The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1889-07-19

God q signal would be thrown that would
fetch them. Though you might at first
feel dazed and overawed at their super.
natural splendor. all that feeling will be
gone at their first touch Of heavenly
salutation and you will say: 20. my lost
boy" 80, my lost companion" 20, my
lost friend, are we here together"
What scenes have been witnessed in
that reception room Of the old homestead
There met Joseph and Jacob. finding it
brighter room than any thing they saw in
Pharoah's palace; David and the little
child for whom he once tasted and wept;
Mary and Lazarus after the heartbreak of
Bethany; Timothy and Grandmother Lois;
Isabella Graham and her sailor son, AL
fred and George Goodman. the mystery Of
the sea at last made manifest; Luther and
Magdalena, the daughter he bemoaned;
John Howard and the prisoners whom he
gospelized; and multitudes without num-
Der who, once so weary and sad, parted
on earth. but gloriously met in Heaven.
Among all the rooms of that house there
is no one that more enraptures my soul
than that reception room. I'm my Fa-
theirs house there are many rooms"
Another room in cur Fathers house is
the throne room. We belong to the royal
family. The blood of King Jesus flows in
our veins, so we have a right to enter the
throne room. 1t is no easy thing on earth
to get through even the outside door of
kings residence During the Franco-Ger.
man war one eventide in the summer of
1870, stood studying the exquisite sculpt-
uring of the gate of the Tuileries. Paris.
Lost in admiration Of the wonderful art of
that gate knew not that l was exciting
suspicion. Lowering my eyes to the
crowds of people l found myself being
closely inspected by governmental OFF,
Gals, who from my complexion judged me
to be a German, and that from some bell
ligerent purpose l might be examining
the gates of the palace. My explanation
in very poor French did not satisfy them
aud they followed me long distances and
were not satisfied until my landlord told
them that was only an inoffensive Amer
lean. The gates of earthly palaces are
closely guarded, and, if so, how much
more severely the throne room.
A dazzling place it is for mir.
rors and all costly art No one who ever
saw the throne room Of the first and the
only Napoean will ever forget the letter
| the upholstery of chair and window, the
chased on the chalices, the letter N flaming
from the ceiling. What confagration of
| brilliance the throne room Of Charles I'M
manual, of Sardinia; of Ferdinand, of
Spain; of Elizabeth, of Eng and; of Boni-
face. of Italy. But the throne room of our
| Fathers house hath a glory eclipsing all
| the throne rooms that ever saw scepter
| wave or crown glitter. or foreign ambas-
| eador bnxv for onr Eathorts fhrouo ia a
throne of grace, throne Of holiness, a
| throne of justice, q throne of universal
dominion. We need not stand shivering
and covering before it for our Father says
we may yet one day come up and sit on it
beside Him. ITO him that overcometh
will grant to sit with me in my throne"
You see We are princes and princesses.
| Perhaps now we move about incognito, as
Peter the Great in the garb of a ship car.
penter at Amsterdam, or as Queen Tirzah
| in the dress of a peasant woman seeking
the prophet for her child's cure; but it
will be found out after awhile who we are
when we got into the throne room.
Ave! we need not wait until then. We
may by prayer and song and spiritual up
| lifting this moment enter the throne room.
| o King, live forever! We touch the for.
giving scepter and PROSTATE ourselves at
| Thy feet! The crowns of the royal fami-
| lies of this world are tossed about from
generation to generation and from family
to family. There are children four years
| old in Berlin who have seen the crown on
| three Emperors. But whenever the coro-
nets of this world rise or fall, they are
| destined to meet in one place. And l look
and see them coming from north and south
| and east and west, the Spanish crown, the
Italian crown, the English crown, the
Turkish crown, the Russian crown, the
Persian crown. aye, all the crowns from
| under the great archivolt Of Heaven; and
while 1 watch and wonder they are all
flung in rain Of diamonds around the
pierced feet.
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journey run,
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore
Till sun shall rise and set no more.
o that throne room Of Christ! "In my
Fathers house are many rooms"
Another room in our Fathers house is
the music room. St John and other Bible
writers talk so much about the music of
| Heaven that there must be music there,
perhaps not such as was on earth
thrummed from trembling string or
evoked by touch of ivory key, but if not
that then something better. There are so
many Christian harpists and Christian
composers and Christian Organists and
Christian choiristers and Christian hymn
ologists that have gone up from earth
there must be for them some place of es-
pecial delectation. Shall we have music
in this world of discords and no music in
the land Of complete harmony: / can not
give you the notes of the first bar Of the
new song that is sung in Heaven, can
not imagine either the solo or the dox-
ology. But Heaven means music, and can
mean nothing else. Occasionally that
music has escaped the gate. DR.. Fuller
dying a Beaufort. s. C., said: "Do you
hear." "Hear what" exclaimed the by
ISLANDERS. "The music! Lift me up!
Open the window"
In that music room Of our Fathers
house you will some day meet the old
Christian masters. Mozart aud Handel
and Mendelssohn and Beethoven and
Doddridge. 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. Rallies, who wrote of High in
Yonder Realms of Light" and Isaac
Watts, who went to visit Sir Thomas Abb
ney 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 Calvin
lists; and George w. Bethune, as sweet as
song maker as he was great as a
preacher. and the author Of 1.-THE Village
Hymns" and many who wrote in verse