Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1902-12-29


everything if she could only get back |
her child. God in love takes that little |
child out of the parental arms. He !
takes it as hostage, as the great kings
of old used to demand the sons and
daughters of their defiant subjects, to
be sent to the royal court as a guaran-
tee that those subjects would there
after behave themselves. God, when
he comes into our nurseries and takes
the little ones home with him to
heaven, practically says to the bereft
parents: Father and mother, live purer
and nobler and more consecrated lives.
! Live as Jesus would have you live
| Then some day you will come to the
heavenly land where you shall be able
forever and ever to dwell with your
| little ones" Does not this suggestion
give to you an added force to the beau
tiful words, "And he shall gently lead
those that are with youngY
Gathering the Lambs.
An empty cradle signifies, in general
sense, a populous heaven. Some years
ago I read elathematician's figures
In reference to the size of heaven, CIV
en- according to the measurements of
the prophetic vision. l have forgotten
what those figures were and would not
give them even if l could remember
them. But this l do remember: The
mathematician stated that If the world
were to last hundred thousand years,
and If the human race could keep on
doubling itself every few years, accord
ing to the Malthusian ratio, and If all
children born would grow to maturity
and all those grown men and women
would be ultimately saved, there would
still be room enough in heaven for ev-
cry immortal soul to have an immense
palace all to himself and have immense
grounds around that palace. Now, If
heaven be such an immense place, how
would it be possible for God to pOpu-
late it, in any true sense OF the word,
unless he every year had wholesale
emigration to heaven of the little chill
dren? He surely could not depend en-
tirely upon populating heaven from the
old folks. God knows, and we also
know, that all men and women can be
saved who wish to be saved through
the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ
, But the trouble with the grownup
, folks is that vast percentage of us
do not want to be saved. We firmly
| set our teeth and face toward sin. So
, | believe that God, in order to make
, sure of q populated heaven, has sent
? again and again and again the angel
| Of eternal life, which some of us gloom
, | lily call the death angel, to call our
babies into the heavenly land.
, That the Good Shepherd, both in this
world and the next, gathers all the lit
: tie lambs into his bosom there is no
? doubt Some years ago in Newark
church an aged statesman applied to
the session for permission to join. One
of the elders Immediately arose and
said, Governor, we were just about to
examine two little girls for member
+ ship, but we know they will be willing
i to wait, so we can first begin with
q YOU" "No" answered the famous
:; statesman, 81 do not want them tC
r wait l would like to be examined
II along with them, if you, brethren, are
O willing Jesus said that, If l will come
Il to him in the spirit of little child
q can be saved So today would like t.
s. come with one of the children upon ONT
r. side of me and the other upon the othel
+ side of me, for | know Christ is willing
n to receive them, and perhaps he will
q also look upon me as child" All, yes
If there is no doubt that all the children
s. who die go to swell up the population
IS of heaven, and so, o sorrowing par
l. ents, you should not only be ready t,
l.
D. Saviours arms because you know tina
le they are all saved, but you should ais
I'd be willing to let them precede you be
st | cause you know they will be there t
N welcome you.
tn Children In Heaven.
at An empty cradle signifies that heave,
OF Is to be place filled with children
ne This heading is entirely distinct froI
n. that which we have discussed-namely
ST. that our children who die immediatel
to go into glory. 1t is distinct, becaus
be many people, even some good profes!
to ing Christians, seem to have a yer
ut hazy and bewildered idea of HEAVIER
all They think heaven is to be kind of
eli tenement house district or they SUI
his pose it to be place where everybod
I goes through a kind of metamOrphos
of and becomes so changed in looks an
ne speech in little while that his veI
mr. best friends would not know him
To they should meet him when walkir
,at on one of the golden boulevards near
the beautiful gate. But, thank Go
81. we will know our loved ones in heave
he Moses and Elias, after having spent
he thousand years in heaven, talked upt
or the MOUNT Oh Aransns uia.ioii Jus. u
Ter same as they talheu " 'neh i.ieh
an when upon earth. We shall kno
,,p Jesus in heaven by the scars upon b
nm. resurrected body which he receiv
mr. upon the cross in his earthly body.
nd believe our redeemed friends are to