Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1892-12-01
.ppy as he can be. Heaven one greal

neighborhood reunion. All Kings and
Queens, all songsters, all millionaires,
all banqueters. God, the Father,
with his children all around him.
No "good-by" in all the air. Nograve
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 husliing time of earth into the
wide open door of the Kings granary,
like as u shock of corn cometh in in
his season."
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 a 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, because he made
the sun and moon halt. Paul making
no assumption over the most or
binary preacher of righteousness
Naaman, captain of the Syrian host, no
more honored than the captive maid
who told him where he could get a
good doctor. O my soul, what a coun-
try. The humblest man IA King. The
mn
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. zee, you. Not
!, says some one who has not been in
church in fifteen years before. Yes,
who has been for fifteen years
filling up his life with all kinds of
wickedness. 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 cannot ex-
pect to get to Charleston by taking the
ship for Portland, and you cannot get
to heaven by going in the opposite
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 would be at home in that SUI
pernal society if should reach it?" |
think you would. | know you would.
| remember that in the husking time
there was great equality of feeling
among the neighbors. There at one
corn-shocR farmer would be at work
who owned 200 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 husiing day, one
man drove home roam span SO frislly,
so full of life, they got their
feet over the traces. The other
man walked home. Great difference
in education, great difference in world.
ly 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. Aud so it will be
in heaven. Our father will gather
his children around him, and the
ncighbors 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 | put away with
heart-break; just look at him, he is as
young as any of u.s." And some one
will say, Here is my darling child
that buried in Greenwood, and all the
after years of my life were Swallowed
with desolation-just look at her!
She doesn't seem as if she had
been sick minute Great
sociality. Great neighborhood kind
ness. 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 sit down on one
side and Hannah More sit down on the
other side? No embarrassment A
monarch yourself, why be embarrassed
among monarchs? A songster your
self, why be embarrassed among glori-
fed songsters? Go in and dine.
All the shocks of corn coming in in
cheir 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
| = ~, Il, I,
Cut down at just the right time.
Husked at just the right time. Gar
nered at just the right time. Coming
in in your season. Oh, wished that
| the two billion bushels of corn now in
the fields or on their way to the sea
board might be type of the grand
| yield of honor and glory and
Immortality, when all the shocks
| come IN.
i do not know how you are consti.
| tuted, but ! am 50 constituted that
there is nothing that SO awalens
"reminiscences in me as the odors of a
| corntield when | cross TAT this time OF
year after the corn has been cut and il
stands in shocks. And so | have
thought it might be practically usefu
for us to-day to cross the cornheld, anG
i have thought perhaps, there NIGH
be some "reminiscences reused in oul
soul that might be salutary and
might be saving. In Sweden prims
donna, while her house in the
city was being repaired, took {
house in the country for temporary
residence and she brought out bel
great array of jewels to show friend
who wished to see them. One night
after displaying these jewels, and
leaving them on the table, and all bel
friends had gone, and the servants hat
| gonc-one summer night-she sa
thinking and looking into mirror
| just in front of her chair, when she
saw in that mirror the face of robbel
looking in at the window behind hel
and gazing at those jewels. She was il
great fright, but sat still, and hardly
knowing why she did SO she began Il
sing an old nursery song, her fear'
making the pathos of the song niGr,
telling. Suddenly she noticed, Will,
looking at the mirror, that the rob
bers face had gone from the window,
and it did not come back A few days
after the prima donna received let
ter from the robber saying: ~ heard
| that the Jewels were to be out that