Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-11-27
Mistrllanu.
Our Heavenly H-me.
By REV. y. c. BASS.

Home The richest and sweetest of all
words. More than :" mother In telling
Of heaven even we reach the climax %
Ii is the place dearest to the heart. q. b -
ever so humble there is no place Ike
home" Ii is the hearts theme
An earthly home means rest, peace,
safety. comfort. Ii IS the object Of n
toiling in this world Where one aspire
TO be rich or honored, hundreds are trying
20 secure homes. La all the planning aud
hurryIng and driving of business, a home
near or remote IN time, is calculated upon
And IN the pleasant Afternoon Of lie, o.
which all love to dream, We all want O.
come home and there watch the setting sun
and lengthenIng shadows, aud enjoy the
long twilight with angels Of botn w1rl a.
m,nrsrerung to u. and thence ere deepesr
night comes on we wish to 90 from hgmt
to home-angeIs in flesh watching the
" earthly house" angels in white lead ~
rs 10 the Fathers house.
We know not the place of that home
1t 70 somewhere, AMI prob Al it Is tn
best place in all the un verse. He VINO
prepares the place would have TOD u
where il is if thereby we shou i hav,
gained any valuable knowledge Tne ex-
iste, &c Of such home was the important
matter, and 1t was declared. B assed fact
Aud We do well to mediate upon that
home.
IL is within the reach of all There
are many manstons." Mt so IN this world
Here the myrlads are homeless-the over
whelming IN jIrity can call no place on
earth my home" Tney lodge where night
overtakes them, or, If sheltered now. they
may be unsheItere to-morroE, and a year
at longest is very likely TO see them adrilr
sgan. Bat in the joint heirship with
Christ it will be found that - there IS room
enough in paradise for all to have a home
in glory"
Tnat home is secured by inheritance,
not by purchase or earning. An ancestral
home! Its ownership never passed out
of the family. Some on earth live where
they can say our father and our father :
father lived here" I5ut with all the iu,t an
cesrral pride IN such home there are causes
of peculiar sorrow too Not ouly the an
cestral roof is there, but ancestral graves
are there. Not so in the heavenly home
1t 10 ancestral, but all that have IL. ed be-
fore are living still, and will live forever
with the dew of eternal youth upon them.
IL will be a permanent home The
heart gets weary with MS worlds changing
D. for place TO stay! 4 home IN winch
to abide till moved by death Let me be
assured that this roof shall be my shelter
these grounds my walks, these vines and
flowers my pastIme, till | have done with
time here let my altar stand aud nv
secret devotions here be be off ired, til !
tave done with prayer and praise below :,
here let angels come to strengthen and
comfort me when weak, aud tried and
tempted and hence let me 90 at last
But, alas! Wit foods and fires and de
cay, " know not what shall been the NOR
row But to occupants in the ." building
Of God, house not made with hands,
eternal IN the heavens there comes no
dlslster forever. The wild tornado never
sweeps d" the table lands OF glory" There
leases never expire, rent day never comes.
and change of Ow' ers never takes place
As the Indian tribe, driven from northern
hunting grounds and wandering southwark
WAS halted one day By its chef striking
his staff into the ground and saying, Ala
bsms,' SO the chId OF God coming up
from his weary aud home ess sojourn ~,
on earth will say - here | rest at home
Mt last, at home forever.