The Yale expositor., 1899-10-27

may follow us to the SHINING door. but
they cannot get in. Without are
dogs!" have seen dogs, and owned
dogs, that | would not be chagrined TO
see in the heavenly city. Some OF the
grand old watch-dcEs that arc the
constabulary OF the homes in solitary
places, and for years have been the
only protection of wife and child;
some Of the shepherd dogs that drive
back the wolves and bark away the
flock from going too near the precipice;
and some of the dogs whose neck and
paw Landseer, the painter, has made
immortal, would not find me shutting
them out from the gate of shining
pearl Some Of those old st. Bernard
dogs that have lifted perishing trav-
eiers 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 laid down on the
rug in seeming sympathy when our
homes were desolated. / say, If some
soul entering heaven should happen to
leave the gate ajar, and these faithful
creatures should quietly walk in, it
would not at all disturb my heaven.
But all those human or brutal hounds
that have chased and torn and LAGER
ated the world yea, all that now bite
or worry or tear TO pieces, shall be
prohibited. without are dogs!" No
place there for harsh critics or back
biters. or despoilers of the reputation
Of others! Down with you to the
kennels Of darkness and despair! The
hart has reached the eternal water
brooks. and the painting of the long
chase is quleted in still pastures, and
there shall be nothing to hurt or des-
troy in all Gods holy mount"
Oh, when some of you get there, It,
will be like what hunter tells OF
when he vas pushing his canoe far up
north Ia the winter, and amid the
ice-1oes, and a hundred miles, as he
thought from any other human be-
ings. He was startled one day as he
heard a stepping en- the ice, and he
cooked the rife ready to meet any
thing that came near. He found
man, bare footed and insane from long
exposure, approaching him. Taking
him into his canoe and kindling fires
to warm nh, he restored him, found
out where he had lived, and took him
to his home, and found all the village
in great excitement. 4 hundred men
were searching for this lost man, and
his family and friends rushed ont to
meet him, and as Ecd been agreed at
his first appearance, bells were runs,
and guns were discharged, and ban
QIets spread, and the rcscuer loaded
with presents. Well. when some Of you
step out Of this wilderness, where you
have been chilled and torn, and some
times lost amid the icebergs into the
warm greetings 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 bell
men 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
l pray God | may be there to take
part in the celestial merriment. And
now do you not think the prayer in
Solomor's song, where he compared
Christ to reindeer in the night, would
make an e2quisitely appropriate pero-
ration to my sermon: Until the day
break and the shadows fee away, be
thou like a rec or young hart upon
the mountains of Bether"?