News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-12-10

sSeat of to st, Louis or Chicago or
Charleston; but perhaps once a year
you come together at the old place
How you wake up the old piano that
has been silent for yearsl Gather and
mother do not play on it, How you
bring out the old relics, and rummage
the garnet, and open old scrapbool1s,
and shout and laugh and cry and talk
over old times, and though you may
be forty-five years of age, act as though
YOU were sixteen! Yet soon it is goodbv
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 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, II thought there were no tears in
heaven" There must be, for the Bible
says thar ''God shall wipe them away"
and if there were no tears there how
could he wipe them away? They can
not be tears of grief or tears of disap-
pointment. They must be tears of
gladness. Christ will come and say
''What, child of heaven, is it too much
for thee3 Dost thou break down under
the gladness of this reunion2 Then |
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.
OH, DAY OF REUNION.
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. My eyes fail
for their weeping. | faint from listen
ing for feet that will not come, and the
Speed on, oh, day of reunion! And
then, Lord Jesus, be not angry with
me ii 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,
heaven overlapping heaven, heaven
commingling 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, oh, the |
banqueting hall of the family mansion
of which | speak, Spread the table, |
spead it wide, for a great multitude are |
to sit at it. From the Tree by the |
River gather the twelve manner of |
sruits for that table
Take the clusters from the heavenly |
vineyards and press them into the gold
en- tankards for that table. On baskets |
carry in the bread of which, if man
eat, he shall never hunger. Take all
the shott-orn 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 prodi-
gals 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 dine!