Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-01-24

| achievement.
But the day is coming for that penuriou
Christians departure from the world III.
has an awful struggle in giving up h
Government securities. The attorney wht
drew his last will and testament saw how
hard it was for him to leave his farm o,
| his storehouse or investments, especially
| those that in the markets are called gilt
edged. Those that yield only three pei
cent he easily resigns to the care of his
executors, but those that yield eight OIL
| nine or ten per cent, how can he give
them up while the market is still rising:
Bolstered up in bed, knowing he has got
to sign it, he reads the document over and
| over again, and then, with a manner that
seems to say, "Well, if | must must" he
signs his name to that surrender of his
last farthing of earthly possessions. He
| enters heaven, but he has not an abundant
entrance.
| of my text, that there are those who will
| when they leave this life bound into
heaven amid salutations infinite. For an
| entrance shall be administered unto YOU
abundantly" Such exaltant admission
will await those who enter heaven after
on earth living life for others and with
| out reference to conspicuity
| L asked the manager of an insane asy
lum in Kentucky, From what class of
persons do you get most of your patients?"
and he said, 'From farmers wives" l
| asked the same question of the manager
of an insane asylum in Pennsylvania and
| the same question of the manager of an
insane asylum in Massachusetts and got
| the same reply 1--WE have on our rolls
for treatment more farmers wives than
| persons coming from any other class"
| That answer will be q surprise to some.
| 1t was no surprise to me.
| Well, this man of consecrated affluence
| is about to go out of this world. He feels
in brain and nerve the strain of the early
struggles by which he won his fortune
| and at sixty or seventy years collapses un
| der the exhaustions of the twentes and
| thirtles of his lifetime. When the morn
| ing papers announce that he is gone there
| is excitement not only on the avenues
where the mansions stand, but all through
the hospitals and asylums and the homes
of those who will henceforth have no
| helper. But the excitement of sadness on
| earth is very tame affair compared with
the excitement of gladness in heaven. The
| guardian angel of that good mans life
swept by his dying pillow the night be-
| fore and on swift wing upward announced
that in a few hours he would arrive, and
there is a mighty stir in heaven. He
comes" cries seraph to seraph. The
Kings heralds are at the gates to say,
Come, We blessed" and souls who were
| saved through the churches that good
man supported and hundreds who went
up after being by him helped in theiI
earthly struggle will come down off their
| thrones and out of their palaces and
through the streets to hail him into the
| land which they reached some time before
through his Christian philanthropy. Now,
that is what | call an abundant entrance.
ou see, 1t is not necessary to be failure
on earth in order to be success in heaven.
But ] promise that all those who have
| lived for others and been truly Christian,
| whether on large scale or a small scale,
will have illustrious introduction into the
impearled gateway. Here and there in
some large family you see an attractive
| daughter who declines marriage that she
may take care OF father and mother in old
| days. This is not an abstraction. | have
known such. You have probably known
such. There are in this world womanly
souls as big as that. They cheerfully en-
dure the whimsicalities and querulousness
| which sometimes characterize the aged
and watch nights when pneumonia is
threatened and are eyes to the blind and
sit in close rooms lest the septuagenarian
| be chilled and count out the right number
of drops at the right time.
After years of tilial fidelity on the part
of this self sacrificing daughter the old
folks go home. Now the daughter is free
| from marital alliance, but the damask rose
in her cheek is faded, and the crows feet
have left their mask on the forehead, and
the gracefulness is gone out of the figure
and the world calls her by a mean and
ungallant name. But, my Lord and my
God, surely Thou wilt make it up for that
girl in heavenly reward! On all the banks
of the river of life there is no castle of
emerald and carbuncle richer than that
which awaits her. Its windows look right
out upon the Kings park, and the white
| horses of the chariot are being harnessed
to meet her at the gate, and if there are
no others to meet her father and mother
will be there to thank her for all she did
for them when their strength failed and
the gras@shoppera became a burden, and
they will say: MY daughter how kind
you We're to us even until the last How
good it is to be together in heaven! That
! is the King chariot come for you. Mount
and ride to your everlasting home" Now,
tnat is what / call an abundant entrance
Know right well that in whatever sta
tion OF hte you now move. and whether
your intellectual faculty be brilliant or
dull, and your worldly resources opuent
or poor. you may have at the gate of
heaven iubilant and triumphant reception.
| All soldiers cannot be Hannibals and
Marlboroughs, all admirals cannot be Du-
points and Farraguts. all authors cannot
be Bacons and Southeys, neither can all
Christians be Pauls and Richard Cecis.
4 10 your ucSJ IiSut Nutie yOu dte, dshius
Gods help, and you will not only win glo-
rious admission, but you will make all
your life in heaven grander and higher
life.
Oh, child of God, ii you had never
thought of it before, | present the start
ling fact that you are now deciding not
only the style OF your heavenly reception,
but the grade of your association and en-.
joyment of the world without end. Are
you satisfied with yourself that you can
afford to throw away raptures and ignore
heavenly possibilities and elect yourself to
lower status and classify yourself amid
the less efficient when you may mount a
higher heaven:
While | thus discourse | am aware that
some have not taken the first step toward
heaven, and they feel like Jacob Strawn,
who took some ministers of the gospel on
the top OF his house to show his farms,
reaching in every direction as far as eye
could see He was asked how many acres
he owned, and he replied, 10000. How
much is it worth per acre." was asked
and he replied Fifty dollars, at least"
'Then," said the minister, you are worth
81, 900, 900" yes" said Strawn, "and
made it all myself" Then the minister