The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1898-03-11

multitude OF the nndlly lOStt 40 NS
nared with the multitude of the finally
saved. will be a handful. l suppose
that the few sick people in the hospital
TO-DAY. as compared with the hundreds
NJ thousands of we'll people in the city
would not be smaller than the NUMBER
of those who shall be cast out In SUI
fering, compared with those who shah
have upon them the health u heaven
For we are TO remember that we are
living in comparatively the beginning
of the Christian dispensation. and that
this world is to be populated and re-
deemed. and that ages OF light and love
are to flow on. If this be so, the null
titudes of the saved will be in vast
majority.
Take all the congregations that nave
today assembled for worship. Put them
together and they would make put :
small audience compared with the
thousands and tens Of thousands, ana
ten thousand times ten thousand, ana
the hundred and forty and four thou-
sand that shall stand around the
throne. Those flashed up to heaven in
martyr fires; those tossed for many
years upon the invalid couch; those
fought in the armies of liberty, and
rose as they fell; those tumbled from
high scaffodings, or slipped from the
mast. or were washed off into the sea.
They came up from Corinth, from Lao
dicea from the Red Sea bank and
Gennesarets wave, from Egyptian
brick yards, and Gideon's thrashing-
floor. Those, thousands of years ago,
slept the last sleep, and these are this
moment having their eyes closed, and
their limbs stretched out for the sepul-
chre.
A general expecting an attack from
the enemy stands on a hill and looks
through a field glass, and sees, in the
great distance, multitudes approaching,
but has no idea of their numbers. lie
says, 81 can not tell anything about
them. merely know that there are
great number" And so John, without
OUT attempting to count, says: "A
great multitude that no man can num-
ber."
We are told that heaven is place
of happiness; but what do we know
about happiness? Happiness in this
world is only a half-fedged thing;
flowery path, with a serpent Kissing
across it; broken pitcher from which
the water has dropped before we could
drink it; thrill of exhilaration, fol-
lowed by disastrous reactions. To help
us understand the joy of heaven, the
Bible takes us to a river. We stand on
the grassy bank. We see the waters
flow on with ceaseless wave. But the
filth of the cities are emptied into 1t;
, and the banks are torn; and unhealthy
. exhalations spring up from it; and we
fail to get an idea of the River of Life
in heaven.
We get very imperfect ideas Of the
reunions of heaven. We think of some
festal day on earth, when father and
mother were yet living, and the chill
dren came home. A good time that!
But it had this drawback-all were not
there. That brother went off to sea,
and never was heard from. That sis
ter-did we not lay away in the fresh
ness of her young life never more in
II this world to look upon her? All!
- there was skeleton at the feast, and
e tears mingled with our laughter on
- that Christmas day. Not so with
j heavens reunions. 1t will be an unln-
terrupted gladness. Many a christian
parent will look around and find all
!, his children there. "Ah! he says, "can
It be possible that we are all here
ifes perils over? The Jordan passed
. and not one wanting? Why, even the
tool ic oil mr. 90
up. How long he despised my coun
~ sells! but grace hath triumphed. Al
III here! all here! Tell the mighty JOY
III through the city. Let the bells ring
u and the angels mention it in thei
III song Wave it from the top of tn
d walls. All here"
III No more breaking of heart strings
but face to face. The orphans tina
% were left. poor, and in a merciles
Oh world, kicked and cuffed of many hard
nc ships, shall join their parents. owe
nu whose graves they so long wept. an
ed gaze into their glorified countenance
ne forever. face to face. We may com
TIC ND from different parts of the worl(
IL one from the land and another fror
Dr. the depths of the sea; from lives al
so fluent and prosperous, or from scene
Up of ragged distress; but we shall a
ne meet in rapture and jubilee, face t
oW face.
as Many of our friends have entere
ere upon that Joy. A few days ago the
led sat with us studying these Gosp'
,ill themes; but they only saw through
az glass, darkly-now revelation hat
es: come. Your tine will also come. &C
the will not leave you floundering in IL
led darkness. You stand wonder struC
np- and amazed. You feel as if all Il
zen loneliness of life were dashed out. YC
n.y. stand gazing into the open chasm
'ew the grave. Wait little. In the pre-
hat ence of your departed, and of him wi
MID carries them in his bosom, you shs
md soon stand face to face. Oh, that o.