Greenfield Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 11 April 1895 — Page 2

THE GREENFIELD REPUBLICAN

PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY.

VOL. 16, Mo. 15- Entered at the Postofflcea» eoond-class mall mutter. W. 8. MONTGOMERY,

Circulation This Week, 2,

THE

State Supreme Court on Thursday

decided that a Court of Review had the right to place greenbacks on the tex list when other money had been exchanged for it to evade taxation. The only relief is to appeal to the,State Board of Equulization, and tax dodgers will get cold comfort there.

LEADING

L. T. MICHENEK, of Washington, but formerly of Indiana, was at New York recently telling all about Indiana politics, General Harrison's intentions, etc. If he does not know more about Indiana politics now than he did when he was the chairman of the Republican State Central Committee and the Republicans were so everlastingly beaten, the newspapers that publish his statements as valuable information are sadly misled. What he does not know about Indiana politics would fill a big book.

WE trust when it comes to building the new school house the Board will arrange for a large, light and airy room on the ground floor suitable for a public city library. It will not only be of advantage to our larger scholars in the high school and in the upper grades, but to all of our people. Nothing can be more advantageous to a city than a large and well selected public library. The library would, no doubt, have to depend upon the generosity and public spirit of Greenfield's citizens for its success, and we desire to say right now that they can be depended upon.

EX-COXGRESSMAX W. D. Bynum and family have returned from Washington City to their old home in Indianapolis. Bynum wanted to be Mississippi River Commissioner, Custom Appraiser in New York, or would take almost any other office in sight, but Cleveland slid nay, nay. It almost made Bynum sick when he saw Wilson, Outhwaite, Springer and Buck Kilgore all given fat positions, and himself, who "cuckooed" a3 much as any of them, left out in the cold. He just packed his traps and started for the Hoosier state. He will be found wanting office in 1896, but that will not be a healthy year for Democrats to secure offices in Indiana.

THE question of the taxation of paid-up Building and Loan stock is now being considered by the State Supreme Court. That such paid-up stock has succeeded in escaping taxation is clearly wrong, as it has not paid its fair share of the public burdens.

Attorney-General Ketcham, in his argument, proceeded to''say that he would hold that Section 8507, concerning building and loan stock, violates Article 4, Section 22 of the Constitution, which prohibits the Legislature from enacting 3pecial laws on the subject of taxes, and also article 10, Section 1, which requires the Legislature to provide a uniform and eque.1 rate of taxation except upon muni cipal, educational, literary, scientific and religious property as may be especially exempted by the law. He declared that it was also in conflict with the provision of the federal Constitution which prohibits any State from denying to any person the equal protection of the laws."

It is not right or just that such paid-up stock should be non-assessable. Take an example: A rich man desiring to avoid taxation takes $1,000 in paid-up building and loan stock. A laboring man with a family desirous of a little home borrows the $1,000 paid in for the paid-up stock, and builds him a home. Now as to the result: Stock in building and loan associations nets the non-borrowers and nontaxpayers from 10 to 15 per cent., while the poor man who borrowed the $1,000, owning only the lot on which the house was built, pays the big interest on the money put in by the non-borrowers, and also the taxes on the amount at which his house is valued, there being no exemption allowed by the tax gatherers for the amount of money jowing on said home. Thus it can be seen that the actual owner of the $1,000, and practically the owner of the little home, has his taxes paid for him by the poor devil who would be worth but $200, the price of his lot, if he was allowed the proper exemption. That the man who is wearing his life out to pay the usurious interest charged by some grinding building and loan Shylocks should be compelled to pay said Shylocks taxes, is a wrong that should be righted at once. Building and loan associations were originally organized to help poor people secure homes, and not that men already rich should come in and by squeezing the last possible cent out of a struggling laborer thrive off the misfortunes and miseries of others.

Marriage Licences.

