Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1899-08-03

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that place he proposes to transport you,
for his garments smell of myrrh and
aloes and cassia out of the ivory pal
aces" What n place heaven must be!
The Tuileries of the French. the Windsor
castle Of the English, the Spanish alham-
bra, the Russian kremlin, are mere dun
geons compared with it! Not so many
castles on either side the Rhine as on
both sides of the river of God-the ivory
palaces! One for the angels, insuiferably
bright, winged, fire eyed tempest char
ioted; one for the martyrs with blood
red robes from under the altar; one for
the King, the steps OF his palace the
crown of the church militant; one for
the singers, who lead the one hundred
and forty and four thousand; one for you,
ransomed from sin; one for me, plucked
from the burning. Oh, the ivory palaces.
Today it seems to me as IL the windows
of those palaces were ilumined for some
great victory, and l look and see climb
ing the stairs of ivory and walking on
floors Of ivory and looking from the
windows of ivory some whom we knew
and loved on earth. Yes, l know them.
There are father and mother, not 81
years and 10 years as when they left us.
but blthe and young as when on their
wedding day. And there are brothers
and sisters, merrier than when we used
to romp across the meadows together.
The cough gone. The cancer cured. The
eryspelas healed. The heartbreak over.
| oh, how fair they are in the ivory pal
aces! And your dear little children that
went out from you-Christ did not let
one OF them drop as he lifted them. He
| did not wrench one Of them from you.
! No. They went as from one they loved
! well to one whom they loved better. IL
! l should take your little child and press
| its soft face against my rough cheek.
might keep it n little while; but when
you the mother came along it would
struggle 10 go with you. And SO you
stood holding your dying child when
Jesus passed by in the room and the
little one sprang out to greet him. That
| is all. Your Christian dead did not go
down into the dust and the gravel and
/ the mud. Though it rained all that
/ funeral day and the water came up TO
the wheels hub AS you drove out to the
cemetery, it made no difference to them
for they stepped from the home here to
/ the home there, right into the ivory pal
aces. All is well with them. All is well.
II is not dead weight that you lift
when you carry n Christian ont. Jesus
makes the bed up soft with velvet prom
ises, and he says: Put her down here
very gently. Put that head which will
never ache again on this pillow of halle
luiahs. Send up word that the process
sion Is coming. Ring the bells. Ring,
Open your gates, We ivory palaces" And
so your loved ones are there. They are
just as certainly there, having died in
Christ, as that you are here. There is
only one thing more they want Indeed,
there is one thing in heaven they have
not got. They want it. What is it?
Your company! But, oh, my brother, un-
less you change your tack you cannot
reach that harbor. You might as well
take the Southern Pacific railroad, ex-
pecting in that direction to reach Toron-
to, as to go on in the way some of you
are going and yet expect to reach the
ivory palaces. Your loved ones are look
ing out of the windows OF heaven now,
and yet you seem to turn your back upon
them. You do not seem to know the
sound Of their voices as we'll as you used
to or to be moved by the sight of their
dear faces. Call louder, ye departed
ones. Coll louder from the ivory pal
aces,
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