The semi-weekly messenger., 1901-01-08

upon my head" Joseph interpreted the
dream and said K meant that the chief
baker should be beheaded and the birds
would eat his flesh. So many a man has
In his own bad habits omens OF evil that
peck ut him and foretell doom and death.
But, oh, the power Of that word Come"
when Alright uttered! We do well when
we send young men into schools and col
leges and theological seminaries and BY
nine years OF instruction and drill hope to
prepare them to sound Alright that sweet
and errapturing and, heaven descended
word Come" The gospel we believe in
Is gospel Of "Come." That word speak
all the churches. That word is now
building thrones for conqucrofs and bur
nished coronets for kings and queens.
That word is to sound so clearly and i'm
pressiyely and divinely that the day is
advancing when al nations shall respond.
"We GOMEZ I'VE GOMEZ" And while
the upper sleeps toward God and heaven
will be thronged with redeemed souls
ascending there will not be one solitary
traveller on the road OF sin and death.
The Gospel Bell.
In the Kremlin at Moscow, Russia, is
what is called the king of BELLS" but it
is q ruined bell, and it has rung no sound
for near 200 years. 1t is 81 feet in cir
cumference, and in height it is more than
ten times the height of the average man,
and it took score of men to swing its
brazen tongue. 1t weighs 200 tons. On
the 10Th of June. 1706, in a great fire
it fell and broke. 1t broke at the part
which was weakened by the jewels which
the ladies Of Moscow threw into the
liquid metal at the casting. The voices
of that bell are forever hushed. 1t will
never ring again, either at wedding or
obseQuy or coronation. What majestic
and overpowering silence! Enthroned
and everlasting Quietude! One walks
around it full of wonder and historical
reminiscence and solemnity. On 1t are
figures in relief representing car and
empress and Christ and Mary and the
evangelists. But as I stood before it
last summer l bethought myself Of a
greater bell and one still ringing. 1t is
the gospel bell, ages ago hung on the
beam Of the cross. 1t has yaster cir
conference and with mightier tongue
sounds across seas and continents and
awakens echoes amid Alpine and Him
alayan and Sierra Nevadan ranges.
The jewels Of affection thrown into 1t at
it's casting by ransomed souls Of earth
and heaven have not weakened it, but
Evangelists and apostles rang it, and
martyrs lifted their hands through the
flames to give it another sounding. 1t
will ring on until all nations hear it and
accept it's invitation, "Come! Gomez
1t will not fall, as did that Of Moscow.
No storm can stop it. No earthquake
can rock it down. When the fires Of the
last day blaze into the heavens, amid the
crash Of mountains and the groan Of
dying seas, its clear, resounding voice
will be heard calling to the last inhab-
itant Of the burning planet, "Come!
Gomez
But it requires now no great strength
to ring the bell. With this weak hand,
yesterday formed and tomorrow turned
to dust, lay hold that gospel bell in in
yitation to all to whom these words shall
come, on whatever land or whatever sea,
in high places or low. / ring out the
word, "Come, comeW Come and have
your sorrows solaced. Come and have
your wounds healed. Come and have
your blindness illumined. Come and have
your fatigues rested. Come and have
your soul saved. Do you not hear the
very last proclamation from the heavens
which the seer of Patmos was commits
stoned to make: 'The Spirit and the
DriOe say cOIuc, duO let uiLl tHdi uedTtlu
say come. and let him that is athirst
come. And whosoever will let him take
the water of life freely Aye. hear you
not the chime of many gospel bells in the
invitation this moment sounding from the
heavens. Come out from among them
and be ye separate" saith the Lord.
"And touch not the unclean thing, and
will receive you and will be Father unto
you, and ye shall be NY sons and daugh-
ters," sniti, the Lord Almighty. Come
and sit down 1t the Kings banquet. Was
there ever such a brilliant feast or SC
many royal guests: Here are the chal-
ices filled not from the breweIies Of
earth. hut with the new wine of the
kingdom" md here are the ripe. purple
clusters of Eschol. and pass lhem around
to all the banquetcrs-'apples Of gold in
baskets Of silver"
copyright, 1900, Louis Klopsch, N. T..