4.Walter

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Publisher and Proprietor.

a recent speech Senator Frye, of Maine, said: "Give us Republican rule for a single decade, uulimited, uncrippled power, and we will show the people the beueficence of Republican legislation. We will annex the Hawaiian Islands, fortify Pearl harbor, build the Nicaragua canal and marry two great oceans. We will show people a foreign policy that is Americau in every fiber and hoist the American flag on whatever island we think best and no hand shall over pull it down."

THE

Chicago Democrats are now

investigating to find out what became of a §500,000 campaign boodle fund which was raised to be used in their recent city election. It is claimed that it was not used but most of it shoved down by live or six o£ the leading manipulators. That is generally the case. We have even heard that right here in Hancock county that '-boodle' did not always reach the spot where it would do the most political good. That was years ago, however.

directory of a Presbyterian church

at Watertown, N. Y., by a v*jte of 28 to 1, asked their pastor,^Rev. Cleveland, a brother of the President to resign. If ihe p3ople of the Uuit. Statts could secure Grovers resignation by asking for it we believe the itio iu favor of such resignation wruld b.i even greater than 28 to 1. So far as we have heard people express themselves and judging by the expression of the newspapers and the indications of the recent election, it would be practically unanimous against Grover louger occupying the White House.

SINCE 1SG0

THE

American heiresses who

have purchased titles abroad have carried away across the sea $200,000,000 of good American money. It is sometimes said that many of these matches, audit would take a column and a half to give the list, have been genuine love matches. It is a uoticeable fact, however, that the American girl always has a big pile of money, though. There are no American men marrying English girls, however. They have the good judgment to stay at home. An American girl who wants to buy a title should not be regretted in this country. The only thing that she takes that would be good for us to have is the gold that buys the title.

Republican legislature fell down most shamefully when they did not allow land or other property owners to deduct from the value of said property the amount of mortgage in cumbrance standing against the same. It is such dis criminations as this that makes the lot of meu who are trying to secure homes, hai'd, indeed. Let the owner of the mortgage pay the taxes, for he is practically the owner of the property, and no property should be taxed more than once. The legislature did not do justice to the debtor class, but as with previous legislatures succumbed to the influence of the strong and unscrupulous lobby, sent there by the building & loan associations and men who by hiding note3 and mortgages away escape taxe3 which should be paid by them, instead of by the men upon whose homes said notes and mortgages are a lien.

DE3IOKEST GOLD MKDAL CONTEST.

Miss Tsema Snuciers, a Greeufield Girl, Wins First Prize.

A large audience greeted the seven young ladies who contested for the Demorest Gold Medal last night at the Christian church. The entertainment was a success iu every particular. The church decorated with bunting, palms, lillies and other plants.

The solos by Mrs. Belle Barnett and Mrs. Alice Bragg were highly appfeciated, as was also the music furnished by Messrs. Sam Offutt, John Rhue, Charley New, Arthur Moulden and Walter Rosebrough.

The grades of the contestants stood as follows: Nema Souders, Greenfield, 135.

May Newby, Spicelaud, 134.9. Mattie Binford, Westland, 133 5. Jeannette Gordon, Spiceland, 120 75. Cora Jessup, Westland,120.5. Maud Ulrich, Greensboro, 115. -Florence Chaplin, Greensboro, 110.5. Miss Gordon had jo'ned the class within a few days, hence her name did not appear on the program. All the contestants spoke well, but Miss Souders received the highest number of points and was awarded the medal.

The judges were Eld. B. F. Dailey, Miss Bessie Herrick and Prof. A. J. Rey-nold-3. The entire exercises were highly enjoyed by the large and appreciative audience.

Rush County at the Front.

Rush county has a splendid and deserved reputation, not only over Indians, but over the United States. Only recently Admiral Brown, a native of Rush county, was promoted and made the ranking officer of the United States Navy, and last week Col, Thaddeus H. StaDton, a native of Walker township, Rush county, was, by President Cleveland, appointed Paymaster-General of the U.S. Army, with rank as Brigadier General. He is 58 years old and entered the army over Iowa.

l»r. S. M. Martin Insane.

