Christian herald and signs of our times . ts them onand he wears them in the presence of the wholeuniverse. He wears them on the hand thatwas nailed, over the heart that was pierced, onthe temples that were stung. They shall bemine, saith the Lord, in the day when I makeup my jewels. Wonderful transformation !Where sin abounded grace shall much moreabound. The carbon becomes the solitaire. The crystal cannot equal it. Now, I have no liking for those people whoare always enlarging in Christian* meetingsabout their early dissipation. Do not go intothe particulars, my brothers. Simply say youwere
Christian herald and signs of our times . ts them onand he wears them in the presence of the wholeuniverse. He wears them on the hand thatwas nailed, over the heart that was pierced, onthe temples that were stung. They shall bemine, saith the Lord, in the day when I makeup my jewels. Wonderful transformation !Where sin abounded grace shall much moreabound. The carbon becomes the solitaire. The crystal cannot equal it. Now, I have no liking for those people whoare always enlarging in Christian* meetingsabout their early dissipation. Do not go intothe particulars, my brothers. Simply say youwere sick, but make no display of your chief stock in trade of some ministers andChristian workers seems to be their earlycrimes and dissipations. The number of pock-ets you picked and the number of chickens youstole poor prayer-meeting that, it discourages other Christianpeople who never got drunk or stole it is pleasant to know that those who werefarthest down have been brought highest The Great Tabernacle Windows. Out of infernal^ serfdom into eternal of darkness into light. From coal to thesolitaire. The crystal cannot equal it, But, my friends, the cnief transforming pow-er of the Gospel will not be seen in this worldand not until heaven breaks upon the that light falls upon the soul then youwill see the crystals. Oh, what a magnificentsetting for these jewels of eternity ! I some-times hear people representing Heaven in away that is far from attractive to me. It seemsalmost a vulgar Heaven as they represent itwith great blotches of color and bands of mu-sic making a deafening racket. John representsHeaven as exquisitely beautiful. Three crys-tals. In one place he says : Her light waslike a precious stone, clear as crystal. In an-other place he says : I saw a pure river frontunder the throne, clear as crystal. In anotherplace he says : Before the throne there was asea of glass clear as crystal. Three
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