The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1900-12-14

the boat came from the other shore &
take David and his men across so wher
We are about 20 die the boat will come
! from the same direction God forbid tha,
should ever trust 10 anything tha;
starts from this side.
Again. my subject suggests that when
we cross over at the last the King will
be on board the boat, Ship carpentry m
| Bible times was IN ITS infancy. The boat.
were not skillfully made. and | can very
easily imagine that the women and chill
dren of the kings household might have
been nervous about going on that boat
| afraid that the oarsman or the helmsman
might give out and that the boat might
be dashed on the rocks. As sometimes
boats were dashed in the Jordan. and
then ! could have imagined the Scat
starting aud rocking and they crying out.
| Oh, we are going To be lost; We are 80.
ing down. Not So. The king was ON
board the boat, and those women and
| children and all the household of the king
knew that every care was taken % have
the king, the head OF the empire, pass in
| safety.
Now, | want TO break up dehsion in
/ your mind. aud that il this. When our
! friends 80 out from this world, we feel
sorry for them because they have 90 ~
alone, and parents hold ON the hands of
their children who are dying and hold
| ON 10 something OF the Impression that
the moment they let 40 the little one
| viii be IN the darkness and in the boat
alone. "Oh, the parents say, III | could
only 60 with my child. | would bc will.
! ing to die half dozen times am
afraid she viii be lost ia the woods or
in the darkness. | am afraid she will he
very much frightened in the boat all
alone ] break up the dclusion. When
soul goes 20 heaven, It docs not 90
alone; the klng IL on board the boat Was
Paul alone IN the last extremity Hear the
shout ot the sacred missionary as he cries
out II am now ready To be offered, and
the time OF my departure Is at hand q"
Was John Wesley alone IN the last OK.
tremlty? No Hear him say, Best of an
God IL with us Was SIR William Forbes
alone IN the last extremity No. Hear
him say 10 his friends. Tell all the peo
pie who are coming down To the bed of
death from my experience II has no ter
rors. oh, say great many people,
that Goes very well for distinguished
Christians but for me, a common man, for
me, common woman. we cant expect
that guidance aud help II | should give
you a passage of Scripture that would
promise To you positively when YOU are
crossing the river to the next world the
King would be IN the hOat, would YOU
believe the promises "On, yes" YOU say.
Il would Here Is the promise. when
thou passest through the waters. | will
be with thee, and through the rivers they
shall not overflow thee"
My subject also suggests the fact that
when we cross over at the last we shall
find solid landing The fcrryboat, as
spoken OF IN my text, means place to
start from and place to land David and
his people did not find the ,tcrn shore
of the Jordan any more 50 II than the
western shore where he landed and yet
to great many heaven IN not real place.
To YOU heaven ls fog bank IN the dis.
tancc. After the resurrection has come
YOU will have a resutrected foot and some.
thing TO tread on and a resurroctcd eye
and colors TO see with II and a resurrected
ear aud music To regalc it.
Smart men in this day are making a
great deal of fun about st. Johns mate.
rialistic descriptions of heaven. Well.
now, my friends, II YOU will tell me what
Will be the use OF resurrectcd body in
heaven with nothing TO tread on and moth.
ing TO hear and nothing Co handle and
nothing to taste then will laugh, too.
Are you going To float about IN ether
forever. swinging about your hands and
feet through the air mdlscrlminatey, one
moment swelterlng in the centre of the sun
and the next moment shivering IN the
mountains of the moon?
That is not my heaven. Dissatisfied
with Johns materialistlc heaven, thoologi.
cal thinkers are trying 10 patch up n hcav.
On that will do for them at last. ! never
heard Of any heaven | want TO go 10 cX,
ccpt st. Johns heaven.
! believe ] shall hear Mr. Toplady sing
yet and Isaac Watts rccilc hymns
aud Mozart 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 yet see
David with harp, aud | viii ask him TO
sing one of the songs OF Zion.
! believe after the resurrection ! shall
sec Masslllon, the great French pu'pit or
ator. and | shall hear from his own lips
how he felt on that day when he preached
the kings funeral sermon and flung hla
whole audience into a parOxysm Of grief
aud solcmnity.
| have no patience with your transcen.
dental, gclatnous, gaseous heaven. Ny
heaven IL not fog bank My eyes are
unto the hills, the everlasting hills. The
Kings iorryboat starting from wharf
on this side, will 90 10 wharf on the
other side.
Again. my subject teaches that when we
cross over at the lasi wc shall be met at
the landing When David and his family
went over IN the icrryboat spoken Of IN
the text they landed amid nation that
had come ont 30 greet them As they
stepped from the deck Of the boat 10 tho
shore there were thousands Of people who
gathered around them To- express n salts.
faction that was beyond description.
And 80 you and ! viii be met al the
landing. Our arrival viii not be like step
ping ashore at Antwerp or ConstantinOple
among crowd of strangers II 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
a. well as II we bad seen them.
And do you not suppose that our par
cnts and brothers and sisters aud children
IN heaven have been talking about us ali
these years and talking to their friends
50 that, ! suppose, when we cross the
river at the last we shall not only be met
by all those Christian friends whom we
knew on earth. bot by all their friends.
They will come down 10 the landing 10
meet US Your departed friends love you
now more than they ever did.
You will be surprised at the last 10 find
how they know about all the affairs Of
your life. Why. they are only across the
Jerry. and the boat - coming this way,
and the boat ~ 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 I do know that you will be met
at the landing. The poet Southcy said he
thought he should know Bishop feber in
heaven by the portraits be had seen Of
him IN London. and DR.. Randolph said he
thought he would know William Cowper
The poet, IN heaven from the picture. he
had seen Of him in England but we will
know our deparled kLndred hY The nnr-