The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-05-30

creature That is the parting COM
mand and the present duty.
Why not gaze into heaven? Isn't
our treasure in heaven? Aye, when you
have laid up treasure there.
Why not gaze into heaven? Is not
| the desire commemorate to depart and
be with the Lord which is far better?
Ave. but yet to abide in the flesh is
more needful.
Why not gaze into heaven? Is not
He coming again? Aye, but He is COM
| ing to judge the earth, not to preach
in the vineyard, for the night cometh
when no man can work. Go, preach
my gospel, that l may come again and
receive my own. All, friends, let US
catch the message which these white
rObed messengers would leave with
US. The master has left us a work to
do. Heaven is interested in seeing us
about it-busy with the Fathers busi-
ness. The angels marvel that it has
been left to such feeble vessels of clay,
and they ask, in view of its tremendous
magnitude, Why stand We gazing into
heaven" Does not this question come
to each one of us? Why stand gazing?
Why stand all the day idle? To whom
are We to look for the moral better
ment of the city in which We live?
Will the keeper of the brOthel, the
gambling-hell or the saloon bring it
about? To whom are we to look for the
church, the salvation of these very I'M
saved we have mentioned? Will the
enemies of Christ do it? Can they save
themselves? Ye men of GaIilee, you
who have received a commission and
all power and authority for the con-
version of the world. why stand ye
gazing into heaven? Ye Christians of
Walla Walla, why stand We gazing into
heaven?
We have hard work to do and loads
to lift
This is not the end of the Acts, O We
Galilean apostles, this is the beginning.
Christian friends, heaven is interested
in seeing US at work upon the great
task assigned to US. Only in this way
can the kingdom be ushered in, and
the King come again. 1t is no use for
you to hope that the kingdom will
come when you die. You must work
and pray for it to come While you live.
There Will be no rewards distributed
done. Think then of the heavenly
spectacles-angels, the departed dead,
the blessed Trinity, as waiting for us
who remain to finish the work-then,
and not till then, cometh the end. Then
Christ will come again. For he is
coming. 1t was with this thought the
angels treasured the disciples-'This
same Jesus who was received up from
you into heaven, shall so come in like
manner as We beheld him going into
heaven. With this thought we close.
He is coming with ten thousand of his
saints to distribute glorious rewards to
the faithful workers. Let us make
haste then, lest we seem by our star
gazing, our idleness. our pleasure
seeking, our money getting, our neglect
or our despair, to retard that coming
Let us work with the joyous conscious
ness of heavens interest in us, the
dignity of heavens task assigned to
us, the glory of heavens award await
ing US. Let us return to our tasks as
the disciples did to their Jerusalem,
and let us toll on, hoping all things,
believing all things, enduring all things
until both Jerusalem and all Judea
and Samaria and the uttermost parts of
the earth shall join that redeemed and
blood-bought throng who shall cry
'HOsanna. Blessed is He that cometh in
the name of the Lord. Amen"