The Globe-republican., 1892-12-16

there was carnival. and there was the
recital Of the brightest experience 10 all
their lives, and there was neighbor-
hood reunion the memory of which
makes all the nerves Of my body tremble
when the fingers of the player have
swept the chorus. The husking time
was the time of neighborhood reunion,
and so Heaven will be just that There
they come up! They slept in the old
village churcbyard. 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 foun-
dered of Cape Hatteras. They come up
from all sides-from potter's field and
out OF the solid masonry Of Westminster
abbey. They come up! They come up!
All the hindrances to their better
nature husked of. All their spiritual
dependencies husked of. All their
hindrances to usefulness husked of.
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 of. They
did not mean on earth to be disagree
able.
They mea Mt well enough. but they told
you how sick you looked, and they told
you how many hard things they had
hoo ri al al ~
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, concentrated. we'll
meaning disagreeables. Now in Heaven
all their offenslveness has been husked
of. Each one is as happy as he can be.
livery one he meets as happy as he can
be.
Heaven-one great neighborhood re-
| union. All kings and queens, all song
sters. all millionaire, all banqueters.
God the Father with His children all
around him. No ''Rood-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
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."
Yes Heaven is a great sOciable. with
joy like the joy Of 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 o clique
in another corner. David taking none
of the airs of giant killer; Joshua max
ing 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 hose, no
more honored than the captive maid who
told him where he could get good doc
tor. Oh, nv soul, what country! The
humblest man king. the poorest woman
a queen, the meanest house a palace, the
shortest lifetime eternitv. And what is
more strange about it all is we may all
get there.
mot l." 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 filling up his life with all
kinds of wickedness Yes, you. There
are monopolies on earth-monopolist1c
railroads and monopolstic telegraph
companies and monopolistic grain deal
ers. 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 cannot ex-
pect to get to Charleston by taking the
ship for Portland, and you cannot get to
Heaven by going in an 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 90 in.
do not know how you are constitu-
ted, but l am so constituted that there
is nothing that so awakens "reminiscences
In me as the odors of corn field when
l cross it at this time of year after the
corn has been cut and it stands in shocks.
And 80 have thought it might be prac-
tically useful for US to-day to cross the
corn field. and have thought perhaps
there might be some Renaissance reused
in our soul that might be salutary and
might be saving. In Sweden prima
donna, while her house in the city was
being repaired. took house in the coun-
try for temporary residence. and sac
brought out her great array Of jewels to
show q friend who wished to see them.
One night after displaying these jew
els and leaving them On the table, and all
her friends had gone, and the servants
had gone-one summer night - she sat
thinking and looking into mirror just
in front of her chair. when she saw in
that mirror the face of robber looking
in at the window behind her and gazing
at those jewels. She was in great fright. 1
but sat still, and hardly knowing why
she did so she began to sing an old