The Grenada sentinel., 1898-11-26

~ Lev us S'0y' We dTc coming mere III
ve how. Why take the trouble of goil
Of back again to that old world? We o
Il. here now. Let US stay!" And it wou
n take angelic violence to put US out
10 that world II once we got there, but
D. people who cannot afford to pay for 4
. entertainment sometimes come aroun
n it and look through the door ajar, I
= through the openings in the fence, 4
we come and look through the crevics
J. into that good land which God has pr.
J vided for us. We can just catch
s. glimpse Of It. We come near enough !
hear the rumbling Of the eternal o,
8 chestra. though not near enough I
j know who blows the cornet or who flu
gers the harp. My soul spreads ou
b both wings and claps them in triump
E at the thought Of those upper spring.
. One of them breaks from beneath tn
\ throne. Another breaks forth from be
meath the altar of,the temple. Anothe
! at the door Of "the house OF many man
!. sions." Upper springs Of gladness! Up
per springs of light! Upper springs O.
love! 1t is no fancy Of mine. 9TH.
Lamb which is in the midst of thu
throne shall lead them to living foun.
tains Of water"
| o Saviour Divine, roll In upon our
souls one of those anticipated raptures!
Pour around the roots Of the parched
tongue one drop OF that liquid lifel
Toss before our vision those fountains
OF God. rainbowed with eternal victory.
Hear it! They are never sick there;
not so much as headache or twiuge
rheumatic or thrust neuralgia. The in
habitant never says: lam sick" They
are never tired there. Flight to farthest
world is only the play OF holiday.
They never sin there. It is as easy for
them to be holy as it is for us to sin.
They never die there. You might 70.
through all the outskirts OF the great
city and find not one place where the
ground was broken for grave. The
eyesight Of the redeemed is never
blurred with tears. There is health in
every cheek. There is spring in every
foot. There is, majesty on every brow.
There is Joy in every heart. There is
hosanna on every lip. How they must
pity us as they look over and look
down and see us and say: "Poor things
away down in that world!" And when
some Christian is hurled into fatal
accident they cry: Good! He is com.
ing!" And when we stand around the
couch Of some loved one whose strength
is going away and we shake our heads
forebodingly they cry: I'm glad he
is worse. He has been down there long
enough. There. he is dead! Come |
home! Come home!" Oh. if we cou ID |
only get our ideas about that future
world untwisted. our thought of trans.
fer from here to there would be az
pleasant to us as it was to little child
that was dying. She said: "Pap,
when will go home?" And he said,
To-day. Florence" "To-day? So soonY
I am SO g1ad!"
wish ] could stimulate you will,
these thoughts, o Christian man. to the
highest possible exhilaration! The dav
Of your deliverance Is coming-is com,
Ing, rolling on with the shining wheels
Of the day, and the jet wheels Of the
night. Every thump OF the heart IL
'nly hammer stroke striking off an
other chain Of clay. Better scour the
1eck and coil the rope, for harbor 10
'nly SIX miles AWAY. Jesus will come
iown the Narrows to meet you. "Now
s your salvation nearer than when YOU
Man of the world, will you not ~
lay make choice between these two
between the south land" Of
his world. which slopes to the desert,
nd this glorious land which thy Fa-
her offers thee. running with eternal
vater courses? Why let your tongue
'e consumed Of thirst when there are )
he neither springs and the upper ,
prings-comfort here and glory here !
fter?
You and l need something better
han this world can give US. The fact
that it cannot give US anything after y
while. 1t is a changing world. Do G
ou know that even the mountains on .
be back Of . thousand streams are
gaping into the valley? The ALE.
henies are dying. The dews with
Crystalline mallet are hammering away !,
he rocks. Frosts and showers and
ghtnings are sculpturing Mount
Washington and the Catskills. Niagara
very year>is digging for itself q
uicker plunge. The sea all around the !,
arth on its shifting shores is making n
lightly changes in bar and bay and 9
18th and promontory. Some of the old g
'acoasts are midland now. OF Mar. a
'cket, eight feet below low-water 4,
ark, are found now the stumps OF a
'ees, showing that the waves are cor a
lering the land. Parts of Nova Scotis II
re sinking. Ships to-day sail over n
hat, only q little while ago, was solid q
'ound. Near the mouth Of the st. 9,
roix river is an island which, In the IL
ovements Of the earth, is slowly but la
rtainly rotating. All the face Of the q,
nth is changing-changing. In 1881 al
island springs up in the Mediter. sc
mean sea. In 1866 another island Ia
mes up under the observation Of the &C
nerican consul as he looks of from a
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