The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-11-04


ton wheu the final victories come in,
when the church shall be triumphant
everywhere. Oh, whata day in Heaven
it will be when the last throne of
earthly oppression has fallen, when
the last chain of serfdom is broken,
when the last wound of earthly pain
is healed, when the last sinner is par
doned, when the last nation is re-
deemed! What time there will be in
Heaven! You and | will be in the
procession; you and | will thrum
a string in that great orchestra.
That will be the greatest day in
Heaven since the first block of jasper
was put down for the foundation. and
the first hinged pearl swung. If there
is difference between Heaven now
and Heaven as 1t was, oh, the differ
ence between Heaven as it shall be
and Heaven as it Is now! Not a
splendor stuck fast, but rolling on and
rolling on, and rolling up and rolling
up, forever, forever
Now, say these things about the
changes in Heaven, about Tho new inn
provements in Heaven, for three stout
reasons. First, because ] find that
some of you are impatient to be gone.
You are tired of this world, and you
want TO 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 to an art gallery IL some OF
the best pictures were to be taken
away this week OF next week, but If
some one tells you that there are other
beautiful pictures to come-other
Kensetts, Raphaels, and Rubecs; other
masterpieces to be added to the gal
lery-you would say: II can afford to
wait The place is improving all the
time" Now, ! want you to apply the
same principle in this matter of reach
ing Heaven and leaving this world.
Not one glory is to be subtracted, but
many glories added. Not ono angel
will be gone, not one hiearch gone,
not one of your. glorified friends gone
BY the long practicing the music will
be better, the procession will be long
err, the rainbow brighter, the corona
ton grander. Heaven, with magniti-
cent addenda! Why will you com
plain when you are only waiting for
some thing betterP
Another reason why / speak in re-
gard to the changes in Heaven, and the
new improvements in Heaven, is be-
cause think it will be a consolation
to busy and enterprising good people.
see very we'll that you have not much
taste for Heaven that was all done
and finished centuries ago. After you
have been active 40 or so or go years It
would be a shock to stop you suddenly
and forever; but here is a progressive
Heaven, an ever-accumulative 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, / tell
you of Heaven where there is some.
thing to do! That is the meaning of
the passage, They rest not day nor
night" in the large sense of resting.
speak these words on the changes
in Heaven and the new improvements
in Heaven, also, because want to cure
some of you of the delusion that your
departed friends have gone into dull
ness and silence and uncousciousn
They are in u stirring, picturesque,
radiant, ever scene. When
they left their bodies they only got
rid of the last hindrance. They are
no more in 0akwood 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 APP
parei that was not fit to wear TO the
banquet. A soldier cannot use a sword
until he has unsheathed it, and the
body of your departed was only
the sheath of bright and gilt
tering spirit which God has lifted and
is swaying in the heavenly triumph.
According to what | am telling you at
present your departed Christian
friends did not go so much into the
the company of the martyrs and the
apostles, and the prophets, and the
potentates of Heaven, as into the com.
pany of grandfather and grandmother,
and the infant sister that tarried Just
long enough to absorb your tenderest
affection and all the home circle.
When they landed it was not as you
land in Antwerp, or Hamburg, or
Havre, wandering up "A strange wharf,
looking at strange faces, asking for a
strange hotel They landed amid your
glorious relatives, who were waiting
to greet them.
do not think it was superstitious
when, one Wednesday night, | stood
by deathbed within a few blocks OF
the churcn where preached, and on
the same street, and saw one of the
aged Christians of the church going
into glory. After had prayed with
her said to her: 1--WE have all loved
you very much, and will always cher
ish your memory in the Christian
church. You will see my son before
see him, and wish you would give him
our love" She said: 81 will, / will;"
and in 30 minutes she was in Heaven
the last words she ever spoke. 1t
was a swift message to the skies,
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