Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-05-15

as lars,e a. All Europe, shall have developer
her capacities for rice aud tea and sugar
among edtbles, and her amethyst and sap
phire and topaz and opal and jasper and
porphyry among precious stones, and her
rosewood and ebony and camphor and var
ntsh trses among precious woods, and
turned M from her depths a half dozen
Pennsylvania Of coal and iron, and twenty
Nevadas OF silver, and ilftY CALIFORNIA; OF
gold, aud her 500,O00.000 OF people shall be
evangelical. Then the Lord viii divide II
up among the good.
II my text be not a deception, but the
eternal truth, then the time Is coming when
all the farms will be owned by Christian
farmers, and all the commerce controlled by
Christian merchants. and all the authority
held by Christian officials, and all the ships
commanded by Christian captaius, and all
the universities under the Instruction OF
Christian professors; Christian kings, Chris
tian presidents, Christian governors, Chris
tian mayors, Christian common council. Yet,
what a securing out! What an upturning!
What a demoltionl What resurrection
must precede this new apportionmenti
l do not underrate the enemy. Julius
Cesar got his greatest victories by fully esti-
mating the vastness OF his foes and prepared
his men for their greatest triumph by saying,
Tomorrow King Juba will be here with
| $4,000 horses, 100000 skirmishers and 800
elephants" | do not underrate the vast
/ forces Of sin and death, hut do you know
/ who commands US? Johovahjireh. And the
! reserve corps behind US are all the armies Of
heaven and earth, with hurricane and thun-
derbolt. The good work OF the worlds re-
/ demptiOn is going on every minute. Never
| so many splendid men and glorious women
on the side of right as to-day. Never so
many good people as now. Diogenes has
been spoken Of as wise man because he
I went with lantern at MONDAY, saying he
] LOOKING honest
turned his lantern toward himself, he might
/ have discovered crank. Honest men by
| the 10 900! Through the international series
of Sunday-schoOl lessons the next generation
all through Christendom are going to be
wiser than any generation since tho world
stood. The kingdom is coming. God can
! do Ii. No housewife with a chamois cloth
/ ever polished a silver teaspoon with more
ease than Christ will rub of from this world
the tarnish and brighten it up till 1t glows
like heaven, and then the glorious aDpOr-
tionment, for my text is re-enforced by
score of other texts, when it says OF Christ,
"He shall divide the spoil with the strong"
But" you say, this is pleasant to think
of for others, but before that time shall
have passed up into another existence aud
| shall get no advantage from that new ap-
pointment." All, you have only driven me
to the other more exciting and transporting
consideration, and that is that Christ is go
ing to divide up heaven in the same way.
There are old estates in the celestial world
that have been in the possession OF the in
habtants for thousands OF year,, and they
shall remain as they are. There are old
family mansions in heaven filed 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
hA CHI ha
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 bouleyards, where
the charots Of cOnqueror5 roll. | will want
to see the garden where the princes walk.
We will want to see Music row, whore Han
del and Haydn and Mozart and Charles Nes-
lev and Thomas Hastings and Bradbury
have their homes, out of their windows ever
and anon, rolling some snatch Of an earthly
3 oratoro or hymn transported with the COM
poser. We will want to see Revival ter
} ace. where Whitefeld and Nettleton and
Payson and Rowland Hill and Charles Fin
: ney ard other giants Of soul reaping are
= resting from their almost supernatural la
: Dors, their doors thrOnged with converts
: just arrived coming to report themselves.
= But brilliant as the sunset and like the
l leaves for number are the celestial homes
g yet to be awarded when Christ to you and
g millions OF others shall divide the spoil.
g What do you want there? You shall have it,.
u An orchard? There it is-twelve manner OF
f-~itr, hhf rrftts uyr'i } uIOuth' 70 you Wult
l river scenery? Take your choice on the
Il banks Of the river, in longer, wider. deeper
n roll than Danube or Amazon or Mississippi,
5 ii mingled in one, and emptying into the sea
I Of glass. mingled with fire. Do you want
b your kindred back again? &c out and meet
: your father and mother, without the staff or
i the stoOp, and your children in dance OF i'm
s mortal glee. DoyOu want a thrOneH Select
n it from the million FURNISHED elevations. Do
3 you want a crown? Pick it out Of that
d mountain of diamonded cOrOnets. Do you
II want your old church friends of earth
e around you? Begin 20 hum an old revival
7, tune, and they will flock from all quarters to
g revel with you in sacred "Reminiscences. All
t. the earth for those who are here on earth at
II the time of continental and planetary dis
tribution and all the heavens for those who
: are there.
= That heavenly distribution OF spoils will
u be a surprise to many. Here enters heaven
the soul of man who took up great deal
. of room in the church on earth but sacrificed
II little, and among his good works selashness
= was evident He just crowds through the
- shining gate, but it's very tight squeeze
70 so that the doorlieeper has 10 pull hard ia
> get him in, and this man expects half Of
heaven for his share Of trophies, and he
% would like a monopoly Of all its splendoI
. and to purchase lots in the suburbs, so that
u he could get advantage of the growth of the
II city. Well, little by little he gets grace Of
IL heart, just enough TO get him through, and
z; to him is given a secondhand crown which
u one Of the saints wore at the start, but ex-
u changed for a brighter one as he went on
}, from glory to glory. And he Is put in an
y old house once occupied by an angel who
. was hurled out of heaven at the time oil
81 satan's rebellion.
% Right after him comes a soul that makes a
Is great stir among the celestials, and the an
. gels rush to the scene, each bringing to her a
u dazzling coronet. Who is she2 Over what
,, realm on earth was she queen? In what
- great Dusseldorf festival was she the canta-
% trice2 Neither. She was an invalid who
V never left her room for twenty years, but she
II was strong in prayer-and she prayed down
u revival after revival and pentecost after pen
n tecost upon the churches, and with her pale
= hand she knit many mitten or tippet fol
l. the poor, and with her contrivances she add
3, ed Joy to many a holiday festival, and now
10 with those thin hands so strong for kindness
II and with those white lips so strong Tor sup
u plication she has won coronation and in
3 ilIrOnement aud jubilee. And Christ said to
the angels who have brought each crowi
10 for the glorifed invalid: mo, not these
y They are not good enough. But In tn,
,,ee eweled vase at the right hand side Of Ny
" throne there is one that L have been prepar
u ing for her many year, and for her every
% parg have set an amethyst, and for he
. every good deed have set pearl. Fetcl
70 It now and fulfill the promise I gave hel
20 ong ago in the slckroom, BE thou faithful
N N lnto death, and l will give thee a crown
az But notice that there Is only one Being
- N the universe who can and will distribute
n he trophies Of earth and heaven. 1t Is the
10 Divine Warrior, the Commander-in-Chief o
IA The Centuries, the Champion of Ages, thu
os Universal Conqueror, the Son of God, Jesus
10 You will take the spoils from His hand OIL