Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-07-19
got over his dislike for Methodists. and

got over his dislike for Methodists, and
Charles Wesley freed from his dislike
for Calvinists; and George w. Bethune,
as sweet rs a song maker as he was great
as 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 passionately
fond of music but could make none
themselves. The poorest singer there
more than any earthly prima donna, aud
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
when Haydn sits at the keys of one of
his own oratorios, and David the psal-
mist 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 matchless duet
in the music room of the old Heavenly
homestead. In my Fathers house are
many rooms.
When we join them in that family
room we shall have much to tell them.
We shall want to know of them right
away such things as these: Did you see
Did you know when we lost our prop
erty and sympathize with us? Did you
( know we had that awful sickness? We're
you lowering anywhere around when we
| plunged into that memorable accident?
Did you know of our bhcksliding? 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 to tell us than we
to tell them. Ten years on earth may
be very eventful, but what must be the
They will have to tell us the story of
coronations, story of news from all i'm
mensity, story of conquerors and
hierarchs, story of wrecked or ran
somed planets, story of angelic victory
over diabolic revolts, of extinguished
suns, of obliterated consultations, of
new galaxies kindled and swung, Of
stranded comets, of worlds on fire, and
story of Jehovah's majestic reign. If
in that family room of our Fathers
house We have SO much to tell them of
what We have passed through since
we parted, how much more thrilling
and arousing that which they have to
tell us of what they have passed through
room will be one of the most favored
rooms in all cur Fathers house. What
long lingering there. for we shall never
again be in hurry. Let me open q
window" said humble Christian SER
want to Lady Ratfies, who, because of
the death of her child, had shut herself
up in dark room and refused to see
any one; you have been many days
in this dark. room. Are you not
ashamed to grieve in this manner,
when you ought to be thanking God
for having given you the most beauti-
full child that ever was seen, and in
he should be worn with trouble, has
not God taken him to Heaven in all
his beauty? Leave off weeping and
let me open window" So to-day l
am trying to open upon the darkness OF
earthly separation the windows and
doors and rooms of the Heavenly home
sread. In my Fathers house are many
rooms"
How would it do for my sermon to
leave you in that family room to- day?
am sure there is no room in which you
would rather stay than in the enrap-
tured circle of your assembled and glori-
fed kinsfold. We might visit other
rooms in our Fathers house. There
|
with earthly art but by some process un-
known in this world. preserving for the
next world the brightest and most stu
pendous scenes of human history. And
there may be lines and forms of earthly
beauty preserved for heavenly inspection
in something whittier and chaster anc
richer than Venetian sculpture evel
wrought. Rooms beside rooms. Room.
over rooms. Large rooms. Majesti.
rooms, opalescent rooms, a,nethystine
rooms. I'm my Fathers house are many
rooms"
u l hope none of ue will be disap.
pointed about getting there. There is
a room for us if we will go and take it
necessary that we take the right way
and Christ is the way; and we must en-
ter 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 hou1
the clock now strikes and the only sec.
ond the one your watch is now ticking
hold in my hand roll of letters invit.
ing you all to make that you home for.
ever. The New Testament is the only
roll of letters inviting you, as the spirit
of them practically says: My dying YET
immortal child in earthly neighborhood
I have built for you great residence
IL is IuII OIL rooms. nave IurnlsheC
them as no palace was ever furnished
Pearls are nothing, emeralds are moth.
ing, chrysophrasus is nothing; illu.
minded panels of sunrise and sunset
nothing; the aurora of the northern
Heavens, nothing-compared with the
splendor with which / have garniturec
them. But you must be clean before
you can enter there, and SO I have
opened fountain where you may WASH
all your sins away. Come now! Pu
your weary but cleansed feet on the up.
ward pathway. Do you not see amit
thick foliage on the Heavenly hill tops
the old family homestead?" I'm my
Fathers house are many rooms"
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