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be done with those two instruments.
The intelligence of the world is to
be expanded, and civilization will
overcome barbarism, and illiieracy
will be extirpated, and the promise
will be literally fulfilled: "a nation
born in day"
Let Hope say to the foreboding:
Do all you can with Bible and spell
ing book and philosophic apparatus.
but toll with the sunlight in your
faces or your Efforts will be fail
ure. The pallor in the sky is not
another phase of the night, but the
first sign of approaching day, which
is sure to come as tonight will be
followed with tomorrow. Things
are not going to ruin. The Lords
hosts are not going to be drowned in
the Red sea of trouble. Mriam's
timbrel will play on the high banks
Israel Delivered" High hope for
the home! High hope for the
church! High hope for the world!
I introduce the angel Of Hope to
those who have through decease lost
Christian friends. "How could find
them," says bereft soul, cup there
in the land of the multitudinous?"
You may find them by inquiry, by
heavenly escort and by unfailing
memory of the guard at the gate.
"And he carried me away in the spir-
it to great and high mountain,
and showed me that great city, the
holy Jerusalem, descending out of
Heaven from God, having the glory Of
God, and her light was like unto q
stone most precious, even like jas
per, clear as crystal, and had a wall
great and high, and had ~ gates and,
>at the gates IL angels" So, you see,
there will be an angel guarding each
gate. AS you go in ask the armed
guard. He saw your loved one pass
through, and will know the direction
to take and by what fountain or in
what street of gold is the mansion
prepared. The blessed Christ knows
where your departed loved one is,
and He will tell you if no one else
will. Fifty ways of finding out the
whereabouts of your assembled one.
''But will I surely know Him when I
get there, for he will be so changed?"
Yes, for you will be just as much
changed, and the old affinity will as
sert itself. The soul will be as easily
distinguished by soul there as on
earth the body is distinguished by
the body.
Open that closed instrument of mu-
sic in your parlor that has not been
played on since the hand of the de-
parted player forgot its cunning. Put
up before you on the music board the
notes of the hymn of Isaac Watts and
sing "There Is Land of Pure Delight"
or James Montgomery's hymn, "Who
Are These In Bright Array?" or Fill
more Benefits 'Sweet Bye and Bye"
or Jerusalem the Golden" Take
some tune in the major key-"Ariel"
or "Mount Pisgah." While you play
and sing the angel of Hope will stand
by you and turn the leaves and join in
the rapturous rendering. Reunion
with the loved and lost! Everlasting
reunion! No farewell at the door of
any mansion! No gooa-by at any of
the IL gates! No more dark apparel
of mourning, but white robe of exal-
tation! Hop now is on it's knees, with
face uplifted, but Hope there will be
on tiptoe or reckoning you to follow,
saying: "Come and hear the choirs
sing! Come and see the procession
march! Come and see the river of life
roll! Come with me over the hills that
rise into everlasting heights" Celes-
tial Alps and Himalayas hoisted into
other Alps and Himalayas!
From this hour cultivate hope. Do
so by reading all the Scriptural prom
Uses of the worlds coming Edeniza ion
and doubt if you dare the veracity of
the Almighty when He says He will
make the desert roseate, and the Loop
ard and the kid will lie down in the
same pasture field, and the lion, ceas-
ing to be carnivorous, will become
graminivorous, eating "straw like an
OK" and reptilian venom shall change
into harmlessness, so that the "weaned
child shall put his hand on the cocka-
trice's den, and there shall be nothing
to hurt or destroy in all Gods holy
mountain, for the earth shall be full
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waters cover the sea-" So much for
the world at large.
Then cultivate hope in regard to
your own health, your own financial
prosperity, your own longevity, by
seeing how in other people God merci-
fully reverses things and brings to
pass the unexpected, remembering
that Washington lost more battles
than he gained, but 1riumphed at the
last, and, further, by making sure Of
your eternal safety through Christ
Jesus, understand that you are on the
way to palaces and thrones. This life
span long, ending in durations OF
bliss that neither human nor arch
angelic faculties can measure or esti-
mate-redoience of springtime that
never ends and fountains tossing in the
light of sun that never sets. May
God thrill US with anticipation of this
immortal glee! (Which hope"
I said in the opening of this subject
that nv text was only the wave on the