The Yale expositor., 1898-10-07

over! III ever whelp looks ashamed
and ready to sink out OF sight IL Is
when in the Adirondacks a deer by
one tremendous plunge into Big Tup-
per Lake gets away from him. The
disappointed canine sHims in a little
way, but, defeated, swims out again
and crlnges with Inundated yawn at
the feet of his master. And how abash-
ed and ashamed will all your earthly
troubles be when you have dashed into
the river from under the throne or
God, and the heights and depths of
heaven are between you and your pur-
suers We are told in Revelation
22:15: Without are dogs" by which
l conclude there is a whole kennel or
hounds outside the gate of heaven, or,
as when a master goes In through
door. his dog lies on the steps waiting
for him to come out, so the troubles
OF this life Ilay follow us to the shin
ing door, but they cannot get In.
Without aie dogs!" have seen dogs
and owned dogs that / would not be
chagrined to see in the heavenly city.
Some of the grand old watchdogs who
are the constabulary of the homes In
solitary places, and for years have
been the only protection for wife and
child; some OF the shepherd dogs that
drive back the wolves and bark away
the fiocks from going too near the
precipice; and some OF the dogs whose
neck and paw Landseer, the painter,
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shutting them out from the gate OF
shining pearl Some of those old st.
Bernard dogs that have lifted perish
ing travellers out of the Alpine snow;
the dog that John Brown. the Scotch
essayist, saw ready to spring at the
surgeon lest in removing the cancer he
too much hurt the poor woman whom
the dog felt bound to protect, and dogs
that we caressed in our childhood
days, or that in later time lay down on
the rug in seeming sympathy when our
homes were desolated, I say. IL some
soul entering heaven should happen
to leave the gate ajar, and these faith
full creatures should quietly walk in,
1t would not at all disturb my heaven.
But all those human or brutal hounds
that have chased and torn and lacerat-
ed the world yea, all that now bite
or worry or tear to pieces, shall be
prohibited. without are Hlogs!" No
place there for harsh critics or back
biters or despoilers OF the reputation
of others.
Oh. when some OF you get there 1t
will be like what a hunter tells OF
when pushing his canoe far up north
in the winter and amid the ice-hoes,
and a hundred miles, as he thought,
from any other human beings! He
was startled one day as he heard a
stepping on the ice, and he cooked the
rife ready to meet anything that came
near He found a man. barefooted and
insane from long exposure approach
ing him. Taking him into his canoe
and kindling fires to warm him, he re-
stored him and found out where he
had lived. and took him to his home,
and found all the village in great ex-
element. A hundred men were search
ing for this lost man, and his fam
lily and friends rushed out to meet
him; and, as had been agreed at his
first appearance, bells were rung and
guns were fired and banquets spread.
Well, when some OF you step out OF
this wilderness. where you have been
chilled and torn and sometimes lost
amid the icebergs into the warm greet
ings Of all the villages of the glorified,
and your friends rush out to give you
welcoming kiss. the news that there
is another soul forever saved will call
the caterers OF heaven to spread the
banquet, and the bellmen to lay hold
of the rope in the tower, and while the
chalices click at the feast, and the
bells clang from the turrets, It will be
a scene so uplifting pray God I may
be there to take part in the celestial
merriment. Until the day break and
the shadows flee away, be thou IKE a
roe or a young hart upon the noun
tains of Bether."