Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-02-18

you and me is q story that we can
nevur fully tell. What 1t has done for
the world and will yet do for the ma
tio1s It will take the thousand years of
the millennium to celebrate. Oh, what
a world this will be when it rotates in
its orbit a redeemed planet. girdled
with spontaneous harvests and en-
riched by orchards whose fruits are
speckless and redundant and the last
pain will have been banished and the
last tear wcpt and the last groan ut
tered. and there shall be nothing to
hurt or destroy in all Gods holy noun
tain! All that and more will come to
pass. for "thc mouth of the Lord hath
spoken It,"
So far have mentioned nine of the
ten strings of the instrument of graft
tude. I now come to the tenth and the
last. / mention IT last that 1t may be
the more emorable-hoavenly antici-
patton. BY the grace of God we are
going to move into a place so much
better than this that on arriving we
will wonder that we were for so many
years so loath TO make the transfer.
After we have seen Christ face to face
and rejoiced over our departed kindred
there are some mighty spirits we will
want TO meet soon after we pass
through the gates We want to see and
will see David, a mightier king in
heaven than he ever was on earth. and
we will talk with him about psalmody
and get from him exactly what he
meant when he talked about the in
strument of ten strings. We will con
front Moses. who will tell of the law
giving on rocking Sinai and OF his
mysterious burial, with no one but God
present. We will see Joshua, and he
will tell us of the coming down of the
walls of Jericho at the blast of the
rams horn and explain to us that
miraole-how the sun and moon could
stand still without demolition of the
planetary system. We will see and
talk with Daniel. and he will tell us
how he saw Belshazzar's banqueting
hall turned into n slaughter house and
how the lions greeted him with loving
We will see and talk with Solomon,
whose palaces are gone, but whose in
| spired epigrams stand out stronger and
| stronger as the centuries pass We
will see Paul and hear from him how
Felix trembled before him, and the
audience of skeptics on Mars hill
were coniounded by his sermon on the
brotherhood of man. what he saw at
Ephesus and Syracuse and Philippi and
Rome and how dark was the Manner
tine dungeon and how sharp the AZ
that beheaded him on the road to Os-
tia. What a thrill of excitement for
us when we gaze upon the heroes and
heroines who gave their lives for the
truth. We will see the gospel pro
Chalmers Chrysostom and Bourdaloue
and Whitefield and the Wesleys and
John Knox. We will see the great
Christian poets Milton and Dante and
Watts and Mrs Hemans and Frances
Havergal. Yea. all the departed Chris
tlan men and women of whatever age
or nation.
But there will be one focus toward
which all eyes will be directed. His
infancy having slept on pillow ol
straw; all the hates of the HerodiC
government planning for his assassina
tion; in after time whipped as though
he were criminal; asleep on the cold
mountains because no one offered hin
lodging; though the greatest being
who ever touched our earth. derisively
called this fellow" his last hours
writhing on spikes of infinite torture;
his lacerated form put in sepulcher
then terminated and ascended to bt
the center of all heavenly admiration
upon that greatest martyr anC
mightiest hero of all the centuries W,
will be permitted to look. Put thai
among your heavenly anticipations.
Now take down your harp OF ter
strings and sweep all the chords, max
ing all of them tremble with grea
gladness. have mentioned just ten
delightsome food. eyesight. hearing
healthful sleep, power OF physical To-
comotion. illumined nights. menta
faculties in equlpoise. friendships o
life. gospel advantages and heavenly
, anticipations. Let us make less com
plant and offer more thanks, render
less dirge and more cantata. Take pa
per and pen and write down in Ions
columns your blessings. have reciteC
only ten. To express all the mercie.
God has bestowed you would have tC
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