The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-08

Russian lids standing in mahogany case.
or there be only q few plain chairs
aud q cradle. 80 the family room on high
will be the place where the knsfolk asssl
bic aud talk over the family experiences OF
earth, the weddings the births, the burials,
the festal DAYS of Christmas and Thanks
giving reunion. viii the children departed
remain children therel VIII the aged re-
main aged theres Oh. no; everything
is perfect there. The child viii 60 ahead to
glOrifisd maturity and tine aged will go
back TO glorified maturity. The rising sun
Of the one will rise to meridian and the do
scending sun Of the other will
return to meridian However
much we love our children on
earth we would consider it a domestic dis
aster il they stayed children and So we re-
jo.ce at their growth here. Aad when we
meet IN the family room of our Fathers
house, we will be glad that they have
grandly and gloriously matured; while our
parents who were aged aud infirm here, we
shall be glad to find restored to the most
agile and vigorous immortality there. II
forty or forty-five or fifty years be the apex
of physical and mental life on earth, then
the heavenly childhood will adva &c to that
and the heavenly Old age will 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 struggled Did you know
when we lost our property and ympathize
with US! Did you know we hal that awful
sickBessl Were you lowering anywhere
around when wa plunged into that memoir
able accidentl Did you know Of
our backsliding! Did you know
OF that moral victoryi We're
YOU pleased when we started for
heavenl Did you celebrate the hour Of our
conversionl 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 heavenl They will have to tell us
the story Of coronations, story of news from
all immensely, story Of conquerors and
hierarchs, story of wrecked or ram
somed planets, story of angelic victory
over diabolic reyolts. Of eXtingulshed suns,
Of obliterated consultations, Of new gal
axies kindled and swung, Of stranded comets,
Of worlds on fire, and story Of Jehovah's
majestic reign. If, in that family room of
our Fathers house, we have 50 much to tell
them Of what we have p ,ssed 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 will 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. LET me open a window"
said on humble christian servant to
Lady Rafaes, who, because of the death Of
her child, had shut herself up in dark
room and refused to sea anyone; "you have
been many days in this dark room. Are
you not ashamed to grisve 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 to
hraven in all his beauty! Leave off weep
ing and let me open window" So to-day
| am trying 10 open upon the darkness of
earthly separation the windows and doors
and rooms of the heavenly homestead. "Iu
my fathers hou are many rooms"
How would it do for my sermon to leave
you in that family room to-dayi | am sure
there is no room in which you would rather
stay than in the enraptured circle of your
assembled and gloritie1 kinsfolk. We might
visit other rooms in our Fathers house
There may be picture galleries penciled not
with earthly art but uy some process I'M
known in this world, preserving for the next
world the brightest a d most stupe dous
scenes of human history. And there may
be lines and forms of earthly beauty pre-
served for heavenly inspection in something
whittier and cnaster and richer than Venetian
sculpture ever wrought. Rooms beside
rooms. Rooms over rooms. Large rooms.
Majestic rooms. Opalesceut rooms. Anne
thystine rooms. "In my Fathers house are
many rooms"
l hope none of us will be disappointed
about getting there. There is a room for
us if we will 60 and take it, but in
order to reach it it is absolutely necessary
that VIC take the right way, and Christ is
the way; and we must enter at the right
d or, and Christ is the door; and we must
start in time, and tho only hour you are
sure Of is the hour the clock now strikes
and the only second the one your watch is
now ticking. | hold in my hand roll of
letters inviting you all to make that your
home forever The New Testament is only
roll of letters inviting you, as the spirit
of thom practically says: my dying yet
immortal child i'll earthly neighborhood
| have built for you a great residence.
1t is full of rooms. | have furnished them
as no palace was ever furnished. Pearls
are nothing, emeralds are nothing, chryS-
ophrasu, is nothing; iilumined panels OF
sunrise and sunset, nothing; the aurora OF
the northern heavens, nothing-compared
with the splendor with which | have gar
injured them. But you must be clean be-
fore you can enter there and so | have
opened fountain where you may wash al
your sins away. Come now! Put your
weary but cleansed feet on the upward path.
way. Do you not see amid the thick foiiag
on the heavenly I'LL tops the old family
homestead In my Fathers house are
many rooms"
HE WAS SCARED TO DEATH.