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little he gets grace Of heart, just enough
to get him through, and to him is given
secondhand crown, which ono of the
saints wore at the start, but exchanged for
brighter ono as he went on from glory TO
glory. And no Is put In an old house once
occupied by ali angel who was hurled out
of heaven at tho time Of satan's rebellion.
Right after him comes q soul that
makes great stir among the celestals
and the angels rush to tho scono, each
bringing to her a dazzling ooronet Who
Is sheY Over what realm on earth was she
queenp In what great Dusseldorf festival
was she tho CaFatricep Neither. Sho WINS
an invalid who never left her room for &c
years, but she was strong in prayer and
she prayed down revival after revival and
pentecost after pentecost upon the churches
and with her pale hands she knit many a
mittcn or tlppot for the poor, and with her
contriyancos she added JOY 20 many holt
day festival, and now with those thin
hands SO strong for kindness and with
those white lips so strong for supplieution
she has won coronation and inthronement
and jubilee. And Christ said to tho angel
who have brought each crown for tho
gloriiled invalid: mo, not these; they nr.
not good enough. But in tho jowelod Vase
at the right hand sido of my throne there
is ono that l have been preparing for her
many year and for her every pang have
set an amethyst and for her every good
deed have set pearl. Fetch 1t now and
fulfill the promise 1 gave her long ago In
tho sickrooni, BE thou faithful unto death
and 1 will give thee "a CROWN"
But notice that there is only one Being
in tho universe who can and will distribute
tho trophies of Garth and heaven. 1t is tn,
Divine Warrior, the Commander In Chief
of tho Centuries, the Champion of Ages,
the Universal Conqueror, the Son of God,
jesus You will take the spoils from his
hand, or nevor tako them at all. Have his
friendship and you may defy all time and
all eternity, but without 1t you arc pau.
per, though you had universe at your
command. We are told in Revelation that
Jacobs ~ sons were SO honorod as to have
tho IL gates Of heaven named after them
over one gate of heaven Naphtali, over an
other gate of heaven Issachar, ovor another
Dan, over another Cad, over another Zcb.
ulon, over another Judah, and so on. Blu.
Christ's name Is written over all the gates,
and on every panel of tho gates, and have
his help, his pardon, his intorcession, his
atoncmcnt l must, or DO forlorn wretch
forever My Lord and my God, mako mo
and all who hear mo this day and all to
whom these words shall come, thy repent
ant, believing, sworn, consocratod and
ransomod followers forever.
A Day of Triumph.
What day it will bel This entire as
semblnge would rise to its feet IL you could
realize 1t, the day in which Christ shall,
in fulfillment of my text, divide the spoil.
1t was great day when Queen Victoria,
in tho midst OF tho Crimean war, distrib-
uted medals TO the soldiers who had como
home sick and wounded. At the Horse
guards, in presence Of the royal family,
the injured mon wero carried In or came
on crutches-Colonol Trowbridge who
lost both feet at Inkermann, and Captain
Saycr, who had the ankle joint of his right
leg shot oil at Alma, and Captain Cure,
his disabled limb supported by soldier,
and others manned and ds1gurcd and
exhausted-and with her own hand the
queen gave each the Crimcan medal. And
what triumphant days for those soldiers
when, further on, they received the French
medal with the imperial eagle, and tho
Turkish medal with its representation of
four hags-France, Turkey, England and
Snrdinia-and beneath 1t map Of tho Cri-
mea spread over q gun wheel. And what
rewards are suggested to all readers of his
tory by nero mention of the Waterloo
medal, and the Cape medal, and the Gold
Cross medal, and the medals struck for
bravery in our American wars. But how
insignificant all these compared with tho
day when the good soldiers Of Jesus Christ
shall come in out of tho battles Of this
world, and, in the presence Of all the piled
up galleries Of the redeemed and tho I'M
fallen, Jesus, our King, shall divide the
spoil The more wounds the greater the
inheritance. The longer the forced march
tho brighter tho trophy. The more ter
rible tho exhaustion the moro glorious the
transport. Not tho gift Of u brilliant rib
bon or q medal of brass or silver or gold,
but kin gdom in which we arc to reign
for ever and over. Mansions on tho eternal
bills. Dominions of unfading power. En-
pires of unending love. Continents OF ever
lasting light. Atlantic and Pacific oceans
of billowing joy.
1t was great day when Aurelian, the
Roman emperor, oamo back from his vic
tories. In the front of tho procession were
wild beasts from all lands, 900 gladiu-
tors, richly clad; wagon loads Of crowns
and trophies presented by conquered cities,
among the captives Syrians, Egyptians,
Cloths, Vandals, Sarmatians, Franks, and
Zenobia, the beautiful captive queen, on
foot in chains Of gold that slave had to
help her carry, and jowols under the
weight Of which she almost tainted and
then camo the chariot of Aurelian drawn
by four elephants in gorgeous caparison
and followed by the Roman senate and the
Roman army, and from dawn till dark
tho procession was passing. Rome in all
her history never saw anything moro mag
nificent, But how much greater tho day
when our Conquoror, Jesus, shall ride I'M
dor tho triumphal arches Of heaven, his
captivos, not on foot but in chariots, all
the Kingdoms Of earth and heaven in pro.
cesson, the armies celestial on white
horses Rumbling artillery of thunder
bolts never again to be unlinbered. King
doms in line centuries in line, sanity,
seraphic, archangelio splendors
In limo, and Christ seated on ono great
rolling hosannn made out Of all hallelu
iahs of all worlds, shall cry halt to tho
procession. And not forgetting even the
humblest In oil he reach of his omnipres-
enco he shall rise, and then and there, his
work done and his glory consummated,
proceed, amid an ecstasy such as neither
mortal nor immortal ever imagined, to di-
vide the spoil.