West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-07-18

ton Of the wonderful art OF that gate + knew
not that was exciting suspicion. Lower
ing my eyes to the crowds Of people I
round myself being closely inspected Inv
governmental officials who from INV conn,
piexion judged me to be German. aud that
Tor some beligercnt purpose might bo ex-
anlning the gates Of the palace MY OK
plaanauons IN very poor French did not
satisfy Thorn and they followed me long dis
tances until L reached my hotel, and were
not satisfied until from my landlord they
lounu that was only an inoffenivo Ameri-
can. Inc gates OF earthly palaces are care
tuDy guarded, and, IL so, how much moro
severely the throne room. A dazzling place
s IL for mirrors and all costly art. No
one who over saw the throne OF the first and
only Napoleon will ever forget the letter N
embroidered In purple and gold on the uD-
holstery OF chair and window. tho letter N
gllded on tho wall, the letter N chased on tho
chalices, the letter N flaming from the cell
ing. What coniiagration OF brilliancc the
throne room OF Charles Emmanuel of SARDINIA
OF Ferdinand of Spain, of Elizabeth of Eng,
land, OF Boniface OF Italy, But tho throne
room Of our Fathers house hath n
glory oclipsing all the throne rooms that ever
saw scepter wave or crown glitter or foreign
Ainbassador bow, for our Fathers throne Re
a throne OF grace, a throne OF mercy. n
throne OF holiness, a throne of justice, a throne
shiyoring and covering before it for our
rather says we may yet one day come up and
SIT ON 40 beside Him. 'vro him TINT overcorn.
eth will grant TO sit with Mein NY throne.n
You see we are Princes and Princcsses.
Perhaps now we move about inco0nito as
Peter the Great in the garb OF a ship carpen-
ter at Amsterdam, or as Queen Tirzah in tho
dress OF peasant woman seeking the Dronhet
Tor her childs cure; but it will be found out
aiter awhile who we are when we get into
the throne room: Ayel we need not wait
until then. Wo may by PRAYER and
song and spiritual uplifting this mo-
ment enter the throne room. o King.
live foreverl We touch the forgiving
sseepter and PROSTATE ourselves at Thy feetl
The crowns of the royal families OF this
world are tossed about from generation 10
generation and from family to family.
There are children four years old I'm Berlin
VINO nave seen tho crown on three Emperors
But wherever the coronets Of this world rise
or fall, they ore destined TO meet in one place.
And look and SEQ them coming from north
and south and east and west tho Spanish
crown, the italian crown, the English crown
f 1 turkish crown, the Russian crown the
ferslan crown, aye, all tho crowns from un-
Ger tho great orchivolt of heaven: and while
watch and wonder they are all flung in rain
Oh diamonds around the pierced feet.
Jesus shall reign wher'cr the sun
HIS kingdom stretch from shore 20 sbore
I'LL sun shall rise and set more.
=, Oh, that throne room of Christi 'In nv
Fathers house are many roomsn
Another room in our Fathers house Is tbe
music room st. John and other Bible
writers talk so much about the music of
heaven that there must be music there
perhaps not such as on earth was thrummed
from 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 aud Christian
ehoristers and Christian hymnologists that
have gone up from earth there must he for.
~
shall we have music in this world of discords
ana no music in the land of complete har-
monyY cannot give you the notes of the
hrst par OF the new song that is sung i'm
heaven. L cannotimagine either the solo or
the doxology. But heaven means music and
can mean nothing else. Occasionally that
music has escaped the gate. DIR. Fuller
uying at Beaufort s. c., said: $40 Won
not hearF' Hear whatY' exclaimed
the bystanders 1.-THE musicI Tjft mo
upl Open the windowsr' In that rnnsic.roo ,aS
OF our Fathers house, you will some dav
meet the old Christian masters, Mozart and
handel and Mendelssohn and Beethoven and
Doddridge, whose sacred poetry was MS re.
montgomery and William Cowper. Mt last
Bot rld OF his spiritual melancholy. and
blshop heber, who sang of 'Greenland's lev
mountains and midas coral strand:~ and
Dr. Italics, who wrote of High in yonder
who went to visit Sir Thomas Abne1
and wife for q week but proved himself 50
agreeable guest that they made him stav
1nlrty,slx years; and side by side Augustus
hpPiady, VINO has got over his dislike for
IMethodists, 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 aud the author of ,VThe
village Hymns;" and many who wrote I'm
verse OF song, in church or by sventide
cradle, and many who wero passionateIv
fond OF music but could mako none them
selves. The poorest singer there more than
any earthly prima donna, and the
poorest players there moro than
any earthly Gottschalk. Oh flat music
room, the headquarters of cadence and
rhythm, symphony and chant, psalm and
antiphonl May we be there some hour when
haydn sits at the keys of one of his own or
storios, and David the psalmist fingers tho
n mar ana miriam OF the Red sea banks claps
the cymbals, and Gabriel puts his lps TO the
trumpet and the four-and-twenty soldiers
chant, and Lind and Porepa render match
less duet in the music I loom of the old beav
enly homestead. I'm my Fathers house arc
Another room in our Fathers house win ba
the FAMILY room. II may correspond some
what with tho family room on earth. AZ
morning and evening you know. that is the
Piace we now meet Though every member
in tho family room they all eath-
err and Joys and sorrows and expsri-
ences of all styles are there rebearsed "a
cred room in ali our dwellings, WhefLer it
be luxurious with ottomans aud divans and
books in Russian lids standing i'm indecent
case, or there be only few plain chair,
and cradle. So tho family room on hioh
WIN be the place where the <ingfolk assem-
bic and talk over tho family experisa.,,s "
earth, the weddings, the births the burials
the festal days Of Christmas and Thanksgiv-
ing reunion. Will tho children DEPARTED re-
main children there? Will the aged remain
aged theref On, no; everything Is perfect
there. The child will go ahead TO e,orified
maturity and the aged will 20 back to glo.
rined maturity. The rising sun OF the one
VIII rise % meridian and the descendiuo, sun
OF the other viii return to meridian. How
ever much we love our children on earth yyo
would consider IL a domestic disaster II thew
stayed children and so we rejoice nj tbei-
growth here And WHOM we meet I'm tba
family room Of our Fathers house we win
% glad that they have grandly and glorious.
~ matured; while our parents who were
aged ano infirm hero, we shall be clad 10 find
restored % the most agile and vigorous i'm.
mortality there. II forty or fortv-fivo or M
~ years bo the anev Of physical and mental
Ire ON the 60 e., s-en the heavenly child.
hood viii advance 60 that and the heayenIv
old ago will retreat 10 that
When we Join them ian that family room
We shal have much 10 tell them. We shall
vent to know Of tbom right avvav such
ming o. these: Did you ere ne i'm This or Tint
~ tho other struggle Did You know when
We lost our property and sympa thize with usf