The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-01-08

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and once having put on thy hand ths
signet'ring Of his love, you win be en-.
dowed with all the wealth OF earth and
all the honors Of Heaven.
Almost every family looks back 10 q
homcstead-some country place where
you grew up You sat on the door sill.
You heard the footsteps OF the rain on
the garnet roof You swung on the
gate. You ransacled the barn. You
waded into the brook. You thrcshed
the orchard for apples and the neigh.
boring woods for nuts, and every thing
arohnd the old homestead Is of interest
TO you
tell you OF the old homestead OF
eternity. In my Fathers house there
are many mansions When we talk OF
mansions we think OK Chatsworth and
and its conservatory that astonishos the
world; its galaries OF art that contain
the triumphs OF Chantery, Canova and
Thorwaldsen; OF the kings aud tho
queens who have walked its stately
halls or. flying over the heather have
hunted the grouse. But all the dwell
ing places ot dukes aud princes and
queens are nothing To the family man
sion that IL already awaiting our arriv.
al The hand OF the Lord Jesus lifted
the pillars, and swung the doors, and
planted the parks. Angels walk there,
and the good ot oil ages. The poorest
man in that house is millionaire. aud
the lowlieSt n king, and the tamest
he speaks is an anthem, aud the short
est life an eternity.
IL took Paxton 20 build for Chats.
worth covering for the wonderful
flower, Victoria ReRia, five feot in
diameter But our Lily OF the Valley
shall need no shelter from the blast.
and In the open gardens of God shall
put forth It's bloom. and all Heaven
shall come 10 look at IT, and its aroma
shall be rs though the cherubim had
swung before the throne thousand
in foreign land. But my Father Is
waiting for me 10 come home. have
brothers and sisters there. In the Bible
| have letters from there telling mo
what fine place II Is. II matters not
much 10 me whether am rich or poor,
or whether the world hates me or loves
me, or whether go by land or by sea,
II only may lift my eyes nt last on
the family mansion.
II is not IA frail house, built in n
month. soon to crumblc, but an old
mansion which is as firm AS the day IL
was built It's walls are grown with
the ivy Of many ages and the urns at
the gateway are u bloom with tho
century plans Of eternity. The queen
OF Shcba hath walked It's halls, and
Esther, and Maria Antoinette, and
Lady Huntingdon, and CeciL and
Jeremy Taylor, and Samuel Ruther'
ford, and John Milton, and tho widow
who gave two mites, and the poor men
from the hospital-theso last two out
shining all the kings and queens OF
eternity.
A family mansion means reunion Some
OF your families are very much scatter
ed. The children married and went of 10
81 Louis. or Chicago or Charleston, but
once year you come together at the
old place. How you wake mp the old
piano that has been silent for years!
father and mother do not play on IT. }
How you bring out the old relics, and
rummage the garnet, and open
old scrap books and shout and
laugh. and cry, and talk over
old times, and. though you may be
- years of age, act rs though you were
l0l Yet soon IL is good by at the car
window and good-by ut the steam boat
wharf. But how will we act nj the re.
union in the old family mansion OF
Heaven? II is good while since you
parted at the door Of the grave There
will be Grace, and Mary, and Martha,
aud Charlie, and Lizzie, and all tho
darlings OF your household pale
aud sick and gaSping for breath as
whom you saw them last hut their eye
bright with the luster Of Heaven, and
their check roseatc with the flush OF ce-
lcstial summer
What clasping OF hands What en-
bracings. What coming together of
lip 10 lip! What tears OF joy You say;
IL thought there were nc tears In
Heaven There must bc, for the Bible
says that. "God shall wipe them
away" And II there were no tears
there how could lie wipe them away?
They can not bc tears of grief or tears
OF disappointment They must be tears
OF gladness Christ will come and say:
What! child 81 Heaven, Is IL too much
for thee? Dost thou break down under
the gladness ~ this reunion? Then !
will 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 tabilec,
While I speak some OF you, with
broken hearts, can hardly hold yom
peace. You feel rs II you would speak
Il. A..n.l