Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-03-29


was very careful about her appearance IN
vour presence once. now she Is careless,
because. she saws. her fortune is made,
Your trial Is 4 hard school lesson YOU can
not learn. and yoa have bitten your finger
nails until they are sight to behold
They never cry in heaven because they
have nothing to cry aboat There are no
tears OF bereavement. for you shall have
Your friends all round about you. There
are no tears OF poverty because each one
site at the Kin-'s table and has his own
chariot OF salvation and Tree access to the
wardrobe where princes get their array.
No tears OF sickness, for there are no
pneumonias in the air and no ma;arial ex-
halatIoas from the rolling river OF lie aud
no crutch for the lame limb and no splint
for the broken arm. but the pulses throb-
hing with the health OF the eternal God in
a climate like our June before the blossoms
fall or our gorgeous October before the
leaves scatter.
In tat land the sous will talk over the
different modes Of thrashing. Oh. The
story OF the staff that struck the iitches
and the rod thlt beat the cIminin and the
iron wheel that went over the corn' Dan
iel will describe the lions and Jonah levIa-
THAN and Paul the elmwooi whips with
which he was scourged. and Eve VIII tell
how aromatic Eden WAS the day she lett
IL, and John Rogers will tell of the smart
ol lle name IDu I.4.iIa % the ststN team
that wheeled him up the sky sleeps and
Christ OF the numbncss and the paroXvsms
and hemorrhages of the awful crucihxion.
There they are before the throne of God
on one elevation all those who were
struck of the rod. on the highest elevation
and amid the highest attitudes OF heaven
all those who were under the wheel He
will not ever be thrashing it.
Is there not enough sa,ve in this text To
make plaster large enough to heal all
your wounds: When child Is hurt. the
mother Is very apt to say TO IT. Now. II
will soon feel better" And that Is what
God says when lie emhosoms all our tron-
bic IN the hush OF this great promise.
Weeping may endure Tor i night. but
joy cometh in the morning" You may
leave YOUR pocket handkerchief sopping
wet with tears on Your death pillow. but
You will go up absolutely sorrowess They
viii wear black. you will wear white: cy-
presses for them, palms for YOU. You will
say: Is it possible that am here: Is this
heaven, Am l so pare now | will never
do anything wrong? Am ! so well that
viii never be sick again: Are these com.
partnerships SO firm that Trey will never
again be broken? Is that Mary, Is that
John? Is that INV loved one | put away
into darkness; Can it be that these are
the faces OF those who lay 50 wan and
emacia:ed in the back room that awful
night dying: On. how radiant they are
Look at them, How radiant they are,
Why. how unlike this place is from what
! thought when | left the world below
Ministers drew pictures of this land. but
how tame compared with the reality, They
told me on earth that death was sunset.
No, no, II ia sunrise, Glorious sunrise.
! see therlight now pdrpling the hills. and
the clouds flame with the coming day
Then the gates OF hea1en will be oDencd
and the co,f With tho
and power OF the celestial vision. will lool;
thousands of mics down upon the ban.
nered procession. a river OF shimmering
sp!endor, and will cry out WHO are
they And the angel OF God. standing
e,ose by. will say. DO YOU not know who
they a.e:' No" says the entranced soul.
i cannot guess who they are" The angel
viii saw. Il win tell you. then. who they
are. These are they woo came ont OF great
tr!buation. or thrash;nc. and thesr robes
washed and made white in the blood OF the
l;mh.
Would that could administer some OF
these drops OF celestial anodyne To these
take enough OF 1t. ~ woc'd cure all Your
pangs. The thought that YOU are going to
get through with this after awhile. all this
sorrow and all this trouble
We shall have 4 great many grand days
in heaven. but | will tell you which will be
the grandest day OF all the million ages Of
heaven. You say: Are you sure YOU can
tell me-" Yes. | IAN. 1t will be the day
we get there. Some say heaven Is growing
more glorious. | suppose it is. but | do
not care much about that. Heaven now is
good enough Tor me.
History has no more cratu.atory scene
than the breaking i'll OF the English army
upon Lucknow. India. \ few weeks before
a massacre had occurred al CawnDur. and
ffl md cbtidra., q al h.n,,
room. Then five professional butchers went
in and slew them. Then the bodies OF the
Slain were taken out and thrown into a
well. As the English army came into
Cawnpur they went into the room. and
oh. what horrid scene,
Swo.d strokes on the wall near the floor.
showing that the poor things had crouched
when they died, and they saw also that the
floor was ankle deep IN blood. The soldiers
walked on their heels across IL, les; their
shoes he submerged of the carnage And
on that floor of blood there were flowing
locks OF hair and fragments of dresses.
Out in Lucknow they had heard OF the
massacre. and the women were waiting Tor
the same a."ial death. waiting amid anguish
untold. waiting in pain and starvation. but
waiting heroicaliy. when. one day. Have
lock and Outram and Norman and Sir
David Baird and Peel. the heroes OF the
English army-huzza Tor them, broke in
on that hOrrld scene. and while Yet the
guns were sounding. and while cheers were
issuing from the starving, diving people on
the one side and from the travel worn and
powder b.acl'ened soldiers on the other,
right there. in front OF the kings palace,
there was such scene OF hardshaking and
embracing and boisterous Joy Is wol.d nj.
terry confound the pen OF the poet and the
pencil of the painter. And 10 wonder.
when these cmaciated women. who had
suffered SO heroica.ly for Christs sake.
marched out from their incarceration. one
wounded English soldier got w in his ia
tigue and wounds and leaned against the
wall and threw his cap up and shouted,
Three cheers. my boys. for the brave
women, Yes. that was an exciting scene
Blu: giadder and more triumphant scene
will IT he when YOU come ny into heaven
from the conflicts and incarceration OF this
world. streaming with the wounds OF bat
tie. and wan with hunger. and while the
hosts oil God are cheering their great no.
sauna lou will strike hands OF conaratu,a.
tcn and eternal de.iverance in the presence
of the throne. On that night there will be
honiires on every Hill OF heaven. and there
viii be 4 candle in every window. All. no,
! forget. | forget They will have no need
of the candle or OF sun. for the Lord God
giveth them light. and they shall rem for
ever and ever. Hail. hail. sons and daugh-
tiers OF the Lord God Almighty.
copyright. 1869. L. klopschI