Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1907-11-02

mind grasp what DR.. Goodhart means!
"WeIl." says some one. do you lit
orally mean that the New Jerusalem
which st. John saw had any such |
as those? Even If we .
could conceive of city so wide and
SO long we could not imagine 1t nav
ing height from base to summit OF
1900 miles" No, you must remem-
Der that this was a vision, and as such |
was symbolical The twelve gates
to the twelve tribes OF
Israel and to the twelve apostles. The
furlongs and the foundation stones are
other sets of twelve. | think the apos-
tle intended us TO learn from the great
cube that the heavenly city was big
enough to contain all people. OF all ma
tions. of all generations. Of all times,
who have been and will be cleansed
from sin by Christ's atoning blood.
want to show that provision is made
for the widest acceptance of the invi-
satlon "Whosoever will" and is so big
that it will take in every sinner VINO
comes and bows at the foot Of the
cross and who says, as did the pup
licnn Of old. God be merciful to me
sinner" And "the length and the
b.eadth and the height of it-are equal"
The Banquet Hall.
was never more impressed with
Chrlsts parable of the banquet nan OF
heaven than after | had studied tnls
revelation of st. John. The banquet
tables are spread. The invited guests
have refused to come. Then the mas
fer of the house said to his servants:
Go out quickly into the streets ana
lanes of the city and bring in hither
the poor and the manned and the nalt
and the blind. And the servants sald,
Lord II is done as thou hast COM
manded. and yet there is ROOM" Of
course there is room. There IS always
room in heaven. Why. heaven Is so
hip that Gods messengers or all gen.
erations can go into the highways and
the hedges and spread broadcast the
gospel invitation everywhere, and yet
ther, will be room. Room in heaven!
Room for every one that comes ID
Christs namel Room, unlimited room!
"Nhosoever will, let him come and
drink of the water Of life" Room IN
the many mansions of the Fathers
house. And "the length and the
breadth and the height of it are equal.
But there is another fact which ought
to impress you about the wall OF heaV'
en-. and that is it has twelve swinging
gates. and they are all gates OF pearl
These gates are divided into foul
| groups. There are three gates III the
south wall, three gates for the north
wall. three gates for the east wall
three gates for the west wall. Wha'
do all these gates stand for? They
mean that God has an unlimited mum
ber Of ways for us to get into heaven
n does not matter what gate we entel
by rs long as we come through a gat'
sprinkled with Christ's blood. Ant
vet there are some people so blinded
by sectarian bigotry that they thinl
no soul can get into heaven excep
through one gate, and that the marrow
wav of their own church door.
The Different Gates.
Some time ago | was speaking alon
this line in my prayer meeting room
When I had finished and thrown opel
the service for general discussion,
gentleman arose and spoke as follows
, 'I am a Congregational minister. al
r glad to hear your pastor call attenuo
, 70 the fact that the walls Of heave
9 have twelve gates. | am glad that
q as a member of a different Chrlstla
q denomination. can meet and sing an
/ pray with you tonight. Christ sal'
: other sheep l have which are not
n this fold There are many churcne
7 many folds, but we all follow the OF
!. Divine Shepherd. Once the sectarla
o walls we're built so high that the I'll
y ferent churches could not see ov'
4 Them Then time passed on, and the
q were lowered little. so that the mel
hers of the different churches cou
=. throw brickbats at one another. bu
- thank God. tonight those walls are 10y
>, cred so that we can reach over the
Is and grasp each others hands as Cnrl
# tian brothers"
20 "Amenw I said to that. But VIII
n nv brother minister was talking
n. kept asking myself this question, "Ha
those sectarian walls been lowered
,r much everywhere that all churcn
II have ceased to throw brickbats at ca
m other?" I believe not for when th
10 dav comes Lutheran, Eplscopalla
al PRESBYTERIAN, Methodist, Baptist, Co
~ gregational and all who worship chr
40 in snrit and in truth will clasp nan
- in christian love. In that day the
1o will not be five or six different churcr
bo fighting each other in one little villa
~ of 400 inhabitants. There are twel
or gates to the walls Of heaven, ana
No. those gates are of pearl.
If But | want you to study the 6
oll peousness Of those glittering walls
of heaven as we'll as the twelve gates
es pearl. Those walls are not made
.Iv common stones, as are the walls OF
.at east. Those stones Of the walls OF
he eastern cities were not selected
or. their beauty. but for their strene
os We can see from the ruins or the
of. Chinese walls and Of the Roman VIZ
,st in the northern part Of England, wh
lIs were built to keep out the Plcts
,b- the Scots. that they were not Dulit
mr. beautiful stones. The stones were
as ed out of the quarries and placed ID
itv to resist armies and to last TOT
mr.. tu,ies. The walls of heaven are
nd only strong walls, but they are 0
out of the most beautiful OF precl
stones. Wherever you examine IL
90 their brilliant surfaces gleam v
or myriads Of flashing lights. Never
~ rainbow in the sky have sucn v
an derful mixture of colors as those tc
',,r found among the precious stones WI
II. are built into the walls OF hea'