Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1891-12-11

halts, the trees that never witler, tho walls
that never can be captured, the sun that never
sets, until we can no longer gaze, and we hide
nor ear heard neither have entered into the
heart OF man, the things which God hath pre-
pared Tor them That love himl" AS these tides
of glory rise, we have 10 retreat. and hold fast
lest we be swept on and drowned In the emo
lions OF gladness' and thanksgiving ana
triumph.
What think you OF the family property II is
considered an honor 10 marry into family
where there Is great wealth. The Lord, the
bridegroom of earth and heaven, oilers you his
heart and his hand, saying, in the words OF the
Canticles Rise up, my love, my fair one, and
come away" and on e having put on thy hand
the signetring OF has love, you VIII De endowed
with all the wealth OF earth, and all the honors
OF heaven.
Almost every family looks back 20 home
stead-sOme country-place where you grew up.
You sat on the door-sill. You heard the foot
step Of the rain on the gar Ctroo-. You swung
on the gate. You ransacked the barn. You
ard for apples, ana the neighbonng woods for
nuts and every thing around the old
homestead Is OF interest To you. tell you OF
the old homestead OF eternity. In my Fathers
house are many mansions. When we talk OF
mansions, we think OF Chatsworth, and Its
park, nine miles in circumference, and its con-
servatory, that astonishes the world; it's gal
leries OF art, that contain the triumphs OF
Chantrey, ConOva, and horwaldsen: OF the
Kings and the Queens WHO have walked It's
stately halls or, flying over the heather have
hunted the grouse But all the dwelling places
OF ID ukes, and Princes, and Queens are as moth
ing 10 the family mansion that Is already await
ing our arrival The hand OF the Lord Jesus
lifted the pillars, and swung the doors, and
planted the parks Angles walk there, and the
good OF all ages The poorest man In the house
is millionaire. and the lowliest n King and the
tamest word he speaks Is an anthem, and the
shortest life an eternity.
II took q Paxton TO build for Chatsworth
a
Regia, five feet in diameter. But our lily OF the
valley shall nerd no shelter from the blast, and
in the open gardens Of God shall put forth its
full bloom. and all heaven shall come TO look at
IL, and It's aroma shall be as though the cher
ubim had swung before the throne q thousand
censers. / have not seen 1t yet. i am in a for
eign land. But my father Is waiting for me TO
come home. l have brothers and sisters there.
In the bible have letters from there, telling
me what fine place IL is. II matters not much
10 me whether 1 am rich or poor, or whether the
world hates me or loves me, or whether go by
land or by seaif onl may lift my eyes at last on
the family mansion. 1t Is not a frail house,
built in a month, soon 10 crumble, but an old
mansion which is as firm as the day IL was
built. Its wills are grown with the Ivy or
many ages, and the urns at the gateway are
a-bloom with the century plants OF eternity.
The Queen OF Sheba hath walked It's halls, and
Esther and Marie Antoinette and Lady Hunt
tnRton and Cecil, and Jeremy Taylor, and
81 muel Rutherford, and John Milton, and the
widow who gave two mites, and the poor men
from the hospiia these last two perhaps out
A family mansion means reunion.
Some Of your families are very much
scattered The children married. and
Charleston; but perhaps once year 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 cid relies, and rummaRe the
garrett, and optn old scrap-books, and shout,
and laugh, and cry and talk over old times,
age, act as though you were sixteenl Yet soon
IL Is goodbye At the car-window, and goodbye
at the stCamt oat wharf But how Will we set
heaven II 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 eyes bright with the lustro
OF heaven, and their cheek roseste with the
What clasping OF handsl What embracings
What coming together Of lip 20 lip What teare
G tears y in heaYen There @ast be- for the l Sbie
says that: God shall wipe them away" and
II there were no tears there, how could he wipe
them awayf They cannot be tears OF grief or
tears OF disappointment They must be tears
OF gladness Christ will come and say: "Whati
child OF heaven, is IL too much for theei Dost
thou break down under the gladness OF this re-
union? Then wiz 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 II you
would speak out and say: 20 blessed day. speed
on Toward thee l 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 not
speak. Speed ON, . day OF reunionl And then,
Lord Jesus, be not angry with me after have
just once kissed thy blessed feet, turn around
10 gather up the long-lost treasures OF my heart
o. be not angry with me. One look at thee were
heaven But al, these reunions are heaven en-
circling heaven, heaven overlapping heaven,
heaven commingling with heaven"
was at Mount Vernon, and went into the
dining room in which our first President enter
talned the prominent men OF this and other
lands 1t was very interesting spot But Oil
the bang eting-hall OF the mansion OF which ]
speak Spread the table, spread II wide;
for a great multitude are 20 sit az
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, IL man cot 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
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