Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-12-12

the garret-roof. You swing on the gate.
You ransacked the barn. Yon wsded
into the brook. You threshed the Or
chard for apples and the neighboring
woods for nuts; the everything around
the old homestead Is OF interest to you.
tell you OF the old homestead OF eter-
nifty. In my fathers house are many
mansions. When we talk OF mansions,
we think OF Chatsworth, and Its park,
nine miles In circumference, and Its
conservatory, that astonishes tho world;
It's galleries OF art that contain the
triumphs Of Chantrey. Canova and
Thorwaldsen; OF the kings and the
queens who have walked Its stately
halls. or, flying over the heather, have
hunted the grouse.
But all the dwelling places OF dukes,
and princes, ond qu,ens, are as nothing
TO the family mansion that Is already
awaiting our arrival. The hand OF the
Lord Jesus lifted the pillars, and swung
the doors. and planted the parks. Angels
walk there, and the good OF all ages.
The poorest man In that house Is mil.
| llonaire, and the lowlicst king, and
the tamest word he speaks Is an anthem
and the shortest life an eternity.
A family mansion means reunion.
Some OF your families are very much
scattered. The children married and
went of TO ST. Louis, or Chicago
or Charleston; but perhaps once O year
you come together at the old place.
How you wake up tho old piano that
has been silent for years! Father and
mother do not play on it, How you
bring out the old relics, and rummage
the garnet, and open the old scrap
books, and shout, and laugh, and cry,
and talk over old times, and, though
you may be IS years of age, act a
though you were.l6! Yet soon 1t Is
gOod-by at the car window and good-6y
at the steamboat wharf. But how Will
we act at the reunion in the old family
mansion OF heaven? 1t is q good while
since YOU partsd at the door OF the
grave. There will be Grace and Mary,
and Martha and Charlie and lizzie and
all the darlings OF your household
not pale and sick, and gasping for
breath, as when you saw them last, but
their eve bright with the lustre oil
leuVS0, anu LtlCtT CuCCh AOoSesSS "NsAA
the fish OF celestial summer.
What clasping OF handsl What EN-.
bracings! What coming together OF
lip to lip! What tears OF joy! You
say: II thought there were no tears
in heaven" There must be for the BIZ
BILE saws that: God shall wipe them
away:" and II there were no tears there
how could He wipe them away! They
cannot he tears OF grief or tears OF dis.
appointment. They must be tears OF
gladness. Christ will come and say:
what child OF heaven, is 1t too much
for thee? Dost thou break down under
the gladness OF this reunion! Then l
will help thee" And, with His arm
around us and the other around our
loved one, He shall hold us up in the
eternal jubilee. While / speak some oil
YOU. with broken hearts, can hardly
hold your peace. You feel as II you
would speak out and say:
20 blessed day! speed on. Toward
thee l press with blistering feet
over the desert way. My eyes
fail for their weeping. faint
from listening for feet that will no,
will not come and the sound Of voices
that will not speak. Speed on, Oday Of
reunion! And then, Lord Jesus, r. nUi
angry with me II after have .o5lAnce
kissed thy blessed feet, turn around tC
gather up the long lost treasurers OF my
heart Oh! be not angry with me. One
look at thee wei <eaven. But all these
reunions are hea:en encircling heaven,
heavs-, OVERCOMING heaven. heaven
comm :agling with heaven" I was a.
Mount Vernon, and went into the din
ing room in which our first president
entertained the prominent men OF thi:
and other lands. 1t was q very inter
esting spot
But o! the banqueting hall Of the
family mansion OF which l speak
Spread the table. spread it wide; for &
great multitude are to sit at II. From
the tree by the river gather the twelve
manner Of fruit for that table. Take
the clusters from the heavenly vine
yards, and press theE into the golden
tankards for that table. On baskets
carry in the bread OF which. II man eat
he shall never hunger. Take all the
shot torn flags of earthly conquest, and
entwine them among the earches. Let
David come with his harp, and Gabriel
with his trumpet, and Miriam with the
timbrel; for the prodigals are at home,
vnd the captives are free, and the Faith
or hath invited the mighty OF heaven
and the redeemed Of earth to come and
dine!
No Limit TO Its Scope.