The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-09-20

clNllcpz- the leLllI y naming Iron
ing. What a oonflagration of bril-
throne room of Charles Immanuelc
of Ferdinand of Spain, of Elizabe
land, of Boniface of Italy, But
room Of our Fathers house
glory eclipsing all the throne roomr
saw scepter wave or crown glitter
Ambassador bow, for our Fathers
a throne of grace, a throne of
throne of holiness, a throne Of Justil
of universal dominion. We need
shivering and covering before
Father says we may one day CO
sit on it beside Him. s'To him that
eth will / grant to sit with Mein NJ
You see we are Princes and !
Perhaps now we move about inc
Peter the Great in the garb of sh
ter at Amsterdam, or as Queen liz
dress of a peasant woman seeking Il
for her child's cure; but it will be +
after awhile who we are when We
the throne room. Ayel we need
until then. We may by pra
song and spiritual uplifting
ment enter the throne room.
live foreverl We touch the
scepter and PROSTATE ourselves at
The crowns Of the royal famihe
world are tossed about from gene
generation and from family Il
There are children four years old
But wherever the cOrOnets of this '
or fall, they are destined to meet in,
And look and see them coming fr
and south and cast and west, the
crown, the Italian crown, the Englh
the Turkish crown, the Russian c.
Persian crown, aye, all the crowns
der the great archivolt of heaven;
/ watch and wonder they are all flu
of diamonds around the pierced feel
Tarrfe shaTI raf-n tvher'er the sun
Docs his successive journeys run
His kingdom stretch from shore &c
TIL sun shall rise and set no more
Oh, that throne room of Christi
Fathers house arc many rooms"
Another room in our Fathers no
music room ST. John and 9th
writers talk so much about the
heaven that there must be mus
perhaps not such as on earth was tn
from trembling string or evo
touch Of ivory key, but if not th
something better There are 50 many
Christian harpists and Christian com
pOsers and Christian Organists and Christian
choristers and Christian 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 land of complete har-
monys I cannot give you the notes Of the
first bar of the new song that is sung in
lldNE 4 IdlAilOIA4LAtA IAAAIA LIZ SlAC VI
the doxology. But heaven means music, and
can mean nothing else. Occasionally that.
music has escaped the gate. Dr. Fuller
dying at Beaufort S. c., said; "DO yoN
not hearF' Hear whatr exclaini,i
the bystanders 1.-THE muSic Lift
upi Open the windowsw In that music-rs
of our Fathers house, you viii some
meet the old Christian masters, Mozart F
Handel and MendelssOhn and Beethoven,
Doddridgo, whose sacred poetry was as n.
markable as his sacred prose, and JamesS
Montgomery and William Cowper, at last
got rid Of his spiritual melancholy, and
Bishop Heber who sang Of ''Greenland's icy
mountains ard India's coral strand" and
DR. Rallies, who wrote Of ''High in yOnder
realms Of light and Isaac Watts,
who went to visit Sir Thomas Abney
agreeable guest that they made him stay
thirty-six years; and side ly side, Augustus
Toplady, who has got over his dislike for
Meth0dists, aud Charles Wesley freed from
his dislike for Calvinists: and George W. a
Bethune, US sweet as a songmaker as he waS ]
great as preacher and the author of 9Th +.
Village Hymns;n and many who wrote Z
verse or song, in church or by eventide
cradle and many who were pasSionately
fond Of music but could mako none them
selves. The poorest singer there more than
any earthly prfnla donna, and the
poorest players there more than
any earthly Gottschalk. Oh that music
room, the headquarters Of CADENCE and
rhythm, symphony and chant psalm and
autiphonl May we be there some hour when
Haydn sits at the keys OF one Of his own or
atorios, and David the psalmist fingers the
harp, and Miriam Of the Red sea banks claps
the cymbals, and Gabriel puts his liY to tho
trumpet and tho fOur-and-twenty soldiers
chant and Lind and Parepa render match
less duet in the music loom of the old heay-
emily homestead. In my Fathers holse are
many rOOns.n
Another room in our Fathers houG will be
the family room. 1t may correspond 7ome-
what with the family room on earth At
-, III g e-s.i- - Know az
place we now meet. Though every member
of the household have q separate room
in the farnily room they an gath
er and JOYS and sorrows and expert
ences of all styles are there rehearsed. Sa-
cred room in all our dwellings, Whether it
be luxurious with ottonans and divans and
books in Russian lids standing in mahogany
c;.se, or there be only a few plain chairs
and 4 cradle. So the family room on high
win be the place where the kiusfolk assem-
bic and talk over the family experiences Of
earth, the weddings. tho births the burials,
the festal days OF Christmas and Thanksgiv-
ing reunion. Will'the children departed re-
main children there2 Win the aged remain
aged therey Oh no: everything IS perfect
there. Tho child viii go ahead to glorified
maturity and the aged viii go back 30 glo-
rified maturity. The rising sun Of the one
will rise 70 meridian and the descending sun
of the other will return tn meridian. How
ever much we love our children on earth we.
would consider it a domestic disaster if they'd
stayed children and 50 we rejoice at their
growth here. And when we meet IN e
family room Of our Fathers house. we viii
be glad that they have grandly and glorious
" matured; while our parents who were
aged an6 infirm here, we shall be glad to find
restored to the most agile and vigorous i'm
mortality there. If forty or forty-live or fif-
ty years be the apex of physical and mental
life Gn the earth, then the heavenly child
hood viii advance 10 that and the heavenly
old age viii retreat to that
When we join them in that family room
we shall have much 10 tell them. We shall
want to know of them right away such
things as these: Did you see US in this or thai
or tho other struggle Did YOU know Wild 81
we lost our property and syInpathize with n
DID you know we had that awful siclmel
Were you lowering anywhere around wheS2
we plunged into that memorable accident?5
Did you know of our backsliding? Didt
you know Of that moral victory? We're
you pleased when we started for heaven? Did
lou NeltbIdle IlO hOur OF our conversion?
And then, whether they know it or not we
viii tell them all. But they will have mora
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 heavon2
They viii have TO tell us the story
OF coronations, story Of news from ali
immensely, story Of c0nquerors and
hierarchs story of wrecked OF ran
somed planets, story Of angelic victory
over diabolic revolts, OF extiGguished suns, Of
obhterated consultations, of now galaxies
kindled and swung, OF stranded comets, of
worlds on fire, and story of Jehoyah's ma
lestic reign. ii in that family room of our
Fathers house We have 50 much 10 tell them
Of what we have passed through since we
parted, how much more thrilling and arous-
ing that which they have TO tell as Of what
they have passed through since we parted.
Surely chat family room viii beone of themnst
favored rooms in all our Fathers house.
What long lingering there, for we
shall never again DO in hurry.
Let me open n window said an
humble Christian servant TO Lady RaifIes.
who, because Of the death of her child
had shut herself up in a dark room
and refused to see any one; 'iyou hnvo
been many days in this dark ~
AS you not ashamed to erieye in as
manner, when you ought to be thanking
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