On Tuesday a sanity commission consisting.of Justices Spencer and Geary and Drs. Boots and Black, found Dr. Martin to be of unsound mind. To-day he was taken to the Central Insane Hospital at Indianapolis by Sheriff Pauley, accompanied by Drs. Boots and Black. We regret the doctors condition very much as until a few years ago he was one of Greenfields leading physicians aud most popular citizens. The authorities at the Hospital have great hopes in Dr. Martins case.

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What Say You All?

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a shame if this Republican Council should fleet a Republican as city civil engineer? MUOVVITMP.

TWELVE WIDE GATES

REV. DR. TALMAGE ON THE ENTRANCES TO HEAVEN.

He Preaches to a Mighty Throng at the Great Academy of Music In New York. His Subject, "The Gates of Heaven."

NEW YORK,

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spring weather has brought still larger crowds to the Sunday afternoon services conducted by Rev. Dr. Talmage. He took for his subject today "The Gates of Heaven," the text being Revelation xxi,

"On the east three gates on

the north three gates on the south three gates on the west three gates." The Cashmere gate of Delhi, where converged a heroism that makes one's nerves tingle, the Lucknow gate, still dented and scarred with sepoy bombardment, the Madeline gate with its emblazonry in bronze, the hundred gates of Thebes, the wonder of centuries, all go out of sight before the gates of my text.

Our subject spoaks of a great metropolis, the existence of which many have doubted. Standing on the wharf and looking off upon the harbor and seeing the merchantmen coming up the bay, the flags of foreign nations streaming from the topgallants, you immediately make up your mind that those vessels come from foreign ports, and you say, "That is from Hamburg, and that is from Marseilles, and that is from Southampton, and that is from Havana," and your supposition is accurate. But from the city of which I am now speaking 110 weather beaten merchantmen or frigates with scarred bulkhead have ever come. There has been a vast emigration into that city, but no emigration from it, so far as our natural vision can descry. "There is no such city," eays the undevout astronomer. "I have stood in high towers with a mighty telescope and have swept the heavens, and I have seen spots 011 the sun and caverns in the moon, but no towers have ever risen on my vision, no palaces, nt temples, no shining streets, no massive wall. There is no such city. Even very good people tell me that heaven is not a material organism, but a graud spiritual fact, and that the Bible descriptions of it are in all cases to be taken figuratively. I bring in reply to this what Christ said, and he ought to know, "I go to prepare"—*uot a theory, not a principle, not a sentiment, but "I go to prepare a place for you." The resurrected body implies this. If my foot is to be reformed from the dust, it must have something to tread On. If my hand is to be reconstructed, it must have something to handle. If my eye, having gone out in death, is to be rekindled, I must have something to gaze on. Your adverse theory seems to imply that the resurrected body is to be hung on nothing, or to walk in air, or to float amid the intangibles. You may say if there be material organisms then a soul in heaven will be cramped and hindered in its enjoyments, but I answer, Did not Adam and Eve have plenty of room in the garden of Eden? Although only a few miles would have described the circumference of that place, they had ample room. And do you not suppose that God, in the immensities, can build a place large enough to give the whole race room, even though there bo material organisms?

The Prospect.

Herschel looked into the heavens. As a Swiss guide puts his Alpine stock between the glaciers and crosses over from crag to crag, so Herschel planted his telescope between the worlds and glided from star to star until he could announce to us that we live in apart of the universe but sparsely strewn with worlds, and he peers out into immensity until he finds a region no larger than our solar system in which there are 50, 000 worlds moving. And Professor Lang says that by a philosophic reasoning there must be somewhere a world where there is no darkness, but everlasting sunshine, so that I do not know but that it is simply because we have no telescope powerful enough that we cannot see into the land where there is no darkness at all and catch a glimpse of the burnished pinnacles. As a conquering army marching on to take a city comes at nightfall to the crest of a mountain from which, in the midst of the landscape, they see the castles they are to capture and rein in their war chargers and halt to take a good look before they pitch their tents for the night, so now, coming as we do on this mountain top of prospect, I command this regiment of God to rein in their thoughts and halt, and before they pitch their tents for the night tako one good, long look at the gates of the great city. "On the cast, three gates on the north, three gates on the south, three gates, and on the west three gates."

