The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1900-12-14


il they were clear down on the bank,
and they saw there was nothing TO be
frightened about. Such n short dis
tance-only ferry. With one ear they
heard the funeral psalm In their men,
ory. and with the other ear they heard
the song of Heavenly salutation. The
willows on this side the Jordan and
the Lebanon cedars on the other almost
interlocked their branches. Only n
ferry.
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 thar.
the western shore where he landed. and
vet TO a great many Heaven Is not a
real place. To you Heaven is a fog
bank in the distance. Now. my Heaven
is a solid Heaven. After the resurrec-
ton has come you will have resur-
rected foot and something to tread on
and a resurrected eve and colors to
see with Il and n resurrected ear and
music to regale II. Smart men in this
day are making a great deal Of fun
about ST. Johns materialistic descrip-
tions of Heaven. Well, now. my friends.
/ IL you will tell me what will be the use
of a resurrected body In Heaven with
nothing 10 tread On and nothing 20
hear and nothing to handle and moth
ing to taste then win laugh. too. Are
YOU going to float about in ether for
ever. swinging about your hands and
feet through the air Unfortunately.
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 materiaIistic Heaven. theolog-
ical fhinkers are trying TO patch up n
Heaven that viii do for them al last.
I never heard Of Heaven want to
go to except ST. Johns Heaven. I be.
lieve 7 shall bear Mr.. Toplady sing yet
and Isaac Watts recite hymns and No
Fart play. "Oh." you say. where would
you get the organ?" The Lord will
provide the organ. Don't You bother
about the organ. believe shall vet
see David with harp. and viii ask
him to sing one of the songs Of Zion. !
believe after the resurrection I shall
see. Massillon, the great French pulpit
orator. and shall hear from his own
lips how he felt on that day when be
preached the kings funeral sermon
and flung his whole audience into a
paroxysm Of grief and solemnity. 7
have no patience with your transcend
entail. gelatinous. gaseous Heaven. My
Heaven is not a fog bank. My eyes are
unto the hills. the everlasting hills.
The Kings ferryboat. starting from a
wharf on this side. will go 10 a wharf
on the other side.
Again, my subject teaches that when
we cross over at the last we shall be met
AZ the landing. When David and his
family went over in the ferrybont
spoken Of In the text. they landed amid
a nation that had come out TO greet
them. AS they stepped from the deck
of the boat to the shore there were
thousands OF people who gathered
around them 10 express a Subtraction
that was beyond description. And so
you and will be met at the landing
Our arrival will he like stepping ashore
at Antwerp OF Constantinople among
a crowd of strangers. IL will be among
friends. good friends, those who are
warm-hearted friends. and all their
friends. We know people whom we
have never seen by hearing somebody
talk about them very much; we know
them almost as we'll as II we had seen
them. And do you suppose that our
parents and brothers and sisters and
children in Heaven have been talking
about us all these years. and talking
to their friends? So that. l suppose,
when we cross the river at the Last
weeshall not only be met by all those
Christian friends whom we knew on
earth. but by all their friends They
will opme down to the landing 10 meet
us. Your departed friends love you
now more than they ever did You will
be surprised at the last TO find how they
know about all the affairs of your life.
Why. they are only across the ferry,
and the boat is coming this way, and
the beat is going that way. do not
know but they have already asked the
Lord the day. the hour. the moment
when you are coming across and that
they know now, but do know that you
will be met at the landing The poet
Southey said he thought he should
know Bishop Heber in Heaven by the
portraits he had seen of him in London.
and DR.. Randolph said he thought he
would know William Cowper, the poet.
in Heaven, from the pictures he had
seen of him in England; but we will
know our departed kindred by the por.
traits hung in the tbroneroom Of our
hearts.
But there is a thought that comes
over us like an electric shock. Do I
belong TO the Kings household? Mark
you, the text says; "And there went
over ferryboat to carry over the
kings. household" and none but the
kings household. Then / ask: dol
belong TO the household? Do your"
fyou do not, come to-day and be adopt
ed into that household. "Oh." saws
some soul here: IL do not know wheth.
er the King wants mel" He does; he
does. Hear the voice from the throne:
IL will be father TO them. and they
shall be my sons and daughters, said
the Lord Almighty" Him that cometh
unto me-" Christ says, II viii in nowise
cast out - Come into the Kfno,e ho,,sa