Connecticut western news., 1897-06-24

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 Yes, she was during the ceremony seated for awhile on d lowly stone called the Lia Fail, which, as 1 remember it, as l have seen 1t again aud again, was rough and not a foot high, a lowly and humble place i'll which to be seated. and if you are to be crowned king or queen to God forever you must be seated on the Lia Fail of profound humiliation. After 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 shouted, "I 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 mightier and the In all the ages of time no one ever had such hard time as Christ while he was on earth. Brambles for his brow, expectoratioh for his cheek, whips for his back, spears for his side, spikes for his feet, contumely for his name, and even ill 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 child digs in the sand at Cape May swallow the Atlantic? Can the breath of 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 psalmist foresaw that coronation and cried out ill 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 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?" We'll, it. 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 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, outspread- shall be many crowns.
 The Greatest Crown.
 The worlds best music will yet be sounded in 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 statisti- clan estimates that in 1850 there will be 174, ,000, 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 consummation in this world, but we will gaze on it from the high heav- ens. The morning of that consumma- tion will arrive, and what n 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 in infinite cavalcade. The in 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 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 king of kings and Lord of lords," and when he passes through the chief of the ? 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 "the sea of glass mingled with fire" shall sound the triumph in more jubi- lant strains, accompanied by harpers with their harps and trumpeters with their trumpets, the hundred and forty and four thousand coming into the chorus, think we will stick to Isaac Watts old hymn, which the 5000 na- tives of Tonga, Fiji and Samoa sang when they gave up their idolatries for Christianity, and would not be sur. prised to see some of you old heroes of the cross, who for lifetime have been toiling in the service, beating time with your right hand 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 more.
 Let every creature rise and bring
 Peculiar honors to our King;
 Angels descend with songs again,
 And earth repeat the loud amen.
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