Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1889-07-14

w inter palace, IN my llAeFa mouse
are many rooms" Carrying out still
further the symbolism Of tie text let
us join hands aud go up To ills majes-
tic Homestead and see for ourselves.
WE WILL DE UsHERED ~.
As we ascend the golden steps, an
invisible guarlsman swings open the
front door aud We are U8hered 10 the
right into the reception room Of the
old homestead. That is the place where
we first meet the welcome Of heaven.
There must be place where the
departed spirit enters and place in
which il confronts the inhabitants ce.
lestial. The reception room Of the new
ly arrived from this world-what
scenes it must have witnessed since the
first guest arrived, the victim OF the first
fratricide, pious Abel. In that room
Christ lovingly greeted all new com
ers. lie redeemed them and he has
the right 10 the first embrace on their
arrival. What a minute wheY the
ascended spirit first sees the Lord.
Better than all we ever read about
him or talked about him or sang
about him in all the churches and
through all our earthly lifetime, will
il be, Just for one second 10 see him.
The most rapturous idea we ever had
of him on sacramental days or at the
height of some great revival or under
the uplifted baton OF an oratorio are a
bankruptcy of thought compared with
the irst flash Of his appearance in that
reception room. At that moment when
you confront each other Christ look
ing upon you and you looking upor
Christ, there will be an ecstatic thrill
and surgingof emotion that beggars all
description. Look They need no in
PRODUCTION. Long ago Christ chose
that repentant sinner and that repent
ant sinner chose Christ. Mightiest
moment of an immortal history-the
first kiss of heavenl Jesus and the
soul. The soul and Jesus.
But now into that reception room
pour the glorifed kinsfolk. Enough
of earthly retention TO let you know
them, but without their wounds or
their sicknesses or their troubles. See
what heaven has done for them. So
radiant, SO gleeful, so transportIngly y
lovely. They call you by name. TEey
greet you with an ardor proportioned
to the anguish OF your parting and
the length of your separation. Fatherl
Motherl There is your child. Sisters
Brothers. Friendsl Iwish you JOY,
For years apart, together again in the
reception room of the old Homestead
You see they viii know you are com.
ing. ?here are so many immortals
filling all the spaces between here and
heaven that news like that flies like
lightning. They will be there in an
instant; though they were in some
other world on errand from God a
signal would be thrown that would
fetch them. Though you might al
first feel dazed and overawed at their
supernal splendor all that feeling
will be gone at their first touch OF
heavenly salutation and we will say
20 my lost boy" 20 my lost compan
ion, 20 my lost friend, are we her
togetherf What scenes have beer
witnessed IN that reception room o.
the old homestead There met JOSEPH
and Jacob, finding il brighter room
than anything they saw in Pharaoh''
palace; David and the little child fol
whom be once tasted and wept; Mary
and Lazarus after the heartbreak OF
Bethany: Timothy and grandmother
/ Lois; Isabella Graham and her sailor
son, Alfred aud George Goodman, the
rIystery Of the sea at last made mani
fest; Luther and Maglllene, the
daughter he bemoaned; John Howard
and the prisoners whom lie goSpeliZed
and mulutudCs without number who
once So weary and so sad, parted or
earth but glor0usiy met IN heaven
I Among all tho rooms Of that hoUs
tEctc i no one that moro eurapt1Te
my soul Nan that reception room
"In NV Fatbor's house nra man!
/ rooms
WI Aha oV TIE ROYAL fA1mN,
( Another room in our Fathers bous
Is tlo throne room We belong to Lh
royal family. The blood ot klus
Jesus flows ia our veins, 50 We hayo
right TO enter the throne rodin. IL !
no easv thing on earth 20 get through
even the outside door of a kings resi-
dence. During the Frana0-Gcrma1
war one evcnlle in the SUMMER o.
1870. ] stood studying the exquisite
sculpturing Of the gate Of the Tuller
les Paris, Lost in admiration Of tht
wonderful art Of that gate | knew no
that | was exciting suspicion. Lower
ing my ewes 10 the crowds OF people
fo1nd'mysclf beingelosely inspected by
Governmental officials, who from mn
eomplexion Judged me 10 be a Ger
man. and that for some belbgeren
pirposc | might be examining th
patcs OF the palace. NY explanation
IN very poor French did not satisf
tbem nnd they followed nae long di.
tances until | reached my hotel, an,
were not satisfied until from my land
lord they found thatl was only an in
offensive Amcrican The gates o
earthly palace are carefully guarded
and. II so, how much more severely
the throne room, 4 dazzling place !
IL for mirrors and all costly art. M
one who ever saw the throne room o
the hrst and only Napoleon will eve
forget the letter N embroidered In pur
| pie and cold on tho upholstery o.
| chair and window, the letter N glide,
on the wall, tho letter n chased on thl
chalices. the letter N flaming from th
ceiling. What conilagration o
brilliance the throne room Of Charlie
Emmanuel OF Sardinia, Of Fcrdinan,
of Spain, Of Elizabeth of England, o
os!faca of italy. But tho thron