In the first place, 1 want to examine the architecture of those gates. Proprietors of large estates are very apt to have an ornamented gateway. Sometimes they spring an arch of masonry, the posts of the gate flanked with lions in statuary, the bronze gate a representation of intertwining foliage, bird haunted, until the hand of architectural genius drops exhausted, all its life frozen into stone. Gates of wood and iron and stone guarded nearly all the old cities. Moslems have inscribed upon their gateways inscriptions from the Koran of the Mohammedan. There have been a great many fine gateways, but Christ sots his hand to the work and for the upper city swung agate such as no eye ever gazed on, untouched of inspiration. With tho nail of his own cross he cut into its wonderful traceries stories of past suffering aud of gladness to come. There is 110 wood of stone or bronze in that gate, but from top to base and from side to side it is all of pearl. Not oue piece picked up from Ceylon banks, and another piece from the Persian gulf, and another from the* of Margarotte. butoue so'id {fear)'

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picked up from the beach of everlasting light by heavenly hands and hoisted and swung amid the shouting of angels. The glories of alabaster vase and porphyry pillar fade out before this gateway. It puts out the spark of feldspar and diamond. You know how one little precious stone on your finger will flash under the gaslight. But, oh! the brightness when the great gate of heaven swings, struck through and dripping with the light of eternal noonday.

Gate of Pearl.

Julius Caesar peJid 125,000 crowns for one pearl. The government of Portugal boasted of having a pearl larger than a pear. Cleopatra and Philip II dazzled the world's vision with precious stones. But gather all these together and lift them and add to them all the wealth of the pearl fisheries and set them in the panel of one door, and it does not equal this magnificent gateway. An almighty hand hewed this, swung this, polished this. Against this gateway, on the one 3ide, clash all the splendors of earthly beauty. Against this gate 011 the other side beat the surges of eternal glory. Oh, the gate, the gate! It strikes an infinite charm through every one that passes it. One step this side of the gate and we are paupers. Oue step the other side of the gate and we are kings. The pilgrim of earth going through sees in the one huge pearl all his earthly tears in crystal. Oh, gate of light, gate of pearl, gate of heaven, for our weary isouls at last swing open!

When shall tlicso eyes thy heaven built walla And pearly gates behold Thy bulwarks with salvation strong

And streets of shining gold?

Oh, heaven is not a dull place! Heaven is not a contracted place. Heaven is not a stupid place. "I saw the 12 gates, and they wero 12 pearls."

In the second place I want you to count the number of those gates. Imperial parks aud lordly manors are apt to have one expensive gateway, and the others are ordinary, but look around at these entrances to heaven and count them. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight nine, ten, eleven, twelve. Hear it, all the earth and all the heavens! Twelve gates!

Hard on Sectarianism.

I admit this is rather hard on sharp sectarianisms! If a Presbyterian is bigoted, ho brings his Westminster assembly catechism, and ho makes a gateway out of th3t, and he says to tho world, "You go through there or stay out. If a member of the Reformed church is bigoted,.he makes a gato out of tho Heidelberg catechism, aud ho says, "You go through there or stay on S." If a Methodist is bigoted, bo plants two posts, and he says, "Now, you crowd in between those two posts or stay out." Or perhaps an Episcopalian may say: "Here is a liturgy out of which I mean to mako a gate. Go through it or stay out," or a Baptist may say: "Here is a water gate. Yctv go through that, or you must stay out," and so in all our churches and in all our denominations there are men who mako one gate for themselves and then demand that the whole world go through it. I abhor this coutractedness in religious views. O small souled man, when did God give you the contract for making gates? I tell you plainly I will not go in that gato. I will go in at any one of the 12 gates I choose. Here is a man who says, "I can more easily and more closely approach God through a prayer book." I say, "Mv brother, then use the prayer book." Here is a man who says, "I believo there is only one mode of baptism, and that is immersion." Then I say, "Let me plunge you.I' Anyhow, I say, away with the gate of rough panel and rotten posts and rusted latch, when there are 12 gates and they are 12 pearls.

