Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-12-05

who have 1t so hard here, will have IL
so fine and grand there that you will
hardly know yourself and will feel dis
posed to dispute your own identity, aud
the first time l see you there will cry
cut, Didn't tell you SO when you sat
down there ii the pew and looked in
credulous because you thought it too
good to be true:" And you will an.
swer, "You were right-the half was
not told me. " So open your dark say
ing of dependency and complaint on
my gospel harp and give you just one
bar of music. for do not pretend to be
much of player. 1.-THE Lamb which
is in the midst of the throne shall lead
them to living fountains of water, and
God shall wipe away all tears from
their eyes, But, must confess, am
little perplsxed how some of you
coed Christians are going to get through
there to greet you, and they will all
want to shake hands at once and will
all want the first kiss. They will have
heard that you are coming. and they
will all press around to welcome you
and will want you to say whether You
know them after being SO long parted
Amid the tussle and romp of reunion
tell you whose hand OF welcome you
had better first clasp, and whose cheek
is entitled to the first kiss 1t is the
hand and the cheek of him without
whom You would never have got there
at all, the Lord Jesus, the darling of
the skies, as he cries out. II have loved
thee with an everlasting love, and the
fires conld not burn it and the floods
could not drown it." Then you, my
dear people, having no more use for my
poor harp, on which used to open your
dark sayings and whose chords some
times snapped, despoiling the sym
phony, you will take down your own
harps from the willows that grow by
the eternal water courses and play to-
gether those celestial airs, some of th
names of which are entitled "The King
In His Beauty, " 1.-THE Land That Was
Far Off" And as the last dark curtain
of mystery is forever lifted it will be
as though all the oratorios that were
ever heard had been rolled into one and
Israel In Egypt" and "Jephtha's
Daughters" and Beethoven's "Over-
ture In c." and Ritter's first "Sonata
In D Minor" and the "Creation. and
the messiah" had been blown from
the lips of one trumpet or been invoked
by the sweep Of one bow or had dropped
from the vibrating chords Of one harp.
Adjourned to Eternity.
But here must slow up lest in try
ing to solve mysteries l add to the mys-
terry that we have already wondered at
namely, why preachers should keep
on after all the hearers are tired. So l
gather up into one great armful all the
why's and hows and wherefores of your
life and mine, which we have not had
time or the ability to answer. and write
ON them the words, Adjourned to
eternity" rejoice that we do not I'M
derstand all things now, for if we did
what would we learn in heaven? If we
knew it all down here in the freshman
and sophomore class, what would be
the use Of our going up to stand amid
the juniors and the seniorsy If we could
put down one leg Of the compass and
with the other sweep a circle clear
around all the inscrutables, If we could
lift our little steelyards and weigh the
throne of the Omnipotent, if we could
with our seven day clock measure eter-
nifty, what would be left for heavenly
revelation? So move that we cheer
fully adjourn what is now beyond our
comprehension, and as, according to
Rollin, the historian, Alexander the
Great, having obtained the gold casket
in which Darius had kept his rare per
| fume, used that aromatic oasket there
after to keep his favurite copy OF Homer
| in and called the book. therefore, the
edition OF the CasAet, and at nlsh
/ put tho casl,et and his sword under hi
pillow, 60 Put this day into the PEI
funed ca.ket of yuar richest affections
and hopes this p!uinlst worth moit
| than anything Hon.+' ever wrote OF
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