New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-07-17

gIoriously maturesI; while our parents who
were aged and 1nfrm here we shall beglad to
find restored to the most agile and vigorous
mortality there. II 40 or 45 or 80 years be
the apex oil physical and mental life on earth
then the heavenly childhood will advance to
that and the heavenly old age viii retreat to
that.
When we JOIN them in that fanliIy-roam we
shall have much to tell them We shall
want to know OF them right away such things
us these: Did you see us in this or that
OF the other struggle Did you
know when we lost our property
and sympathize with u.s. Did you know IRE
had that awful sieSnesss Were you hover
ing anywhere around when we plunged into
that memorable accident Did you know of
our baekstIdings Did you know of that
moral victory Did you celebrate the hour
of our conVeFsione And then. whether they
know 1T or rot, we will tell them all But they
have more to tell us then we to tell them
Ten years on earth may be very eventfuI,
but what must be the biography of ten years
IN heaven? They will have to tell us the
story of eoronatlons, story of news from all
immensely story of eonquerors and her
archs. story of wicked or rsinsomed planets,
story OF angelic victory over diaholieaI re-
volts, of extinguished suns, of op}iterated
consultations of new gaIaxies kindIed and
swung, OF stranded comets, OF worlds on fire
anu SGOTy OF Je0OFanS maleSIIc reign. Ii
that family OF our fathers house we
have so much to tell them of what we have
passed through since We parted how much
more thrilling and arousiDg that which they
have to tell us of what they have passed
through since we parted. Surely that family
room VIII be one of the most favored rooms
IN all our fathers house. What long linger-
ing there, for we shall never again be in
hurry. Let me open a window" said d hum
bic fhristian servant to Lady Rafffes. who,
because of the death of her child. had shut
herself up In a dark room and refused to see
any one. tSI lou have been many days in this
dark room. Are you not ashamed to grieFe
IN this manner when you ought to be thank
ing God for having given you the most
seautIful child that ever was seen- and in
stead of leaving him IN this world till he
should ne worn with trouble has not God
taken him to heaven in all his beauty Leave
off weeping and let me open q window. So
today am trying to open upon the dark
ness OF earthly separation the windows and
doors and rooms of the heavenly homestead.
> In my father S house are many rooms
HowwouId it, 10 for my sermon to leave you
in that fam1ly-foou to-day9 [ am sure
there is no room IN which you had rather
stay than IN the enraptured circle of your
assembled and glorifed kins folk. We visit
other rooms in our fathers house. There
may be picture galleries pencilad not with
this world. preserving for the next world the
brightest and most stupendous scenes of
human history. And there may be Ines and
forms of earthly beauty preserved for
heavenly inspection in something winter and
ehaster ami richer than Venetian sculptor
ever wrought. Rooms beside rooms. Rooms
over rooms Large rooms. Majestic rooms,
amethy stine rooms. in my fathers house
are many rooms"
| hope none of US will be disappointed
about getting there. There is a room for US
II we will go and take it, but In order to
reach it it is absolutely necessary
that we take the right way, and Christ
is the way; aud we must enter at the right
door. and Christ is the door; and we must
start IN time, and the only hour you are sure
of is the hour the clock now strikes and the
only second the one your watch is now tick
ing. hold IN my hand 81 roll of letters in
v1tlng you all to make that your home for
ever. The new testament is only roll of
letters, inviting you as the spirit of them
practically says: My dying yet immortal
child in earthly neighborhood. have built
for you a great residence. It is full of
was ever furnished. Pearls are nothing,
emeralds are nothing, ehrysophrasus is
nothing; iilumined panels of sunrise and
sunset, nothing; the aurora of the northern
heavens, nothing compared with the spIen-
dor with which [ have garnitured them
But you must be clean before you can enter
there, and SO [ have opened a fountain where
you may wash all your sins away. Come
now! Put your weary but cleansed feet on
the upward pathway. Do you not see amid
the thick foliage on the heavenly hill-toPs
the only family homestead ssIn my
father house are many rooms"