The fact is that a great many of the churches in this day are being doctrined to death. They have been trying to find out all about God's decrees, and they want to know who are elected to be saved and who are reprobated to be damned, and they are keeping on discussing that subject when there are millions of souls who need to have the truth put straight at them. They sit counting the number of teeth in the jawbone with which Samson slew the Philistines. They sit on the beach aud see a vessel going to pieces in the offing, and instead of getting into a boat and pulling away for the wreck, they sit discussing the different styles of oarlocks. God intended us to know some things and intended us not to know others. I have heard scores of sermons explanatory of God's decrees, but came away more perplexed than when I went. Tho only result of such discussion is a great fog. Hero are two truths which are to conquer the world: Man, a sinner Christ, a Saviour. Any man who adopts those two theories in his religious belief shall have my right hand in warm grip of Christian brotherhood.

Empty Handed.

A man comes down to a river in time of fieshet. He wants to get across. He has to swim. What does he do? The first thing is to put off his heavy apparel and drop everything he has in his hands. He must go empty handed if he is going to the other bank. And I tell you when we have come down to the river of death and find ifr swift and raging we will have to put off all our sectarianism and lay down all our cumbrous creed and empty handed put out for the other shore. "What," say you, "would you resolve all .the Christian church into one kind of church? Would you make all Christendom worship in the same way, by the same forms?" Oh, no. You might as well decide that all people shall eat the same kind of food without reference to appetite or wear the same kind of apparel without reference to the shape of their body. Your ancestry, your temperament, your surroundings, will decide whether you go to this or that church and adopt this or that church polity. One church will best get one man to heaven and another church another wan. I do not care which ono of the gates you go through if you only go through one of the 12 gates that Jesus lifted. 5 Well, now I see all tho redeemed of flarth coming up oward heaven. Do you

think they will all get in? Yes. Gate the first, the Moravians come up they believed in the Lord Jesus they pass through. Gate the second, the Quakers come up they have received the inward light they have trusted in the Lord they pass through. Gate the third, the Lutherans come up they had the same grace that made Luther what he was, and they pass through. Gate the fourth, the Baptists pass through. Gate the fifth, the Free Will Baptists pass through. Gate the sixth, the Reformed church passes through. Gate the seventh, the Congregationalists pass through. Gate the eighth, the German Reformed church passes through. Gate the ninth, the Methodists pass through. Gate the tenth, the Sabbatarians pass through. Gate the eleventh, the Church of the Disciples pass through. Gate the twelfth, the Presbyterians pass through. But there are a great part of other denominations who must come in, and great multitudes who connected themselves with no visible church, but felt the power of godliness in their heart and showed it in their life. Where is their gate? Will you shut all the remaining host out of the city? No. They may come in at our gate. Hosts of God, if you cannot get admission through any other entrance, come in at the twelfth gate. Now they mingle before the throne.

Looking up at the one hundred and forty and four thousand, you cannot tell which gate they came in. One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one glassy sea, one doxology, one triumph, one heaven! "Why, Luther, how did you get in?" "I came through the third gate." "Crammer, how did you get in?" "I came through the eighth gate. "Adoniram Judson, how did you get through?" "I came through the seventh gate." "Hugh McKail, the martyr, how did you get through?" "I came through the twelfth gate." Glory to God, 12 gates, but one heaven!

Points of the Compass.

