The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-18

want 10 know Of them right away such
things as these; Did you see us In this or that
or tho other struggief Did you know when
rsiost our property and sympathizc with usi
Did you know we had that awful sickncssi
Were You lowering anywhere around when
wcplunged into that memorable accidcnti
Did you know OF our backslidingf Did
you know OF that moral victoryi Were
you pleased when we started for heavenf Did
you celebrate the hour OF our conversioni
And then, whether they knowit or not, we
will tall them all. But they will have mors
TO tell us than we 10 tell them. Ten years on
earth may be very eventful, but what must
be the biography Of ten years In heaveni
They will have 70 tell us the story
of coronations story of news from all
hierarchs story Of wrecked or ran,
somed planets, story OF angelic victory
over diabolic revolts OF extingulshed suns, Of
obhtersted consultations, OF now gslaxies
kindled and swung, of stranded comets, OF
worlds on fire. and story of Jchovahs ma.
ieetic reign. II in that family room Of our
Fathers house we have % much TO tell them
or what wo have passed through since we
parted, how much moro thrilling and arous-
ing that which they have 10 tell ms Of what
they have passed through since wc parted
Surely that family room win be ono Of the most
favored rooms in all our Fathers house.
What hong lingering there, for w
shall never again be In a hurry
Lot mo open window said an
humble Christian servant 10 Lady Rafiee
who, because OF the death OF her child,
bad shut herself up in a dark room
and refused TO see any one; '.you hnys
been many days in this dark room.
Arc you not ashamed TO grieve IN this
manner, when you ought 10 bc thankina
God for having given you tho most bosud
ful child that ever was scen, and instead OF
leaving him In this world till he should be
worn with trouble, has not God taken him 30
heaven in oil his boautyf Leave OF weeping
and let mo open n window" SO to-day am
trying to open upon the darkness Of earthly
separation tho windows and doors and rooms
OF tho heavenly homestead. "In my Fathers
house are many rooms"
How would IL do for my sermon TO leave
you in that family room to-dayt am sure
| there is no room in which you would rather
stay than In the enraptured circle OF your us
condcd and glorifled kinsfolk. We might
visit other rooms in our Fathers house. There
may be picture galleries ponciled not with
earthly art but by somo process
| unknown IN this world, prcserv.
ing for tho ncxt worli tho bright
| est and most stupendous scenes OF human his
tory. And there may be lines and forms Of
earthly beauty preserved for heavenly in
| spection IN something whittier and chastcr and
richer than Venetian sculpture over wrought.
| Rooms beside rooms. Rooms over rooms.
Largo rooms. Majestic rooms, opalescent
rooms, amethystinc rooms SIN my Fathers
house are many roomSn
/ hope mono OF us win be disappointed
about getting there. There il q room for n,
II we Will go and takc IT, but in order 10 reach
1t " Is absolutely necessary that we tacc tho
right way; and Christ is the way: and we
must enter at the right door, and Christ Il
the door; and we must start in time, and tha
| only hour you are sure OF IL the hour the cloch
now strikes and the only second the ono your
watch Is now ticking / hold In
my hand roll OF letters inviting you oil
10 make that your home forever. The Now
! Testament is only a roll OF letters inviting
you, as tho spirit OF them practically says:
MY dying yet immortal child In earthly
ncighborhood, have built for you . great
residence. IL Is full OF rooms l have
furnished them rs no palace was ever fur
nished. Pearls are nothing, emeralts are
nothing, chrysophraSis is nothing; illu-
mined panels OF sunrise and sunset,
| nothing; tho aurora OF the northern
heavens, nothing with the splen-
| dor with which l have garniturcd them.
/ But you must bc clean before you can enter
| there, and SO l have opened fountain
where you may wash all your sins away:
| Como nowl Put your weary but cleansel
fcct on tho upward pathway, Do you not
SEQ amid tho thick foliage on tho heavenly
hill-tops the old family homosteadp "Ir
| NV Fathers house arc manv rooms"