Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-03-19
SCALING THE HEAVENS.

Popular Lecture Delivered at the Opera
House, Warren, on Tuesday
Evening, Feb. rs,
By Rev. Chas. D. Darling, Pastor of
First Presbyterian Church,
Warren, ninr.
Continued from last number.
Sealing the Heavens! That is
what this world is trying to do, al
ways has been, always will be, until
the day when the archangel triumph
sounds forth the decree, Time was,
but time shall be no more
Sealing the Heavens. The most
powerful effort exerted through the
churches.' The lecturer here took
occasion to speak of one or two Of the
most prevalent faults of the pulpit as
seen from the pew; but gave his audi
ence the chance also to see some of
the faults of the pew as seen from the
pulpit.
Sealing the Heavens! One night
or day ! dreamed dream. For the
most Of the world is dreaming whether
sleeping or waking, and there is not
much difference in the dreams, only
perhaps those dreams when awake are
more fantastic of the two, and you
hear this dream whether l dreamed it
sleeping or waking. Out Of the cen
ter of a beautiful plain, towering
thousands and thousands of feet into
the blue Of the bending heavens, miles
and miles in circumference, there rose
above me a vast mountain. The sides
We're covered with verdant fields and
green woods, and immense forests,
and down them ripp]ed laughing
streams and broad deep rivers in the
valleys nestled clear, crystal lakes,
and on the slopes were cool, pleasant
groves, the air was filed with the mu-
sic Of the songs of myriads of singing
birds and then I saw that there were
deep ravines and barren sands and
frozen glaciers, and vast snow fields,
and broken craggy rocks, and steep
precipices and bottomless, abyssmal
gulches. And then I looked more
closely and I saw that the mountain
was covered with people, and some
were resting among the groves, and
some were boating upon the lakes,
and some were wandering along the
streams, and some were culling flow
ers in the heart of the forest. Some
were strolling in the fields, some were
going upward on the mountain and
some were going downward, and some
were busy in the fields, and some
were travelling over the smooth we'll
beaten roads, while others were toll
ing their feet wounded and bleeding,
over Guys tss,s and rocks. Some were on
the barren ice-felds; others were dy-
ing amid the scorching sands. Many
were deep down in the dark valleys
cropping to find their way; and I
looked more closely still, and I saw
that the air was filled with beautiful
winged beings, and that ever and
anon one of them would droop his
wings, and stoop gently, and touch
one Of the jewellers on the mountain
and lay his head upon his breast and
fold him gently beneath his wing,
and bear him away. And I looked to
see whittier they might go; but lo!
the clouds interviewed between me and
the summit of the mountain, and L
could not see beyond but I knew
that on the other side of the clouds
the sun is always shining, that the
mountain peak is always bathed in
sunlight, pure and brilliant and gold
en-, that the darkness is only on this
side of the cloud, that it is always
bright over yonder, and I thought, I
can rest content, and trust Him who
is wiser than L.
4 dreamed again. Death came. I
left this world. Slowly everything
faded out from my vision As the
spirit scared away into space the
world seemed at first like a huge ball
beneath my feet, the ocean looked like
con oE 1sla,e,c. ILL.,