The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1892-12-09

and they came in the very best humor.
and they came fiom beyound the mead
ow, and they came from beyond the
brook, and they came from regions two
and three miles around. Good spirits
reigned supreme, and there were great
handshakings, and there was carnival,
and there was the recital of the
brightest experiences in all their lives,
and there was a neighborhood reunion
the memory OF which makes all the
nerves of my body tremble with emo
ton as the strings of q harp when the
fingers of the player have swept the
chords The huslking time was the
time of the neighborhood reunion, and
SO Heaven will be just that. There
they could come up! They slept in the
old village churchyard. There they
come up! They reclined amid the
fountains and the sculpture and the
parterres of city cemetery. There
they come up! They went down when
the ship foundered off Cape Hatteras.
They come up from all sides-from
Potter's field and out of the solid MAJ
sonry of Westminster abbey. They
come up! They come upl All
the hindrances to their bet
ter nature husl1ed off. All
their spiritual dependencies husled
off, All their hinderances to useful
ness husled off. The grain, the golden
grain, the God-fashioned grain, visible
and conspicuous Some of them on
earth were such disagreed BILE Christians
you could hardly stand it in their pres
ence. Now in Heaven they are so ra-
diant you hardly lsnowthem. The fact
is all their imperfections have been
husked off. They did not mean on
earth to be disagreeable. They meant
well enough, but they told you how
sick you looked; and they told you how
many hard things they heard about
you; and they told you how often they
had to stand up for you in some battles
until you wished almost that they had
been slain in some of the battles.
Good, pious, consecrated, well-mean.
ing disagreed bles. Now, in Heaven
all their offensiveness has been husxed
off. Each one is as happy as he can
be. Everyone the meets as happy as
he can be. Heaven one great neigh.
borhood reunion. All kings and queens,
all songsters, all millionaires, all ban.
queters. God, the Father, with His
children all around Him. No good
by 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 twisting and the
wrenching and lacerating and the
hrslzing time of earth into the wide
open door of the Kings granery, ''Hke
as q shock of corn cometh in in his
season."
Yes, Heaven is great sociable. with
JOY like the Joy at the husking time.
No one there feeling SO big he declines
to speak TO SON 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 a smaller mansion.
No clique in one corner whispering
about a clique in another corner.
David taking none of the airs of a
giant-killer. Joshua making no one
halt until he passes, making no assump-
ton over the most ordinary preacher
of righteousness Naaman, captain of
the Syrian host, no more honored
than the captive maid who told him
where he could get doctor. O, my
soul, what country! The humblest
man a king. The poorest woman a
queen. The meanest house a palace.
The shortest lifetime eternity. And
what is more strange about it all is we
may all get there. Not l." says some
one standing back under the galleries.
Yes, you. Not l." says some one who
has not been in church in fifteen years
before. Yes, you. mot l." says some
one who has been for fifty years filling
up his life with all kinds of wickt dness.
Yes, you. There are monopolies 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 taking the ship
for Portland, and you can not get to
Heaven by going in the opposite direc-
ton. 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 someone, "do you really
think 1 would be at home in that SUI
pernal society if should reach it?"
think you would. / know you would.
/ remember that in the husling tiIas
there was great equality of feeling
among the neighbors. There at one
corn-shock farmer would be at work
who owned two hundred acres OF
ground. The man who he was talking
to 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 husking
day, one man drove home a 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 I noticed at the husking
time they all seemed to enjoy each
others society. They did not ask any
man how much property he owned OF
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 cele-
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