Milford chronicle., 1889-07-12
MILFORD, DEL, FRIDAY. JULY12 1889.

earthly prima donna, and the poorest players
there more than any earthly dottschalk.
Oil that music room, the headquarters Of
cadence ID rhythm, symphony and chant,
psalm and antiphon 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 Chaps the cymbals, and Gabriel puts his
lips to 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"
ROOMS FOR THE FAMILY.
Another room in our Fathers house will be
the family room. 1t may correspond some
what 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 all styles are there
rehearsed. Sacred room in all our dwellings,
whether it be luxurious with ottomans and
divans and books in Russian 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 as
semble and talk over the family experiences
of earth, the weddings, the births, the burials,
the festal days Of Christmas and Thanksgiv-
ing reunion VIII the children departed re-
main children therei Will the aged remain
aged therel Oh, no; everything is perfect
there. The child win 90 ahead to glorihed
maturity and the aged will 20 back to
glorified maturity. The rising sun of the one
will rise to meridian and the descending sun
Of the other will return to meridian How
ever much we love children on earth, we
you'd consider it a domestic disaster if 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 glad that they have grandly and gloriously
matured; while our parents, who were aged
and intirm here, we shall be glad to find re-
stored to the most agile and vigorous inn
mortality there If forty or forty-five or
fifty years be the apex of physical and men,
tai life on earth, then the heavenly childhood
will advance to that and the heavenly old
age will retreat to that
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
this; Did you see us in this or that or the
other struggled Did you know when we lost
our property and sympathize with usl Did
you know we had that awful sicl1nessi We're
you lowering anywhere around when we
plunged into that memorable accidentl Did
you know of our backslidingi Did you know
of that moral victoryl Were you pleased
when we started for heavenl Did you cele
brate the hour of our cOnversioni 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 biog-
raphy of ten years in heavenl They will have
to tell us the story of coronations, story Of
news from all immensely, story of conquer
0rs 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 Jehovahs ma
jestie 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 arOus-
ing that which they have to tell us of what
they have passed through since we parted.
Surely that family room will be one of the
most favored rooms in all our Fathers
house. What long lingering there, for we
shall never again be in hurry
LET me open a window" said an
humble Christian servant to Lady Rallies,
who, because of the death of her child, had
shut herself up in a 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
beautiful child that ever was seen, and liz
stead Of leaving him in this world till he
should be worn with trouble, has not God
taken him to heaven in all his beauty Leave
off weeping and let me open a window" SO
today I am trying to open upon the darkness
of earthly separation the windows aud doors
and rooms of the heavenly homestead "In
my Fathers house are many rooms.
IN CONCLUSION.
How would it do for my sermon TO leave
you in that family room todayi l am sure
there is no room in which you would rather
stay than In the enraptured circle of your as
cended and glorified kinsfolk We might visit
other rooms in our Fathers house. There
may be picture galleries penciled not with
earthly art but by some process, unknown in
this world, preserving for the next world the
brightest and most stupendOus scenes of hu-
man history And there may be lines and
forms of earthly beauty preserved for heaven
ly inspection in something whittier and chaster
and richer than Venetian sculpture ever
wrought. Rooms beside rooms. Rooms over
rooms. Large rooms Majestic rooms, opal
escent rooms, amethystine rooms in my
Fathers house are many rooms"
hope none Of US will be disappointed about
getting there. There is a room for US il we
will 90 and take it, but in order to reach it it
is absolutely necessary that We take the
right way and Christ is the way; and We
must enter 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 hour the
clock now strikes, and the only second the
one your watch is now ticking hold in my
hand a roll of letters inviting you all to make
that your home forever. The New Testament
is only roll. Of letters inviting you, as the
spirit Of them practically says: my dying
yet immortal child in earthly neighborhood, l
have built for you a great residence 1t is
full Of rooms. have furnished them as no
palace was ever furnished Pearls are moth
ing, emeralds are nothing, chrysophrasus is
nothing; illumined panels Of sunrise and sun
SET, nothing; the aurora of the northern
heavens, nothing with the splen-
dor with which have garnitured them. But
you must be clean before you can enter there,
eGd so l have opened a fountain where yoE
may wash all your sins away Come now
Put your weary but cleansed feet on the up
ward pathway. Do you not see amid the
thick foliage on the heavenly hilltops the old
family homesteGdp "In my fathers house
are many rooms.
Trees aud the Rainfall.