The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-12-18

from the hospital-these last two per-
kings 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 year
you come together at the old place
How you wake up the old piano that
has been silent for yearsl (Father and
mother do not play on it). How you
bring out the old relics. and rummage
the garnet, and open old scrap books,
and shout, and laugh. and cry, and
talk over old times, and though you
may be forty-fve years of age, act as
though you were sixteen! 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? 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 Liz
zie and all the darlings of your house
hold-not pale and sick, and gasping
for breath, as when you saw them last,
but their eye bright with the luster OF
Heaven. and their cheek roseate with
the flush of celestial summer.
What clasping of hands! What en-
bracings! What coming together of
lip to lip! What tears of Joy! You
say: 81 thought there were 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 dis
appointment They must be tears of
gladness. Christ will come and saw:
What child of Heaven, is it too much
for thee? Dost thou break down I'M
der the gladness of this reunion? Then
1 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: 30 blessed day! speed on.
Toward thee press with blistered feet
over the desert way. My eyes fail for
their weeping I faint for listening for
| feet that will not come and the sound
Of voices that will not speak. Speed
on, o day of reunion! And then, Lord
Jesus, be not angry with me if after l
have Just once Kissed thy blessed feet,
l 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. Heaven
overlapping Heaven, Heaven COM
mipgling with Heaven
| / was at Mount Vernon, and went
| into the dining-room in which our first
president entertained the prominent
men of this and other lands 1t was a
very interesting spot. But o! the BAN
quoting hall of the family mansion of
which l 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
earthly conquest 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
redeemed of earth to come and dinei