The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-11-05


and Heaven as II Is nowi Not q
splendor stuck fast but rolling on and
rolling on. and rolling up and rolling
up forever, forever.
Now, I say these thinRs about the
changes In Heaven. about the new inn
provements In Heaven, for three stout
reasons First because I find that
some Of you are impatient to Be gone
You are tired Of this world, and you
want 10 get into that good land about
which you have been thinking. pray
ing and talking so many years Now
be patient could see why you would
want TO go 10 an art gallery II some OF
the best pictures were 10 be taken
away this week DR. next week, but II
some q tells you that there are other
beautiful pictures 70 come-other
KensettS RaPhaels. and Rubens; other
masterpieces 10 be added 10 the gal
lsry-you would say; ~ can afford 10
walt The place Is improving all the
time" Now, l want you to apply the
same principle In this matter Of reach.
ing Heaven AID leaving this world.
Not n glory Is 70 be subtracted, but
many glories added. Not one angel
will be gone. not one hiearch gone,
not one OF your glorined friends gone.
BY the long practicing the music will
be better. the procession will be long
er, the rainbow brighter. the corona
ton grander. Heaven, with magniH.
cent addendal Why will you con-,
plain when you arc only waiting for
something betters
Another reason why l speak In re-
gard 70 the changes In Heaven, and the
new improvements in Heaven, is be-
cause l think II will be . consolation
to busy and enterprising good people.
see very well that you have not much
taste for a Heaven that was all done I
and finished centuries ago After you
have been active 40 or so or 90 Il
would be . shock to stop you suddenly
and forever; but here Is Q progressive !
Heaven, an REPRESENTATIVE Heaven,
vast enterprises on foot there before
the throne OF God. Aggressive knowl
edge, aggressive goodness, aggressive
power, aggressive grandeur. You will
not have to come and sit down on the
banks OF the river Of life in everlast-
ing inoccupation. o busy men, 1 tell
you of q Heaven where there is some.
thing to dol That Is the meaning of
the passage, They rest not day nor
nigot" in the large sense Of resting.
lspeak these words on the chauges
In Heaven and the new improvements
In Heaven, also. because l want TO cure
some Of you Of the delusion that your
departed friends have gone into dull.
ness and silence and Inconsistencies
They are In a stirring, picturesque,
radiant ever-accumulative scene. When
they left their bodies they only got
rid OF the last hindrance. They are
no more In lakewood, Laurel hill or
Mount Auburn than you, in holiday
attire, having seated yourself at a
banquet can be said to be In a dark
closet where you have left the old ap-
parel that was not ht TO wear TO the
banquet A soldier cannot use a sword
until he has u~nsheathed II and tbe
body Of your departed was onIv
the sheath Of n bright and Olit.
tering spirit which God has lifted and
is swaying In the heavenly triumnh.
According To what l am telling you at
present your departed Christian
friends did not 20 SO much into The
the Of the martyrs and ~.
apostles, and the pronhe,s ana az
poteutates OF Heaven. "a int tha cor.
pany OF grandfather and grandmother
and the infant sister that tarr,ad ,us,
long enough To absorb vour tsnd.rss,
affection and ali The home c,rcIa
When thew landed II was not 80.
land I'm Antwerp. or
Havre. wandering nm a tran.
looking at strange face. nsLios To- ,
strange hotel. They landed .m,a ron-
glorious relatives. who were wsi,ina
10 greet them.
lido not think IL vas nnsrs,,,,on.
one "Wednesday nIoh, 49,
BY q deathbed within n few b,ocLs -
the church where / nrsachsd 60
the same street and saw one 81 ,ha
aged Christians Of The .,hr-.h -
into glory. After I had nraved wj,s
her I said 10 her: "We haya III ,rr.s
you very much. and will nI,Vavs chsr-
Ish your memory in the Chr,s,,an
You will see INV son bsfore T
zee him. and I wish vou worid n,rNLt-