Middletown transcript. [volume] (Middletown, Del.) 1868-current, 1910-03-05
in full view, where saints and angels wait

I what rejoicing that the voyage l6 o'e
3 The Cape Horn of dangerous shoals ar
. rocks is past. The hurricanes of tempt
: ton are gone, the treacherous icebergs
cold skepticism left behind forever, IL
dangerous derelicts Of doubt no more er
countered and the mountainous billoV
of persecution and trial all overpast. Th
Straits of Death, the last enemy, success
fully are passed through. A few NOR
revolutions Of the wheel, and you will b
"Where those angel faces smile,
That you have loved long since and los
awhile"
Some have already recognized you and
in another moment, you are among thl
immortals. Loved ones are about you
while all the music of Heaven rings il
triumph over your Homecoming.
IndescribabIy greater will be the joy o
that meeting than any earthly scene evel
witnessed. You are escorted by the in
Vulnerable company up the Ocean Path
way, alongside the River of Life, which
empties into the Sea of Glass, where
angels moor their boats, and overhanging
branches, bordering the River, are laden
with fruits of that celestial CLINE. Crys.
taliine fountains everywhere greet you,
the groves of Paradise invite you; yonder
is your mansion, hard by the Throne.
where Christ, your Redeemer, waits to
crown you and receive you into His blessed
Presence, evermore to be with Him, bile
the cycles of Eternity roll. Yonder is
the company of the martyrs, the apostles,
the heroes, the multitude of the Re-
deemed; the wide universe is yours all
things are yours. You are unspeakably
satisfied, because you have awakened in
His likeness and you will shine undimmsd
with the splendor of purity and the bliss
of love, amid the holy fellowships of
Home and Heaven.
In the midst of our Joy We cry out, "Is
tits Is IeaTefs aiisstaa aista s.i a.Ei here Is gender
my mansion, my home forever, and is
that mother, who has long waited for me
to come-the one who trained my feet in
the way Of truth, fondly caring for me in
the helplessness of childhood, teaching
me to lisp the Sayiour's name and leading
me to the affairs of the church, in the
early morning of life Yes, this is mother,
who said to me when dying, BE true to
God, my son, and meet me in Heaven
SIS yoDder the father who watched
over me in my youthful days, guarding
my footsteps against the snares and pit.
falls, Leading me over the difficult places
in life and establishing me in the work
to which was called? Yes, here are the
loved ones again, recognizing the home
that once was so pleasant on earth, but
has now moved away, when moving day
came, into the eternal and the heavenly"
"Oh, then, what raptured greetings
On Canaan's happy shore,
What knitting severed friendshipsup,
Where paTtings are no more
Then eyes with joy shall sparkle.
That brimmed with tears of late,
Orphans no longer fatherless,
Nor widows desolate. +"
The front door of this Church opens
earthwari. There is a spiritual door in
every true Christian Church which opens
Heayenward. This sacrad portal in the
newly ornamented Bethesda Church lies
between these two beautiful pillars, W here
the matchless artist has portrayed the
Ascension of Christ. Gazing upon this
glorious representation of the departure
OF Jesus, We think of the hour when He
will come again and when we shall be
caught up together with our Lord in air.
We are also carried back to the fortieth
day after the resurrection when Jesus
with hie disciples ascended OliVet.
Christ after promising to the disciples
the endowment of Power, placed his
hands upon them and blessed them. While
they were gazing upon his form, white
with light, as at the TRANSPORTATION, sud-
denly the Saviour seemed to be growing
taller and taller, his feet no longer touched
the ground. See He is rising, rising, while
a cloud of angels ascending to see him
start for glory. He waves his hands in
farewell to his devoted and astonished
disciples, and turns bis face toward the
gates of Light which are opening to let
the King of Glory in. Up, up, He rises
till now He is the unseen Saviour, to
earthly sight. Since that wonderful hour
the dying go to Him instead Of leaving
Him behind on the earth when the mo-
ment of departure comes.
Two angels clothed in white stood be-
side the little company of bereayed fol-
lowers, and said, "Why stand ye gazing
up into the Heavens, this came Jesus,
which is taken up from you into Heaven,
shall SO come in like manner as you have
seen him go into Heaven" The angels
words seemed to imply that they should
not stand gazing when there were great
blessings to be received and q world to
be saved.
Our duty to-day is to go preach to all
the world, 20 build the churches and in
stitutions of learning, go work in the
vineyard, till the Lord returns to reward
his servants.