The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-03-20

, He filings out new worlds into space
; and kindles up new suns, and roll:
among the white-robed anthems of the
: redeemed greater hallelujah, while
|, with a voice that reverberates among
|, the mountains of frankincense and i.
echoed back from the everlasting gates
lie cries; This, my Son, was dead,
and He is alive again.
At the opening of the exposition in
New Orleans | saw Mexican flutist,
and he played the solo, and then after
ward the eight or ten bands OF music,
accompanied by the great organ, came
in; but the sound of that one flute, as
compared with all the orchestras was
greater than all the combined joys of
the universe when compared with this
resounding heart of Almighty Goa
For ten years n father went three time.
a day TO the depot. His son went off ia
aggravating circumstances, but the
father said: "Hc will come back" The
strain was too much, and his mind
! parted, and three times a day the ia
/ Their went In the early morning he
watched the train, its arrival. the
! stepping out of the passengers
and then the departure of the train.
At noon he was there again watching
the advance of the train, watching the
departure. At night he was there
again, watching the coming, watching
the going, for ten years. He was sure
his son would come back. God has
been watching and waiting for some Of
you, my brothers, 10 years, 90 years, 80
years, 40 years, perhaps 80 years, wait
ing, waiting, watching, watching, and
if now the prodigal should come home,
what scene of gladness and festivity,
and how the great Fathers heart would
rejoice at your coming home. You will
come some of you, will you not? You
will, you will
| notice also, that when n prodigai
comes home there is the JOY of the min
listers of religion. Oh, it Is grand
thing to preach this Gospel. / know
there has been great deal said about
the trials and the hardships of the
Christian ministry. | wish somebody
would write good, rousing book about
the joys of the Christian ministry,
Since l entered the profession. have
seen more of the goodness of God than
l will be able to celebrate in all eter-
nifty. I know some boast about their
equilibrium, and they do not rise into
enthusiasm. and they do not break
down with emotion; but confess to
you plainly that when l see a man
coming TO God and giving up his sin
feel in body, mind and soul a transport.
When J see a man bound hand and foot
in evil habit emancipated, rejoice
over it as though it were my own
emancipation.
Once more l remark, that when the
prodigal gets back the inhabitants of
Heaven keep festal. l am very certain
of it. If you have never seen a tele-
graph chart you have no idea how
many cities are connected together, and
how many lands. Nearly all the neigh
borhoods of the earth seem reticulated,
and news flies from city to
city, and from continent to con-
tinent. But more rapidly go the
tidings from earth to Heaven, and
when prodigal returns it is an
nounced before the throne of God.
And If these souls now present should
enter the Kindom there would be some
one in the Heavenly Kingdom to say:
That's may father" That's my moth
err" That's my SON." That's the one
used to pray for" That's the one for
whom wept so many tears" and one
soul would say: "Hosannaw and an
other soul woul say: "Hallelujahw
Pleased with the news. the saints below
In songs their tongues employ;
Beyond the skies the tidings 90. |
And Heaven In filled with 10y |
Nor angels can their Joy contain.
But kindle with new IRE;
The sinner lost Is found, they sing,
And strike the sounding Tyre.
From this hilltop catch glimpse of |
hose hilltops where all sorrow and
'ighing shall be done away. Oh, that
Iod would make that world to us q
.eality. Faith in that world helped
I'D DIR. Tying when he stood by the
,asket of his dead son whose arm had
been torn of in the threshing machine,
ieath ensuing, and DIR. Tying, with in
Unite composure, preached the fu-
,eral sermon of his own beloved
'on. Faith in that world helped
Martin Luther without one tear
% put away In death his favorite
,hild. Faith in that world helped tho
lying woman to see on the sky the let
er wv" and they asked her what she
that letter wv" on the sky
meant. "Oh," she said, don't you
snowp W. stands for Welcome" Oh,
heaven, swing open thy gates. Oh,
Ieaven, roll upon US some Of the sun
hine anthems. Oh, Heaven, fash upon
Is the vision of thy luster. On old
writer tells us of a ship coming from
ndia to France. The crew was made up
# French sailors who had been long
rom home, and as the ship came along
he coast of France the men skipped
he deck with glee, and they pointed to
he spires of the churches where they
nee worshipped and to the hills where
hey had played in boyhood. But when
he ship came into port, and these sail
RS saw father and mother and wife and
owed ones on the wharf, they sprang
shore and rushed up the banks into
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