In the third place, notice the points of the compass toward which these gates look. They are not on one side, or on two sides, or 011 three sides, but on four sides. This is no fancy of mine, but a distinct announcement. On the north three gates, on the south three gates, on the east three gates, on the west three gates. What does that mean? Why, it means that all nationalities are included, and it does not make any difference from what quarter of the earth a man comes up if bis heart is right, there is agate open before him. On the north three gates. That means mercy for Lapland and Siberia and Norway and Sweden. On the south three gates. That means pardon for Hindostan and Algiers and Ethiopia. On the east three gates. That means salvation for China and Japan and Borneo. On the west three gates. That means redemption for America. It does not make any difference how dark skinned or how pale faced men may be, they will find agate right before them. Those plucked bananas under a tropical sun. These shot across Russian snows behind reindeer. From Mexican plateau, from Roman campania, from Chinese teafield, from Holland dike, from Scotch highlands they come, they come. Heaven is not a monopoly for a few precious souls. It is not a Windsor castle, built only for royal families. It is not a small town with small population, but John saw it, and he noticed that an angel was measuring it, and he measured it this way, and then he measured it that way, and whichever way he measured it it was 1,500 miles, so that Babylon and Tyre and Nineveh and St. Petersburg and Canton and Peking and Paris and London and New York and all the dead cities of tho past and all the living cities of the present added together would not equal the census of that great metropolis.

Walking along a street, you can, by the contour of the dress or of the face, guess where a man comes from. You say: "That is a Frenchman that is a Norwegian that is an American. But the gates that gather in the righteous will bring them in irrespective of nationality. Foreigners sometimes get homesick. Some of the tenderest and most pathetic stories have been told of those who left their native clime and longed for it until they died. But the Swiss, coming to the high residence of heaven, will not long any more for the Alps, standing amid the eternal hills. The Russian will not long any more for the luxuriant harvest field he left now that ho hears the hum and the rustle of the harvests of everlasting light. The royal ones from earth will not long to go back again to tho earthly court now that they stand in the palaces of the sun. Those who once lived among the groves of spice and oranges will not long to return now that they stand under the trees of life that bear 12 manner pf fruit.

Pouring Through In Throngs.

While I speak an everlasting throng is pouring through the gates. They are going up from Senegambia, from Patagonia, from Madras, from Hongkong. "What," you say, "do you introduce all the heathen into glory?" I tell you the fact is that a majority of the people of those climes die in infancy, and the infants all go straight into everlasting life, and so the vast majority of those who die iu China and India, the vast majority who dio in Africa, go straight into the skies—they die in infancy. One hundred and sixty generations have been born since the world was created, and so I estimate that there must be 15,000,000,000 children in glory. If at a concert 2,000 children sing, your soul is raptured within you. Oh, the transport when 15,000,000,000 little ones stand up in white before the throne of God, their chant drowning out all the stupendous harmonies of Dusseldorf and Leipsic. Pour in through tho 12 gates.

Oh, ye redeemed, banner lifted, rank after rank, saved battalion after saved battalion, until all tho city of God shall hear tho tramp, tramp! Crowd all the

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gates. Room yet. Room on the thrones. Room in the mansions. Room on the river bank. Let the trumpet of invitation be sounded until all earth's.mountains hear the shrill blast and the glens eoho

it. Let missionaries tell it in pagoda and colporteurs sound it across the western prairies. Shout it to the Laplander on Lis swift sled. Hallo it to the Bedouin careering across the desert. News, aews! A glorious heaven and 12 gates to get into it! Hear it, O you thin blooded nations of eternal winter—on the north three gates! Hear it, O you bronzed inhabitants panting under equatorial heats—on the south three gates!

But I notice when John saw these gates they were open—wide open. They will not always be so. After awhile heaven will have gathered up all its intended population and the children of God will have come home. Every crown taken. Every harp struck. Every throne mounted. All the glories of the universe harvested in the great garner. And heaven being made up, of course the gates will be shut. Russia in, and the second gate shut. Italy in, and the third gato shut. Egypt in, aud tho fourth gate shut. Spain in, and tho fitth gate shut. France in, and the sixth gate shut. England in, and the seventh gate shut. Norway in, and the eighth gato shut. Switzerland in, and the ninth gate shut. Hindustan in, and the tenth gate shut. Siberia in and tho eleventh gato shut. All these gates are closed but one! Now, let America go in with all the islands of tho sea and all tho other nations that have called on God. Tho captives all freed. The harvests all gathered. The nations all saved. The flashing splendor of this last pearl begins to move on its hinges. Let two mighty angels put their shoulders to the gate and heave it to with silvery clang. It is done! It thunders! Tho twelfth gate shut!

