The Progress., 1897-06-26


our time, how many say he Is no Christ
at nll, and there are tens of thousands of
hands trying to push him back and keep
him down. But, oh, the human and sa-
tonic ilnpotency! Can a spider stop an
albatross? Can the hole which the toy
shovel Of child digs in the sand at Cape
May swallow the Atlantic? Can the
breath Of a summer fan drive back tho
Mediterranean euroclydon? Yes, when all
tho combined forces of earth and hell can
keep Christ from ascending tho 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, ION his head were many crowns"
Now do not miss the beauty of that fig
ure. There Is no room on any head for
more than one crown of silver, gold or
diamond. Then what does the book mean
when 1t says. ION his head were many
crowns?' Well, 1t means twisted and en-
wreathed flowers. To prepare crown for
your child and make her the "queen of
the May" you might take the white flow
ers out OF one parterre, and the crimson
flowers out OF another parterre and the
blue flowers out Of another parterrc, 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 ono cor
onal for our Lords forehead-one blazing
glory, one dazzling brightness, one over
towering perfume, one down flashing, up
rolling, outspreading magniacence-and
30 on his head shall be many crowns.
Cross and Crown.
The worlds best music will yet be
sounded in his praise, the world best ar
chitecture built for his worship, the
worlds best paintings descriptive OF his
triumphs, the worlds 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 ascend
ing the throne A careful statistician es-
Inmates that in 1850 there will be 174,-
OOO, 900 people in the United States, and
by the present ratio Of uniting with the
church 1OO, 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 king
dom Of satan. The grandest throne of all
time and all eternity 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 1t from the high
heavens. The morning Of that consum-
nation Will arrive, and what a stir in the
holy city! All the towers Of gold will ring
its arrival. All the chariots will roll In
to line. The armies Of heaven which John
saw seated ON white horses passing In In
finite cava1cade. The inhabitants of Eu-
rope, Asia, Africa, North and South Amer
lea and Of all islands of the sea, and per
baps of other worlds, will join in process
sion, compared with which that of next
Tuesday will not make one battalion. The
Conqueror 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 IL uplifted 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 tri
| umph in more jubilant strains, accom-
panied by harpers with their harps nnt
trumpeters with their trumrets, the hun
dred and forty and four thousand coming
into the chorus, think we will stick t.
Isaac Watts old hymn, which the 5000
natives of Tonga, Fiji and Samoa SANG
when they gave up their idolatries TO