Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-07-08

fsHear what?'' exclaimed the bystand-
ers. 'sThe music! Lift me up, Open
the windowi,' In that music room of
our Father S house, you will some day
meet the old Christian masters, Mozart
and Handel and Mendelssohn and Bee
thoven and Doddridge, whose sacred
poetry was as remarkable as his sacred
prose, and James Montgomery and Will
liam Cowper at last got rid of his spiritual
melancholy, and Bishop Heber,s who
sang of s'Greenland s icy mountains
and midas coral strand;'' and DR..
Rallies, who wrote of thigh in yonder
realms of light - and Isaac Watts,
VINO went to visit Sir Thomas Abney
and wife for a week, but proved him
self so agreeable guest that they made
him stay thirty-six years; and side by
side Augustus Toplady, who has got over
his dislike for Methodists, and Charles
Wesley, freed from his dislike for CAL
yinists; and George W. Bethune, as
sweet as a song maker as he was great as
a preacher and the author of ''The Vii
lage Hymns;'' and many who wrote in
verse or song, in church or by eventide
cradle, aDd many who were passionately
fond of music but could make none
themselves. The poorest singer there
more than any earthly prina donna, and
the poorest players there more thany any
earthly Gottschalk Oh that music room,
the headquarters of cadence and
rhythm, symphony and chant, psalsm
and antiphonl May be there will be
there some hour when Haydn sits at the
keys of one of his own orator1os, and
David the psalmlst fingers the harp, and
Miriam of the Red sea banks claps the
oymbals, and Gabriel puts his lips to the
trumpet and the four and twenty soldiers
chant, and Lind and Parepa render
matches duet in the music room of the
old heavenly homestead. ''In my Faith
er's house are many rooms. -
ANOTHER ROOM IN OUR FATHER S HOUSE
WILL BE THE FAMILY ROOM.
1t may correspond somewhat with the
family room on earth. At morning and
evening, you know, that is the place we
now meet. Though every member of the
household have separate room, in the
family room they all gather, and joys and
sorrows and experiences of all styles are
there rehearsed. Sacred room in all our
dwelIings Whether it be luxurious with
ottomans and divans and books in Rus
sian lids standing in mahogany case,
or there be only few plain chairs
and a cradle. So the family room on
high will be the place where the kinsfolk
assembled and talk over the family eX-
per1ences of earth, the weddings, the
births, the buTiais, the festal days of
Christmas and Thanksgiving reunion.
VIII the children departed remain chill
dren there? VIII the aged remain aged
there? Oh, no; everything is per-
feet there. The child viii go ahead to
glorified maturity, and the aged will go
back to glorified maturity. The rising
sun of the one will rise to meridian and
the descending sun of the other will
return to meridian However
much we love our children on
earth we would consider it domestic dis
aster if they stayed children, and so we
rejoice at their growth here And when
we meet in the family room of our Faith
er's house we will be glad that they have
grandly and gloriously matured; while
our parents who were aged and infirm
here, we shall be glad to find restored to
the most agile and vigorous Immortality
there. If forty or forty-five or fifty
years be the apex of physical and mental
life on earth, then the heavenly child
hood will advance TO that and the heav-
emily old age viii retreat to that.
When we join them in that family room
we shall have much to tell them. We
shall want to know of them right away
such things as these: Did you see us in
this, or that, or the other struggle? Did
you know when we lost our property and
sympathize with us? Did you know that
we had that awful sickness? Were you
lowering anywhere around when we
plunged into that memorable accident?
Did you know of our backsliding? Did
you know Of that moral victory? Were
you pleased when we started for heaven?
Did you celebrate the hour of our con-
version? And then, whether they know
IT or not, we will tell them all. But they
will have more to tell us than we to tell
them. Ten years on earth. may be very
eventful, but
WHAT MUST BE THE BIOGRAPHY OF TEN
YEARS IN HEAVEN?
They will have to tell us the story of
coronations, story of news from all i'm
mensity, story of conquerors and hier-
archs, story of wrecked or ransomed
planets, story OF angelic victory over
diabolic revolts, of extfnguished suns,
of Obliterated consultations, OF new
galaxies kindled and swung, of stranded
comets, of worlds on fire, and story, of
jehovah IS majestic reign. If in that
family room 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
arousing 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 lingering there, for we shall never
again be in a hurry. 'fLet me open
window, - said an humble Christian SER
want TO Lady Raffies, who, because of the
death of her child, had shut herself
up in dark room and refused to see
anyone; ''you have been many days in
this dark room. Are you not
ashamed TO grieve in this manner,
when you ought to be thanking God
for having given you the most beautiful
child that ever was seen, and instead of
leaving him in this world till he should
be worn with trouble, has not God taken
him 70 heaven in all his beauty? Leave
off weeping and let me open window -
So to-day 1 am trying TO open upon the
darkness of earthly separation the
windows and doors and rooms of the heav-
emily homestead. ''In my Fathers
house are many rooms. -
How would it do for my sermon TO |