Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1889-07-25

erty and sympathixe with us? Did Won
know We had that awful sickness? We're
You lowering anywhere around when We
plunged into that memorable accident?
Did you know of our bhcksliding? 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 NAV
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
hierarchs, story of wrecked or ran
somed planets, story of angelic victory
over diabolic revolts, of extinguished
suns, of obliterated considerations, of
new galaxies 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 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 will be one of the most favored
rooms in all our Fathers house. What
long lingering there. for we shall never
again be in hurry. Let me open a
window" said 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
any one; 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 beauti-
full child that ever was seen, and in
stead of leaving him in this world till
he should be worn with trouble, has
not God taken him to Heaven in all
his beauty? Leave off weeping and
let me open a window" So to- day 1
am trying to open upon the darkness of
earthly separation the windows and
doors and rooms of the Heavenly home
stead. In my Fathers house are many
rooms"
How would it do for my sermon to
leave you in that family room to- day?
am sure there is no room in which you
would rather stay than in the enrap-
tured circle of your assembled and glori-
fed kinsfold. We might visit other
rooms in our Fathers house. There
may be picture galleries penciled not
with earthly art but by some process un-
known in this world, preserving for the
next world the brightest and most stu
pendous scenes of human history. And
there may be lines and forms of earthly
beauty preserved for heavenly inspection
in something whittier and chaster and
richer than Venetian sculpture ever
wrought. Rooms beside rooms. Rooms
over rooms. Large rooms. Majestic
rooms, opalescent rooms, amethystine
rooms. In my Fathers house are many
rooms"
l hope none of us will be disap-
pointed 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 We take the right way,
and Christ is the way; and We must en-
ter 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 Sec
Ond the one your watch is now ticking.
l hold in my hand roll of letters invit-
ing you all to make that you home for
ever. The New Testament is the 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 great residence.
1t is full of rooms. l have furnished
them as no palace was ever furnished.
Pearls are nothing. emeralds are moth
ing, chrysophrasus is nothing; illu-
minded panels of sunrise and sunset,
nothing; the aurora of the northern
Heavens, ncthing-compared with the
splendor with which l have garnitured
them. But you must be clean before
you can enter there, and so I have
opened fountain where you may wash
all your sins away. Come now! Put
your weary but cleansed feet on the up
ward pathway. Do you not see amid
thick foliage on the Heavenly hill tops
the old family homestead" I'm my
Fathers house are many rooms"