Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-07-08

much more severely the throne Io0m. A
dazzling place is il for mirrors and all
costly srt. No one who ever saw the
throne room of the first and only Nspo.
leon, will ever forget the letter N en-
broideried in purple and gold on the up
bolstery of chair and window, the letter N
gilded on the wall, the letter n chased on
the chalices, the letter n famine from the
ceiling. What copf3gration of brilliance
the throne room of Charles Immanusl of
Sardinia, Of Ferdinand of Spain, OF Eliza
beth, of Eogland, OF Bonifsce OF Italy.
But the throne room of our Fathers house
hath glory eclipsing all the throne rooms
that ever saw scepter wave or foreign am
bassador bow, for cur Fathers
throne is q throne Of grace, a
throne Of mercy, throne OF
holiness, throne of justice, q throne Of
universal dominion. We need not stand
shiverirg and covering before it, for our
Father says we may yet one day come mp
and sit on il beside Him. "To him that
overcometh will l grant TO sit with me in
my throne"
AMONG MUSICIANS.
Another room in our Fathers house is
the music room. st. John and other BIZ
bic writer's talk so much about the music
of heaven that there must be music there,
perhaps not such as on earth was thrummed
from trembling string or evoked by touch
of ivory key, but if not that, then some
thing better. There are so many Chris
tian harpists and Christian composers
and Christian orgsnIsts and Christian
choristers and Christian hymnolSists
that have gone up from earth,
there must be for them some place OF espe-
cial delectation. Shall we have music
In this world of discords and not
music in The land of complete harmony? l
cannot give you the notes OF the first bar
of the new song that ia sung in heaven, l
cannot 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 at Beaufort, s. O., said: DO you
not heaI?r "Hear what?" exclaimed the
bystanders. "The music! Lift me up
Open the windoww In that music room
of our Fathers house you will some day
meet the old Christian masters, Mozart and
Handel and MendelssOhn and Beethoven
and DOddridge, whose sacred p-etry was
IS 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 Gfeenland's
icy mountains and India's coral strand,
and DR.. Rsfilss, 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 himself
40 agreeable a guest that they made him
stay thirty-six years; and side by side,
Augustus Toplady, who has got over his
dislike for Methodists, ind Charles Wes-
lev freed from his dislike for Calvinists;
and George w. Bethune, as sweet song
maker as he was great as a preacher and
the author of "Villsge Hymns" and
many who wrote in verse or song, in
church or by eventide cradle, and many
who we're psssionately fond OF music bat
could make none themselves. The poor
eet singer there more than any earthly
prima dona, and the poorest players there
more than any earthly Gottschalk. On
that music room, the headquarters OF ca
dence and rhythm, symphony and chant,
psalm and antiphon. May We be there
some hour when Haydn sits at the keys oil
one of his own oratoTiOs, and David the
psalmist fingers the harp, and Miriam Of
the Red sea banks claps the cymbals, and
Gabriel puts his lips to the trumpet and
the four-and.tWenty soldiers chant, and
Lind and Parepa render mstchless duet in
the music room of the old heavenly home
stead. sin my Fathers house are many
rooms"
THERE WILL BE A FAMILY ROOM.
Another room in our Fathers house will
be the family room. 1t may correspond
somewhat with the family room on earth.
At morning and evening, you know, that
is the place we now meet. Though every
member of the household have separate
room, in the family room they all gather,
and Joys and s0rrows and experiences, oil
all styles are there rehearsed. Sacred
room in all our dwellings! Whether 1t be
luxurious with ottOmans and divans and
books in Russian lids standing in mahoga-
ny case, or there be only a few plain chairs
and a cradle. SO the family room on high
will be the place where the kinsfolk as
semble and talk over the family experien-
ces Of earth, the weddings, the births, the
burials, the iestal days of Christmas and
Thanksgiving reunion. Will the children
departed remain children thert2 Will the
aged remain aged there2 On, no;
everything is perfect there. The
child will go ahead to glorfied maturity
and the aged will 60 back to glorified ma
turity. The rising sun Of the one will rise
to meridian and the descending sun OF the
other will return to meridian. However
much we love our children on earth we
could consider il a 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 grsndly and
gIoriously matured; while our parents who
were sged and infrm here, we shall be
glad to find restored TO the most agile and
vigorous immortality there IL forty or
foTty-fve or fifty years be the apex ofphys-
icsl and mental life on earth, then the
heavenly childhood will advance to that
and the heavenly old sge will retreat to
that.
hope none of rs will be disappointed
about getting there. There is room for us
if we will 90 and take it, but in order to
reach il it is absolutely necessary that we
take the right way, and Christ is the way
and we must entsr at the right door, and
Christ is the door; and we must start in
time, and the only hour you are sure OF ia
the hour the clock now strikes and the
only second the one your watch is row
ticking. l hold in my hand roll OF let
ters inviting you all TO make that your
home forever. The New Testament
is only roll Of letters invit'
ing you, the spirit Of them
practically says: "My dying yet immortal
child in earthly neighborhood, have built
for you a great residence. II is full OF
rooms. | have furnished them as no
pslace was ever furnished. Pearls are
nothing. emeralds are nothing, chryto-
phrasus is nothing; illuminated panels OF
sunrise and sunset, nothing; the aurora OF
the northern heavens, nothiDg-compsred
with the splendor with which have gar
injured them. But you must be clean De-
fore you can enter there, and 30 nave
opened a fountain where you may wash
all your sins away. Come nov! Put your
weary but cleansed feet on the uPHsru
pathway. Do you not see amid the tniSS ICE
foliage yn the heavenly hill tops tns .L.'a oiu
family homestesd?' "In my Fsthei
house are many rooms.
r,uv rozv freshness, and q yelyety soft