Connecticut western news., 1892-12-01

out of the solid masonry or Westm1n- ster abbey! They come up! They come upl All the hindrances to their better nature husked off. All their spiritual dependencies husked off. All their hindrances to usefulness husked of. The grain, the golden grain, the God fashioned grain, visible and conspicuous.
 Some of them on earth were such dis stand 1t in their presence. Now in heaven they are so radiant you hardly know them. The fact is, all their i'm perfections have been husked off. They did not mean on earth to be disagree able They meant well enough, but they told 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 battles until you wished al- most that they had been slain in some of the battles. Good, pious, consecrated, we'll meaning disagreeables. Now in heaven all their offensiveness has been husked of Each one is as happy as he can be. Every one he meets as happy as he can be. Heaven one great neighbor- hood reunion. All kings and queens, all songsters, all millionaires, all banquet CTS. t-aa s+ @a-
 God 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 ripping, and the, twist. ing, and the wrenching and lacersting, and the husking time of earth into, the wide open door of the Kings granary "like as shock of corn cometh in in his season."
 HEAVEN IS A LONG THANKSGIVING.
 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 30 large. Archangel willing to listen to smallest cherub. No bolting of the door of caste at one heavenly mansion to keep out the citizen of b 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 be- cause he made the sun and moon halt Paul making no assumption over the most ordinary preacher of righteous ness. Naalnan, 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 countryl The humblest man king. The poorest woman a queen. The meanest house a 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 gall leries, Yes, you. Not l." says some one who has not been in church in hf7 teen years before. Yes, you. Mot I,l says some one who has been for fifty years filling up his life with all kinds of wickedness. Yes, you. There are mo- nopolies on earth, monopolistic railroads and monopolistic telegraph companies, and monopoistic 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 can not expect to get to Charleston, by ,tak I ing the ship for Portland, and you can not get to heaven by going in an oppo7 site direction. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and thoushalt be saved. Through that one gate of pardon and peace all the race may go in. Lntgs-eA ,.-s1.l1.g1
 But" says some one, do you really think would be at home in that super nal society if should reach itY' think you would. I know you would. l re- member that in the huskihg time there was 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 husk- ing day, one man drove home . roam span so frisky, 30 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 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. And so it will be in heaven. Our Father will gather his children around him, and the neighbors 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 Ill praise the grace that fetched him out of it, and some one will say: "Here ii my old father that I put away with heaxtbreak. Just look at himl He is as young as any of usra l#
 And some one will say: "Here is my darling child that, buried in Green wood, and all the after years of my life were shadowed with desolation. Just look at herl She doesn't seem as If she had been sick minuter' Great social ity. Great neighborhood kindness. Go in and dine. What though John Milton sit down on one side and John Howard sit down on the other side? No smbar- rassment. What though Charlotte Eliz- sbeth sit down on one side and Hannah More sit down on the other sides No embarrassment. A monarch yourself, why be embarrassed among monarchsl A songster yourself, why be embarrassed among giorified songsters? Go in and dine. .FF.
 THH LAST GREAT INGATHERING.
 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 died at haphazard. Planted at just the right