Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-05-04

| no one can live here after such glories
as God has manifested to my soul"
| What did the dying Janeway say!
II can as easily die as close my eyes
or turn my head in sleep. Before a
few hours have passed shall stand on
Mount Zion with the one hundred and
| forty and four thousand and with the
| just men made perfect, and we shall
| ascribe riches and honor and glory
| and majesty and dominion unto God
| and the Lamb" DR.. Taylor, con-
demned to burn at the stake. on his
| way thither broke away from the
| guardsmen and went bounding and
leaping and jumping toward the fire,
glad to go to Jesus and to die for him.
Sir Charles Hare in his last moment
had such rapturous vision that he
cried, Upward, upward, upward"
And SO great was the peace of one of
Christ's disciples that he put his fingers
upon the pulse in his wrist and count
ed it and observed it's halting beats
until his life had ended here to begin
in heaven. But grander than that was
the testimony of the wornout first mis-
sionary, when in the Mamartine dun
geon he cried: 81 am now ready to be
offered, and the time of my departure
is at hand. 1 have fought the go>d
fight, have finished my course, have
kept the faith. Henceforth there is
laid up for me a crown of righteous
ness, which the Lord, the righteous
Judge. will give me in that day, and
not to me only, but to all them that
love his appearing!" Do you not see
that Christ is above all in dying al
leviations?
Toward the last hour of our earthly
acid
see the spring blossoms scattered, I
say, Another season gone forever"
When 1 close the Bible on Sabbath
night say, Another Sabbath depart
ed.' When 1 bury a friend, I say, AN
| oher earthly attraction gone forever"
What nimble feet the years have. The
roebucks and the lightnings run not
SO fast. From decade to decade, from
sky to sky, they go at a bound. There
is a place for us, whether marked or
not, where you and l will sleep the
last sleep, and men are now living
who will, with solemn tread, carry us
to our resting place. Brighter than a
banQueting hall through which the
light feet of the dancers go up and
down to the sound of trumpeters will
be the sepulcher through whose riffs
the holy light of heaven streameth.
God will watch you. He will send his
angels to guard your slumbering
ground, until at Christ's behest, they
shall roll away the stone.
So also Christ is above all in hea-
ven- The Bible distinctly says that
Christ is the chief theme of the celes-
tial ascription all the thrones facing his
throne, all the palms waved before his
face, all the crowns down at his feet
| Cherubim to cherubim, seraphim to
seraphim, redeemed spirit to redeemed
spirit shall recite the Savior's earthly
sacrifice.
The GIorieS OF Heaven.
Stand on some high hill of heaven.
and in all the radiant sweep the most
glorious object will be Jesus Myriads
gazing on the scars of his suffering,
in silence first, afterward breaking
forth into acclamation. The martyrs,
all the purer for the flame through
which they passed, Will say, This is
Jesus, for whom we died" The
apostles, all the happier for the ship
wreck and the scourging through which
they went, will say. This is the
Jesus whom we preached at Corinth
and in Cappadocia and Antioch and
at Jerusalem" Little children clad in
took us in his arms and blessed us
and when the storms of the world were
too cold and loud brought us into this
beautiful place" The multitudes of
the bereft will say, This is the Jesus
who comforted us when our heart
broke" Many who had wandered
clear off from God and plunged into
vagabondism, but were saved by grace,
will say: This is Jesus who pardoned
us. We were lost on the mountains,
and he brought us home. We were
guilty, and he made. us white as snow.
Mercy boundless, grace unparalleled.
And then, after each one has recited
his peculiar deliverances and peculiar
mercies, recited them as by solo, all
the voices will come together in a
great chorus which shall make the
arches re-echo with the eternal rever-
beration of gladness and peace and
triumph
the Holy Land that when he was about
to expire he bequeathed $16O, 900 to
have his heart after his decease taken
and deposited in the Holy Land, and
his request was complied with But
there are hundreds today whose hearts
are already in the holy land of heaven
Where your treasures are, there art
your hearts also. John Bunyan, of
whom 1 spoke at the opening of the
discourse, caught a glimpse of that
place, and in his quaint way he said.
And I heard in my dream and, 10,
the bells of the city rang again for
joy, and as they opened the gates to