St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1899-04-08

In our anxiety at last to reach Heaven
we are apt to lose sight of the glee or
welcome that awaits Us if we get in at
all. We all have friends up there. They
will somehow hear tina, we are coming.
Such close and swift and constant COM
munication is there between those up
lands and these lowlands that we will
not surprise them by sudden arrival
Ii loved ones on earth expect our COM
ing visit and are at the depot with car
riage to meet us. surely we will he met
at the shining gate by old friends now
sainted and kindred now glorified. II
there were no angel of God to meet us
and show us the palaces and guide us to
our everlasting residence, these kim
dred would show us the way and pclnt
out the splendors and guide us to our
celestial home, powered and fountained
and arched and illumined bya sun that
never sets. Will it not be glorious. the
going in and the settling down after
earthly experience? Wewill soon know
all our neighbors, kingly, queenly,
prophetic, apostolic, seraphic, archan-
gelic. The precious bundle of life
opened amid palaces and grand marches
and acclamations. They will all be so
glad we have got safely through. They
saw us down here in the struggle. They
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knew when we got off the right course.
None of the 80 ships that were overdue
at New York harbor in the storm of
week before last was greeted SO Eeart-
lily by friends on the dock or the steam
tugs that went out TO meet them at
Sandy Hook as we will be greeted in the
heavenly world if by the parGoning
and protecting grace of God we come
to celestial wharfage. We shall have
to tell them of the many wrecks that we
have passed on the way across wild seas
and amid Caribbean cyclones. II will
be like our arrival some yearsago from
New Zealand at Sydney, people sur
prised that we got in at all, because we
were two days late, and some of the
and we had passed derelicts and aban-
doned crafts all up and down that aw-
full channel-our arrival in Heaven all
the more rapturously welcomed be-
cause of the doubt as to whether we
would ever get there at all.
Once there it will be found that the
safety of that precious bundle of life
was assured because it was bound up
with the life of God in Jesus Christ.
Heaven could not afford to have that
bundle lost. because it had been said in
regard to its transportation and safe
arrival: Kept by The power of God
through faith unto complete salvation"
The veracity Of the heavens is involved
in IFS arrival. flood should fail to keep
His promise to just one ransomed soul
the pillars of Jehoyah's throne would
fall, and the foundations of the eternal
city would crumble, and infinite power
ties would dash down all the chalices
and close all the banqueting halls, and
the river of life would change its course,
sweeping everything with desolation,
and frost would blast all the gardens.
and Unreasonable sickness slay the inn |
mortals, and the new Jerusalem be- |
come an abandoned city.with no chariot
wheel on the streets and no worshipers
in the temple-a dead Pompeii of the |
skies. a buried Herculaneum of the |
heavens. Lest anyone should doubt, |
the God who cannot lie smites His ON |
nipotent hand on the side of His throne |
and takes affidavit, declaring: "As
live. said the Lord God, l have no pleas |
ure in the death of him that dieth."
Oh, cannot tel. you how feel about |
it, the thought is so glorious! Bound
up with God. Bound up with infinite |
mercy. Bound up with infinite JOY. |
Bound up with infinite purity. Bound |
up with infinite might. That thought |
is more beautiful and glorious than |
was the heroic Abigail, who at the foot
of the crags uttered it: Bound in the
bundle of life with the Lord thy God!'
Now. my nearer and reader, appreci- |
ate the value of that bundle. See that |
Il is bound up with nothing mean. but |
with the unsul.ied and immaculate.
Not with pebble of the shifting beach,
but with the kohinoor of the palace; |
not with some fading regalia of Garth |
ly pomp. but with the robe washed and |
made white in the blood of the Lamb. |
Pray as you never prayed before that
by Divine chirography written all over
your nature you may be properly adj
dressed for glorious destination. |
Turn not over new leaf of the old
book. but by the grace of God open an
entirely new volume of experience and
put into practice the advice contained
i'm the peculiar but beautiful rhythm
Of some author whose name know
not: "
II you've any task to do,
Let me whisper. friend. to You.
II you've anything to say.
True and needed, yea or nay.
Say II.
II you've anything to love,
AS a blessing from above.
Love II.
IF you've anything to give.
That anothers joy may live,
Give II.
II some hollow creed you doubt.
Though the whole world hcot and shout.
Doubt II.
II you've any debt to pay.
Rest you neither night or day i
s@E Pay II. 81
II you've any joy to hold,
Near your heart. lest 1t grow cold.
Hold Il.
II you've any grief to meet.
At a loving fathers feet,
ts# f Meet II.
II you know what torch to light,
Guiding others in the night,
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