Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-08

The child will go ahead to glori6ed maturity
and the aged viii go back to glorifed ma
turity. The rising sun OF one will rise to
meridian and the descending sun of the
other will return to meridian. However
much we love our children on earth we
would consider it domestic disaster if they
stayed children, and so we rejoice at their
growth here. And when we meet in the
family room Of our Fathers house, we will
be glad that they have grandly and glori-
ously matured; while our parents who were
aged and infrm here, we shall be glad to
find restored to the most agile and vigorous
Immortality there. If 40 or As or 80 years
be the apex of physical and mental life on
vance to that and the heavenly old age will
retreat to that.
TALKING WITH ANGELS.
When we join them In that family room
we shall have much to tell them. We shall
want to know of them right away such
things as these: Did you see US in this or
that or the other struggle? Did you know
when we lost our property and sympathlze
with us? Did you know we had that awful
sickness? Were you lowering anywhere
BILE accident? Did you know of our back
sliding? Did you know of that moral vic
tory? Were you pleased when we started
for heaven? Did you celebrate the hour of
our conversion? And then, whether they
know it or not we will tell them all. But
they will have more to tell US than we to tell
them. Ten years on earth may be very event
full, but what must be the biography of ten
years in heaven? They will have to tell US
the story of coronations, story of news from
all immensity, story of conquerors and
hierarchs, story of wrecked or ransomed
planets, story of angelic victory over dia-
bolic revolts, of extInguished suns, of OBJ
liberated consultations, of new galaxies
kindled and swung, of stranded comets, of
worlds on fire. and story of Jehovah's ma
jestic 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 lingering
there, for we shall never again be in
hurry.
Christian servant to Lady Raffies, who, be-
because of the death of her child. had shut
herself up in dark room and refused to see
anyone; "you have been many DAYS in this
dark room. Are you not ashamed to grieve
in this manner, when you ought to be thank
ing God for having given you the most
beautiful child that ever was seen, and in
stead of leaving him in this world till he
should be worn with trouble, has not God
taken him to heaven in all of his beauty?
Leave off weeping and let me open a win
dow" Soto-day Il am trying to openupon the
OF earthly separation the windows
and doors and rooms of the heavenly home
stead. 'In my Fathers house are many
rooms"
THERE ARE MANY ROOMS.
How would it do for my sermon to leave
you in that family room to-day? am sure
there is no room in which you would rather
stay than in the enraptured circle of your
ascended and glorious kinsfolk. We might
visit other rooms in our Fathers house.
There may be 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 stupendous
be lines and forms of earthly beauty pre-
served for heavenly inspection in something
whittier and chaster and richer than Vene-
tian sculpture ever wrought. Rooms beside
rooms. Rooms over rooms. Large rooms,
majestic rooms, opalescent rooms, amethys-
tine rooms "In my Fathers house are
many rooms"
hope none of us will be disappointed
about getting there. There is a room for
US all if we will go and take it, but in order
to reach it it is absolutely necessary that
we take the right way, and Christ is the
way; and we must enter at the right door,
and Christ is the door; and we must start at
he right time, and the only hour you are
sure Of is the hour the clock now strikes,
md the only second the one your watch is
now ticking. hold in my hand a roll of
etters inviting you all to make that your
nome forever. The New Testament is only
/ roll of letters inviting you, as the spirit of
hem practically says: "M dying yet i'm
mortal child in earthly neighborhood,
have built for you a great residence. 1t
s full of rooms. 1 have furnished them as
10 palace was ever furnished. Pearls are
nothing, emeralds are nothing, chrysophra- |
'us is nothing; illumined panels of sunrise
md sunset, nothing; the aurora of the |
northern heavens, nothing-compared with |
he splendor with which 1 have garnitured |
hem. But you must be clean before you
AN enter there, and so 1 have opened a
ountain where you may wash all your sins |
way. Come. nowl Put your weary but |
leansed feet on the upward pathway. Do |
vou not see amid the thick foliage on the |
heavenly hilltops the old family home