The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1889-07-11

harpists and Christian composers and |
Christian organisis and Christian |
choristers and Christian hymnolo- |
gists that have gone up from earth,
there must be for them some place OF
especial de,ectation. Shall we have
music in this world of discords and no
music in the land of complete har-
mony? cannot give you the notes
of the first bar of the new song that
is sung in heaven, cannot imagine
either the solo or the doxology. But
heaven means music, and can meaa
nothing else. Occasionally that music
has escaped the gate. DIR. Fuller dy-
ing at Beaufort, S. c., said: do you
not hear2" Hear whati" exclaimed
the bystanders. THE musicl Lift me
up! Open tho Window" In that
music room Of our Fathers house.
you will some day meet the old Chris
tian masters, Mozart and Handel AMI
Mendelssohn and Beethoven and bod
dridge, whose sacred poetry was as
remarkable as his sacred prose, and
James Montgomery and William
Cowper, at last got rid of his spiritual
melancholy, and Bishop Heber, who
sang of "Greenland's icy mountains
and India's coral strand" and DIR.
RafIies, who wrote of High in yonder
realms of light" and Isaac Watts,
who went to visit Sir Thomas Abney
and wife for week but proved him
self SO agreeable guest that they
made him stay thirty-six years;
and side by side, Augustus Top
lady, who has got over his dislike
for Methodists, and Charles Wesley
freed from his dislike for Calvinists; !;
and George w Bethune, as sweet as
song maker as he was great as a
preacher and the author of THE Viii
lage Hymns" and many who wrote In
verse or song, in church or by eventide
cradle, and many who were passionate
| ly fond of music but could make none
themselves. The poorest singer there
more than any earthly prima Gonna,
and the poorest players there more
than any earthly Gottschalk. On
that music room, the headquarters of
cadence and rhythm, symphony and
chant, psalm and antiphon May
we be there some hour when Haydn
sits at the keys of one of his own or
atorios, and David the psalmist fin.
gers the harp, and Miriam of the Red
sea banks claps the cymbals, and Ga
briel puts his lips to the trumpet and
the four ur-and-twenty soldiers chant
and Lind and Parepa render match
| less duet in the music room OF the ole
heavenly homestead. I'm my Fa
theirs house are many rooms.
ROOMS FOR THE FAMILY.
Another room in our Fathers house
will be the family room. 1t may cor
respond somewhat with the family
room on earth. At morning and even
ing, you know, that is the place We
now meet Though every member O
the household have q separate room
in the family room they all gather
and joys and sorrows and experience:
of all styles are there rehearsed
Sacred room in all our dwellings
Whether it be luxurious with otto
mans and divans and books in Rus
sian lids standing in mahogany case
or there be only a few plain chair
and cradle. So the family room Oh
high will be the place where the kins
folk assemble and talk over the fam
lily experiences of earth, the weddings
. the births, the burials, the festal day
of Christmas and Thanksgiving re
union. Will the children departe
remain children there2 Will tn
aged remain aged there2 Oh, no
everything is perfect there. TIL
child will go ahead to glor
fed maturity and the aged Wi
; go back to glorified maturity. Th
; rising sun of the one will rise to me
ridian and the descending sun of th
other will return to meridian. How
ever much we love our children O
earth we would consider it domesti
disaster if they stayed children and s
E We rejoice at their growth here. An
when we meet in the family room {
!, our Fathers house, we will be gla
$ that they have grandly and gloriousl
, matured; while our parents who WEI
f aged and infirm here. we shall /
!, glad to find restored to the most agil
: and vigorous Immortality there. !.
f forty or forty-five or fifty years be tt
j apex of physical and mental life O
q earth, then tho heavenly childhoo
a will advance to that and the heavenl
{ old age will retreat to that.
9 When we join them in that fanil
! room we shall have much to tell then
{ We shall want to know of them rigl
o away such things as these: Did yo
. see us in this or that or the 9TH
9 struggles Did you know when v
!, lost our property and sympathize wit
:. us9 Did you know we had that awf'
E sickness2 Were you lowering an
6 where around when we plunged in
u that memorable accidents Did ye
= know of our backsliding2 Did ye
- know of that moral victory2 We
. you pleased when we started f
- heaven2 Did you celebrate the ho'
II Il of our conversion2 And then, wheth
- they know it or not, we will tell the
all. But they will have more to te
5 us than we to tell them. Ten yea
>, on earth may be very eventful, b
= 2 what must be the biography of t.
= years in heavena They will ha
" to tell us the story of cor
Il nations, story of news from {
# immensely, story of conquerors al
70 hierarchs, story of wrecked or ra
q somed planets, story of angelic victo
l. over diabolic revolts, of extinguish'
II suns, of obliterated consultations,
r new galaxies kindled and swung,
p stranded comets, of worlds on fire, al
| SUOfy vi JcllONdii D 1udJcStlS ISIph.
d in that family room of our Fathe
l. house we have 50 much to tell the
l. of what we have passed through sin
'r we parted, how much moro thrilli
10 and arousing that which they have
r tell us of what they have pass
20 through since we parted Surely IL
family room will be one of the M
IA favored rooms in all our Fathe
n house. What long lingering the
"a for we shall never again be in
10 hurry. LET me open a windo,
a. said an humble Christian servant
q, Lady Raffles, who, because of
rs death of her child, had shut hers
Oh up in a dark room and refused to
d any one; "you have been many d'
d. in this dark room. Are you
ashamed to grieve in this mann
when you ought to be. thanking c
for having given you the most bea'
full child that ever was seen, and
stead of leaving him in this world