The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-07-19

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mortal history-the first kiss of HeavenI
Iesns and the soul The soul and Jesus.
Rut now into that reception room pour
the glorious kinsfolk. Enough of earthly
to let you know them, but with" :
ont their wounds or their sickness OF their
troubles. See what Heaven has done for
them. So rad liant, so gil eful, so trans"
nortinglv lovely. They call you by name.
THEW greet you with an ardor proper
toned to the anguish Of your parting ana
the length of your separation. tather
Mother! There is your child SlsterS1
Brothers! Friends! l wish you JOY. For
wears apart together again IN the recep'
tion room of the old homestead. \ GU see
thew will know you are coming 1here
are SO many immortals I'll ing all the
spaces between here and Heaven that
news like that flies like lightning. Ihey /
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 at nrsU
feel dazed and overawed at their super
natural splendor, ell that feeling VIII De
gone at their first touch of heavenly
salutation and you will say: 20, my loSt
bov.n 80, my lost companion" ~, 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, hndlng IL
brighter room han any thing they saw III
| Pharoah's palace; David and rhe little
| child for whom he once lasted and wept;
| Mary and Lazarus after the heartbreak OF
BETHANY: Timothy and CT andmOther Lois;
Isabella Graham and her sailor son, Al
| fred and George Cookman the mystery or
| the sea at last made manifest; Luther and
| Mapdalena, the daughter he bemOaned;
| John Howard and the prisoners whom ne
gospelized; and multitu les without num-
Der who, once so weary and sad parted
| on earth, but gloriou y met In Heaven
Among all the rooms of that house there
is no one that more enrapturos my soul
| than that reception room. In my Ia
| theirs 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 Je US flows IN
our veins, so we have q right TO enter the
throne room. 1t is no easy thing on earth
to get through even the outside door or a
kings residence During the Franco-Ger-
man war one eventide IN the summer OF
1870, | stood studying the exqu site sculpt-
uring Of the gate of the IulIerles Paris.
Lost in admiration Of the wonderful ART or
that gate knew not that l was exciting
suspicion. Lowering my eyes to the
crowds of people l found myself being
closely inspected by governmental ott1-
Gals. who from my complexion judged me
to be a German, and that from some bel
ligerent purpose | might be examining
J the gates of the palace. My explanation
in very poor French did not satl~fy 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 mucf
r more severely the throne room
8 A dazzling place 1t is for MIR
i rors and all costly art. No one who eve
o saw the throne room of the first and tn
d oalv Napolean will ever forget the lette
:. N embroidered in purple and gold upol
% the upholstery of chair and window, tn
3 letter X gilded on the wall, the letter
@ chased on the chalices, the letter n famin
u from the ceiling. What a confagration G
3 brilliance the throne room of Charles I'm
n manual, Of Sardinia; of Ferdinand, G
IL Spain; of Elizabeth, of Eng and; of Bonl
% face, of Italy. But the throne room of on
n Fathers house hath a glory ecipslng a
ID the throne rooms that ever saw scepte
70 wave or crown glitter, or foreign ambaE
" sador bow, for our Fathers throne Is
re- throne of grace a throne of holiness,
Id throne of Justice, a throne of uuivers
ia dominion. We need not stand shiverin
i'd and covering before it for our Father say
| we may yet one day come up and sit on
r beside Him. ITO him that OvercOmet
SO will grant to sit with me in my throne.
You see we are princes and princesse
re Perhaps now we move about incognito,
IN Peter the Great in the garb of ship ca
f. penter at AIMS terdam, or as Queen Ilrza
1g in the dress of a peasant woman seeklr
v the prophet for her chjld's cure; but
IN will be found out after awhile who we a
r. when we got into the throne room.
nd Ave! we need not wait until then. v
Id may by prayer and song and spiritual u
n lifting this moment enter the throne ROOF
a o King, live forever! We touch the fc
en- giving scepter and PROSTATE ourselves
he Thy feet! The crowns Of the royal fan
srs lies of this world are tossed about fro
rs. generation to generation and from fami
is to family. There are children four yea
&C. old in Berlin who have seen the crown
the three Emperors. But whenever the cor
the nets of this world rise or fall they 6
i've destined to meet in one place. And 10
will and see them coming from north and sou
and east and west, the Spanish crown, I
are Italian crown, the English crown,
al. Turkish crown, the Russian crown,
lay Persian crown, aye, all the crowns fir
lost under the great archivolt Of Heaven; a
and while | watch and wonder they are
. is flung in rain of diamonds around I
YES pierced feet.
res Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
any Does his successive journey run,
! ba His kingdom stretch from shore 10 shO
- Till sun shall rise and set no more.
~ o that throne room of Christ! In
10, Fathers house are many rooms"
10 Another room in our Fathers hous
, ~ the music room. St. John and other B
: ~ writer's talk so much about the musi
,rss Heaven that there must be music th
perhaps not such as was on ca
,;. thrummed from trembling string
evoked by touch of ivory kew, but If
-, that then something better There ar
many Christian harpists and Christ
composers and Christian oGganists
-. Christian choiristers and Christian hyl
- ologists that have gone up from et
e.. there must be for them some place OF
| veciaI d. feCtatiOn. Shall we have N