The Globe-republican., 1899-12-14
|TAIlMAGE'S SERMON.
THE WORLD AS 1T WILL Be-
SUNDAYS SUBJECT.
Text: IL Peter 3: ia New Earth,
Wherein Dwelleth Righteousness-
Story Of the New Earth as 1t WIN
BE In Centuries to Come.

get depressed with the obstacles to Dt
overcome and the work to be accom-
plished Will it not be a tonic and N
inspiration to look at the world as il
will be when it has been brought bach
10 paradisaical condition? So let us fol
a few moments transport ourselves
into the future and put ourselves for
ward in the centuries. and see the
world in its rescued and perfected
| state, as we will see it if in those times
| we are permitted to revisit this
| planet, as l am sure we will. We all
| thoroughly gospelized and all wrongs
have been righted. We will want to
| come back, and We will come back,
to look upon the refulgent cOnsumma-
ton toward which we have been on
larger or smaller scale tOiling. Hav-
ing heard the opening of the orchestra,
on whose strings some discOrds trav-
eled. We will want to hear the last
triumphant bar of the perfected ora
torio. Having seen the picture as the
painter drew the first outlines Oh the
canvas, we will want to see it when it
is as complete as Reuben's Descent
from the Cross" or Michael Angeles
Last Judgment" Having seen the
world under the CLEAN of the star of
Bethlehem, We will want to see it
when, under the full shining of the
Sun of Righteousness, the towers shall
strike twelve at noon.
There will be nothing in that coming
century of the worlds perfection to
hinder our terrestrial visit. Our power
and velocity of locomotion will have
improved infinitely. 1t will not take US
long to come here, however far Off in
Gods universe heaven may be. The
Bible declares that such visitation is
going on now. Are they not all min
istering spirits sent forth to minister
to those who shall be heirs of saliva
tion?" Surely, the gates of heaven
will not be bOlted, after the world is
Edenized, so as to hinder the redeemed
from descending for a tour of inspec
ton and congratulation and triumph.
You know with what interest we
look upon ruins-ruins of Keniiworth
castle, ruins, of MelrOse abbey, ruins of
Rome, ruins of Pompeii. So this world
in ruins is an enchantment 70 look
at, but we want to see it when rebuilt,
repillared, recovered, realtered, re-
dedicated. The exact date of the
worlds restoration l cannot fOretell.
1t may be that through mighty awak-
enings it may take place in the middle
of the nearby twentieth century. 1t
may be at the opening of the twenty
first century, but it would not be sur
prising if it took more than 100 years
to correct the ravages of sin which
have ragged for 5000 years. The chief
and evangelistic enterprises
were started In this century, and be
not dismayed if it takes a couple of
centuries to overcome evils that have
had full swing for sixty centuries.
take no responsibility in saying on
what page of the earthly calendar it
will roll in, but Gods eternal veracity
is sworn to it that it will roll in; and
as the redeemed in heaven do as they
plea1@ and have all the facilities of
transit from world to world, you and
l, my hearer or reader, will come and
look at what my text calls "A new
earth. wherein dwelleth righteous
Aess."
imagine that we are descending at
that period of the worlds complete
gospelization. There will be no peril
in such a descent. Great heights and
depths have no alarm for glorified
spirits. We can come down through
chasms between worlds without
growing dizzy. and across the
spaces of half universe without los
ing our way. Down and farther down
We come. AS we approach this world
We breathe the perfume of illimitable
gardens. Floralization that in the CEN
.uries past was here and there walled |
n, lest reckless and dishonest pluck |
n despoil it, surges its pillows of color |
across the fields and up the hillsides, |
Ind that which was desert blossoms
Is the rose. All the fOreheads of crag |
crowned with flowers; the feet of the |
Mountains slippered with flowers. Oh!
his perfume of the continents. this
roma of the hemispheres! AS we ap-
roach nearer We hear songs and
aughter and hosannas, but not one
'roan of distress, not one sob of be-
not one clank of chain.
Alighted on the redeemed earth, we
re first acosted by the spirit of the
century, who proposes to
uide and show us all that we desire
D see. Without his guidance we would
Csc our way, for the world is so much
hanged from the time when we lived
It. First of all, he points out to us
group of abandoned buildings. We
SIX this spirit Of the twenty-flrst CEN
1ry, What are those structures whose
'alls are falling down, and whose
ates are rusted on the hinges?" Our
scort tells us: Those were once
filled with offenders, but
he crime of the world has died out.
heft and arson and violence have