Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-02-14


the roadside. But, says my text, "No Hon
shall be there" i wish / could make you
feel your entire security. tell you plainly
that one minute after a man has become a
child Of God he is as safe As though he had
been 10000 years in heaven. He may slip;
not be destroyed. Kept by the power OF tod
through faith unto completesalyatio Ever
lastingly safe. The severest trial TO when
YOU can subject a Christian man Is 70 XIII
him, and that is glory. In other words. the
worst thing that can happen child OF uod
is heaven. The body Is only the old slippers
that he throws aside just before putting on
the sandals OF light. His soul, you cannot
hurt il. No fires can consume II. NO HOODS
can crown IL. No devils can capture IL.
Firm and unmoved are they
Who rest their souls on God;
Fixed as the ground where David stood,
Or where the ark abode.
His soul IS safe. His reputation Is safe.
Everything is safe. "But, you say. sup
pose his store burns upg' Why, then, II
will be only change OF investments from
earthly TO heavenly securities. but, you
say. suppose his name goes down under
| the hoof OF scorn and contempt" The name
will be SO much brighter in glory. "Suppose
his physical health fails?" God will pour
| into him the floods Of everlasting health, and
1t will not make any difference. Earthly
subtraction Is heavenly addition. The tears
| of earth are the crystals Of heaven. As they
take rags and tatters and put them through
the paper mill and they come out beautiful
white sheets OF paper. so often the rags OF
earthly restitution, under the cylinders OF
| death, come out a white scroll upon which
shall be written eternal emancipation. There
was one passage Of Scripture, the force OF
| which never understood until one day at
| Chamounix, with Mont Blanc on one side
and Montanvert ON the other, L opened my
Bible and read, Gas the mountains are
around about Jerusalem so the Lord is
around about them that fear Him." The
surroundings were an omnipotent COM
| mentarY.
Though troubles assail and dangers alright.
Though friends should all fail and foes all
unite,
! Yet one thing secures us. whatever betide,
Inc Scripture assures us the Lord will pro-
vide.
Still further. the road spoken Of is pleas
ant road. God gives a bond Of indemnity
against all evil to every man that treads IL.
"Allthings work together for good those
who love God" No weapon formed against
them can prosper. That Is the bond, signed,
sealed and delivered by the President Of the
whole universe What is the use Of your
/ IcAtihSt phs Oulii VI oOu. dDOul lOOuE bC-
hold the fowls OF the air. for they SOW not,
neither do they reap, nor gather into barns.
yet your Heavenly Father feedeth them"
And will He take care of the sparrow, will He
take care of the raven, will He take care of
| the hawk and let you die2 What is the use
| Of your fretting about clothes2 "Consider
| the lilies of the field. Shall He not much
more clothe you, oh, ye Of little faith?"
| What is the use of worrying for fear some
thing will happen to your home? "He
blesseth the habitation Of the just" What is
| the use of your fretting lest you will be over
| come of temptations? "God is faithful who
will not suffer you to be tempted above that
We are able but will with the temptation
also make a way to escape, that We may be
able to bear it," Oh, this Kings highway!
Trees OF life on either side bending over un-
til their branches interlock and drop mid
way their fruit and shade. Houses OF enter
tainment on either side the road for poor pill
grims. Tables spread with feast eof good
things and walls adorned with apples Of gold
| In pictures of silver. | start out on this
Kings highway and find a harper and
say, "What Is your namet' Th harper
makes no response, but leaves me to guess as
with his eyes toward heaven and his hand
upon the trembling strings this tune comes
ripping on the air: 1.-THE Lord is my light
and my salvation. Whom shall l fear2 The
Lord is the strength of my life or whom
shall be afraid2"
go little farther on the same road and
meet a trumpeter of heaven, and l say,
Haven't you got some music for tired
Pilgrim" And wiping his lip and taking
long breath he puts his mouth to the trumpet
and pours forth this strain: "They shall
hunger no more, neither shall they thirst
any more, neither shall the sun light on
them, nor any heat. for the Lamb which is
In the midst Of the throne shall lead them TO
living fountains OF water, and God shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes" / 90 a
little distance farther on the same road. and
meet maiden of Israel. She has no harp,
but she has cymbals. They look as If they
had rusted from sea spray, and say to the
maiden of Israel, "Have you no song for q
tired Pilgrim" And like the clang of vic
tors shields the cymbals clap as Miriam be-
gins to discourse: "Sing We to the Lord, for
He hath trlumpheted gloriously The horse
and the rider hath He thrown into the sea. "
And then see white robed group. They
come bounding toward me- and say, "Who
are they! The happiest and the brightest.
and the fairest in all heaven-who are
they?" And the answer comes, ''These are
they who came out of great tribulations and
had their robes washed and made white in
the blood Of the Lamb"
pursue this subject only one step further
What is the terminus? l do not care how
fine road you put me on; want to know
where ii comes out. My text declares, 'The
redeemed of the Lord come to Zion." You
know what Zion was. That was the Kings
palace. 1t was a mountain fastness. 1t was
impregnable. And so heaven is the fastness
of the universe. No howitzer has long
enough range to she'll those towers. Let all
the batteries Of earth and hell blaze away;
they cannot break in those gates. Gibraltar
was taken; Sebastopol was taken: Babylon
foil but ITHACA yuallG of hpnyan obuIl
surrender either to human or satanic be-
siegement. The Lord God Almighty is the
defense of it. Great capital of the universal
Terminus of the Kings highway!
DR.. Dick said that, among other things.
he thought in heaven we would study chem
istry and geometry and comic sections
Southey thought that in heaven he would
Shakespeare. Now, DR.. Dick may have his
mathematics for all eternity and Southey his
Shakespeare. Give me Christ and my old
frends-that is all the heaven l want.
Christ and His people that knew on earth
that is heaven enough for me. Oh, garden
OF light, whose leaves never wither. and
whose fruits never fail! Oh. banquet of God.
whose sweetness never pals the taste and
whose guests are kings forever! Oh, city Of
light, whose walls are salvation and whose
gates are praise! Oh, palace of rest, where
God is the monarch and everlasting ages the
length OF His reign! Oh. song louder than
the surf beat of many waters, yet soft as the
whisper of cherubim!
Oh, glorious heaven! When the last wound
is healed, when the last heartbreak is ended.
when the last tear of earthly sorrow is wiped
away, and wher the redeemed of the Lord
shall come to Zion, then let all the harpers
take down their harps, and all the trumpeters
take down their trumpets, and all across
heaven let there be chorus OF morning stars.
chorus of white robed victors, chorus ofmar.
tyrs from under the throne, chorus of ages.
chorus of worlds, and there is but one song