The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-12-23


solitary place shall be glad for you,
(if you choose to have it SOY and the
desert shall rejoice, and blossom as
the rose.n
1t has been given to you to lay the
foundations. and to do something
toward, the building up, of city;
small, OF course, as yet, but full OF
the promise of better things. You
have set up here what you hope Will
be in years to come q centre for
mighty human interests, which shall
attract to itself the agriculture. COM
merce, and civ1lizing influences OF
better tIme5 and more prosperous
days. These little unpretending
mansions and streets which you in
habit now will some day, you hope,
make way for something grander;
and as you look forward to poesibil-
ties of this earthly kind you desire
at the same time to lay foundations
for the future intellectual, moral,
and spiritual development of this
little city you have learnt to love and
from your children, and children's
shall attract that love and affection
which the "home, sweet home" of
your younger life, fused to receive
from you).
Beloved, the Lord God Almighty
too has for years and years been en-
gagged IN the work of building up
city; and as you naturally feel an af-
lection for, and are devoted to the
present and future interests of this
little handiwork of yours, so you are
permitted to think of Him as loving
too His handiwork, and concentrat-
| ing the forces of His Divine Omnipo-
tence in building up the city which
hath foundations; and providing for
the glory of the New Jerusalem. Far
back in the olden time He caused it
to be written by His prophet "Be-
hold, create new heavens and new
earth; and the former shall not be
remembered, nor come into mind.
But be ye glad and rejoice forever
in that which / create; for behold,
create Jerusalem rejoicing, and her
people a Joy; and l will rejoice in
Jerusalem, and Joy in my people,
and they shall build houses, and in
habit them; and they shall plant
vineyards and eat the fruit of them.
They shall not build, and another IN
habit; they shall not plant, and an
other eat; for as the days of tree
are the days of my people, and mine
elect shall long enjoy the work OF
their hands,"
So too in connection with our text
the writer of the Resolution of st.
John the Divine sets forth the fea-
ture of the Holy City which in its
developed and glorified form of the
! Holy Catholic church. "He carried
me away in the spirit to great and
high mountain, and showed me
that great city, the great Jerusalem,
, descending out of heaven from God.'
. He shows US how the great and
| holy community will be one which
draws its glory from God; 1.-THE
glory of God did tighten it, and the
, Lamb the light therof;" how that itE
| blessings are not for few, but oper
to all, for it's gates lie open to al
quarters, east, north, south, anC
west; how that in it the heavenly anC
the earthly will be as one; angels
apostles, and patriarchs are there
Twelve gates, and names writer
thereon, which are the names of the
, twelve tribes of the children of Is
rael;" land the wall of the city haC
twelve foundations, and in them tht
: names of the twelve Apostles of tht
Y Lamb" how that though diverse
: characters will find entrance there
yet the door of admission is alike TO
S all; "the twelve gates were twelv,
e pearls; every several gate was of on
q PEARL" also that it will be the abod
of all that is fair and good, and tina
no disproportions will mar it's live
S illness; she measured the wall there
} of, an hundred and forty and fou
:. cubits; and the building of the wal
of it was of jasper; and the city wa
pure gold, like unto clear glass;
n finally, how that the ancient truths
I spoken by various lips will be founC
i to be eternal truths, full of Varie'
= but consistent beauty, and that tn
= forms and helps which were needfu
! in it's earthly state will not be need
= full in it's heavenly; that all that tn
: servant of God have righteousl,
: hungered and thirsted for here viii
be supplied there; and that there vii
S be blessings, various, continuous
eternal; new fields of labor and neV
possibilities of service.
sweet and blessed country
The homes of Gods elect!
o sweet and blessed country
That eager hearts expect!
Jesu in mercy bring us
| To that dear land OF rest;
Who art with God the Father,
And spirit, ever blest."
Let us dwell for a moment on tina
: feature of the life of the Holy Cit
! which forms the climax of this de
' scription and the conclusion of thi
21st chapter. 1t is a Holy City,
Sacred, or Consecrated City, Ther
, are two chief thoughts connecte
). with this idea of Holiness, or Con
@ secration. The first is that suggest
9 ed by the words used in the seryic
in which we have just taken part
: which speak of houses consecrate
e to tho honor Of God,a GREAT nama n
! being separated from all unhalloweo
f worldly. (or ordinary, and commo
uses" So also we think of the Hol
Scriptures. as being separated, sc
it apart, cor distinguished from a
= ordinary and common book: Th
K ancient sacrificec of bullocks, goats
and rams wara sanarafad set anari