Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-12-01

player have swept the chords The husk-
ing time was the time of neighborhood re-
union. and so heaven will be just that.
There they come up. They slept in the
old village chnrchyard. There they come
upl They recliued amid the fountains and
the sculpture and the parterres OF a eiTy
cemetery There they come up They
went down when the ship forindered oil
Cape Hatteras They come up from all
sides-from potter's field and out of the
solid masonry of Westminster abbey.
They come npi They come up
All the hindrances 10 their better nature
husked Of All their spiritual despond-
encies huskcd OFF All their hindranccs
to usefulness husked off. The grain, the
golden grain, the God fashioned grain,
/ visible and conspicuous. Some Of them on
earth were such disagreeable 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
imperfections have been husked Off They
did not mean on earth to be disagreeable.
They meant well enough, but they tcld
you how sick you looked, and they told
you how many hard things they had heard
about you, and they told you how often
they had to stand up for you in some bat
ties until you wished almost that they had
been slain in some OF the battles Coed,
pious, concentrated, well meaning dis
agreeables. Now in heaven all their Of
fensiveness lias been hasked off. Each one
is AS happy as he can be. Every one he
meets as happy as he can be
Heaven one great neighborhood re
union. All kings and queens, all song
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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 decorating. and the husling time of
earth into the wide open door of the kings
granary like as a shock Of corn cometh
in in his season"
THE SOCIETY OF HEAVEN.
Yes. heavenfs 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 will
ing 10 listen TO smallest cherub. No bolt
ing of the door OF caste at one heavenly
mansion 10 keep ont the citizen of a smaller
mansion. No clique in one corner whisper
ing about a clique in another corner David
taking none of the airs Of a 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 where he could get good doctor. Oh.
my soul, what "A country! The humblest
man a 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
Not ]" says some one standing back
under the galleries. Yes, You. Not ], p
says some one who has not been in church
in fifteen years before. Yes, you. Not
IT, says some one who has been for fifty
years filling 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 10 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 20 in.
ALL Will BE AT HOME THERE.
But" says some one, do You really
think | would be at home in that supernal
society if should reach it," l think you
would. | 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
frislSy, 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
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 50 il viii he in heaven. Our
Father will gather his children around
him, and fhe neighbors will come in, and
the past will be rehearsed. And some one
will tell Of victory, and we viii 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 is my old father that | put
away with heartbreak. just look at hilll
He is as young as any of usl''
And some one will say; Here is my dar-
ling child that ! buried in Greenwood, and
all the after years of my life were shad
owed with desolation. just look at herr
She doesn't seem as if she had been sick
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
slider No embarrassment. What though