Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-12-17

/ a family ransion means reunion. Some
| 4 your families are very much scattered.
| The children married, and went off to st.
| Louis or Chicago or Charleston; but per-
| taps once "a year you come together ut the
I'D 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 oil relics, and rummage the gar
ret, and o en- old scrapbooks. and shout
and laugh and cry and talk over old times,
and, though you may be forty-five years Of
| age, act rs though you were sixteen Yet
| soon it is goodby at the car window, and
| gOodby at the steamboat wharf. But how
will we act at the reunion in the old family
mansion of heaven? 1t 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 household-not pale and sick and
gasping for breath, as when you saw them
last, but their eye bril- Vt with the luster of
heaven, and their CHI roseate with the
flush of celestial summer.
What clasping of handsl What EN-.
bracings! What coming together of lip to
lip What tears of joyl You say, II
thought there were nc tears in heaven"
There must he, 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 gladness Christ will come and
say: what! child of heaven, is it too
much for thees Dost thou break down
under the gladness of this reunionY Then
/ will help thee" And, with bis one arm
la 9TH nd
loved one, he shall hold us up in the eternal
jubilee.
THE Ea1'RNf L uIuTZ.
While ! 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
thee / press with blistered feet over the
desert way Ny eyes fail for their weep.
ing. faint from listening for feet that
will not come and the sound of voices that
will not speak Speed on, oh, day of re-
unionl And then, Lord Jesus, be not
angry with me if after | have just once
kissed thy blessed feet | 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 encircling heaven,
uedNtu oNcTtOppiuB uehNci, utdNcu cOlu-
minging with heayenr'
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 WIS very inter
esting spot. But oh, the banqueting hall
of,the family mansion OF which | speak,
Spread the table; spread it wide, for a
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 tankar'ls 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 earthly con
quest and entwine them among the arches.
Let David come with his harp, and Gabriel
with his trumpet, and Miriam with the
timbrel, for the prodigals are at home, and
the captives are free, and the Father hath
invited the mighty Of heaven and the re-
deemed of earth to cnme and dine