The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-11-29

time eternity. And what is more strange
about it all is we may all get there. NOT
l." says some one, standing PACK under tne
galleries. les. you. MOI l, s!ys et so,no
years befoer. Yes you. Not 1, eS Says
some one who has been for fifty years ming
ND his life with all kinds or "ickeunesIs'
Yes, you. There are monopolles on ttt ~
mOnopolistic railroads, ana Iholopoiis',r -,
egraph companies, and monopoiisec erain
dealers. but no monopolies i'll reilgion Al
who want to be saved may be saved, WIN WIN
out money and without prlce; o"ls ,iin
by the Lord Jesus Christ for all the people
OF course use common sense ~ ,,niS INV
You cannot expect to get TO ChaTlestoii ny
taking the ship for Portland. and you can
not get to heaven by going IN an opp %i'.
direction Believe i'll the LORD Jesus Nn l,so
and thou shalt be saved. IhrouSh .li''' one
gate of pardon and peace All inc Law '''
so ill., 500 ..do Won really
tbinl, i would be at home in that supelI-
nal society if I should reach II! 'li,lA
Won would. / know you would. ! renlenl-
her that in the husking time there was ilea ,
equality Of feeling among . rne n wonld be-
ut work who owned two hundred acres ol
ground. The man whom he was talh ME-
with at the next corn shock owned ~. I'LL l.
ty acres of ground, and perhaps an tliaa co'
cred with a mortgage. That evening" Ut
the close of the husking day, one man HI I:e
home a roam span so frisky, so 1uli Oh I'VE! NE,
they got their feet over the traces. ne
other man walked home Great uinsl ,ITI'
in education, great difference IN "oIinS
means; but [ noticed at the nushils ; :a,e
they all seemed to enjoy each othef Socie.s'
They did not ask any man now nuch pIopI
ertv he owned or what his education I'tu
been. They all seemed to be HAPPY ,ose' u,
or in those good times. And SO IL VIII Dc III
heaven. Our Father Will gatnef MS clH i,
come in, and the past will be rehearSed.
And some one will tell of victory, ana we
will all celebrate it. And some one WI tei
of great struggle, and we VIII ;'ii praisS
the grace that fetched him out OF IT. H'lu
some one will say, Here is my OLD 1atner
that | put away with heartbreak; JUST look
nj him he is as young as any OF us! ana
some one will say Here is my darling chlld
that | buried IN Greenwood. and All me
after years Of my life We're shadowed VIII
seem as if she had been sick minute.
Great sociality. Great nciShborhood klnd-
ness. Go in and dine. What though John
Milton sit down on one side and Joln lIo"
ard sit down on the other side. No elnDar-
rassment What though Charlotte Eliza
beth sit down on one side and Hannah
More sit down on the other side! NO EN-
barrassment A monarch yourself, why be
embarrassed among monarchs? 4 songster
yourself, why be embarrassed among glorl-
fed songsters? Go in and dine.
All the shocks of corn coming in IN their
season. Oh, yes, i'll their season. Not one
of you having died too soon, or having dled
too late or having died at haphazard. Plant-
ed at just the right time, plowed at just
the right time. Cut down at just the right
time. Husked at just the right time. Car
nered at just the right time. Coming III IN
your season. Oh, j wished that the two
billion bushels of corn now III the hcldS or
on their way to the seaboard might be
type of the grand yield of honor and glory
and Immortality, when all the SHOCKS come
III.
I do not know how you are constituted,
but am so constituted that there is nothing
that so awakens "reminiscences III me as the
odors Of q cornfeld when cross it at this
time of year after the corn has been cut and
it stands in shocks. And SO l have thought
it might be practically useful for us today
to Grass the corntield. and l have thought
perhaus there might be some "reminiscences
reused in our soul that might be salutary
and < ;yht be saving. In Sweden prlma
donna while her house in the city was being
prepaJo q, took q house in the country Tor
tempe ary 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
night-she sat thinking and looking into
mirror lust in front of her chair. when she
saw in that mirror the face of robber
looking in at the window behind her and gaz-
ing 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 making the pathos of the song
more talling. 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: Il 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 moth
er 50 often sang me to sleep, l could not
stand it and I fed. and have resolved upon
new and honest life" O. my friends,
there are jewels III peril richer than those
which lay upon that table that night. They
are the jewels of the immortal soul. Would
God that some song rolling up out of the
deserted nursery of your childhood. or some
song rolling up out of the corntields, the
song of the huskers twenty or forty years
ago, might turn all our feet out of the paths
of sin into the paths of righteousness.
Would God that those memories waited in
on odor or song might start us this moment
with swift feet toward that blessed place
where so many of our loved ones have al
ready preceded us, las Il shock of corn
cometh in in his season"