Open aud Wide.

Once more I want to show you the gatekeepers. There is one angel at each one of those gates. You say that is right. Of course it is. You know that no earthly palace or castle or fortress would be safe without a sentry pacing up and down by night and by day, and if there were no defenses before heaven, and the doors set wide open with no one to guard them, all the vicious of earth would go up after awhile, and all tho abandoned of hell would go up after awhile, and heaven, instead of being a world of light and joy and peaco and blessedness, would bo a world of darkness and horror. So I am glad to tell you that, while these 12 gates stand open to let a great multitudo in, there are 12 angels to keep somo people out. Robespierre cannot go through there, nor Hildebrand, nor Nero, nor any of the debauched of earth who have not repented of their wickedness. If one of those nefarious men who dospised God should come to the gate, one of $he keepers would put his hand on his shoulder and push him into outer darkness. There is 110 place in that land for thieves and liars and whoremongers and defrauders, and all those who disgraced their race and fought against their God. If a miser should get in there, he would pull up the golden pavement. If a house burner should got in there, he would set liro to the mansion. If a libertine should get in there, he would whisper his abominations standing ou tho whito coral of the seabeach. Only those who are blood washed and prayer lipped will get through. Oh, my brother, if you should at last come up to one of tho gates and try to get through, and you had not a pass written by the crushed hand of tho son of God, the gatekeeper would, with one glance, wither you forever.

There will be a password at the gate of heaven. Do you khow what that password is? Hero comes a crowd of soiis up to tho gate, aud they say: "Let me in let me in. I was very useful on earth. I endowed colleges, I built churches and was famous for my charities, and having done so many wonderful things for the world I come up to get my reward." A voice from within says, "I never knew you." Another great crowd comes up, and they try to get through. They say: "We were highly honorable on earth, and tho world bowed very lowly before us. Wo were honored on earth, and now we como to get our honors in heaven." And a voice from within says, "I never knew you." Another crowd advances and says, "We were very moral people 011 earth, very moral indeed, and we come up to got appropriate recognition." A voice answers, "I never knew you.

The Entrance Fee.

After awhile I see another, throng approach the gate, and ono seems to be spokesman for all the rest,although their voices ever and anon cry, "Amen, amen!" This one stands at the gate and says: "Let me in. I was a wanderer from God. I deserved to die. I have como up to this place, not bccauso I doserve it, but because I have hoard that there i3 a saving power in tho blood of Jesus." The gatekeeper says, "That is the password,'Jesus! Jesus!' And they go in and surround the throne, and the cry is, "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive blessing and riches and honor and glory and power, world without end!"

I stand here .this hour to invite you into any ono of tho 12 gates. I tell you now that unless your heart is changed by tho grace of God you cannot get in. I do not care where you como from, or who your father was, or who your mother was, or what your brilliant surroundings—unless you repent of your sin aud take Christ for your divine Saviour you cannot get in. Are you willing, then, this moment, just where you are, to kneel down and cry to the Lord Almighty for his deliverance?

You want to get in, do you not? Oh, you have some good friends there. This last year there was some one who went out from your homo iuto that blessed place. They did not have any trouble getting through the gates, did they? No, they knew tho blessed password, and, coming up, they said "Jesus!" and the cry was, "Lift up your heads?, ye everlasting gates, and let them come in." Oh, when heaven is all done and the troops of God shout tho castlo taken, how grand it will be if vou and I are among them! Blessed arff'all they who enter in through the gates into the eifcj.