The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-11-02
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/ 'After#thlS beheid. and 10. a great.
| rnul,itude. which no man can number.
t OF all nations and kindreds and people
/ and tongues, stood before the throne. and
1 before the Lamb clothed in white robes.
| and palms in their hands: and cried with
| loud voice saying. salvation 10 our
| God, which sitteth upon the throne. and
/ unto the Lamb Rev Wiz o.
Let Us try to contemplate this scene
which the Holy John brings before us.
1t tells us of the saints the holy ones
! q God !. the pure and the triumphant.
| Tie they whom they may be- or from
whence they may come. or where they may
row be We are not to limit or define
the number. We are expressly told that
II cannot be dane: they are a great null
titude. What blessed news is that for
al. who love God ard man!
And what do they. those blessed be-
lngs? Whatever else they may not do
we are clearly toid they worship. They
satisfy that mysterious instinct of de-
vo.ion; hey have worshipped. and are
hlest; they have hungered and thirsted
after righteousness and now they are
filed. Hey have lonsed and totied Tor
the true. the beautiful and the good;
and now they adore the perfect reality
of that which they saw dimly afar of
on earth. They entered while on earth
into the mystery and glory of self-sac-
riftce. and now they find their bliss in
gazins on the One perfee, and eternal
sacrifice the Lamb slain before the
foundation of the world.''
Allthings are not clear to them. Flow
can they be. to any finite or created be-
ingo They. ana even the angels and
archangels must ever walk by faith and
mot by sight But all things at least
are bright to them. for they worship
face to face. and see Him as lie is.
IN Him and through Him. Ugh, will
conquer darkness. justice Injustice,
truth ignorance order disorder. love
hate. tilt God be all@in ALL. Pain and
sorrow and evil shall be eliminated out
8of the world which God made. and for
which Christ sroopei 10 die
Therefore they Worship. md in this very
act is that reward which our Lord
promised. Alteration is their very life
and highest bliss: it must be 50.
What more keen oranobleB enjoyment for
rational ana moral beings. than the admi-
ration@of a Being who is perfect? There
y q
a ,asural ventnin words. most fit. though
few Therefore they worship, and hv
this act enter into communion and har-s.
sr.ons with each other. with angels Ind
arrnanges and with all the powers Of
nature. and every creature which.ts In
heaven or earth and under the earth. md
IN the sea. For them likewise, st. John
heard saying: blessing and glory and
sf;ulor and power be into Him thai sit
3teth on the throne and to the Lamb for
ever and ever
" ere you never puzzled-aye, more, sick
.eneci and crushed=-a, heart by the mys
terry of#evil? Sic&ened BY the foliies. the
failures. the ferocties the foulness of
mankind for ages upon ages past? SicS-
enel iy the sins ofsthe unhoiy many and. I
alas. by the imperfectiors OF the '1niieSt
few And have you never cried out in
YOUR heart with a cruel longing: Surely
there must be a Holy One somewhere.
Tor how else could there have arisen n8j
my mind. the conception. however faint.
OF ar ideal hnlinessoo
But wiere. oh, where? Not in the world
around, streWed with unho tness and sin!
Not In myself. unlloy. too. without and i
within: knowing myself the very worst
of all the bad company meet, because I
can never escape from myself
Is there i Holy One whom can con-
tempate witt utter delight? And II so.
whsre Is He? oh. that m ght behold,
If buff a moment, HIS perfect beauty
."if knew where might find Him..
And then has there not come to such j
an one the very breath Of pure air. the
gleam Of pure light. the se1y s.i'a.n
pure music. waited to the wea:y. thirsty
one tsoEn h scene gleen8L Is oy ene1 betoeed /
apostle? He lifts the hear; and vision to
a sphere OF radiant bliss. s;.ow.ng US
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