Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-06-21

William Cowper and Isaac Watts and
Charles Wesley and Horatius BOnar left
it. and let other painters improve upon
the "Sistine Madonna" and the Adora-
ton of the Magi" and the "CruciiXiOn"
as Raphael and Titan and Claude and
COrreggio presented them. Let the Ger
man pulpit orator take up the theme of
Gods love where Frederick Tholuck left
It; let Italian pulpit take it up where Ca
vazzi left it; let French pulpit orator
take up the theme where BOurdeloue left
it; let the Swiss pulpit orator take up the
theme where Merle d'Aubigne left it; let
the English pulpit take it up where
George Whitefeld left it; let the Scotch
pulpit take it up where DR.. Candlish left
it; let the Welsh pulpit take it up where
Christmas Evans left it, and let Amer
lean pulpit take it up where Archibald |
/ Alexander and DR.. Kirk and Matthew |
/ Simpson left it. But the world viii never
appreciate fully the love of God until
they hear from his own lips the outburst
Of his infinite and everlasting affection.
Seeing God Face to Face.
Only glimpses Of God have we in this
world, but what an hour it will be when
we first see him, and we will have no
more fright than feel when l now see
you. 1t will not be with mortal eye that
that we will behold him, but with the Vi
sion of a cleansed, forgiven and perfected
spirit. OF all the quintilliOn ages of
eternity to us the most thrilling hour will
be the first hour when we meet him as he
IS. This may account for something you
have all seen and may not have under
stood. Have you not noticed how that
> after death the old Christian looks young
, again or the features resume the look of
20 or 80 years before? The WEAKNESS is
] gone out of the face; there is something
+ strikingly restful and placid; there is a
$ pleased look where before there was a dis
4 turbed look. What has wrought the
+ change? l think the dying Christian saw
= God. At the moment the soul left the
If body what the soul saw left its impress
n sion or the cOuntenance. I think that Is
# what gave that old Christian face aftel
e death the radiant and triumphant look
II The bestormed spirit has reached thu
m harbor; the hard battle of life is ended il
N victory. The body took that look the mo
< ment heaven began, and the curtain wa
completely lifted and the glories of Jeho
ID vah's presence rushed upon the soul Th
v departing spirit left on the old mans fac
IS a glad goodby, and that first look CAV
n the pleased curve to the dying lip an
le smoothed out the wrinkles and tOuche
OF all the lineaments with an indescribabl
ID radiance. As no one else explains tina
at improved and gladdened post morteI
ID look, I try to explain it, saying: HE sa'
e- Godw "She saw God"
IL Last summer we journeyed thousand
D. of miles to see the midnight sun frOi
On North Cape, Norway. We stood on dec
on in the arctic seas, our watches in OF
ne hands, and it was IL o'clock at nigh
nd but light as an ordinary monday. The
ID it was half past IL o'clock at night, the
ed it was Is minutes of u, but a long, wild
-se thick cloud hung over the sun. Are Y
ID. to be disappointed as thousands ha'
Ter been and the journey here failure2 II
ere minutes of IL, and the sun is still hidde
es- But about five minutes Of II the clol
Tvs lifted, and the midnight sun, the me
the wondrous spectacle of all the earth, a
sed peared, pouring forth a refulgence tn
hat turned the arctic sea into 20 miles
zee. pearls and rubies and diamonds and e
her eralds and overpowering MS with glo
Dny that left us with body all a-tremble, a
nut g mind full of all ecstasy, and a soul f
al Of all worship. Thank God we saw j
Son the midnight sun. So with that depa
evil ing Christian soul; the voyage Of life
rid been long and rough and tempestuo
Fad, chilling sorrows have again and agi
can showed down upon him, and it is an arc
ore sea. Many clouds have filled the s
aid, 1t is approaching II o'clock, and the 81
oets Of lifes day. Friends stand around {
here count the parting moments. The eli