Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-07-18

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were in some other world on errand from
! God signal would be thrown that would
fetch them. Though you might at first
feel dazed and overawed at their super
natural splendor, ell that feeling will be
gone at their first touch of heavenly
salutation and you will say: 20. my lost
boy" 20, my lost companion" 30, my
lost friend, are we here together"
What scenes have been witnessed in
that reception room Of the old homestead!
There met Joseph and Jacob, finding it a
brighter room than any thing they saw in
Pharoah's palaceS David and the little
child for whom he once tasted and wept;
Mary and Lazarus after the heartbreak of
Bethany; Timothy and Grandmother Lois;
Isabella Graham and her sailor son, Al
fred and George Goodman. the mystery of
the sea at last made manifest; Luther and
Magdalena, the daughter he bemoaned;
John Howard and the prisoners whom he
gospelized; and muItitpies without num-
Der who, once so weary and sad. parted
on earth. but gloriousiy met in Heaven.
Among all the rooms of that house there
is no one that more enraptures my soul
than that reception room. "In my Fa-
TIERS house there are many rooms"
Another room in cur Fathers house is
the throne room. We belong to the royal
family. The blood of King Jesus flows in
our veins, so we have right 10 enter the
throne room. 1t is no easy thing on earth
TO get through even the outside door of
kings residence. During the Franco-Ger-
man war one eventide IN the summer of
1870, stood studying the exquisite sculpt-
uring of the gate of the Tuileries, Paris.
Lost in admiration of the wonderful art of
that gate I knew not that / was exciting
suspicion. Lowering my eyes to the
crowds of people / found myself being
closely inspected by governmental Off
Gals, who from my complexion judged me
to be a German, and that from some bell
ligerent purpose l might be examining
the gates of rhe palace. Ny explanation
in very poor French did no: satisfy them
and they followed me long distances and
were not satisfied until my landlord told
them that was only an inolfensive Amer
lean. The gates of earthly palaces are
closely guarded, and. if so, how much
more severely the throne room.
dazzling place IT is for mir
roTs and all costly art. No one who ever
saw the throne room OF the first and the
only Napolean will ever forget the letter
y embroidered in purple and gold upon
the upholstery of chair and window, the
letter y gilded on the wall, the letter
chased on the chalices, the letter v flaming
from the ceiling. What confagration of
brilliance the throne room of Charles I'm
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
throne of grace, a throne of holiness
throne of justice, a throne of universal
dominion. We need not stand shivering
and covering before it 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 nv throne"
YOu see we are princes and princesses.
Perhaps now we move about incognito, as
Peter the Great in the garb of ship car
penter at Amsterdam, or as Queen Tirzah
in the dress Of a peasant woman seeking
the prophet for her chld's cure; but it
will be found ont after awhile who we are
when we get into the throne room.
Aye! we need not wait until then. We
may by prayer and song and spiritual up
lifting this moment enter the throne room.
o King, live forever. We touch the for
giving scepter and PROSTATE ourselves at
Thy feet! The crowns of the royal fam- |
lies of this world are tossed about from |
generation to generation and from family |
to family. There are children four wears |
Did in Berlin who have seen the crown on |
hree Emperors. But whenever the coro- |
nets of this world rise or fall, they are |
destined 10 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 |
Inder the great archivolt of Heaven; and !
while 1 watch and wonder they are all |
lung 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 to shore
Till sun shall rise and set no more.
that throne room of Christ. ''In my
Fathers house are many rooms"
Another room in our Fathers house is
he music room. St John and other Bible
writer's talk so much about the music of |
Heaven that there must be music there
perhaps not such as was on earth
hrummed from trembling string or
evoked by touch of ivory key, but if not
hat then something better. There are so
many Christian harDists and Christian
composers and Christian organists and
Christian choiristers and Christian hymn
,logists that have gone up from earth
here must be for them some place of es-
1ecial delectation. Shall we have music
n this world of discords and no music in
he land of complete harmony: / can not
rive you the notes of the first bar of the
lew song that is sung in Heaven, l can
Tot imagine either the solo or the dox-
,logy. But Heaven means music, and can
mean nothing else. Occasionally that
music has escaped the gate. DR.. Fuller
lying at Beaufort, S. c., said: "Do you
lear"' Hear whatw exclaimed the by
tanders. 'The music! Lift me up!
open the windoww
In that music room of our Fathers
ouse you will some day meet the old
'hristian masters, Mozart and Handel
nd Mendelssohn and Beethoven and
whose sacred poetry was as
emarkable as his sacred prose, and James
montgomery and William Cowper, at last
.ot rid of his spiritual melancholy, and
Iishop Heber, who sang OF "Greenland's
CIV Mountains and India's Coral Strand;"
nd DR.. Raffies, who wrote of High in
yonder Realms of Light" and Isaac
Watts, who went to visit Sir Thomas Alb
ey and wife for week but proved him
elf so agreeable guest that they made
i'm stay thirty-six years: and side by
ide, Augustus Toplady. who has got over
is dislike for Methodists, and Charles
Wesley freed from his dislike for Calvin
SITS; and George W. Bethune, as sweet as
song maker as he was great as