The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-07-13

M~agdalena, the daughter he bemoaned;
John Howard and the prisoners whom he
gospelized; and multitudes without num-
her who, once so weary and sad, parted
on earth, bat ~gloriouSly met in Heaven.
Among all the rooms of that house there
Is no one that more enraptures my soul
thar that reception room. in my Fa-
theirs house there are many rooms"
Another room in our Fathers house Is
the throne room. We belong to the royal
family. The blood of King Je-us flows in
our veins, SO we have q right TO enter the
throne room. 1t ie no easy thing on earth
to get through even the outside door of a
kings residence. During the Franco-Ger-
man var one eventide in the summer of
1870, I stood studying the exquisite sculpt-
uriDg Of the gate of the Tuileries, Paris.
Lost in admiration of the wonderful art Of
that gate I knew not that 1 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 bel
ligerent purpose / might be examining
the gates of the palace. My explanation
in very poor French did not safety them
and they followed me long distances and
were not satisfied until my landlord told
them that 1 was only an inoffensive Amer
lean. The gates OF earthly palaces are
closely guarded, and, il so, how much
more severely the throne room.
A dazzling place 1t Is for mir
rors and all costly art. No one who aver
saw the throne room of the first and the
only Napolean will ever forget the letter
N embroidered In purple and gold Upon
the upholstery of chair and window, the
letter N gilded on the wall, the letter N
chased on the ohalices, the letter N flaming
from the ceiling. What a confiagration of
o%rilliance the throne room of Charles In
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-
sador bow, for our Fathers throne is a
throne of grace, a throne OF holiness, a
throne Of justice, a throne of universal
dominion. We need not stand shlvering
and covering before 1t for our Father says
we may yet one day come up and sit on it
beside Him. TO him that overcometh
will l 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.
Ayel we need not wait until then. We
may by prayer and song and spiritual up
lifting this moment enter the throne room.
. King, live foreverl We touch the for.
giving scepter and PROSTATE ourselves at
Thy feetl 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 ave 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 l 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 10 shore
Till sun shall rise alb set no more.
o that throne room of Christ! "In nv
Fathers house are many rooms"
Another room in our Fathers house is
the music room. st. John and other Bible
writer's talk so much about the music of
Heaven hat 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 oIganists 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 no.
give you the notes of the first bar of the
new song that Is sung in Heaven, 1 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 at Beaufort, s. c.. said: "Do you
'Hear what" exclaimed the by
ISLANDERS. "The musici 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 az
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. Rafies, who wrote of "High in
Yonder Realms Of Light" and Isaac
Watts, who went 90 visit Sir Thomas Alb
ney and wife for a week but proved him.
self SO agreeable a guest that they made
him stay thirty-six years.: n side by
slde, Augustus TopIauy. who ma got over
his dislike for Methodists, and Charles
Wesley freed from his dislike for Calvin
and George w. Bethune, as sweet as
a sons mixer as he was great as a
preacher, and the author Of The Village
and many who wrote in verse
or song, in church or by eventids candle,
and many who were passionately fond OF
but could make none themselves.
The poorest singer there more thar any
prima donna, and the poorest
there more han any earthly Gott-
o that music room. the head
quarters of cadence and rhythm, symphony
and chant, psalm and antiphonl May We
be there some hour when Haydn sits at
one of his own oratorios and David, the
psalmist, fingers the harp, and Myriam OF
the Red sea banks claps the cymbals, and
Gabriel puts his lips to the trumpet and
the four-and-twenty elders chant, and
Lind and Parepa render matchiess duet In
the music room efthe old heavenly home
stead. ''i1LHy Fathers house are many
Another room in our Fathers house will
be Che 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 a separate
room, In the family room they all gather,
aud joys and sori ows and experiences Of
all styles are there rehearsed. Sacred
room In all our dwellings, Whether 1t be
luxurious with ottomans and d,vans and
| ooks In russia lids standing In mahog-
any case, oc there be only a few plain
chairs and u Grade. So the family room
ON high will be the place where the kins-
folk assemble and talk over the family
experiences Of earth, the weddings, the
births, the burials. The festal days of
Christmas and Thanksgiving reunion.
VIII the chi dren departed remain chill
dren there? o, no.; every thing Is perfect
here. The child will go ahead to gloriAed
maturity and the aged will go back to
glorifed maturity. The rising sun Of one
will rise to meridian and the descending
sun OF the other will return 10 meridian.
However much we love our children here
on earth we would consider 1t a domestic
IL they stayed children. and so we
rejoice at their growth here. And when
we meet in the family room OF our Fathers
house, we will be g al that they have
grandIy and gloriously matured; While
our parents who were aged and inflrm
here, we shall be glad to find restored to