The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-18


Alfred and George Coolmnn. the
mystery Of the sea at last made manifest:
Luther and Hagdnlene, the daughter he be.
mosned; John Howard and the prisoners
whom he goepehsed; and rnultitudes without
parted on earth bat gloriously met in heaven
Among All the rooms OF that house there IL
no one that moro enrapturcs my soul than
that reception-room. I'm my Fathers house
are many rooms.n
Another room in our Fathers house Is tho
throne ROOM We belong TO the royal fam
lily. The blood Of King Jesus flows in our
veins, 30 we have right 10 enter tho thrvna
room. IL Is no easy thing on earth 10 get
through even the outside door Of Kings
residence. During the Franco German war,
one evcntide in tho summer Of 1870, stood
studying the exquisite scuipturing Of tho
gate Of the Tuilerics, Paris. Lost In admira-
tion OF the wonderful art Of that gate know
not that was exciting suspicion. Lower
ing my eyes TO the crowds Of people I
found myself being closely inspected by
governmental officials VIII. from my COM
piexion Judged me 10 be German. and thas
Tor some belligcrent purpose might bo OK
amining tho gatos OF the palace Ny ex-
plantations In very poor French did not
satisfy them and they followed me long dis-
tances until / reached my hotel, and were
not satisfied until from my landlord thoy
found that / was only an inoffensivo Anfsri-
can. The gates OF earthly palaces are caro-
fully guaydcd, and II so, how much moro
severely the throne room. A dazzling place
| N IL for mirrors and all costly art No
| ono who ever saw the throne OF the first ard
only Napoleon will ever forget the letter N
embroidered In purple and gold on tho up
| holstery OF chair and window, the letter N
| gilded on the wall, the cttor N chased on the
chaliccs, the letter flaming from the cell
| ing. What conflngration of brilliancc tho
| throne room OF Charles Imman,el Of SARDINIA,
| OF Ferdinand of Spain, Of Elizabeth Of Eng
land, of Bonfacc o. Italy, But tho throne
| room OF our Fathers house hath a
| glory eclipsing all tho throne rooms that over
| saw sccptcr wavo or crown glitter or foreign
| Ambassador bow, for our Fathers throne IL
n throne of grace, throne mercy, u
throne OF holiness, a throne OF justice, n throSs
OF universal dominion. We need not stand
| shivering and covering before IL, for our
Father says We may yet one day come up aud
sit on 1t beside Him. 10 him that overcpm-
eth will grant 10 sit with Me in My throne"
| You 500 we are Princes and PrinccSses.
Perhaps now ve move about incognito as
Peter the Grcat In the garb Of q ship carpen-
| dress OF n peasant woman seeking the prophet
for her child's cure; but IL will be found out
after awhile who we are when we get into
| the throne room. Ayol we need not wait
until then. We may by prayer and
song and spiritual uplifting this mo-
L
live foreveri We touch the forgiving
scepter and PROSTATE ourselves at Thy feetl
| The crowns OF the royal families of this
world are tossed about from generation ~
generation and from family TO family.
There are children four years old In Berlin
| who have seen the crown on three Empcrors.
| But wherever the coronets OF this world rise
or fall, they are destined 10 mecs in one place.
| And look and see thcm coming from north
aud south and cast and west, the Spanish
crown, the Italian crown, the English crown,
the Turkish crown, the Russian crown, tho
Persian crown, aye, all tho crowns from un-
der the great archivolt Of heaven; and whild
watch and wonder they are all hung IN rain
| or diamonds around tho pierced feet
jesus shall reign wher'er the sun
| His kingdom stretch from shore TO shore
| TIL sun shnll rise and set moro.
Oh, that throne room OF Christi SIN my
Fathers house are many rooms"
Another room in our Fathers house is the
music room. St. John md other Bible
writer's talk so much about the music OF
heaven that thore must be music there,
perhaps not such as on earth was thrummed
from trembling string or evoked by
touch OF ivory key, but IL not that, then
something better. There arc so many
Christian harpists and Christian com.
posers and Christian organists and Christian
choristers and Christian hymnoloa,ists that
them some place OF especial delectation.
Shall We have music in this world Of discords
and no music In tho land OF complete har
nonyf cannot givo you tho notes of the
frst bar OF the new song that In sung in
heaven. / cannot imagine either the solo or
the doxology. But heaven means music, and
can mean nothing else. Occasionally that
music has escaped tho gate. Or. Fuller
dying at Beaufort $. c., said: "Do you
not hearr' Hear whstr exclaimed
the bystanders. "The musici Lift IN,
upl Open tho windowsr In that MUSHROOM
or our Fathers house, you will some day
meet the old Christian masters, Mozart and
Handel and MendelSsohn and Beethoven and
Doddridge, whose sacred poetry was as TO
msrkable as his sacred prose and Jame.
Montgomery and William Cowpcr, at last
got rid OF his spiritual melancholy, and
Bishop Heber, who sang of "Greenland's icy
mountains and lndia's coral strand;n and
DIR. Rallies, who wrote OF High in yondcr
realms of light and Isaac Watts
who went TO visit Sir Thomas Abney
and wife for week but proved himself So
agreeable n guest that they made him stay
Toplady, who has got over his dislike for
Methodists, and Charles Wesley freed from
his dislike for Calyinists; and Georgs w
Bethune rs sweet rs n song maker rs he was
great as a preacher and the suthor OF "The
Village Hynns;n and many who wrote in
verse or song, in church or by eventide
cradle, and many who were passioDatsly
fond Of music but could make none them
solves. Tho poorest singer thore more than
any earthly prima donna, and the
poorest players thero more than
any earthly Gottschalk. Oh that muse
room, the headquarters Of cadence and
ythm, symphony and chant psalm and
sntiphonl May we DO there some hour when
Haydn sits at tho keys OF ono Of his own or
storios, and David the psalmist fingers the
harp, and Miriam OF tho Red sea banks claps
the cymbals, and Gabriel puts his lips 10 the
trumpet and tho four nd-twenty soldiers
chant, and Lind and Parcps render match
less duet in the music loom OF the old beav-
emily homestead. "In my Fathers house arc
many rooms"
Another room in our Fathers house will be
the family room. IL may correspond some
what with the family room on earth. A,
morning and evening you know, that Is tho
place We now meet. Though every member
OF tho household havo separate room
In tho family room they all gath
er and joys and sorrows md export
encos Of all styles are there rehearsel. Sa-
cred room in all our dwollingsl Whethe- it
he luxurious with ottomans aud diyans and
books in Russian lids standing In mahogany
case, or there bo only a few plain chairs
and n cradle. SO tho family room on high
viii be tho place where tho kinsfolk assem-
bic and talk ovor tho family experiences Of
earth, tho weddings, the births, the burials