Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-11-28

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 rip
ping, and the twisting, and the wrenching
and lacerating, and the husking time of
earth into the wide open door of the kings
Rranary "like as q shock of corn cometh
In in his season."
THE SOCIETY OF HEAVEN.
Yes, heaven is great sociable, with Joy
like the joy of husking time. No one there
feeling 50 big he declines to speak to some
one that is not SO large. Archangol will
ing to listen to smallest cher1b. No bolt
ing of the door Of caste at one heavenly
mansion to keep out the citizen of smaller
mansion. No clique in one corner whisper
ing about clique in another corner. David
taking none of the airs of giant killer;
Joshua making no one halt until he passes,
because he made the sun and moon halt;
Paul making no assumption over the most
ordinary preacher of righteousness; Naa-
man, captain of the Syrian host, no more
honored than the captive maid who told
him wherehe could get good doctor. Oh,
my soul, what a countryl The humblest
man king, the poorest woman queen,
the meanest house palace, the shortest
lifetime eternity. And what is more strange
about it all is we may all get there
mot !" says some one standing back
under the galleries Yes, you. mot 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 filing up his life with all kinds Of
wickedness. Yes, you. There are monop-
olies on earth--monopolistic railroads and
monopolistic telegraph companies and mo-
| nopolistic grain dealers, but no monopo
lies in religion. All who want TO be saved
may be saved, without money and with
out 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 cannot get
to heaven by going in an opposita 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.
ALL WILL BE AT HOME THERE.
"But," says some one, do you really
think l would be at home In that supernal
society il should reach itf" I think you
| would. l know you would. / remember
| that in the husking time there was a 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 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 husking
| day, one man drove home roam span so
risky, 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 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 80 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 strug-
gle, and we will all praise the grace that
fetched him out of it. And some one will
say: "Here il my old father that l put
away with heartbreak. Just look at him!
He is as young as any Of MS"
And some one will say: "lIere is my dar-
ling child that buried in Greenwood, and
all the after years of my life were shad-
owed with desolaton. Just look at herl
She doesn't seem as If she had bean sick a
minutel" Great sociality. Great neigh
borhood kindness. Go in and dine. What
though John Milton sit down on one side
and John Howard sit down on the other
side? No embarrassment. What though
Charlotte Elizabeth ait down on one side
and Hannah More sit down on the other
slider No embarrassment. A monarch
yourself, why be elnbarra ssed among mon
archsP A songster yourself, why be en-
barrassed among glorific6 songstersi Go
IN and dine
All the shocks of corn coming In In their
season. Oh, yes, in their season. Not one
of you having died too soon, or having died
too late, or having died at haphaZard.
Planted at just the right time. Flowed
at just the right time Cut down at just
the right time. Husked at just the right
time. Garnered at just the right time,
Coming in in your season. Oh, wish
that the two billion bushels OF sorn now in
the fields or on their way to tbs seaboard
might be type of the q rand yield o! honor
and glory and Immortality when all the
shocks come in.
THg MEMORIES oF roUT1
do not know how you are constituted,
but am SO constituted that there 10 moth
! ing that SO awakens "reminiscences In me
as the odors of corn Geld whsu cross ii
at this time of year after the corn has been
cut and It stands In shocks. And SO have
thought it might be practically Useful for
ms today to cross the corn Geld. and have
thought perhaps there might be some
Renaissance reused In our soul that
might be salutary and might be saving
In Sweden a prima donna. while her house
, IN the city was being repaired, took |
house In the country for temporary resi-
, dence, and she brought out her great ARA,
r OF Jewels to show friend who wished II
e see them.
. One night after displaying these Jewell
l and leaving them on the table, and all he
4 friends had gone, and the servants hat
i gone-one summer niSht-she sat thinking
n and looking into mirror just In front o
= her chair, when she saw in that mirror tn
4 face OF robber looking in at the window
!, behind her and gazing at those jewels. Sh
+ was in great fright, but sat still, ant
: hardly knowing why she did so she begal
Q to sing an old nursery song, her fears max
Q ing the pathos Of the song more telling
Suddenly she noticed, while looking at tn