The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-09

swung somewhere, vast beyond 1magl-
nation, and that it is the headquarters
of the universe, and the metropolis OF
immensely, and has a population in
numbers vast beyond all statistics, and
appointments of splendor beyond the
capacity of canvas or poem or angel to
describe, is as certain as the Bible is
authentic. Perhaps some of the as
tronomers with their big telescopes
have already caught a glimpse of it,
not knowing what it is. We spell it
with six letters and pronounce it
Heaven.
That is where Prince Jesus lived 10
centuries ago. He was the Kings son.
1t was the old homestead of eternity,
and all its castles were as Did as God.
Not a frost had ever chilled the air.
Not a tear had ever rolled down the
cheek of one of its inhabitants. There
had never been a headache, or a sui
eide, or a heartache. There had not
been a funeral in the memory of the
oldest inhabitant. There had never In
all the land woven a black veil, for
there had never been anything to
mourn over. The passage of millions
of years had not wrinkled or crippled
or bedimmed any of its citizens All
the people there were in a state of
eternal adolescence. What floral and
pomonic richness! Gardens of perpet-
ual bloom and orchards in unending
fruitage. Had some spirit from an
other world entered and asked, What
is sin? What is bereavement? What
is sorrow? What is death2" the
brightest of the intelligences would
have failed to give definition, though
to study the question there was silence
in Heaven for half an hour.
The Prince of whom 1 speak had
honors, emoluments, acclamations,
such as no other prince, celestial or
terrestrial, ever enjoyed. As He passed
the street, the inhabitants took off
from their brows garlands of white
lilies and threw them in the way. He
never entered any of the temples with
out all the worshipers rising up and
bowling in obeisance. In all the pros
cessions of the high days He was the
one who evoked the loudest welcome.
Sometimes on foot, walking in loving
talk with the humblest of the land,
but at other times He tool chariot, and
among the 20. 600 that the psalmist
spoke of His was the s1iftest and most
flaming; or, as when st. John described
Him, He took white palfrey with what
prance of foot, and arch of neck, and
roll of name, and CLEAN of eye, is only
dimly suggested in the Apocalypse. He
was not like other princes, waiting for
the father to die and then take the
throne. When years ago an artist in
Germany made a picture for the royal
gallery representing the Emperor Wilr
liam on the throne, and the crown
prince as having one foot on the step
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ordered the picture changed, and said:
'Let the prince keep his foot off the
throne till l leave it,"
Already enthroned was the heavenly
Prince side by side with the Father.
What a circle of dominion! What null
titudes of admirersl What amending
round of gloriesI All the towers chimed
the Princes praises. of all the inhRb-
itants, from the center of the city on
over the hills and clear down to the
beach against which the ocean of i'm
mensity rolls its billows, the Prince
was the acknowledged favorite. No
my teKt says that "He was
Set all the diamonds of the
in one scepter, build all the pal
aces of the earth in one Alhambra,
gather all the pearls of the sea in
one diadem, put all the values of the
earth in one coin, the aggregate
could not express his a muepce.
But one day there was a big dis
aster in a department of Gods uni,
verse. A race fallenI A world in ruin!
Our planet the scene of catastrophel A
globe swinging out into darkness,
With mountains, and seas, and islands,
an awful centrifugal of sin seeming to
oyerpower the beautiful eentripetal of
and from it Q gPoan
reached Heaven. Such a sound had
never been heard there. Plenty of
sweet sounds, but never an cutlery of
or an echo of agony. At that
one groan the Prince rose from all the
circumjacence, and started for
the outer gate and descended into the
night Of this world. Out of what a
harbor into what a rough
seal Stay with u.s." cried angel after
angel, and potentate after potenthte.
said the Prince, i cannot stay;
| must be off for hat wreck of n world. {
! must stop that grOan. must hush ]
that distress. / must fathom that {
lbyss. must redeem those nations.
Farewell, thrones and temples, hosts I
cEerubic, seraphic, archangelicI will
come back again, carrying on my :
n ransomed world. Till this I
s done / choose earthly scott to heav-
reclamation, and a cattle pen to a I
palace, frigid zone of earth TO I
atmosphere of celestial radiance. 1
no time TO lose, for bark We to S
groan that grows mightier while J I
yaitl FAREWELL Farewellr' "Ye know
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, l
hat though He was rich, yet for your '
'akes He became poor"
Was there ever a contrast so over @
covering as that between the noon G
lay of Christ's celestial departure and @
he midnight of His earthly arriyal2 4
sure enough, the angels were out that L
ii ,ht in the sky, and an especial me. Il
cor acted as escort, but all hat was S
rom other worlds, and not from this r
world. The earth made no demonstra- p
of welcome. If one of the great u
of this world steps out at a de- a
cheers resound, and the bands o
and the flags wave. But for the C
rival of this missionary prince of the II
kies not II torch fiared, not a trumpet L
not a plume futtered. All the h
lusi and pomp were overhead. Our Il
World opened for Him nothing better o
u barn door. The raiah of CASH Il
lere sent to Queen Victoria Il bed u
tead of carved gold and a canopy that IL
ost $3.50, 600, but the world had for the a
of Heaven and earth only o lit Sc
ar of straw. The crown jewels in the r.
over of London amount to SIS, 900, 900, II
ut this member of eternal royalty n
ad nowhere to lay His head. To know VI
poor He was ask the camel drivers, IL
SIX the shepherds, ask Mary, ask the Il
lree wise men of the east. who after a
ard came to bethlehem. To know W
poor He was, examine all the rec e'
of real estate in all that oriental W
2uptrE. AMI see what vineyard, or j