The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-10-09
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strange faces, asking for a strange hotel.
They landed amid your glOrified relatives
who were awaiting 10 greet them.
Where Families Guther Again.
"Oh, does not this bring heaven nearer?
Instead of being far of. It comes down
just now. and 1t puts its arms around our
necks, and We feel its breath on our
faces. It melts the frigid splendor Of the
conventional heaven into domestic
scene. II comes very close to Us. il We
had our choice in heaven. whom would
We first see? Rather than look at the
great potentates of heaven We would
meet our loved ones. want to see Moses
and Paul and Joshua; but l would
great deal rather see my father, who
went away thirty years ago. / want to
see the great Bible heroines, Deborah
and Hannah and Abigail; but l would
rather see my mother than to see the
arehangel.
II do not think 1t was superstitious
when, one Wednesday night, l stood by
a deathbed within d few blocks OF the
church where / preached. and on the
same street, and saw one of the aged
Christians of the church going into glory
After | had prayed with her | said 10
her, We have all loved you very much,
ana Will always gOul HigAbDlg al
the Christian church. You will See my
son before / see him. and ! wish you
would give him our love- She said, i
will, | WILL and in twenty minutes she
was in beaven-the last words she ever
spoke. IL was a swift message 10 the
skies II Won had your choice between
riding in heavenly chariot and occupy
Ing the grandest palace ir heaven, and
sitting on the throne next highest TO the
throne Of God, and not seeing your de-
parted owed ones; ana on ne other handr
dwelling in the humblest place In heaven,
without. crown or throne, and without
garland, and without sCepter, yet having
your loved ones around you, you would
choose the latter. / say these things De-
cause / want you TO know IL Is doInes-
tic heaven, and consequently u is all the
time improving. Every one that goes up
makes IL a brighter place, and the attrae-
lions are Increasing month Dy mohth ana
day by day: and heaven, so vastly more
of a heaven. thousand times more OF a
heaven. than IL used to be, will be bet
ter heaven yet l say this 10 intensity
your anticipation!
Coming Of Judgment Day.
az enter heaven one day. It is almost
EMMY I enter the temples OF worship.
and there are no wOrshipers. I walk down
the street, and there are no passengers.
90 into the orchestra, and find the In
struments are suspended in the baronial
halls of heaven, and the great organs Of
eternity. with multtudinous banks of
kevs are closed But / see a shining one
al the gate, as though he were standing
on guard and | say. Sentinel, what does
this mean? thought heaven was popu-
Ions CITY. Has there oeen some great
pIas1ie sweeping OFF the populatioaE
Have Won not heard the neWs% says the
sentinel. There is a world burning there
is great confagration out yonder. and
all heaven has gone out 10 look az me
eoufagration and take the victims Out o.
the ruins. This is the day for which all
other DAYS are made This IS the judg-
ment! This morning al the chariOts. and
the cavalry. and the mounted Infantry
rumbled and galloped down the sky. Aft
er [ had listened 10 the sentinel, / looked
on over the battlements and ! saw that
he fields OF air were bright with a blazing
world | said Yes, yes. this must be
the Judgment and while ] stood there
heard the rumbling OF wheels and the
gathering OF hoofs. and the roaring OF
many voices, and then | saw the c9:o-
nets and plumes and banners. and saw
that all heaven was coming back again
coming TO the wall. coming 10 the gate.
and the multitude that went on Ia the
morning was augmented oy vast multi
tude caught up alive from the earth, and
g vast multitude OF the resurTected bodies
Of the Christian dead. leaving the ceme-
teries and the abbeys and the mausolcGms
and the graveyAFds 81 the earth empty.
PrOeessie moving IN through the gates.
And then found out that what was merry
Judgment Day on earth was Jubilee Day
In Heaven, and / cried, 'DooFkespers Of
heaven. shut the gates: all heaven has
come in, Do0rkeepers, shut the twelve
gates lest the sorro~s and the woes Of
earth, Ike bandits, should some day cons
up and try 10 plumber the city"