The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-04

earth at the time Of continental and plan
ctary distribution, and all the heavens for
those who are there
That heavenly distribution Of spoils will
ne "a surprise to many. Here enters heaV-
en- tne soul of a man who took up a great
deal Of room I'm the church on earth but
sacrificed little, and among his good works
selhshness was evident He just crowds
through the shining gate, but it's a very
tight squeeze. SO that the doorkeeper has
10 pun hard TO get him in; and this man
expects half of heaven for his share OF
trophies and he would like monopoly Of
an It's splendor, and 10 purchase lots in the
suburbs, so that he could get advantage
Of the growth of the city. Well, little by
little he gets grace of heart, Just enough
TO get him through, and TO him is given a
secondhand crown, which one of the
saints wore at the start, but exchanged
Tor brighter one as he went on from
glory to glory. And he is put in an old
house once occupied by an angel who was
hurled out of heaven at the time of Sa-
tan'S rebellion.
Right after him comes a soul that makes
great stir among the celestials, and the
angels rush to the scene, each bringing to
her dazzling coronet. Who is she? over
what realm on earth was she queen? In
what great Dusseldorf festival was she
the cantatrice? Neither. She was an in
valid who never left her room for twenty
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 mitten or tippet
trivances she added joy to many a hoii-
day festival. and now with those thin
hands so strong for kindness, ana with
those white lips so strong for supplication,
she has won coronation and enthrone-
ment and jubilee. And Christ said to
the angels who have brought each a
crown for the glorihed invalid mo, not
these; they are not good enough. But in
the 1eweled vase at the right-hand side
of my throne there is one that l have
been preparing for her many a year, and
|
thyst, and for her every good deed / have
set a pearl. Fetch it now and fulfil the
promise l gave her long ago in the sick
room: BE thou faithful unto death, and
l Will give thee a crown
But notice that there is only one Being
in the universe who can and will distrib-
ute the trophies of earth and heaven. 1t
is the Divine Warrior the Commander
in-Chief of the Centuries, the Champion
of Ages, the Universal Conquerer the Son
of God, Jesus. You Will take the spells
from his hand or never take them at
all. Have his friendship and you may de-
fy all time and all eternity, but without 1t
you are a pauper though you had a uni
verse at your command. We are told in
Revelation that Jacobs twelve sons were
SO honored as 10 have the twelve gates
of heaven named after them-oVer one
gate of heaven Naphtali, over another
gate of heaven lsSachar, over another
Dan, over another Cad, over another
Zebulon, over another Judah, and so on.
But Christ's name Is written over all the
gates. and on every panel OF the gates;
and have his help, his pardon his inter
cesslon, his atonement, l must, or be
forlorn wretch forever My Lord and
my God! make me and all who hear me
this. day, and all to whom these, words
sworn consecrated and ransomed follow
| ers forever
What a day it will be! This entire as
! semblage would rise 10 its feet If you
! could realize it, the day in which Christ
/ SHALL in fulfillment of my text, divide the
spoil. II was great day when Queen
/ Victoria in the midst of the Crimean
| war, distributed medals to the soldiers
| who had come home sick and wounded.
/ At the Horse Guards. in presence of the
/ royal family, the injured men We're carried
/ in or came on crutcheS-COl. TrOWbridge,
! who lost both feet at lnkermann and
/ Capt Sayer. who had an ankle-joint
/ of his right leg shot off at Alma, and
Capt. Cure, his disabled limb supported
! by a soldier, and others manned, and dis
! figured, and exhausted-and with her own
! hand the queen gave each the Crimean
/ medal. And what triumphant days for
/ those soldiers when, further on, they re-
! ceived the French medal, with the impe-
/ rial eagle, and the Turkish medal with
! its representation of four fags-France,
| Turkey, England and Sardinia-and be-
/ meath it a map of the Crimea spread over
/ gun-wheel And what rewards are sug-
gested TO all readers of history by mere
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 the day when the
/ SOOu soldiers OF Jesus CHRIST snail come
! in out of the battles of this world, and in
! the presence of all the piled-up galleries of
/ the redeemed and the unfallen, Jesus, our
| King, shall divide the spoil! The more
4 wounds, the greater the inheritance The
/ longer the forced march, the brighter the
! trophy. The more teVible the exhaus-
! ton, the more glorious she transport Not
/ the gift of brilliant ribbon, or a medal of
t brass, or silver or gold but kingdom i'm
/ which We are TO reign forever and ever
/ Mansions on the eternal hills. Dominfons
! of unfading power. Empires of unendine
] love. Continents of everlasting light
! Atlantic and Pacific oceans of billoWine
1 JOY. 1t was great day when Aurelian,
/ the Roman emperor came back from his
victories. In the front of the Drocession
We're wild beasts from all lands, sixteen
hundred gladiators richly clad wagon
/ loads Of crowns and trophies presented
I by conquered cities, among the captive
/ SYrianS, Egyptians, Goths Vandals Sar-
I matlanS, Franks; and Zenobia the bean
/ ttful captive queen, on foot in chains of
! gold that slave had to help her carry and
/ jewels under the weight of which she al
/ most tainted. And then came the chariot
/ of Aurelian drawn by four elephants i'm
/ gorgeous caparlson, and followed nv the
4 Roman Senate and the Roman army. and
/ from dawn till dark the procession was
! passing. Rome in all her history never
I saw anything more magnificent Bur how,
! much greater the day when our conuueror
Jesus shall ride under the triumphai arcb
] es OF heaven; his captiVes NOT on foot
but in chariots, all the kingdoms of eart6
/ and heaven in professions the armies ce-
/ lestial on white horses. Rumbling arfiI-
I lery of thunderbolts never again 10 l,o mn
nmoered. hlngdoms in line, centuries in
] Inc, SANITY cherublc, Seraphic. archaneel-
/ ic splendors in line; and Christ seated IN
4 one great rolling HoSanna made O,,t -
/ all halleluJahs of all worlds. shall crv
/ halt 10 the procession. And not FORGET
1 ting even the humblest in all the reach Of
\ his omnipreSeuce. he shall rise and thor
and there, his work done and his glory
/ contaminated, proceed, amid an ecsfacy,
fror-