The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1899-12-14
and Leipsic, and Waterloo. and San

anu LelpSlC, anu waterloo, ana san
Juan" Our escort replies: Come
with me to this building of white mar
bic and glittering DOME" AS we pass
up and on we are taken into room
where the mightiest and best repre-
sentatives Of all nations are assembled
to settle international controversies.
AS we enter hear the presiding officer
opening the council of arbitration,
reading the second chapter of Isaiah:
They shall beat their swords into
plowshares. and their spears into
pruning hooks; nation shall not lift
up sword against nation, neither shall
they learn war any more" Questions
which in our long-past nineteenth
century caused quarrel and bloodshed.
as when Germany and France were de-
Gliding about Alsace and Lorraine, as
when the United States and Spain were
deciding about Cuba-such questions
In this twenty-irst century settled in
five minutes. one drop of ink doing
more than once could have been ac-
complished by river of blood.
And now you and l have left our
escort as we ascend, for the law of
gravitation has no power to detain
ascending spirits. Up through i'm
mensities, and by stellar and lunar and
solar splendors, which cannot be de-
scribed by mortal tongue, we rise
higher and higher, till we reach the
shining gate as it opens for our re-
turn, and the questions greet us from
all sides: What is the news? What
did you find in that earthly towero
what have you to report in this city
OF the SUM-" Prophetic, apostolic.
sanity inquiry. And standing on the
steps of the house with many man
slons, we cry aloud the news: Hear
1T, all We glorified Christian workers
OF all the past centuries! We found
your work on earth was successful,
whether on earth you toled with knit
tlng needle, or rung trowel on ris-
ing wall, or smote shoe last, or en-
do%ed university, or swayed a scep-
ter; whether on earth you gave cup
OF cold water in the name of dis
clple, or at some pentecost preached
o,OOo souls into the kingdom. In that
world we have just visited the deserts
are all abloom, and the wildernesses
are bright with fountains Sin is ex-
t1rpated. Crime is reformed Disease
| is cured. The race is emancipated.
The earth is full of the knowledge of
COD, as the waters cover the sea-
Inc redeemed of the Lord have come
to Zion with songs and everlasting Joy
upon their heads The Lord God
Omnlpotent reigneth. and the king
doms of the world have become the
Kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ
Let the harpers of heaven strike the
glad tidings from the strings of their
harps, and the trumpeters put them
in the mouth of their trumpets. and
the orchestras roll them into the grand
march of the eternities, and all the
cathedral towers of the great capital
of the universe chime them all over
| heaven"
And now look up and see the cast
ing down Of the bejeweled and radiant
crowns at the sacred feet of the en-
throned Jesus. Missionary Carey is
casting down before those feet the
crown of India saved. Missionary Jud-
son is casting down the crown of Bur-
NAH saved. Missionary Abeel cast
Ing down the crown of China
saved. David Livingstone cast
ing down at those feet the crown of
Africa saved. Missionary Erainerd
casting down the crown of this coun-
try's aborigines saved. Souls that went
up from all the denominations in
America in holy rivalry, seeking which
could soonest cast down the crown OF
this continent at the Savior's feet. and
America saved.
But often you and l who were COM
panions in that expedition from heaven
to earth, seated on the green bank Of
the river that rolls through the para
disc of God, will talk over the scenes
we witnessed in that parenthesis of
heavenly bliss. in that vacation from
the skies, in our terrestrial visitation
we who were early residents in the
nineteenth century, escorted by the
spirit of the twenty-first century, when
we saw what my text describes as "a
new earth, wherein dwelleth right
eousness." GLORY to the Father, and
to the Son and to the Holy Ghost as
it was in the beginning, is now, and
ever shall be, world without end
Amen"