The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1892-12-02

city cemetery. There they come upl
They went down when the ship foun.
dered off Cape Hatteras. They come up
from all sides-from potter's field and
out Of the solid masonry of Westinih-
ster abbeyl They come up! They come
upi All the hindrances to their better
nature husked off. All their spiritual
dependencies husked off. All their
hindrances to usefulness husked off.
The grain, the golden grain, the God
fashioned grain, visible and conspicuous.
Some of them on earth were such dis
agreeable Christians you could hardly
stand it in their presence. Now in
heaven they are so radiant you hardly
know them. The fact is, all their i'm.
PROJECTIONS have been husked off. They
did not mean on earth to be disagree
able. They meant well enough, but
they told you how sick you looked, and
they told you how many hard things
they had heard about you, and they told
you how often they had to stand up for
you in some battles until you wished al
most that they had been slain in some Of
tHe DdtticS. oooi, piouo, oohoeoidtcu,
we'll meaning disagreeables. Now in
heaven all their offensiveness has been
husked off. Each one is as happy as he
can be. Every one he meets as happy as
he can be. Heaven one great neighbor-
hood reunion. All kings and queens, all
songsters, all millionaires, all banquet
ers.
God the Father, with his children all
around him. No "goodby" in all the air.
No grave cut in all the hills. River of
crystal rolling over bed of pearl, under
arch of chrysoprase, into seas of glass
mingled with fire. Stand at the gate of
the granary and see the grain come in,
out of the frosts into the sunshine, out
of the darkness into the light, out of the
tearing, and the ripping, and the twist
ing, and the wrenching and decorating,
and the husking time of earth into the
wide open door of the Kings granary
"like as shock of corn cometh in in his
season."
HEAVEN is A LONG THANKSGIVING.
Yes, heaven is a great sociable, with
Joy like the joy of the husking time. No
one there feeling so big he declines to
speak to some one that is not so large.
Archangel willing to listen to smallest
cherub. No boiling of the door of caste
at one heavenly mansion to keep out the
citizen of /. smaller mansion. No clique
in one corner whispering about clique
in another corner. David taking none
of the airs of giant killer. Joshua
making no one halt until he passes be-
cause he made the sun and moon halt.
Paul making no assumption over the
most ordinary preacher of righteous
ness. Naaman, captain of the Syrian host,
no more honored than the captive maid
who told him where he could get good
doctor. Oh, my soul, what country
The humblest man king. The poorest
woman queen. The meanest house a
palace. The shortest lifetime eternity.
And what is more strange about it all is
we may all get there. mot l." says
some one staining bach bach under tie gsll-
leries. Yes, you. "Not l." says some
one who has not been in church in fif-
teen years before. Yes, you. "Not l."
rays some one who has been for fifty
years filling up his life with all kinds of
wickedness. Yes, you. There are mo-
nopolies on earth, monopolistic railroads
and monopolistic telegraph companies,
and monopolistic grain dealers, but no
monopolies in religion.
All who want to be saved may be
saved without money and without
price," Salvation by the Lord Jesus
Christ for all the people. OF course use
common sense in this matter. You can
not expect to get to Charleston by TAX
ing the ship for Portland, and you can
not get to heaven by going in an oppo-
site direction. Believe in the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shalt be saved. Through
that one gate Of pardon and peace all
the race may go in.
But" says some one, "do you really
think I would be at home in that super
nal society if should reach it?' l think
you would. l know you would. re-
member that in the husking time there
was great equality of feeling among
the neighbors. There at one corn shock
a farmer would be at work who owned
two hundred acres of ground. The man
whom he was talking with at the next
corn shock owned but thirty acres of
ground, and perhaps all that covered by
mortgage.
That evening, at the close of the husk-
ing day, one man drove home roam
span so frisky, SO full of life they got
their feet over the traces. The other
man walked home. Great difference in
education, great difference in worldly
means, but l noticed at the husking
time they all seemed to enjoy each
others society. They did not ask any
man how much property he owned or
what his education had been. They all
seemed to be happy together in those
good times. And so it will be in heaven.
Our Father will gather his children
around him, and the neighbors will
come in, and the past will be rehearsed,
and some one will tell of victory, and
we will all celebrate it, and some one
will tell of great struggle, and we will
all praise the grace that fetched him out
of it, and some one will say: "Here is
my old father that I put away with
heartbreak. Just look at him! He is as
young as any of usr'
And some one will say: "Here is my
darling child that l buried in Green
wood, and all the after years of my life
were Swallowed with desolation. Just
look at her! She doesn't seem as if sht
had been sick minuter' Great social
ity. Great neighborhood kindness. Gc
in and dine. What though John Miltor
sit down on one side and John Howard
sit down on tine other side? No embar
rassment. What though Charlotte Eliz
abeth sit down on one side and Hannah
More sit down on the other side? NJ
embarrassment. A monarch yourself
why be embarrassed among monarchs
A songster yourself, why be embarrassed
among glorifed songsters? Go in ant
dine.
THE LAST GREAT INGATHERING.
All the shocks of corn coming in il
their season. Oh, yes, in their season
Not one of you having died too soon, O
having died too late, or having died a
haphazard. Planted at just the RICH
time. Plowed at just the right time. Gu