The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-07-10


Ibis lips to the trumpet and the fonr-anu
twenty soldiers chant and Lind and Parepa
4 render matchless duet in the music room OF
the old heavenly homestead, "ln my
Fathers house are many rooms
| Another room In our Fathers house viii
be the family room. It may correspond
somewhat with the family room on earth.
Atmorning and evening, you know, that Is
the place we now meet Though every mem-
ber Of the household have separate room,
In the family room they oil gather, and 1oys
and sorrows and experiences OF all styles
are there rehearsed. Sacred room In all our
dwellings, Whether 1t be luxurious with
ottomans and divans and books In Russian
lids standing in mahogany case, or there pc
only few plain chairs and cradle. 30
the family room on high win be the place
where the kinsfolk assemble and talk over
the family experiences of earth, the we'd
dinss, the births, the burials, the festal
days Of Christmas and Thanksgiving re-
union. Will the children departed remain
children therei Will the aged remain aged
therel o, no; everything is perfect there.
The child will 20 ahead to glorifed maturity
and the aged will go back 10 glorified ma
tirity. The rising sun Of the one will
rise to meridian and the descending
sun of the other will return to meridian.
However much we love our children on
sarth we would consider II domestic dis
aster II they stayed children, and so we re-
joice at their growth here. And when we
meet In the family room Of our Fathers
house, we will be glad that they have grand
l ly and glorlously smatured; while our
! parents who wore aged and infirm here we
shall be glad to find restored to the most
agile and vigorous immortality there II
forty or forty-five Of fifty years be the apex
Of physical and mental life on earth, then
the heavenly childhood will advance to that
and the heavenly old age will retreat to
that. faHlit g
When we Join them in that family room
we shall have much To tell them. We shall
want TO know Of them right gway such
things as these: Did you seeus In this or
that or the other STRUGGLED Did you know
when we LOST our property aud sympathize
| with usi Did you know we had that
awful sicl1nessl Were you towering any
where around when we plunged into thH
memorable sccdenti Did you know Of our
baclslidingl Did you know Of that moral
victoryi Were you pleased when we started
for Heavera Did you celebrate the hour Of
our conversionl And then, whether they
know IL or not we will tell them all. But
they win have more to tell us than we TO
! tell them. Ten years on earth may bo
very eventiul, but what must be the biogra-
| ply OF ten years In Heaveni They viii have
TO tell US tee story of oeronations, story Of
news from all itnnensity. story Of conquer
ors and hierarchs story of wrecked or ran
somed planets, story Of angelic victory over
diabolical revolts. Of extir.,uished suns, OF
obliterated consultations ~ new gaaxies
lindled and swung. Of stranded comets, Of
worlds n fire, and story Of Jehovah's ma
testic reign. II in that family room Of our
Father'shouse we have so much'to tell them
Of what we have passed through since we
parted, how mrch more thrilling and
arousing 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 adark 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 70 be thanking God for having given
you the most beautiful child that was ever
seen, and instead OF leaving him In this
world uil nc should be worn with trouble,
has not God taken him to Heaven with all
MS oeautyf Leave on weeping and let me
Il
open upon 1ne oarkness OF earthiy separa.
uon tne WINDOWS ana aoors ana rooms OF
.ne heavenly homestead IN my Fathers
mousse are many rooms"
How would II do for my sermon TO leave
you In That family room today am sure
there is no room In which you would rather
stay than In the enraptured circle OF your
ascended and glorihed klnsfolk. We might
visit other rooms In our Fathers house.
Ihere may pc picture galleries penciled not
with earthly art but by some process un-
known In this world, preserving for the
next world the brightest and most stipend
Gus scenes Of human history. And there
may De lines and forms OF earthly beauty
preserved Tor heavenly inspection In some
thing whittier and chaster and richer than
venetian sculpture ever wrought Rooms
beside rooms. Rooms over rooms. Large
rooms, majestic rooms, opalescent rooms,
amethystine rooms. "ln my Fathers house
are many rooms"
/ hope none Of US will be disappointed |
about getting there. There is room for us
II we will 20 and take IL, but in order 10 |
reach II II is absolutely necessary that we |
and we must enter at the right door, and
Christ Is the door, and we must start in |