The Monitor-register., 1897-06-25

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awaiting you. St. John shouted, 81
saw thrones, and again he said, 'sThey
shall reign forever and ever" Thronesl
Thrones! Get ready for the coronation.
But l invite you hot only to your own
coronation, but to a mightier and the
mlghtlest. In all the ages of time no
one ever had such Il 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, Il even i'll 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 impo.
tency! Can a spider stop an albatross?
Can the hole which the toy shovel of a
child digs in the sand at Cane Nav
swallow the Atlantic? Can the breath of
a summer fan drive back the Mediter-
ranean euroclydon? Yes, when all the
combined forces of earth and hell can
keep Christ from ascending the throne
OF universal dominion. David the
psalmlst foresaw that coronation and
cried out in regard to the Messiah.
Upon himself shall his crown flour
ish." From the cave of black basalt
st. John foresaw it and cried, "On his
head We're 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 Il 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 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, Il overpowering perfume, one
down flashing, up rolling, outspread-
ing magniticence, and so on his head
shall be many crowns.
The Greatest Crown.
The worlds best music will vet be
sounded i'll his praise, the worlds best
architecture built for his worship, the
words best paintings descriptive of his
triumphs, the words best sculpture per-
petuate the memory Of his heroes and
heroines. Already the crown woven out
OF many crowns is being put upon his
brow. His scared feet are already as
cending the throne. A careful s%tatisti-
clan estimates that in 1850 there will
be TIA, 600, 900 people in the United
States, and by the present ratio of unit
ing with the church 100, 900, 900 of
them will be church members. What
think ye of that, ye pessimists inspired
by the devil? The deadest failure in the
universe is the kingdom of satan. The
grandest throne of all time and all eter-
nifty is the one that Christ is now
mounting. The most Of US will not see
the contamination in this world, but
we will gaze on it from the high heav-
ems. The morning of that consumma-
ton will arrive, and what a stir in the
holy city! All the towers of gold will
ring its arrival. All the chariots will
roll into line. The armies of heaven
which John saw seated on white horses
passing il infinite cavalcade. The i'll
habitants of Europe. Asia, Africa,
North and South America and of all is
lands OF the sea, and perhaps of other
worlds, will join in a procession COM
pared with which that of next Tuesday
will not make one battalion. The con-
queror ahead, having on his vesture
and on his thigh written liking of
kings and Lord of lords" and when he
passes through the chief of the 10 up
lifted gates, all nations following, may
you and l be there to hear the combined
shout of church militant and church
triumphant. Until the choirs standing
on ''the sea of glass mingled with fire.
shall sound the triumph in more jubi-
liant strains, accompanied by harpers
with their harps and trumpeters with
their trumpets, the hundred and forty
and four thousand coming into the
chorus, l think we will stick to Isaac
Watts old hymn, which the 5000 ma
tives of Tonga, FIJI and Samoa sang
when they gave up their idolatries for
Christianity, and 1 would not be sur
prised 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 a little tremulous 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.