The morning news., 1896-12-28

| vancing year we cannot call 1t may be
! in the nineLes of this century, II may pe
! in the tens or tWenties or thirties OF the
next century, but it is coming at full gal
| lop. With what mood will we meet 1t? In
| jocos.ty, as did Thomas Hood, in his last
moment saying, Il am dying out OF charity
to the undertaken, who wishes to learn
a lively Hood" Or in fear, as did Thomas
Paine, saying in his last moment on,
how ! dread this mysterious leap m the
dark" or in boaStfulness, as did YES
pasian, saying in his last moment, An!
Methinks l am becoming a god" Or IN
frivolity, as did Demonax. the infidel phil
osopher, saying in his last moment, You
may may go home; the show Is over" , or con on
murderl What blood!' Or shall
we meet IL in gladness of Christian hope.
like that of julius Charles Hare. who SAID
in his last moment Upward! upWard"
or like that of Richard Baxter, in his last
that of Martin of Tours. saying in his last
moment, Il go to Abraham S BOSOM" or
like that of polished Addison, who said
a Christian can die" Or like that of George
Whitehe.d, who felt that he had said II
that he could of Christ. declaring in his
last moment, Il shall die silent" Or like
that of Mrs. Schlmmelpennich. who said
in her last moment, do you not hear the
voices? And the chidrens are the loud
est" Or like that of Dragonnatu, saying
in his last moment. stand aside! ] see
my father and my mother coming to kiss
me. aJf AS ulu IHe dying girl WnOs ndNr
ing a few evenings before sat on bench
in a London mission, was seen to have
tears of contrition rolling down her cheek,
and who, departing from the room had
put in her hand by a Christian woman. a
Bible, with the passage marked, "the blood
of Jesus Christ cleanseth from all 5lu.'
Though having promised to be at the next
meeting, she did not come. The Christian
woman who gave her the Bible was visit
ing the hospital, and the nurse said to her,
Il wish you had been here a little while
woman
been run over by wagon. Poor tnlng!
She was fearfully crushed, and died al
most at once. She had a Bible in her hama,
with your name in it, and she said when
she was brought in, thank Cod found
Christ as my Saviour last night The
blood of Jesus Christ, his son. cleanseth
us from all SIM" Oh, my friends, If all
right for the next world, the years can
not gallop past too rapidly. If it were pos
sible for the centuries to take the speed
of the years, and the years the speed OF
the days, and the days the speed of the
hours, they could do us no harm. The
shorter our life, the longer our heaven.
The sooner we get out of the perils of this
life if our work be done, the better No
man is safe till he is dead: Better men
than we have been wrecked, and at all
ages. Lord and Lady Napier were on
horseback on road in India. Lord Napier
suddenly said to Lady Napier, Rice n and
fetch assistance, and do not ask me why.
She sped on and was soon out of sight. The
fact was tigers eyes glared on them
from the thicket. and he did not dare to
danger and perhaps lose her life. From
all sides of us, on this road of life, there
are perils glaring on US, from tigers of
temptation, and tigers of accident, and ti
gers of death, and the sooner we get out
of the perilS of this life the better. Let 1897
take the place of 1895, and 1898 the place of
1897, and our souls will be landed where
there shall be nothing to hurt or destroy
in all Gods holy mount" mo lion shall
be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go
up thereon, 1t sh III not be found there, but
the redeemed shall walk there. And the
ransomed of the Lord shall return, and
come to Zion with songs, and everlast ting
joy upon their heads they shall
obtain 10y and gladness. and sorrow
and signing shall flee away" Obi will it
not be grand when from the windows and
doors of the "House of Many Mansions
we look out and see passing along the
golden boulevards of heaven the white
horses had souls, but take the story in
Revelation as dgurative or literal, you
must admit that none but cavalry horses
are mentioned as being in heaven. John
1874: The armies which were in heaven
followed him upon white horses" You
see, they are mounted troops. Their Lead
er is in deep crimson attire. His vesture
we are told, is dipped in blood not blood
| of human slaughter, as many other con-
querors have their attire, but his own
| blood, blood of crucitixion agony, the blood
! by which he redeemed you and me- That
| deep red garment is in vivid contrast with
| the snowy white charger on which our
Lord is seated. And no saved sinner can
gaze on that red and that white without
| remembering that though his sins were
once red like crimson, they have become
| whittier than snow. oh, those celestial cav
| alcadeS whom our Conqueror in scarlet
| shall lead on through the streets of heav-
| en- Wide streets, hundreds of mounted
! troops abreast. long streets, thousands in
! sight followed by coming thousands
| through the long day of heaven which
cavalry are in that shining procession,
/ those who did work outside the forts those
who dared all things for God, those who
| had in them the spirit Of holy dash. We
! who did eask work may look at that pro-
| cesSion but will not be part of it. There
| they pass! the equestrians, and equestri-
| ennes of heaven regiments of evangelists,
| of tract distributors, of street preachers,
| of salvation armies, of once half-starved
| home missionaries on the frontiers of
| those who did inconspicuOuS service for
Christ and never had their name in the
| newspapers but once, and that in the
notice of their own obsequies, notice not
accompanied by the request, Send no
| flowers" for there was no danger that
! there would be a profusion of flowers. As
(. ON the wi ldows and doors of the "House
OF many Mansions" we look on the pass
ing spectacle some of us will wish that
on earth we had had less salary and more
/ hardship, less comfort and more exposure,
less caution and more courage, less shell
ter and more storm, less smooth sailing
! and more cyclone, and that we had dared
| all at the front instead of taking good care
| of ourselves in the rear. Forward, mount
ed troops Favorites of heaveni Cavalry
| men and cavalrywomen of the Lord God
Almighty. No chargers of heaven
too white. or too arched of neck, or too
prancing of gait for those seated on them.
| If Jobs war horse, while the battle was
| going on said "Hal Han' shall not these
| charges now that the day is won utter a
more jubilant "Ha! Ha! Forward un-
der arches of triumph, by fountains rain
bowed of eternal joy, and amid gardens
abloom with unfading effiorescence, and
! along palaces where, after they have dis
| mounted, these souls shall reign forever
and ever they march, they brandish their
| weapons with which they gained bloodless
victory, and they rise in stirrups of gold ia
! greet all the rest of heaven gazing upon
them from the amethystine balconies A
| glorious heaven 1t will be for all of us who
anywhere, and anyhow served the Lord
but an especial heaven, mounted heav,
/ en-, a professional heaven for those who
have done outside work, exposed work
and belonging to the Lords cavalry. "The
armies which were in heaven followed him
upon white horses"
Then let the creaking door of the closina na
year go shut. When that closes better
doors will open. The worlds brightest
and happiest years are yet to come. TO.
ward them we speed on in swiftest stir.
rup. Cavalry charge at Inkerman was moi
so rapid. At last the equestrians equal thf
chargersl At last the riders are as MANY
as the horSeSi