Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-07-18

kt AOOkman the
mystery of the sea at last mada mans~t.
Luther ana Magdalene, the laughter he he
moaned; John Howard and the nr;sonere
whom he gospelized; and muItitudes xUitho,,t
number who, once so weary and so sad
parted on earth but gloriously met in heaven
among an lne rooms OF that house there is
no one tnat more enraptures my soul than
that r-eception-room. Jimmy Fathers house
are many rooms.p
Another room in our Fathers house Is the
throne room. We belong to the royal fam
lily. The blood of King Jesus lows In or
VEINS, SO we have a right to enter the throne
room. 1t is no easy thing on earth to.get
through even the outside door of = K;ngss
residence. During the Franco-German war.
one eventide in the summer of 1870 / stood
studying the exquisite sculpturing OF the
gate Of the Tuileries, Paris. Lost in admira-
ton OF the wonderful art of that gate / knew
not that was exciting suspicion. Lower
ing my yes to the crowds of people |
found myself being closely Inspected by
governmental officials, who from nv com
plexion Judged me to be a German. and that
for some belhgerent purpose / might be ex-
aiming the gates Of the palace. NV ex-
plantations in very poor French did not
satisfy them and they followed me long dis
tances until reached my hotel, and were
not satisfied until from my landlord they
found that | was only an inoffensive Ameri-
can. The gates of earthly palaces are care
fully guarded, and, if so. how much more
severely the throne room. A dazzling place
is it for mirrors and all costly art. No
one who ever saw the throne of the first and
only Napoleon will ever forget the letter N
embroidered in'parple and gold on the up
holstery or chair and window, the letter N
gilded on the wall, the letter N chased on the
chalices, the letter n flaming from the cell
ing. What a confiagration Of brilliance the
throne room of Charles Emmanuel Of SARDINIA,
~ IIAa11.anI ~ CT = u "a
land, Of Boniface of Italy, But the throne
room of our Fathers house hath a
glory eclipsing all the throne rooms that ever
saw scepter wave or crown glitter or foreign
Ambassador bow, for our Fathers throne is
a throne OF grace, a throne of mercy, a
throne OF holiness, a throne of justice, a throne
of universal dominion. We need not stand
shivering and covering before it, for our
Father says we may yet one day come up and
sit on it beside Him. ITO him that overcom-
eth will l grant to sit with Mein My throne"
You see we are Princes and Princesses.
Perhaps now we move about %incognito, as
Peter the Great in the garb Of a ship carpen-
ter at Amsterdam, or as Queen Tirzah in the
dress OF a peasant woman seeking the prophet
for her childs cure; but it will be found out
after awhile who we are when we get into
the throne room. Ayel we need not wait
until then. We may by prayer and
song and spiritual uplifting this mo-
ment enter the throne room. o King,
live ~foreverl We touch the forgiving
scepter and PROSTATE ourselves at Thy feet
The crowns of the royal families of this
world are tossed about from generation to
generation and from family to family.
There are children four years old in Berlin
who have seen the crown on three Emperors.
But wherever the coronets of this world rise
or fall, they are destined to meet in one place.
And / look and see them coming from north
and south and east and west, the Spanish
crown, the italian crown, the English crown,
the Turkish crown, the Russian crown, the
Persian crown, aye, all the crowns from un-
der the great archivolt of heaven: and while
/ watch and wonder they are all flung in rain
Of diamonds around the pierced feet.
Jesus shall reign wher'er the sun
Does his successive journeys run.
His kingdom stretch from shore TO shore
Till sun shall rise and set no more.
Oh, that throne room of Christi Tin my
Fathers house are many rooms"
Another room in our Fathers house is the
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 trembling string or evoked by
touch of ivory key, but if not that, then
something better. There are so many
Christian harpists and Christian COM
posers and Christian organists and Christian
choristers and Christian hymnologists that
have goneup from earth, there must be for
them some place OF especial delectation.
Shall we have music in this world of discords
and no music in the land of complete har-
monyP I cannot give you the notesof the
first bar Of the new song that IS sung In
heaven. / cannot imagine either the solo or
the doxology. But heaven means music and
can mean nothing else. Occasionally that
music has escaped the gate. DR.. Fuller
= ~ -at1a III NrAFN
not hearsn 'sHear whatf' exclaimed
the ~bystanders. ''The musici Lift me
upl Open the windowsm In that mushroom
OF our Fathers house, you will soms day
meet the old Christian masters, Mozart and
Handel and Mendelssohn and Beethoven and
Doddridge, whose sacred poetry was as re-
markable as his sacred prose, and james
Montgomery and William Cowper, at last
got rid Of his spiritual melancholy, and
Bishop Heber, who sang of ''Greenlands icy
mountains and midas coral strand" and
DR.. Rallies, who wrote of High In yonder
realms of light and Isaac watts,
who went to visit Sir Thomas Abney
and wife for a week but proved nlnseI SO
agreeable a guest that they made him stay
thirty-six years; and side by side, Augustus
Topladv. who has got over his dislike for
Methodists, and Charles wesley freed from
his dislike for Calvinists; and George W.
Bethune. as sweet as a song maker as ne was
great as a preacher anu Ohe au.hoA " ~
Village HYMNS and many who wrote IN
verse or song, in church or by eventide
cradle. and many who were passionately
fond Of music but could make none them
selves. The poorest singer there NOSE than
any earthly prima donna, and the
poorest players there more than
any earthly Gottschalk. Oh that music
room the headquarters Of cadence and
,byfhm svmnhonv and chant, psalm and
antiphonl May we be there some hour when
HAYDN sits at the keys of one OF ms own or
atorios. and David the psalmist fingers the
harm and Miriam Of the Red sea banks ciaps
the cvmbaIs, and Gabriel puts his lips 70 the
trI1mpet and the four-and-twenty soldiers
chant and Lind and Parepa render match
less duet in the music room Of .ne olu neas
many rooms" rfu he
Another room in our Fathers house VIII De
the family room. 1t may correspond some.
what with the family room on earIn- a
morning and evening you know, nat IS Lne
Mace we now meet. Though every member
IF the household have q separate room
in the family room they ah gam
er and joys and SORROWS n expert
encas Of all STYLES are there rehearsed, "a.