Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-12-10

covering for the wonderful flower, victora
Regia, five feet in diameter But our lily of tho
valley shall need no shelter from the blast, and
In the open gardens OF God shall put forth its
full bloom, and all heaven shall come 20 look at
IL, and Its aroma shall be as though the cher
hbim had swung before the throne thousand
censerS. have not seen IL yet am in for
eign land. But my father is waiting for me to
come home. have brothers and sisters there
In the bible have letters from there, telling
me what q fine place ii is Itmatters not much
10 me whether am rich or poor, or whether the
world hates me or loves me, or whether go by
land or by sea onl may lift my eyes at last on
the family mansion II is not a frail house.
built in q month, soon to crumbe, but an old
mansion which is as firm as the day II was
built Its walls are grown with the ivy OF
many ages, and the urns at the gateway are
a.bloom with the century plants Of eternity:
Esther and Marie Antoinette, nd Lady Hunt
ington and Cecil, and Jeremy Taylor, and
samuel rutherford, and John Milton, and the
from the hospital-these last two perhaps out
shining all the Kings and Queens Of eternity
family mansion means reunion.
Some of your families are very much
scattered. The children married, and
went of to ST. Louis, or Caicago, or
Charleston; but perhaps once We 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, ii
you bring out the old relics, and rummage Ia
garrett and open old scrap-books, and shout,
and laugh, and cry and talk over old times.
and although you may be forty-ilve years OF
age, act as though you were siXteen Yet soon
IL is goodbye at the car-window, and goodbye
at the steamboat wharf But how VIII We act
at the reunion in the old family mansion OF
heaven 1t Is good while since you parted AT
the door of the grave, There viii be Grace and
Mary, and Martha and Charlie, and Lizzie, aud
all the darlings of your household-not pale and
sick, and gasping for breath, as when you Jaw
them last, but their eyes bright with the lustre
OF heaven, and their cheek rOSeatc with tho
flush of celestial summer
What clasping of hands, What cmbracingsl
fltap ~ In lint tgstr
OF Joy You say II thought there were no
tears in heaven There must be, for the bible
says that God shall wipe them away" and
II 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: "Whatl
child OF heaven, is IL too much for theey Dost
thou break down under the gladncSs OF this re-
unionf 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.
While speak some OF you, with broken hearts,
can hardly hold your peace You feel as If you
on. Toward thee l press with blistcred 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 not
speak Speed on, o day of reunionl And then,
Lord Jesus, be not angry with me after l have
just once kissed thy blessed feet turn around
To gather up the long-lost treasures of my heart
OF be not angry with me- One look at thee were
heaven But all these reunions are heaven en-.
heaven commingling with heayenl"
was at Mount Vernon, and went into the
diningroom in which our first President enter
tanned the prominent men of this and other
lands. II was q very interesting spot But OIL
the banqueting-h hall of the mansion of which
speak! Spread the table, spread it wide;
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
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 captiYes are free,
and the Father hath invited the mighty OF
heaven and the redeemed of earth 10 come and