Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-07-20

bar Of the new song that is sung IN
heaven, | cannot imagine either the solo
or the doxology. But heaven NEAR
music and can mean nothing else. Occa.
s~ionally that music has escs ped the gate.
DR.. Fuller dying az Beaufort, s. c., said:
do you not hear?' Hear WHAT ex-
claimed the bystsnders. THE music!
Lift me up! Open the window In
that music oom of our Fathers house,
you will some day meet the old Christian
masters. Mozart and Handel and Men
delsshohn and Beethoven and bod
ridge, whose sacred poetry was as
remarkable as his sacred prose, and
James Montgomery and William Cow
per, at last got rid of his spiritual mel
ancholy, and Bishop Heber, who sang Of
"Greenland's icy mountains and midas
coral strand" and DR.. Rattles, who
wrote Of High in yonder realms Of
light" and Isaac Watts, h went 10
visi, Sir Thomas Abney and wife for a
week but proved himself so agreeable a
guest that they made him stay thirty-six
years; and side by side, Augustus Top
lady, who has got over his dislike for
Methodists, and Charles Wesley freed
from his dislike for Calvinists; and
George w. Bethune, as sweet as a song
maker as he was great as a preacher and
the author of The Village HYMNS
and many who wrote in verse or song, in
church or by eventide cradle, and many
who were ~passionataly fond of music
but could make one themselves. The
poorest singer there more than any
earthly prima donna, and the poorest
players there more than any earthly
Gottschalk. Oh that music ROOM, the
headquarters of cadence and rhythm,
symphony and chant, psalm and anti
phon! May we be there some hour when
Haydn sits at the keys of one Of his own
oratorios, and David the psalmist fingers
the harp, and Miriam of the Red sea
banks claps the cymbsls, and Gabriel
puts his lips 10 the trumpet and the four
and.twenty soldiers chant, and Lind and
Parepa render matches duet
in the music room Of the old heavenly
homestead. in my Fathers house are
many rooms
Another room in our Fathers house
will be the family room. II may cor
respond 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, and joys and sorrows
and experiences Of al styles are there
rehearsed. Sacred room in all our
dwellings! Whether il be luxurious with
ottomans and divans and books in Rus
sian lids standing in mahogany 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 Ass amble
and talk over the family experiences of
earth, the weddings, the births. the bur
ials, the fes.al days Of Christmas and
THANKSGIVING reunion. Will the chill
dren departed remain children there?
VIII the aged remain aged there? Oh,
no; everything is perfect there. The
child will 90 ahead TO glorited maturity
and the aged VIII 20 back 70 gloritied
maturity. The rising sun Of the one will
Use 10 meridian and the descending sun
Of the other will return 70 meridian
However much we love our children on
earth we would consider il a domestic
disaster if they stayed children and SO
we rejoice at tueir growth here. And
when we meet In the family room Of our
Fathers house, we will be glad that they
have grandly and glor!Ously mstured;
while our parents who were aged n
intrm here, we shall be glad TO find re-
stored TO the most agile and vigorous i'm
mortality there. II forty or forty.tive
years be the apex Of physical and mental
life on earth, then the heavenly child.
hood will advance 10 that and the
heavenly old age viii retreat TO that.
When we Join them in that family
room we shall have much 10 tell them.
We shall want to know Of them right
,--a,, r,,nl tLipCc q g ithaca. ma un,1 COO
US in this or that or the other struggle?
Did you know when We lost our prop
erty and sympathize with us? Did you
know we had that awful sickness? Were
you lowering anywhere around when We
plunged into that memorable accident?
Did YOU know CT our backsliding? 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 10 tel us than we TO tell
them. Ten years on earth may be very
eventful, but what must be the biography
Of zen wears IN heaven? They viii have
70 tel us The story Of coronations,
story of news from al i'm
mensity. story Of c~onquerers and
~ultIdltus, slOly Va NAcNh'N VI IAN
somed planets, story Of angelic victory
over diabolic revo.ts, Of extinguished
sums, Of obliterated consultations, Of
new galaxies kindled ana swung, of
stranded comets, Of words on fire, and
story of Jehovah's majestic reign. If IN
that family. room Of our Father's house
we have so much 10 tell them Of what we
have passed through since we parted, how
much more thrilling and arousing that
which they have 70 tell US Of what they
have passed through since we parted.
Surely that family room will be one OF
the most favored rooms in al our
Fathers house. What long lingering
there, for we shall never again be in a
hurry. Let me open d window said
an humble Christian servant 10 Lady
Rsflies, who, because Of the death of her
child, had shut herself Up in & dark room
and refused 10 see any one; you have
been many days in this dark room. Are
you not ashamed TO grieve IL this man
ner, when you ought TO be thanking God
for having given you the most beautiful
child that ever was seen, and instead o.
leaving him in this world till he should
be worn with trouble, has no. God taker
|, him to heaven in al his beauty Leav'
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