Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-09-20

: VI ing utdNCI uphl w thltH, WV h't
this lower life in the midst of its music
and beauty, Il shall be satisfied when |
awake in his likeness Il know that
my Redeemer liveth." I'm my Fathers
house are many mansions. l go to pre-
pare "a place for you" This corrupt
ible must put on interruption. This
mortal must put on immortality. Are
| these the words of uncertainty and am
dignity? Far from it. And when each
human heart palpitates with longing
and intense anticipation, shall we think
that God has planted this longing in the
bosom only to mock it, and encourage
this anticipation only to disappoint it?
All. no. Away We croakers, We cynics.
ye skeptics, We blind guides! Away!
away! We can not rob me of my heaven.
Ye can not steal away from my soul its
immortality. Ye can not keep mine
ears from hearing celestial music, or my
life fron4 feeding even now upon celes-
tial pleasures. There is an old rab-
binical legend that runs in this wise.
When Joseph was prime minister to
Pharoah, during the period of famine,
he cmptied the chat of his %granaries
into the Nile. 1t loated far away upon
the moving current, and the people on
the banks a great distance below saw
it. 1t was only chatf, but it meant that
there was wheat. or as they called it.,
corn in plenty somewhere. Chat al
ways means wheat, and yet the chat is
worthless. You could not persuade
those people that they were mistaken.
They were suffering the pangs of hun
ger, and had supposed that everybody
was as hungry as themselves, that the
famine extended throughout the entire
land. Now they were sure that If their
strength held out until they reached the
point at which the chaff was thrown in
to the river, they would find plenty for
themselves and their furnishing families.
And down the stream of time there
comes floating to our hearts certain
dreams of bliss, reunion with those we
have loved and lost; the longing for
rest; the desire for a future life and
holiness. The whole race has enjoyed
these hopes since it first began to
struggle. They are but chatf compared
with the wheat that Is in the heavenly
garner; they are small satisfactlons
compared with the recompense indie
scribable that is awaiting. But the
chat is proof of wheat higher up in the
granaries of God, and your unsmother-
able outgoings toward the skies, are
proof that by and by you shall see the
king in his beauty and enter upon your
Inheritance of blessed immortality.
1t is impossible to describe in minute
detail the scenes that are beyond the
veil. Beauty" means the heavenly
majesty of Christ as the worlds Re-
decmer, the glory iheffable that centers
in him and circles about him as the
worlds emancipation, but what human
tongue finds language adequate to de-
scribe this in it's reality? 1t must re-
main to US a subject for devout wonder,
a fascinating incentive ~heavenward, I'M
til the soul, bursting its earthly on
finements, rises to its heavenly environ
ment. And seeing the king in his
beauty means more than an eternal
look at this unspeakable majesty. 1t
means participation in the glory which
the Savior-king dispenses; entering in
to the employments and associations
and ravishing experiences of heaven.
Here again we stand abashed before our
own inability to describe and picture.
| What are those .employments? What
those associations and experiences?
Now we see through q glass darkly,
but then face to face" God has re-
served something to be known when we
reach our journeys end. When l in
vite you to my home / may tell you that
| want you to dinner or luncheon, or to
spend the evening, but | do not tell you
every little dainty and surprise and
l rln "A ~ M = xln II, ct1na e~n ,,o,
Nor does Christ when he invites us to
His Fathers house. The t,itation is to
all. There is DON for all. All shall
be satisfied, gloritied. But heaven
would not be heaven if we knew
all before VIC reached it. We
sec reflections here, but there is
the Sun of Righteousness. We taste the
bread Of heaven here but there is the
royal feast. We drink the water of life
here, but there is the river, the crystal
river. The great point with the prophet
when he promises a vision of the king
in his beauty is comfort. He wants to
assure the despairing people of Jeru-
salem, and the people of every succeed
ing age, that thoughts of heaven are y
legitimate source of earthly consolation,
that especially in calamity and distress
an upward look is helpful and exhilarat-
ing. AT certain seasons the Rio Grande
river overflowS it's banks. In the city
of Ell Paso, Texas, the waters crept far
up the streets causing great suffering
and destruction. 1t overswept the ceme-
terry where a loving mother q few days
before had laid her sweet, fair child of
only eight summers. She watched with
pain the rising waters. They camenearer
to the little grave, and still nearer.
How could she bear to think of her
beautiful child beneath the mad flood.
But still the waters came and covered
the sacred spot, and then the mother
seemed to hear a voice that said, ''not
there" mot there" mot in the grave"
The voice seemed above her and con
tinued, up here" sup here" sin
heaven That mother. in her sorrow,
drew upon the resources of heaven and
was comforted. The same privilege is
! yours. Your loved ones who died in
Christ are not in Fairyiew or any other
cemetery. They are yonder. Let your
thoughts rise to them. The burden will
be more easily borne. Your cares and
chagrins and defeats will not always
last. Inequalities will be righted. Heav-
en- compensates for all. ''Thine ewes
shall see the king in his beauty"
/ remember that one of the classes
that graduated while l was in college
chose this as its motto, life is given
for noble Deeds" Whoever works UNI
der the inspiration Of that truth cannot
fail. But multitudes do not. They live
low, grovelling, sordid lives, conformed
to ideals that are ignoble and debasing.
We have been describing the splendid
destiny of man.. You are born not for
a few years here but for an ageless life
yonder, not to die and mingle with the
dust of earth and be no more like the
animals about your homes, but to raise
to new glories, to infinite spiritual OK
pansion, to achievements and experi-
ences beyond present conception. You
bear the image Of your maker. You