The Penn's Grove record., 1889-07-27
rHE PANTY poox.

IL may Correspond somewhat with the
family room on earth. At mornine and
evening, you know, that is the place We
now meet. Though every member of
the household have a separate room, in
the family room they all gather, and
Joys n sorrows and experiences Of all
styles are there rehearsed. Sacred room
in all our dwellingsl whether it be lux
urious with ottomans and divans, and
books In Russian lids standing in
mahogany case, or there be only a
few plain chairs and q cradle. So the
family room on high will be the place
where h kinsfolk will assemble and
talk over the family experiences of
earth. the weddings, the births, the
burials, the festal days Of Christmas
and Thanksgiving reunion. Will the
children departed remain children there?
Will the aged remain aged there? Oh
no; everything is perfect there. The
child viii go ahead to glorifed maturity,
and the aged will go back to glorified
maturity. The rising sun of one will
rise to meredian, and the descending
sun of the other will return to meridian.
However much We love our children on
earth we would consider it q domestic
disaster If they stayed children, and 80
we rejoice at their growth here. And
when we meet in the family room of our
Fathers house, we will be glad that
they have grandly and gloriously ma
tured; while our parents, who were aged
and infirm here, we shall be glad TO find
restored to the most agile and vigorous
immortality there. II forty or forty.
five or fifty yearsbe the apex of physical
and mental life on earth, then the hea-
venly childhood will advance to that,
and the heavenly old age will retreat to
that. When we join them in that family
we shall hane
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
struggle? Did you know when we lost
our property, and sympathize with us?
Did you know we had that awful sick
ness? We're you lowering anywhere
around MS when we plunged into that
memorable accident? Did you know
of our backsliding? Did you know of
that moral victory? We're you pleased
when we started for heaven? Did you
celebrate the hour of our conversion?
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 event
full, but what must be the biography of
ten years in heaven? They will have
to tell us the story or corOnations, story
Of news from all immensely, story Of
conquerers and hierarchs, story of
wrecked or ransomed planets, story of
angelic victory over diabolic revolts, of
extinguished suns, of Qbliterated con-
of new galaxies kindled and
swung, of stranded comets, ofworlds on
fire, and story of Jehovah's majectic
If in that family room of our
house We have so much to tell
them of what we have passed through
since we parted, how much more thrill
ing and arousing that which they have
to tell us of
wHAT THEY HAVE PASSED THROUGH
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 o hurry "Let me open a
WllluOW, SAT- hu uuulDic SuIlbblha ccI-
want to Lady Rafies, who, because of
the death Of her child, had shut herself
up in q dark and refused to see
anyone: .syou have been many days in
dark room. Are you not ashamed
to grieve 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
in this world till he should be worn
with trouble, has not God taken him to
heaven n all his beauty? Leave off
weeping, and let me open a window"
So to-day l am trying to open upon the
darkness of earthly separation the win
dows and doors and rooms of the heav-
emily homestead. "In my Fathers house
are many rooms"
How would it do for my sermon to
leave you in that family room to-day? /
sure there is no DON in which you
would rather stay than
IN THE E~NRApTURED cmcLE
of your assembled and glorifed kinsfolk.
We might visit other rooms in our
Fathers house. There may be picture
galleries penciled not with earthly art
but by some process unknown in this
world, preserving for the nextworld the
brightest and most OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of
human history. And there may be
lines and forms of earthly beauty pre-
served for heavenly inspection in some
thing winter and chaster and richer
than Venetian sculpture ever wrought.
Rooms beside rooms. Rooms over
rooms. Large rooms, majestic rooms,
opalescent rooms, amethystine rooms.
SIN my Fathers house are many
1 hope none of us will be disappoint-
ed about getting there. There Is q room
for MS if we will go and take it, but in
order to reach it, it is absolutely neces-
sary that we take the right way, and
Christ is the way; and we must enter 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 second
the one your watch is now ticking. l
hold in my hand a roll of
LETTER. INVITING You
all to make that your home forever. The
New Testament is only a roll of letters
inviting yOus as tne SplrAt VI tueIu prdc-
tically says: "My dying, yet immortal
child in earthly neighborhood, l have
builtfor you q great residence. 1t is
full of rooms. / have furnished them as no
palace was ever furnished. Pearls r
nothing, emeralds are nothing, chryso-
is nothing; illumined panels Of
sunrise and sunset nothing; the anrora
of the northern heavens, nothing-com-
pared with the splendor with which I
have garnitured them. But You must
be clean before you can enter there, and
SO / have opened a fountain where you
wash all your sins away. Come
nowl Put your weary but cleansedfeet
on the upward pathway. Do you not
see amid the thick foliage on the heav-
emily hill-tops the old family homestead?'
..In my Fathers house are many
rooms"
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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