The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1901-01-17
good mans life swept BY his dying
pillow the night before, and on swift

good mans life swept by his dying
pillow the night before, and on swift
wing upward announced that in 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 gate to say, Come,
ye blessed" and souls who were saved
through the churches that good man
supported and hundreds who went up
after being by him helped in their
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 phil
anthropy. why, that is the man who,
when | was a-hungered, gave me
bread" why, that is the man." says
another, who encouraged me when I
was in the hard struggle of business
life" why, that IS the man." says
another, who paid my rent when
had nothing with which to pay!"
Why, that is the man through whose
missionary spirit heard the gospel
Call in Bombay" why, that is the
man, says another. who helped send
the gospel of Christ to the aborignes
OF America and caused me to exchange
the war whoop of the savage for the
song of Christian deliverance." Stand
back" commanded the gatekeeper OF
heaven, "all We throng redeemed
through this mans instrumentalities!
Make way for him to the feet of the
King, where he will cast a crown, and
then make way for him to the throne,
where he shall reign forever and ever!"
Now. that is what call an abundant
entrance. You see. it is not necessary
to be failure on earth in order to be
a success in heaven. ..
Demand of Fital Devotion.
After years of flial fidelity on the
part of this self-sacrifcing daughter.
the old folks so home. Now the daugh-
ter Is free from marital alliance, but
the damask rose in her cheek is faded.
and the crows feet have left their mark
on the forehead. and the gracefuluess
is gone out of the figure, and the world
calls her by 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 win
dows 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 grasshopper became burden, and
they will say: MY daughter, how kind
you were to us even until the last! How
good it is to be together in heaven!
That is the Kings chariot come for
you. Mount and ride to your ever
lasting home!" Now, that is what I
call an abundant entrance.
The Stranger in Heaven.
But imagine one of these scarcely
saved" Christians entering the shining
realm! He passes in stranger. Saint
says to saint. who comes there? '
And angel says to angel, "Who is
that" He moves up and down the
streets and meets no one whom he
helped to get there. He goes into the
great temple and finds among the
throngs of the white robed not one soul
whom he helped to join the doxologies.
He goes into the ''house of many man
sions" and finds not one spirit whom
he helped to start for that high resi-
dence. am glad that he got in, but I
am amazed that in the 80 or 40 or 20
years Of his life he did nothing for God
and the betterment of the world Which
woke the heavenly echoes. Oh, child Of
God, if you had never thought of It
before, l present the startling 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 higher heaven?