The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-12-05

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tra trInI Because he has Tor you extra glory,
extra enthronement and extra felicities.
That 10 no guess Of mine, but divine
says SO: "Whom the Lord loveth he chas-
teneth. "Well," says some one. II would
rather have q little less In heaven and
little more here. Discount my heavenly
robe 10 per cent and let me now put 1t on
fur lined overcoat; put me in less gor-
geous room Of the house Of many mansions
and let me have house here In a better
neighborhood. No, no; God is not going
to rob heaven, which is to DO your resi-.
denoe for nine hundred quadrillion Of
years. to fix up your earthly abode, which
you will occupy at most for less than
century, and where you may perhaps stay
only ton years longer, or only one year, or
perhaps month more. Now, you had bet
ter cheerfully let God have his way, for,
you Gee, he has been taking care Of folks
for near 5000 years and knows how to do
it and can sec what is best for you better
than you can yourself. Don't think you
are too Insignificant to be divinely cared
for. 1t was snid that Diana, the goddess,
could not DO present to keep her temple at
Ephesus from burning because she was at
tonding upon the birth Of him who was to
be Alexander the Great. But tell you
that your God and my God Is 80 great In
small things an we'll as large things, that
he could attend the cradle Of babe and
at the same time the burning Of world.
And God will make 1t all right with
you, and there Is one song that you will
sing every h9qr Y2of arsst tsR yeaza N
be, II am 20 glad God did not let me haYe
1t my own wayr" Your, Case Will be all
fixed up In heaven, and there will be such
. reversal Of conditions that we can hard
ly find each other for some time. Some Of
us who have lived In first rate houses here
and in first rate neighborhoods will be
found, because Of our lukewarIuness Of
earthly service, living on one Of the back
streets Of the celestial city, and clear down
at the end Of 1t at No. sos or 900 or 1906,
whilo some who had unattraotive earthly
abodes, and acramped one at that Will in
the heavenly city be In a house fronting
the royal plaza, right BY the imperial
fountain or on the heights overlooking the
river of life, the chariots Of salvation
hating at Your door, while those visit you
who are more than oonquerors, and those
who are kings and queens unto God for.
ever.
You, my brother. and you, my sister,
who have 1t so hard here, will have 1t so
fine and grand there that you will hardly
know yourself and will feel disposed to
dispute your own identity, and the first
time SOC you there will cry out, Didn't
tell you so when you sat down there In
the pew and looked incredulous because
you thought 1t too good to be trueP" And
you will answer, "You were right; the
halkwas not told mel" So Iopen your dark
saying 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 liv-
ing fountains Of water, and God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes," But,
must confess, am little perplexed how
some of you good Christians are going to
get through the gate, because there will be
go many there to greet you, and they will
all want 10 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.
Adjourned to Eternity.
Amid the tussle and romp of reunion I
tell you whose hand Of welcome you had
better first clasp and whose cheek Is on
titled 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, rs ho cries out,
II have loved thee with an everlasting
love, and the fires could not burn 1t, 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 symphony,
you will take down your own harps from
the willows that grow by tho eternal water
courses and play together those celestial
airs, some Of the names of which are on
titled 1.-THE King In His Beauty, "The
Land That Was Far Of" And as the
last dark curtain Of mystery Is forever lift
ed twill be as though all the oratorios
that were ever heard had been rolled into
one, and Israel In Egypt" and "Jeph-
thah's Daughter" and Beethoven 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 how or had dropped from the
vibrating chords of one harp.
But here / must slow up lest in trying
to solve mysteries add to the mystery
that we have already wondered at-name-
ly, why preachers should keep on after all
the hearers are tired. So gather up into
ono 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 10 Eternity" rejoice that
we do not understand all things now, for
II we did what would we learn in heavenp
II we knew 1t all down here In the fresh |
man and sophomore GLASS, what would be |
the use Of our going up to stand amid the
juniors and the seniorsP II we could put |
down one leg Of the compass and with the
other sweep circle clear around all the |
inscrutables, II we could lift our little
steslyards and weigh the throne Of the
Omnipotent, II We could with our seven
day clock measure eternity, what would
be left for heavenly revelation2 So move
that we cheerfully adjourn what Is now
beyond our comprehension, and az, accord
ing to Rollip, the historian, Alexander
the Great, having obtained the gold oasket
in which Darius had kept his rare per-
fums, used that aromatic caskot thereafter
to keep his favorite copy of Homer In and
called the book therefore the Edition Of
the Casket," and at night put the casket
and his sword under his pillow, so put
this day into the perfumed casket of your
richest affections and hopes this promise,
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