The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-02-04

under Chrlstly p~ilotage. Do not let us be 5,
sgifafcd about our own going OF this little
barge or sloop or canal boat OF aworld 10
get on some Great Eastern Of the heavens.
Do not let us persist In wanting TO STAY In
this barn, this shed, this clubhouse of q world.
when all the Kings palaces already occupied
by many OF our best friends are swinging
vile open their gates 10 let us 10.
When I read, "In Nv Fathers house ara
MANY m~anslons,"I do not know but that
each world is a ROOM, and rs many rooms as
tnere are worlds, stellar stairs. stellar GAL
ieries. stellar Railways. stellar windows,
stellar domes. How our departed friends
must pity us shut up in these cramprl apart
ments tired II we walk fifteen miles. when
they some morning. by one stroke OF wing,
can make circuit OF the whole stellar system
ana DO back in time for mathis! Perhaps
yonder twinGlinc constellation Is tho resi-
dence OF tho martyrs; that croup Of twelve
~luiainarics may be- the celestial homo OF the
apostles. Perhaps that steep Of light is the
dwelling place of angles ch1rubic, scrluhtc.
~archangelic. A mansion with as many rooms
as worlds, aud all their windows illuminated
ter ieslivityl
Oh, how this widens an lifts and stimu.
lates our expectation, How little i, makes
the present, anil how s%tupenlOus It makes
tho future! How it consoles Us ahou, our
picuS dead, that, instead of being boxed M
and under tho ground, have the range Of rs
many roons as thlro are worlds and vel
come everywhere, for II Is tho Fathers
house, In which thorc are many mausions!
y Lord Col OF the seven stars and Orion,
now can endure the transport, the ecstasy.
OF such a vision2 l must obey nv trNt and
seek Him. | will seek Him. | seek Him
now, for call to mind that It is not the ma.
terlai universe that is most valuable, hut tho
spiritual, and that each of us has n soul
worth moro than all the worlds which tho
lnspirei ncrismau saw from his booth on
the hills OF Tekon.
l mad studied it before, but tic calhrlrl,
of Cologne, Germany. never impressed mo
rs 1t did ono summer. II i& admittedly tho
Grandost Gothic structure in the world. irs
foundation laid in 1913. only a fow wears ag,
90 npletel. More than 60 years in build
ing! AL Europe taxed Tor It's construction
It's chaps. Of the Nnci, with precious stones
enough 10 purchase Il kingdom. Its chapcl
OF It. Agnes, with masterpieces Of painting.
It's spiro spriuginG Jlt feet into tho heavens.
Its stained glass tho chorus uy all rich rolors.
statues enrirclinc tho pillars and cncirclinr
all. Statues above statuos, until sculpture
can do No more. but fNints and tall, hack
against carved stalls and down on pnvemoutS
over Witch tho kings AMI queens Of the earth
have walked TO confessional. Nave and uislcs
and trluscps and portals combining the
]splendOrS OF sunrise aud sunset. IutcrlucrJ.
tntcrfollatod, intorcolumuuI grandeur. As
| stood outside, looking at the doUblc range
ot dying huttresSoS andthc forest Of ~pinnarlcs,
higher and higher and higher, until | almost
rccied from div ntss, | exclaimed: Great
doSoiosy In stone! Frozen prayer OF many
Nations
But while Standing thorr I saw n poor man
enter ana put down his pack and knee. be-
s,do his burden on tho hlrd floor Of that
cathedral. Aud tears Of deep emotion cano
into my eyes ~ | said to myself, ''rhcrc is =
soul worth moro than all the material sur
roundlEgs. That man will live after the last
pinnacle has fallen. and not one stone of all
thnt cathedral glory shall remain un-
crumblcd. lIs ia now d Lazarus in rags and
poverty and weakness, Int Immortal, and a
son of tho Lord God Almighty. And the
prayer ho now offers, though amid many
supcrsiitiOns, ! believe God will hear, and
among tho apostles whose snuIptured iorms
stand in the surrounding inches he will ut
last be lifted and into tho presence OF that
Christ whose sutferlngs aro represented by
the crucilX before which he bows and be
raised IN dG" time out of all his poyerties
into the glorious home built for him and
built Tor Us ny Him who mukcth tho seven
star5 and Orion"