Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-12-11

Antofnette and Lady Huntingdon and
Cecil and Jeremy Taylor, and Samuel
Rutherford, and John Milton, and the
widow who gave two mites, and the poor
men from the hospital-these last two
perhaps outshining all the kings and
queens of eternity.
A family mansion means reunion.
Some of your families are very much
scattered. The children married, and
went Off to st. Louis Or Chicago or
Charleston; but perhaps once wear YOU
come together at the old place. How
you wake up the 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 garrett and
open old scrapbooks, and shout and
laugh and cry and talk over old times,
and, though you may be forty-tiye years
OF age, act as though you were sixteenl
Yet soon it is good-by at the car window,
and good-by at the steamboat wharf.
But how will we act at the reunion in
the old family mansion of Heaven? It
is a good while since you parted at the
door of the grave. There will be Grace
and Mary and Martha and Charlie and
Lizzie and all the darlings OF your house,
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breath, as when you saw them last, but
their eyes bright with the luster of
Heaven, and their cheek roseate with tho
flush of celestial summer.
What clasplng of hands! What om-
bracings! What coming together of lip
to lip! What tears of JOY! You say, II
thought there was no tears in Heaven"
There must be, for the Bible says that
God shall wipe them away;'' and if
there were no tears there, how could He
wipe them away? They cannot be tears
OF grief or tears OF disappointment
They must be tears of gladncss. Christ
will come and say: "What! child of
Heaven, is it too much for thee? Dost
thou break down under the gladness Of
this reunion? Then I will help thee"
And, with His one arm around US and
the other arm around our loved one, He
shall hold US up in the eternal jubilee.
While l speak, some of you, with
broken hearts, can hardly hold Your
peace. You feel as if you would speak
out and say: ''Oh, blessed day. speed
on. Toward the press with blistered
feet over the desert way. My eyes fail
for their weeping. faint from listening
for feet that will not come and the sound
of voices that will rot speak. Speed on.
oh, day of reunion! And then, Lord
Jesus, be not angry with me if after l
have just once kissed Thy blessed feet 1
turn around to gather up the long lost
treasures of my heart. Oh, be not
angry with me! One look at Thee were
Heaven. But all these reunions are
Heaven encirling Heaven, Heaven over
topping Heaven, Heaven commingling
with Heaven!"
was at Mount Vernon and went into
the dining-room in which our first Presi-
dent entertained the prominent men of
this and other lands. 1t was a very inter-
esting spot. But oh, the banqueting hall
of the family mansion of which speak!
Spread the table; spread it wide, for
great multitude are to sit at it. From
the Tree by the River gather the twelve
manner of fruits for that table. Take
the clusters from the Heavenly vineyards
and press them into the golden tankards
for that table. On baskets carry in the
bread of which, if man eat, he shall
never hunger. Take all the shot-torn
flags of eathly conquest and entwine
them among the arches. Let David
come with his harp, aud Gabriel with his
trumpet, and Miriam with the timbrcl,
for the prodigals are at home, ard the
captives are free, and the Father hath
invited the mighty OF Heaven and the
redeemed Of earth to come and dine.