The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-07-13

angelic victory UvJr diabolic r%evolts, or
e~xtinguished suns, of obiiIerated cOnstel-
l~ations, of new ga axies kindled and
swung of stranded comets, of worlds on
fire, and story of J%ehOvah's majestic
reign. If in that family room of our
Fathers house we have SO much to tell
them of what we have passed through
since we parted how much 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 linger-
ing there, for we shall never again be in a
hurry.
Let me open a window" said an hum
BILE Christian servant TO Lady Rallies,
who because of the death OF her child, had
shut herself up in u dark rom and re-
fused to SEQ any one: you rave been
many days in this daik room. Are you
not ashamed to grieve i'm this manner
when you ought to b, thanking God for
having given you the most beautiful child
that ever was seen, and instead of leaving
him in III s world till he 81 ould be worn
with ,rouble, has not God taken him to
Heaven in all his beauty? Leave Off
weeping and let me open a ~windo%." So
to-day l am r ying to open upon the dark
ness of earthly separation the windows
and doors and rooms of the heavenly home
stead. Sin my Fathers house are many
rooms"
How would it do for my SER
mon to leave you in that family room to-
day. l am sure there is no room in which
you would rather stay than In the enrapt-
ured circle Of your assembled and glorified
kinsfolk. We might visit other rooms in
ntr M fhnryG hnnan Thar "A N ~ no 7afRtnrn
galleries penciled not with earthly art,
but by some process unknown in this
world, preserving for the next world the
brightest and most stupendous scenes of
human history. Aud there may be lines
and forms Of earthly beauty preserved for
heavenly inspection In something whittier
and chaser and richer than Venetian
sculpture ever wrought. Rooms beside
rooms. Rooms over rooms. Large rooms,
majestic rooms, OpaIescent rooms, anne
thystine roome. In my Fathers house
are many rooms"
hope none of us will be disappointed
about getting there. There Is a room for
us IL we will go and take it, but in order
to reach it 1t is absolutely necessary that
we take the right way, and we must enter
at the right door. and Christ is this right
door; and we must start il. time, and the
ouAl W. JOu ~ buAV VI IN bhO hobA ~
clock now strikes and the only second the
one your watch is now ticking. hold in
my hand a roll Of letters inviting you all
10 make that your home forever. The
New Testament is only a roll of letters in
viting you, as the spirit Of them practically
say: 'My dying yet immortal child In
earthly neighborhood. 1 have builtfor youa
great residence. 1t is full of rooms. Ihave
furnished them as no palace was ever fur
nished. Pearls are nothing, emeralds are
nothing, chrysophrasus is nothing,
Illuminated panels of sunrise and sunset
nothing, the aurora Of the northern heav-
ems nothing-compared with the splendor
with which I have garnitured them. Bat
you must be clean before you can enter
there, and so I ave opened a. fountain
where you may wash all your sins away.
Come now! Put your weary but cleansed
feet on the upward pathway. DO you not
sse amid the thick foliage on the heavenly
hill tops the old family homestead?" en-
M Fathers house are many rooms"