The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-10-31

wnero preacneu, anu on the same street,
and saw one Of the aged Christians Of tho
church going into GLORY. After ! had
prayed with her said to her: 1--WE have
all loved you very much and will always
cherish your memory In the Christian
church You will see my son before see
hin, and / wish you would give him our
love-" She said, II will, will, and In
30 minutes she was In heaven--the last
words she ever spoke. 1t was swift mes
sage to the skies. II you had your choice
between riding In q heavenly chariot and
occupying the grandest palace In heaven
and sitting on the throne next highest to
the throne Of God and not seeing your de-
parted ones, and on the other hand dwell
ing in the hum lest place In heaven, with
out crown or throne and without garland
and without scepter, yet having your loved
ones around you, you would choose the
latter say these things because want
you to know 1t is domestic heaven, and
consequently 1t Is all the time improving.
Every one that goes up makes 1t bright
or place, and the attractions arc increas-
ing month by month and day by day, and
heaven, 80 vastly moro Of heaven, q
thousand times more Of o heaven, than 1t
used to be, will be q better heaven yet.
Oh, say this to intensity your anticipa-
ton.
At the Final Day.
enter heaven one day. It ia almost
empty. enter the temples Of<worship,
and there are no worshipers. walk down
the street, and there are no passengers
20 into the orchestra, and find the In
struments are suspended in the baronial
halls of heaven, and the great organs Of
eternity, with multitudinous banks Of
keys, are closed. But / zee a shining one
at the gate, as though he were standing
on guard, and I say: "Sentinel, what does
this meanP thought heaven was pop
ulous city. Has there been some great
plague sweeping of the populationP"
"Have you not heard the newsp" says the
sentinel. "There Is a world burning,
there is great conhagration out yonder,
and all heaven has gone out to look at the
confagration and take tho victims out Of
the ruins. This is the day for which all
other days are made. This is the judg-
ment. This morning all the chariots and
tho cavalry and the mounted infantry rum
bled and salloped down the sky" After
had listened to the sentinel looked of
over the battlements, and saw that the
fields Of air were bright with a blazing
world. said, eyes, yes, this must be
the judgment" and while I stood there
heard the rumbling Of wheels and the
gathering OF hoofs and the roaring Of
many voices, and then saw the coronets
and plumes and banners, and saw that
all heaven was coming back again-com-
ing to the wall, coming to the gate, and
the multitude that went of In the morn
ing was augmented by vast multitude
caught up alive from the earth, and vast
multitude of the resurrected bodies Of the
Christian dead, leaving the cemeteries and
the abbeys and the mausoleums and tho
graveyards Of the earth empty. Process
sion moving in through the gates. And
then found out that what was fiery judg-
ment day on earth was jubilee In heaven,
and cried: "Doorkecpers Of heaven, shut
the gates; all heaven has come in Door
keepers, shut the ~ gates lest the sorrows
and the woes Of earth, like bandits, should
some day come up and try to plumber the
city ih