The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-12-15
NUMBER %.


Terry.
My subject also suggests the fact that
when we cross over at the last we shall
find solid landing. The ferryboat as
spoken of in my text means place to
start from and a place to land. David
and his people did not find the eastern
shore of the Jordan any more solid than
the western shore where he landed, and
yet to a great many Heaven is not
real place. To you Heaven is fog
bank in the distance. Now, my Heaven
is a solid Heaven. After the resurrec-
tion has come you will have resur-
rected foot and something to tread on
and resurrected eye and colors to
see with it and a resurrected ear and
music to regale it. Smart men in this
day are making a great deal of fun
about St. Johns materalistic descrip-
tions of Heaven. Well, now. my friends.
if you will tell me what will be the use
of resurrected body in Heaven with
nothing TO tread on and nothing to
hear and nothing to handle and moth
ing to taste then l will laugh, too. Are
you going to float about in ether for
ever, swinging about your hands and
feet through the air indiscriminately,
one moment sweltering in the center OF
the sun and the next moment shivering
in the mountains of the moon? That is
not my Heaven. Dissatisfied with
Johns materialistic Heaven, theolog-
, ical thinkers are trying to patch up a
Heaven that will do for them at last.
, | never heard of a Heaven I want to
go to except St. Johns Heaven. I be-
lieve 1 shall hear Mr. Toplady sing yet
: and Isaac Watts recite hymns and Mo-
, zart play. "Oh." you say, where would
= you get the organ?" The Lord will
provide the organ. Don't you bother
about the organ. I believe I shall yet
e see David with a harp. and will ask
P him TO sing one of the songs of Zion. l
5 believe after the resurrection l shall
i see Massillon, the great French pulpit
/ orator, and I shall hear from his own
/ lips how he felt on that day when he
It preached the kings funeral sermon
n and flung his whole audience into
IT paroxysm of grief and solemnity.
d have no patience with your transcend
lie entail, gelatinous, gaseous Heaven. My
d Heaven is not fog bank My eyes are
'e unto the hills. the everlasting hills.
X The Kings ferryboat, starting from
re wharf on this side, will go to a wharf
!" on the other side.
le Again, my subject teaches that when
IN we cross over at the last we shall be met
lg at the landing. When David and his
to family went over in the ferrybont
n spoken of in the text. they landed amid
a nation that had come out to greet
IN them. As they stepped from the deck
IN of the boat to the shore there were
We thousands of people who gathered
We around them to express a satisfaction
to that was beyond description. And so
re you and l will be met at the landing.
of Our arrival will be like stepping ashore
av at Antwerp or Constantinople among
he a crowd of strangers. 1t will be among
70. friends. good friends, those who are
lv hearted friends, and all their
no friends. We know people whom we
id have never seen by hearing somebody
he talk about them very much; we know
he them almost as we'll as if we had seer
All them. And do you suppose that oui
N parents and brothers and sisters anC
es children in Heaven have been talking
ID about us all these years, and talking
~ to their friends? So that, l suppose
ha when we cross the river at the last
we s,nall not only Dt met DN al luOs'
b. Christian friends whom we knew OF
, " cart h. but by all their friends. The,
-. will come down TO the landing to NEE
-. us. Your departed friends love yol
j. now more than they ever did. You will
~ be surprised at the last to find how the,
-. know about all the affairs of your life
49, Why, they are only across the ferry
~, and the boat is coming this way, ant
- the boat is going that way. l do no
know but they have already asked tn
-. Lord the day, the hour, the momen
- when you are coming across and tina
" they know now, but do know that yo'
will be met at the landing. The poe
Southey said he thought he shoult
nc know Bishop Heber in Heaven by tn
-' portraits he had seen of him in London
70 and DR.. Randolph said he thought h
!" would know William Cowper the poet
~, in Heaven. from the pictures he ha
seen of him in England; but we vii
ou know our departed kindred by the por
Dc traits hung in the throneroom of ou
- hearts.
is. But there is a thought that come
'u' over us like an electric shock. Do
oui belong to the Kings household? Mar
list ,, a. .ax, savs. "Ard +bara ,,ar
you, the teAt says Anu tAtrt wen
lue over a ferryboat to carry over tn
ne kings household" and none but tn
tea kings household. Then l ask: DO
our belong to the household? Do you?
me- If you do lot, come to-day and be adop
sun ed into that household. oh" say
'he some soul here: II do not know whetl
er the King wants mel" He does;
ave does. Hear the voice from the throne
eat Il will be father to them, and the
nto shall be my sons and daughters, sal
ex- the Lord Almighty" Him that comet
age unto me-" Christ says, Il will in nowi.
hat cast out" Come into the Kings hous
YER hold. Sit down at the Kings tabl
yer Come in and take your apparel fro
mid the Kings wardrobe, even the weddir
ted garment of Christs Righteousness
act Come in and inherit the Kings wealt
nix, Come in and cross in the Kings ferr