The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-06-24

| s'Hold fast that no man take thy crown .
| Crowns, crowns, crowns! You did not ex.
pect In coming here to-day to be invited to
| q coronation. You can scarcely believe
your own ears. but in the name OF a par
doning God and a sacrificing Christ and an
omnipotent Holy Spirit and a triumphant
heaven offer each one crown for the ask
| crown? The way Victoria got her crown,
on her knees. Although eight duch-
| esses and marquises, all in cloth OF
| silver, carried her train. and the win
| dows and arches and roof Of the abbey
shook with the "Te Deum" OF the organ in
full diapason, she had to kneel. she had to
come down. To get the crown OF pardon
and eternal life, you will have to kneel, you
| will have 20 come down. Yea. History
says that at her coronation not only the en-
| tire assembly wept with profound emo
| tion, but Victoria was In tears. SO you will
| have to have your dry eyes moistened with
tears, In your case tears ofrepentance. tears
OF joy, tears OF coronation, and you will feel
like crying out with jeremiah, "Oh, that
my head were waters and mine eyes fount-
aims OF tears"
In all the ages OF time no one ever had
such hard time as Christ while he was
on earth. Brambles for His brow. expec-
torations for His cheek, whips for His back,
spears for His side, spikes for His feet,
contumely for His name. and even in our
time how many say He is no Christ at all.
and there are tens OF thousands OF hands
trying to push Him back and keep Him
down. But, oh, the human and satanic
impotencyl Can spider stop an albatross?
Can the hole which the toy shovel OF a
child digs in the sand at Cape Nav
swallow the Atlanticp Can thesbreath of
n summer fan drive back the Mediterranean
euroclydon? Yes, when all the combined
forces OF earth and hell can keep Christ
from ascending the throne OF universal
dominion. David the psalmist foresaw
that coronation and cried out In regard to
the Messiah, Upon Himself shall His
crown flourish" From the cave Of black
basalt st. John foresaw it and cried, "On
His head were many crowns.' Now do not
miss the beauty OF that figure. There is
no room on any head for more than
one crown OF silver, gold or diamond.
Then what does the book mean when it
says, "On His head were many crowns?"
Well, 1t means twisted and enwreathed
flowers. To prepare a crown for your child
and make her the queen of the May" you
might take the white flowers out of one
parterre and the crimson flowers out OF
another parterre and the blue flowers out
OF another parterre and the pink flowers
out OF another parterre and gracefully and
skillfully work these four or five crowns
splendors Of earth aud heaven are to be
enwreathed into one coronal for our Lords
forehead-one blazing glory, one dazzling
brightness, one overpowerng perfume, ono
down flashing, up rolling, outspreading
magniiicence, and so on his head shall be
many crowns.
The worlds best music will yet be sound
ed In His praise, the worlds best architec-
ture built for His worship. the worlds best
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worlds best sculpture perpetuate the mem
ory OF His heroes and heroines. Already
the crown woven out of many crowns is be-
ing put upon His brow. His Scared feet
are already ascending the throne. A care
ful statistician estimates that in 1850 there
will be ia 900 600 people in the United
States, and by the present ratio Of unit
ing with the church 100 000, 900 of
them will be church members. What
think ye of that, ye pessimists inspired by
the devl2 The dcadest failure in the uni-
verse il the kingdom of satan. The grand
est throne of all time and all eternity is the
one that Christ is now mounting. The
most of us will not see the consummation
In this world, but we will gaze on 1t from
the high heavens. The morning OF that
consummation will arrive, and what n stir
in the holy ethyl All the towers of gold
will ring its arrival. All the chariots will
which John saw seated on white horses
passing in infinite cavalcade. The in
habitants OF Europe, Asia, Africa, North
and South America aud OF all islands OF the
sea, and perhaps Of other worlds, will join
in Il procession compared with which that
OF next Tuesday will not make one bat
talon. The conqucror ahead having on
his vesture and on his thigh written, "King
of kings and Lord OF lords, and when he
passes through the chief of the twelve up
lifted gates, all nations following may
you and | be there TO hear the combined
shout OF church militant and church
triumphant. Until the choirs standing on
"thc sea OF glass mingled with fire" shall
sound the triumph in more jubilant strains.
accompanied by harpers with these trum-
pets, the hundred and forty and four thou
sand coming into the chorus, think we |
will stick to Isaac Watts old hymn, which |
the 5000 natives Of Tonga, Fiji and Samoa
sang when they gaveup their idolatres for
and | would not be surprised |
to see some Of you old heroes of the cross, |
who for a lifetime have been toiling in the
service. beating time with your right hand |
q little trcmulous with many years:
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run;
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore
Till suns shall rise and set no more.
Let every creature rise and bring
Peculiar honors to our King;
Angels descend with songs again,
And earth repeat the loud amen.