Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-12-08

been slain in some Of the battles. Good,
pious, concentrated, well meaning dis
agreeables. Now in heaven all their Of
fensiyeness has been husked off. Each one
is as happy rs 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
sters, all millionaires, all banQueters. 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
rhrysoprase, into seas of glass mingled
with fire. Stand at the gate of the grenary
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 laceratirg, and the husking 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, heaven is great sociable, with ioy
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 to listen to smallest cherub. No bolt
ing of the door Of caste at one heavenly
mansion to keep out the citizen of q smaller
mansion. No clique in one corner whisper
ing 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 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 geta good doctor. Oh,
my soul, what countryl 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.
'Not l." says some one standing back
under the galleries. Yes, you. mot l."
says some one who has not been in church
in fifteen years before. Yes, you. mot
l." says some one who has been for fifty
years filing up his life with all kinds of
wickedness. Yes, you. There are mono2-
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 to Charleston by taking
the ship for Portland, and you cannot get
to heaven by going in an opposite direc-
tion. Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved. Through that
one gate of pardon and peace all the race
may 40 in.
ALL WILL BE AT ZONE THERE.
"But," says some one, "do you really
think would be at home in that supernal
society il should reach it!" l think you
would. l know you would. l remember
that in the husEing time there was a great
equality of feeling among the neighbors.
There ut ono corn shock II farmer would be
at work who owned two hundred acres of
ground. The man whom he was talking
with at tho next corn shock owned but
thirty acres Of ground, and perhaps all
that covered by a 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
difference in worldly means, but noticed
at the husking time they all seemed to
enjoy each ether's 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 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 l put
away with heartbreak. Just look ut him!
he is rs young as any of us!"
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 her!
She doesn't seem as if she had been sick
minute" 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
side? No embarrassment. What though
Charlotte Elizabeth sit down ON one side
and Hannah More sit down on the other
slider No embarrassment. A monarch
yourself, why be embarrassed among mon
archs? A songster yourself, why be en-
barrassed among glorifed songstersi Go
in and 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 die,l
too late, or having died ct haphazard
Planted at just the right time. Plowed
at just the right time. Cut down at just
the right time. Husked at just the right
time. Garnered at just the right time,
Coming in in your season. Oh, / wish
that the two billion bushels of corn now in
the fields 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 in.
TIE MEMORIES OF YOUTH.
I do not know how you are constituted,
but am SO constituted that there is moth. |
ing that so awakens "reminiscences in me
as the odors of a corn field when l cross it
at this time of year after the corn has been
cut and it stands in shocks. And SO have |
thought it might be practically useful for
US today to cross the corn field, and have |
thought perhaps there might be some
reused in our soul that
might be salutary and might be saving.
In Sweden r;!ma donna, while her HOUSE
in tho city was being repaired, took q
house in the country for temporary resi-
dence, 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 thera on the table, and all her
friends had gone, and the servants had
gone-one summer night-she sat thinking
and looking into mirror just in front of
her chair, when she saw in that mirror the
face of robber looking in at the window
behind 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.
she noticed, while looking at the |