, you would have forgotten the ca
. of your entrance your name on ina