The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1900-12-21
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My subject also suggests the ldct tna
when we cross over at the last we shall
find solid landing. The ferryboat as
spoken of in my text means place 70
start from and 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 great many Heaven is not
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 eye and colors to
see with it and q resurrected ear and
music to regale it. Smart men in this
day are making great deal or run
about st. Johns materialistic deserip-
lions of Heaven. Well, now, my friends.
if YOU will tell me what will be the use
of a resurrected body in Heaven with
nothing to tread on and nothing to
hear and nothing to handle and moth
ing to taste then will 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's
not my Heaven. Dissatisfied with
Johns materialistic Heaven, theolog-
ical thinkers are trying to patch up
Heaven that will do for them at last.
l never heard of Heaven want to
go to except st. Johns Heaven. l be-
lieve shall hear Mr.. Toplady sing yet
and Isaac Watts recite hymns and Mo-
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 l shall yet
see David with harp, and will ask
him to sing one of the songs OF Zion. l
believe after the resurrection l shall
see Massillon, the great French pulpit
orator, and / shall hear from his own
lips how he felt on that day when he
preached the kings funeral sermon
and flung his whole audience into q
paroxysm of grief and solemnity.
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 to wharf
on the other side.
Again, my subject teaches that when
we cross over at the lastwe shall be met
at the landing. When David and his
family went over in the ferryboat
spoken of in the text, theylanded amid
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 to express satisfaction
that was beyond description. And so
you and / will be met at the landing.
Our arrival will be like stepping ashore
at Antwerp or Constantinople among
a crowd of strangers. 1t 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 well as If we had seen
them. And do you suppose that ou'
parents and brothers and sisters and
children in Heaven have been talking
about us all these years, and talking
to their friends? So that, / suppose
when we cross the river at the last
we shall not only be met by all those
Christian friends whom we knew OF
earth, but by all their friends. They
will come down to the landing to meet
us. Your departed friends love you
now more than they ever did. You viii
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, ano
the boat is going that way. / do moi
know but they have already asked thu
Lord the day, the hour, the moment
when you are coming across and tha
they know now, but do know that yo'
will be met at the landing. The poe
Southey said he thought he should
know Bishop Heber in Heaven by thu
portraits he had seen of him in London
and DIR. Randolph said he thought h
would know William Cowper, the poet
in Heaven, from the pictures he hat
seen of him in. England; but we viii
know our departed kindred by the por
traits hung in the throneroom Of oul
hearts.
But there is a thought that come
over us like an electric shock. Do
belong to the Kings household? Mar
YOU, the text says: And there wen
over a ferryboat to carry over tn
kings household" and none but tn
kings household. Then l ask: do
belong to the household? Do you?
: If you do not, come to-day and be adopt
ed into that household. "0h," say