The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-07-25

lreSs of q peasant woman seeking the prophet
or her chlld's curei but it will be found out
.fter awhile who we are when We get into
.St throne room; Ayel we need not wait sns
,ong and spiritual uplifting this mo-
nent enter the throne room. o King,
i've foreverl We touch the forgivng
scepter and PROSTATE ourselves at Thy feetl
The crowns Of the royal families OF this
world are tossed about from generation to
generation and from family to family. |
There are children four years old in Berlin |
who have seen the crown on three Emperors.
But wherever the coronets of this world rise
Dr. fall, they are destined 10 meet in one place.
And 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, tho
Persian crown aye, all the crowns from UNI
der the great archivolt of heaven; and while
l watch and wonder they are all flung in rain
Of diamonds around the pierced feet.
Jesus shall reign wherer the sun
Does his successive Journeys run,
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore
TIL sun shall rise and set no moro.
Oh, that throne room of Christi SIN my
Fathers house are many rooms"
Another room in our Fathers house is tho
music room. st. John and other Bible
writer's talk so much about the music Of
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 are so many
Christian harpists and Christian COM
posers and Christian organists and Christian
choristers and Christian hymnologists that
have gone up from earth, there must be for
them some place of especial dedication.
Shall we have music in this world of discords
A., 10, thn Of at.l
mony? | cannot give you the notes of tho
first bar Of the new song that is sung In
heaven. cannot imagine either the soho or
the doxology. But heaven means music, and
can mean nothing else. Occasionally that
music has escaped the gate. DR.. Fuller
dying at Beaufort, S. c., said: "Do you
not hear:" 'Hear whatg exclaimed
the bystaaders. ''Thc musicl Lift ms
Ipl Open the windowsn In that MUSHROOM
Of our Fathers house, you will some day
meet the old Christian masters, Mozart and
Handel aud Mendelssohn and Beethoven aud
Doddridge, whose sacred poetry was as re-
markable as his sacred prose, and james
Montgomery and William Cowper, at last
got rid Of his spiritual melancholy, and
Bishop Heber, who sang of "Greenland'S icy
mountains and India's coral strand" and
DR.. Raffles, who wrote of High in yonder
realms of light" and Isaac Watts,
who went to visit Sir Thomas Abney
and wife for week but proved himself so
agreeable guest that they made him stay
thirty-six years; and side by side, Augustus
Topiedy, who has got over his dislike for
Methodists, and Charles Wesley freed from
his dislike for Calvinists; and George w.
Bethune, as sweet as a song maker as he was
great as preacher and the author of 1.-THE
Village Hymns" and many who wrote in
verse or song, in church or by eventide
H., otnltr
fond of music but could make none Them
selves The poorest singer there more than
any earthly prima donna, and the
poorest players there more than
any earthly Gottschalk. Oh that music
ROOM the headquarters Of cadence and
rhythm, symphony and chant psalm and
antiphon May we be there some hour when
Haydn sits at the keys of one Of his own Or
atorios, and David the psalmist 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-twcnty soldiers
chant, and Lind and Parepa render match
less duet in the music loom of the old heav-
emily homestead. SIN my Fathers house are
many rooms"
Another room in our Fathers house will be
the family room. 1t may correspond some
what with the family room on earth. At
morning an,, 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 gath
er and joys and sorrows and expert
ences of all styles are there rehearsed. Sa.
cred room in all our dwellings! Whether II
be luxurious with ottomans and divans anC
books in Russian lids standing in mahogany
case, or there be only few plain chair:
and cradle. So the family room on high
will be the place where the kinsfolk Assem-
| BILE 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 there? Will the aged remain
aged there2 Oh, no; everything is perfect
there. The child will go ahead to glorifiet
maturity and the aged will go back to glo
rified maturity. The rising sun of the ont
will rise to meridian and the descending SUI
of the other will return to meridian. How
ever much we love our children on earth w
would consider it domestic disaster if the.
stayed children and so we rejoice at thef
growth here. And when we meet In til
family room of our Fathers house, we viii
be glad that they have grandly and glorious
ly matured; while our parents who wert
aged and infirm here, we shall be glad to tint
| restored to the most agile and vigorous i'm
mortality there If forty or forty-five or fiji
ty years be the apex Of physical and menta
life on the earth, then the heavenly child
hood will advance to that and the heavenl,,
old age will retreat to that
When we join them in that family room
we shall have much to tell them. We shal
want to know of them right away sue
things as these: Did you see us in this or tina
or the other struggle? Did you know when
we lost our property and sympathize with us
Did you know we had that awful sickness
Were you lowering anywhere around whel
we plunged into that memorable accident
Did you know of our backsliding? Di
you know Of that moral victory? Wer
| you pleased when we started for heaven? Dbl
you celebrate the hour of our conversion
And them whether they knowit or not, W
will tell them all. But they will have NOR
to tell us than we to tell them. Ten years o.
earth may be very eventful, but what mus
be the biography of ten years in heaven
They will have to tell us the stor
of coronations story of news from a
immensely, story of conquerors an
hierarchs story OF wrecked or raj
over diabolic revolts of extinguished suns, Q
obliterated consultations, of new galaxit
kindled and swung, of stranded comets, {
worlds on fire, and story of Jehovah's ms
iestic reign. IL in that family room of on
Fathers house we have so much to tell ther
of what we have passed through since W
parted, how much more thrilling and arou:
my WHICH, btty nave W ttu US VI VILE
they have passed through since we partet
Surely chat family room will be one of themo.
favored rooms in all our Fathers hous,
What long lingering there, for "
shall never again be in hurry
"Let me open window" said a
humble Christian servant to Lady Rattle
who, because of tho death of her chill,
had shut herself up in a dark rool
and refused to see any one; 'tyou ha,
been many days in this dark room
are you not ashamed to grieve in tn
manner, when you ought to be thanklr
God for having given you the most beaut
full chi that ever was seen, and instead ,
leaving him in this world till he should
worn with trouble, has not God taken him
heaven in all his beauty Leave off weepir
and let me open window" SO to-day a,
trying to open upon the darkness of earth
separation the windows and doors and room
of the heavenly homestead SIN my Father
house are many rooms"
How would it do for my sermon to leaN
you in that family room to-day? lam SUI
there is no room in which you would rath'
stay than in the enraptured circle of your q
! cended and glorified kinsfolk. We migl
. visit other rooms in our Fathers house. The
may be picture galleries penciled not vii
earthly art but by some proce
unknown in this world nrs.aaT
ing for the next world the br1gh
est and most stupendous scenes of human hi
tory. And there may be lines and forms