Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1897-06-29

potent Holy Spirit and triumphant
heaven, l offer each one a crown for
the asking. Crowns! Crowns! How
to get the crown? The way Victoria
got her crown, on her knees. Although
eight duchesses and marquises, all in
cloth of silver, carried her train, and
the windows and arches and roof Of
the Abbey shook with the Tie 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
to come down. Yea! History says
that at her coronation not only the
entire assembly wept with profound
emotion. but Victoria was in tears. So
you will have to have your dry eyes
molstened with tears, in your case
tears of repentance, tears of joy, tears
Of coronation. and you will feel like
crying out with jeremiah, On, that
my head were waters and mine eyes
fountains Of tears" Yes, she was dur
ing the ceremony seated for awhile on
n lowly stone called the Liza Fail,
which, as l remember it, as ! have
seen it again and again, was rough and
not foot high, lowly and humble
place in which to be seated. and IL you
are to be crowned king Nr queen to
God forever, you must be seated on the
Liza Fail of profound humiliation. At
ter all that. she was ready for the
throne, and let me say that God is not
going to leave your eXaltation half
done. There are thrones as we'll as
crowns awaiting you. st. John shout
ed Il saw throNes!" and again he
said, "They shall reign forever and
ever" Thrones! Thrones! Get ready
for the coronation. But I invite you
not only to your own coronation, but
to a mightier and the mightiest. In
all the ages of time no one ever had
such hard time as Christ while he
was on earth. Brambles for his brow.
expectoration for his cheek. whips for
his back. spears for his side, spikes
for his feet, contumely for his name,
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 impo-
tency! Can spider stop an albatross?
Can the hole which the toy shovel Of
a child digs in the sand at Cape May
swallow the Atlantic? Can the breath
of summer fan drive back the Medi-
terranean 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
ish." From the cave of black basalt
St. John foresaw it, and cried, ION 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, it means twisted and
enwreathed flowers. TO prepare q
crown for your child and make her
the Queen of the May" you might
take the white flowers out of one par
terre, 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 skilifuiiy work these
four or five crowns into one crown of
beauty. So all the splendors of earth
and heaven are to be enwreathed into
one coronal for our Lords forehead
one blazing glory, one dazzling bright
ness, one overpowering perfume, one
down flashing. up-rolling. out spread
ing magnificence-and SO on his head
shall be many crowns.