The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-07-19

Weslev freed from his dislike for Calvin
lists: and George w. Bethune, as sweet as
a song maker as he was great as
preacher, and the author OF The village
Hvmns;" and many who wrote in verse
or song, in church or by sventide canoIe,
and many who were passionately iona Oh
music but could make none themselves.
The poorest singer there more tnan any
earthly prima donna, and the poorest
PLAYERS there more than any earthly Gott'
schalk. D that music room. the head"
quarters of cadence and rhy TIM. symphony
and chant, psalm and antiphonI May we
he there some hour when Haydn sits at
one of his own oratorios and DAVID, the
psalmist, fingers the harp, and Myriam OF
the Red sea banks claps the cymbals, ana
Gabriel puts hts lips to the trumpet ana
the four and-twenty elders chant ana
Lind ard Parepa render matchless duet In
the music room of the old heavenly home
stead, 'In my Fathers house are many
rooms" -,
Another room in our Fathers house VIII |
be the family room. 1t may correspond
somewhat with the family room on eartn.
At morning and evening, you know, that
l. the Mace we now meet. Though every
member of the household have a separate
room. in the family room they all gather,
and lows and sorrows and experiences OF
all STYLES are there reht arsed. Sacred
room in all our dwellings! Whether 1t Dc
luxurious with ottomans and diVans ana
| books in russia lids standing in mahog-
/ any case, or there be only few plain
chairs and a cradle So the family room
on high will be the place where the kinS'
! folk assemble and talk over the family
experiences Of earth, weddings, the
births, the burials the festal days OF
Christmas and Thanksgiving reunion.
Will the childre departed remain chile
dren there? o, no; every thing is perfect
there. The child will go ahead to glorlneo
maturity and the aged will go back to
plorifed maturity. 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 here
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 CAD that they have
grandly and gloriously matured; while
our parents who were aged and intrm
here, we shall be glad to find restored to
the most agile and vigorous immortality
there. If forty or fOrty-tive or fifty 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
When we join them in that family
room we shall want to know of them right
awav 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 svmpathized with us? Did you know
! we had that awful sickness? Were you
lowering anywhere around when we
pIunged into that memorable accidentl
7 Did YOU know of our backsliding? Die
= YOU know of that moral victoryH Were
YOU pleased when we started for Heaven
Did YOU celeb rate the hour of our CONVEX
: sion? And then, whether they know 1t o.
2 not. we will tell them all. But they VII
! have more to tell Us than we to tell them
L Ten years on earth may be eventtul
- but what must be a biography o
- ten years in Heaven? They will
q have to tell us the story OF coronatlons
d story of news from al immensely, stcT.
of conOuerors and hierarchs, story o
= wrecked or ransomed planets, story Q
angelic victory over diabOlic revolts, Q
- =, extinguished suns, of obIiterated conStel
- lations, Of new ga axieS kindled an
9 swung, of stranded comets, of worlds o
fire, and story of Jehovah's ma1est1
reign. If in that family room OF on
q Fathers house we have so much to te
a them Of what we have passed throug
e since we parted how much more thrlllln
y. and arousing that which they have to te
~ us of what they have passed throug
tn 10 - -..od crro,v tbot family roo
: will be one of the most favored rooms
90 all our Fathers house. What long linge
Do ing there, for we shall never again be in
al hurry.
al LET me open a window" said an hun
" Bile Christian servant to Lady Rattle
~ who because Of the death of her child, ht
40 shut herself up in dark room and r
IT. fused to see any one; you have be-
70 many DAYS in this dark room Are y
= not ashamed to grieve in this mann
H-' when YOU ought to be thanking God
- having given you the most beautiful chi
that ever was seen, AMI instead OF leavll
- him in this world till he 81 oIld be wo
~ ~ with trouble has not God taken him
~ Heaven in all his beauty? Leave
- weeping and let me open window"
" to-day am trying to open upon the dar
ness Of earthly separation the wtndo
80 and doors and rooms Of the heavenly hon
~, 80 stead. SIN my Fathers house are ma
80 rooms"
t no How would it do for my 81
~ mon to leave you in that family room
80 dav. I am sure there is no room in VIII
- YOU would rather stay than In the enral
III III ured circle of your assembled and glorif
80 kinsfolk. We might visit other rooms
'"0 our Fathers house. There may be pict1
galleries penciled not with earthly q
but by some process unknown In {
ra, world, preserving for the next world
brightest and most stupendous scenes
NV human history. And there may be IL
and forms Of earthly beauty preserved
a Il heavenly inspection in something VIII
ihIa and chaster and richer than Nenet
= ~ sculpture ever wrought Rooms bes
ara rooms. Rooms over rooms. Large roo
nth majestic rooms, opalescent rooms, al
or thvstine roome In my Fathers no
not are many rooms"
a so hone none of Us will be disappoin
tan about getting there. There Is a room
and US if we will go and take il, but in OF
nm to reach ii 1t IS absolutely necessary
arth we take the ght way, and we must Ell
as at the right door. and Christ Is the r.
nsfo door: aud we must start in time. and