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have been washed in tile royal blood Of
Jesus. 1t means that in heaven no
wealthy mans wife will be able to
suck out the life of poor sewing girl
merely because she Is poor, and no en-
ployer will be able to grind his en-
ployees down until 1t means physical
ana mental and often spiritual death.
1t mcaus no vendetta or blood feud; It
also means no financial vendetta or
money feud.
Roaming again through the dark, mar
row, crowded streets of eastern Pnles.
tine, surmise, from tho words Of my
text that heaven is to be place Of
honortsl and jubllant occupations. It is
TO be place where the words "ine-
nlal' md "servile," "scavenger" and
"scullion," "hireling" and dependent"
"lackcy" ard "underling" will be I'M
known. All words signifying degrad-
ed work will forever disappear when
the lexicons Of earth shall be forever
consumed upon the funeral pyre Of
burning world. 1t does not mean that
hen ven is to be place Of hamilton and
stagnation and stupidity. But 1t does
mean that heaven is to be place
where all workmen shall be honorOd
alike and where the duties Of one i'm
mortal shall be respected as much rs
arc the occupations of other immor-
tails.
why do make these two astounding
statements? First because / find re-
corded in the eighth chapter of Revela-
ton the startling fact that there was
silence in heaven about the space Of
half an hour" If heaven was always
still place would st. John have writ
ten that sentence in reference TO the
day Of judgment. If you would inter
pref that passage in q common sense
way would you not practically say,
"Why. heaven is such n busy place that
all the angels and archangcls and re-
deemed immortais are working, and
| working all the time? But when ST.
John saw the books Of the Judgment
opened then there was an awful still
ness. Every winged messenger kept
still, every work ceased, every occupa-
ton was suspended" AS Albert Barnes
interpreted this passage, Then there
xas an awful stiffness, as if all heaven
was reverently waiting for the develop
rnent." oh. yes. heaven is to be busy
place 1t has been very busy during
all the years and the millepnillms that
are past 1t will be very busy during
all the eterntles that are to come. with
! the exception of one cessation OF work
for short time, when there shall be
''silence in heaven for about the space
of half IN hour"
Dogs of the East Were scnvengere.
| Following my first premise that
! heaven is TO he a busy place my sec
ond premise Is likewise true. How do
know that the busy occupations of
heaven will never offer despised work
| for the redeemed immortals? The
words of my text prove that. The dogs
of the east We're Tie scavengers. The
eastern people had no wonderful sys-
tens Of sewerage as have we. They
had no means of carrying away by
subterranenn pipes the offal and refuse
Of their large towns But all the refuse
Of the Kitchens ana the homes and the
barns were ana are thrown into the
streets. where the dogs devour them
| In heaven, however, we shall have
none Of the rop'Ilsivc and abhorrent
occupations with which earth has been
cursed. Do you wonder that when
rode into Damascus and saw lying in
the streets the dead body of horse,
over which the dogs We're fighting and
gormandizing, I should catch glimpse
Of heavenly vision, where there shall
be no loathsome occupations as is this
one of the canine Scavengcrs Of the
east? Heaven is to be place of con
tinnal work. Heaven IS, however, to
be n place OF glorious, happy. jubilant,
honorCd occupations.
Roaming again through the narrow,
crowded streets Of eastern Palestine
know from the smile Of my text that
the Christians earthly translation is
not 70 be a horror, Il tragedy, Il terrific,
q repulsive and terror Inspiring de-
mise. When the Christian dies he does
not die like a dog, but he asccnAs as
did the Saviour. He does not growl
and whine with fear, but he mounts
from JOY to Joy. from subimity to sub
Unity, from exultation to eXultatiOn,
from glory to glory.
An tho Dog Dies.
The eastern dogs death is a gloomy
picture. He dies the death Of all wild
beasts. and that death Is a tragedy.
Some years go the author Of n history
Of the beasts OF the African forests
made this statement. which will long
live In my memory: mo beast or bird
or reptile In all the dark continent dies
n natural death. No sooner does his
physical strength weaken than there
are some bestial or seipentine cannibals
or some enemy OF his species ready to
feed upon his dying body and still the
feeble or the quick bentings Of his
heart" That means every deer or fawn
that dies dies a tragic death Every
quick eyed and sharp clawed lynx mus
fall in time before a mortal foe Every
monster leader of the clcphantine herd
every shaggy named Bengal king
must die violent death SO dies tue
dog; but, thank God, so docs not die the
Christian.
Sometimes it's true that the body OF
man may die the death of dog, bu
the Christian has hope III his death
Though his body perish in battle or il