The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1902-02-15

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there dashes upon us "Hosanna
Hosanna," Throw back the shut
ters and let the II in" said dying
Scoville McCullum, mt Of my Sab
bath school boys. Throw back the
shutters and let the sun in" You
can see Paul putting on robes and
wings of ascension as he exclaims:
Il have fought the good fight! ]
have finished my course! 1 have
kept the faith!"
Hugh McKail went to one side OF
the scaffold of martyrdom and cried:
Farewell sun, moon and stars!
Farewell all earthly delights!" then
went to the other side of the scat
fold and cried: "Welcome, God and
Father! Welcome, sweet Jesus
Christ, the Mediator of the covenant
Welcome, death! Welcome, glory!"
A minister of Christ in Philadelphia,
dying, said in his last moments: 81
move into the light" They did not
go down doubling and fearing and
shivering, but their battlecry rang
through all the caverns of the sepul-
cher and was echoed back from all
the thrones of heaven: 30 death,
where is thy sting? o grave, where
is thy victory?"
l saw a beautiful being wandering
up and down the earth. She touched
the aged, and they became young;
she touched the poor, and they be-
came rich. 1 said: "Who is this
beautiful being wandering up and
down the earth?" They told me that
her name was Death. What a strange
thrill of joy when the palsied Chris
tian begins to use his arm again,
when the blind Christian begins to
see again, when the deaf Christian
begins to hear again, when the poor
pilgrim puts his feet on such pave
ment and joins in such company and
has a free seat in such a great tenn
pie! Hungry men no more to hunger,
thirsty men no more to thirst, weep
ing men no more to weep, dying men
no more to die. Gather up all sweet
words, all jubilant expressions, all
rapturous EXPLANATIONS; bring them
to me, and l will pour upon them this
stupendous theme of the souls olsen
thrallment! Oh, the joy of the spirit
as it shall mount up toward the
throne of God, shouting: Free!
Free!" Your eye has gazed upon the
garniture of earth and heaven, but
eye hath not seen it; your ear has
caught harmonies uncounted and in
describable-caught them from harp's
trill and birds carol and waterfalls
dash n oceans doxology--but ear
hath not heard it. How did those
blessed ones get up into the light?
What hammer knocked off their
chains? Who gave them wings? All,
eternity is not long enough to tell
1t, seraphim have not capacity enough
to realize 1.-THE marvels OF redeem
ing love! Let the palms wave; let
the crowns glitter; let the anthems
ascend; let the trees of Lebanon clap
their hands-they cannot tell the half
of it. Archangel before the throne,
thou failest! Sing on, praise on, We
hosts of the glorified, and if with
your scepters you cannot reach it and
with your songs you cannot express
it then let all the myriads Of the
saved unite in the EXPLANATIONS: "Je-
sus! Jesus! Jesus!"
There will be a password at the
gate of heaven. A great multitude
come up and knock at the gate.
The gatekeeper says, "The password"
They say: "We have no password.
We were great on earth, and now we
come up to be great in heaven" A
voice from within answers, 81 never
knew you" Another group come up
to the gate of heaven and knock.
The gatekeeper says, "The pass
word They say: "We have no
password. We did a great many
noble things on earth. We endowed
colleges and took care of the poor"
The voice from within says 81 never
knew you" Another group come up
to the gate of heaven and knock. |
The gatekeeper says, ''The pass
word" They answers: "We were
wanderers from God and deserve to
die, but we heard the voice of
AYE, aye" saya the
gatekeePer, that is the password!
Lift up your heads, ye everlasting
gates, and let these people come in"
They go in and surround the throne, |
jubilant forever!
All, do you wonder that the last
hours of the Christian on earth aso
Illuminated by thoughts on the cont.
ing gloryP Light in the evening.
The medicines may be bitter. Tho
pain may be sharp. The parting
may be heartrending. Yet light IN
evening. AS all the stars of tie
night sink their anchors of pearl in
and river and sea so the waves
OF Jordan shall be illuminated with |
the down flashing of the glory T.,
The dying soul looks up at
the consultations. THE Lord is nv
light and my salvation; whom shall
| fear?" "The Lamb which is in tn.
midst of the throne shall lead them
to living fountains of water, and God
shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes"
Close the eyes of the departed
one; earth would seem tame to its
pucbaDte6 vision E,1J A. - |