Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1892-12-09

all the Hills. River of crystal rolling over
bed of pearl, under arch OF chrJsoprase, in
TO seas Of glass mingled with fire. Stand a
the gate OF the granary and SEA th1 gram
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 aud lacerating, AMI 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 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. Arcaangel willing
to listen to smallest cherub. No boiling or
the door of caste at one heavenly mansion
to keep out the citize N of a smaller mansion.
No clique in one corner whispering about a
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 as
sumption over the most ordinary preacher
OF Righteousness: Naaman, captain or tho
Syrian host, no more hOnored than the cap
tive maid who told him where he could get
a good doctor. Oh my soul, what coun-
tryl 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.
der the galleries. Yes you. Not L" says
some one who has not been in church in
fifteen years before. Yes, you. ''Not l."
says some one who has been for fifty years
filling I'D his life with all kinds of wicked
ness. Yes, you. There are monopoies on
earth-monopolstic railroads and monopo-
hstic telegraph companies and monopoGstic
grain Dealers but no monopoles in religion.
All who want 10 be saved may be saved,
without money and without price" Sal
walton by the Lord Jesus Christ for all the
people. OF course use common sense in this
matter. You cannot expect to get to
Charleston by taking the snip for Portland.
and you cannot get to heaven by going in
an 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 supernal
society if should reach it," I think you
would. L know you would. | remember
that in the huskng time there was a great
equality OF feeling among the neighbors.
There at one corn SHOCK d farmer would be
at work who owned two hundred acres of
ground. The man whon he was talking
with at the next corn shock owned but
thirty acres o. ground, and perhaps all that
covered by mortgage.
That evening, at the close of the husking
day, one man drove home roam span so
frisky. so full of life they got their feet over
the traces. The other man walked home.
Great difference in education, great differ
ence in worldly MEANS but [ noticed at the
huskiug 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
so it will be in heaven. Our Father will
gather His children around HIM, and the
nelghbOrS will come in and the past will be
rehearsed. And some one will tell Of vic
tory and we will all celebrate it. And some
one will say: Here is my old father that
hA9rtOrRakI
him! He is as young as any of usn'
Aud some one will say: Here is my darl-
ing child that 1 buried in Greenwood, and
all the after years Of my life were Swallowed
doesn't seem as If she had been sick a min
uter' Great socality. Great neghborhoot
kindness. Go in and dine. What though
John Milton sit down on one side and John
Howard sit down on the other side? No en-
barrassment. What though Charlotte
Elizabeth sit down Oh one side aud Hannah
More sit down on the other side? No
barrass nent. A monarch yourself why be
embarrassed among monarchs? A songster
yourself, why be embarr asset among glori-
fed songsters? Go in ana 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 die1 at haphazard.
Planted at just the right time. Plowed at
Just the right time. Cut down at just the
Garnered at just the right time. Coming
in in your season. Oh, [ wish that the two
billion bushels OF corn now in the fields
on their way to the seaboari might be
type of the grand yield of honor and glory
and Immortality when all the shocks come
in.
do not know how you are constituted,
but am so constituted that there is nothing
that so awakens "reminiscences in me as the
odors of cornfiald when I cross it at this
time of year aft er the corn has been cut and
it stands in shocks. And SO have thought
it might be practically useful for us to-day
to cross the cornfed, and [ have thought
reused in our soul that might be salutary
and might be saving. In Sweden a prlma
donna, while her house in the city was be
ing repaired, took a house in the country
for temporary residence. and she brought
out her 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 her
friends had gone and the servants had gone
one summer night-sh9 sat thinking and
looking into q mirror just in front Of her
chair. when she saw in that mirror the face
of robber looking in at the window be-
hind her and gazing at those jewels She
was in great fright, but sat still. and
hardly knowing why she did so she began
to sing an old nursery song, her fears max
ing the pathos of the song more telling.
Suddenly she noticed, while looking at the
mirror that the robbers face had gone
from the window, and it did not come back.
A few days after the prima donna received
letter from the robber, saying. 81 heard
that the jewels were to be out that night,
and came to take them at whatever hazard
but when heard you sing that nursery
song with which my mother SO often sang
me to sleep | could not stand it, and He'd,
resolved 2 and honest