Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-08


heaven that news like that flies like light
ming. They will be there in an instant;
though they were in some other world on
errand from God signal would be thrown
that would fetch them. Though you might at
first feel dazed and overawed at their SUPER
nal splendor, all that feeling will be gone at
their first touch of heavenly salutation and
we will say: 30, my lost boy, 30, my lost
companion" 80, my lost friend, are we
here together?"
What scenes have been witnessed in that
reception room OF the old homestead There
met Joseph and Jacob, finding it brighter
room than anything they saw in Pharaoh s
palace; David and the little child for whom
he once tasted and wept; Mary and Lazarus
after the heartbreak of Bethany; Timothy
and grandmother Lois; Isabella Graham
and her sailor son, Alfred and George Cook
man, the mystery of the sea at last made
manifest; Luther and Magdaiene, the
daughter he bemoaned; John Howard and
the prisoners he gospelized; and multitudes
without number who, once SO weary and so
sad, parted on earth but gloriously met in
heaven. Among all the rooms of that house
there is no one that more enraptures my
soul than that reception room. "In my
Fathers house are many rooms"
BEFORE THE THRONE.
Another room in our Fathers house is
the throne room. We belong to the royal
family. The blood of King Jesus flows in
our veins, so we have. a right to enter the
throne room. 1t is no easy thing on earth
to get through even the outside door of
Kings residence During the Franco.
German war one eventide in the summer of
1870, stood studying the exquisite sculp-
turing of the gate of the TuIleries, Paris.
Lost in admiration of the wonderful art of
that gate knew not that 1 was exciting
suspicion. Lowering myeyes to the crowds
of people found myself being closely in
spected by governmental officials, who from
my complexion Judged me to be a German,
and that for some belligerent purpose 1
might be examining the gates of the palace.
Ny explanations in very poor French did
not satisfy them and they followed me long
distances until 1 reached my hotel, and
were not satisfied until from my landlord
they found that was only an inoffensive
American.
The gates of earthly palaces are carefully
guarded, and, if so, how much more severely
the throne room. A dazzling place is it for
mirrors and all costly art. No one who
ever saw the throne room of the first and
only Napoleon will ever forget the letter n
embroidered in purple and gold on the up
holstery OF chair and window, the letter N
gilded on the wall, the letter N chased on
the chalices, the letter N flaming from the
ceiling. What a confagration of briIliance
the throne room of Charles I'm
Spain, of Elizabeth of England, of
Boniface of Italy. But the throne room
our Fathers house hath a glory eclipsing
all the throne rooms that ever saw scepter
wave or crown glitter or foreign ambassador
bow, for our Fathers throne is a throne of
grace, throne of mercy, throne of holi-
ness, a throne OF justice, a throne of uni
versaf dominion. We need not stand shiv-
ering and covering before it, for our Father
says we may yet one day come up and sit on
it beside him. ITO him that overcometh
will l grant to sit with me in my throne"
You see we are
PRINCES AND PRINCEssEs.
Perhaps now we move about Incognito, as
Peter the Great in the garb of ship car
peuter at Amsterdam, or as Queen Tirzah in
the dress of peasant woman seeking the
prophet for her child's cure; but it will be
found out after while who we are when we
get into the throne room. Ayel we need
not wait until then. We may, by prayer
and song and spiritual uplifting. this mo-
ment enter the throne room. o King, live
forever! We touch the forgiving scepter
and PROSTATE ourselves at thy feet! The
crowns of the royal families of this world
are tossed about from generation to genera
tion and from family to family. There are
children years old in Berlin who have
seen the crown on three Emperors. But
wherever the coronets of this world rise or
fall, they are destined to meet in one
place. And 1 look and see them coming
from north and south and east and west, the
Spanish crown, the italian crown, the Eng
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crown, the Persian crown, aye. all the
crowns from under the great archivolt of
heaven; and while watch and wonder they
are all flung in rain of diamonds around the
pierced feet.
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run,
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore
Till sun shall rise and set no more.
Oh, that throne of Christ! "In nv
Fathers house are many rooms"
Another room in our Fathers house is the
music room. st. John and other Bible |
writers talk SO much about the music of |
heaven that there must be music there, per- |
haps not such as on earth was thrummed |
from trembling string or evoked by touch of |
ivory key, but if not that why something |
better. There are so many Christian harp |
lists and Christian composers and Christian |
and Christian choristers and Chris
tian hymnologists that have gone up from |
earth, there must be for them some place of |
especial delectation. Shall we have music |
in this world of discords and no music in |
the lard of complete harmony? 1 cannot
give you the notes nf the first bar of the new
song that is sung in heaven, 1 cannot imag-
inc either the solo or the doIology But |
heaven means music, ard can mean nothing |
else. Occasionally that music has escaped |
he gate.
DIVINE MELODIES.
DO you not hear?" "Hear what?" ex-
claimed the bystanders. "The musicl Lift |
ne upl Open the,windowp" In that music |
'oom of our Fathers house, you will some |
lay meet the old Christian masters, Mozart |
Ind Handel and Mendelssohn and Beetho-
zen and Doddridge, whose sacred
poetry was as remarkable as his sacred
,rose, and James Montgomery and William
Jowper, at last got rid of his spiritual
and Bishop Heber, wholsang of
'Greeland's Icy Mountains and India's
Coral Strand;" and DIR. Raffles, who wrote
# "High in Yonder Realms of Light" and
ssac Watts, who went to visit Sir Thomas
Abney and wife for a week and proved him
elfso agreeable q guest that they made
lin stay Sc years; and side by side, Angus
us Topledy, who had got over his dislike
or Methodists, and Charles Wesley
reed from his dislike for Calvinists; and
george W. Bethune, as sweet as a song
maker as he was great as a preacher and the
luther of "The Village Hymns" and many
rho wrote in verse or song. in church or by
ventide cradle, and many who were passion
tely fond of music but could make none
themselves. The poorest singer there more
han any earthly prima dona, and the DOOR
1u |
Oh that music room, the headquarters of
adence and rhythm, symphony and chant,
salm and antiphon! May we be there
ONE hour when Haydn sits at the keys of
ne Of his own oratorios, and David the
salmist fingers the harp, and Miriam of the
sed Sea banks claps the cymbals, and Ga
riel puts his lips to the trumpet and the
,ur-and-twenty soldiers chant, and Lind
nd Parepa render matchless duet In the
lusic room of the old heavenly homestead.
In INV Eather's houSe are MANY rooms