Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-11-28

est experiences in all their lives, and
there was neighborhood reunion the
memory of which makes all the nerves
of my body tremble with emotion as
the strings of a harp when the fingers
of the PLAYER have swept the chords.
The husking time was the time of
neighborhood reunion, and so heaven
will be just that. There they come up!
They slept in the old village church
yard. There they come up! They re-
clined amid the fountains and the sculp-
ture and the parterres of city Gene
terry. There they come up They
went down when the ship foundered off
Cape Hatteras. They come up
from all sldes-from Potter's
Field and out the solid masonry
OF Westminster Abbey. They
come up! They come up! All the hind
RANGES to their better nature husked off.
All their spiritual dependencies husked
off. All their hindrances 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
ence. Now In heaven they are so ra-
di6nt you hardly know them. The fact
is, all their imperfections have been
husked off. They did not mean on earth
to be diSagreeabIe. They meant we'll
enough, but they told you how sick you
looked; and they told you how many
hard things they had heard about you,
aud they told you how often they had TO
stand up for you in some battles until
you wished almost that they had been
slain in some of the battles. Good,
pious, consecrated, well-meaning dis
agreeables. Now in heaven all their
offenSiveness
HAS BEEN HUsKED 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 songs
tiers, all millionaireS, all banqueters.
God, the Father, with his children all
around him. No 'good-by" in all the
air. No grave cut in the hills. River
of crystal rolling over bed of pearl,
under arch Of chrysoprase, into seas OF
glass mingled with fire. Stand at tho
gate Of the granary and see the grain
come in: out OF the froSts In the sun
shine, out of the darkness into the
light, out of the tearing and the ripping
and the twisting and the wrenching and
decorating and the husking time Of earth
into the wide-open door OF the Kings
granarY, "like as a shock of corn CON-
eth in In his season."
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
time, ploughed 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. On, wished that the two bill |
lion bushels of corn now IN the fields or
on their way to the seaboard might be |
a type of the grand yield Of honor and |
glory Immortality, when all the shocks |
come in.
/ do not know how you are consti- |
tuted, but I am so constituted that |
there is nothing that so awakens remi-
niscences In me as the odors OF corn
field when 1 cross it at this time of |
year after the corn has been cut and |
It stands in shocks. And so l have |
1t might be practically useful |
for US today to cross the cornield, and |
1 have thought perhaps, there might be
some "reminiscences reused in our soul
that might be salutary and might be |
saving. In Sweden prima donna,
while her house in the city was being
repaired, took house in the country |
for temporary residence. and she /
brought out her great array Of jewels |
to show q 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 |
sat thinking and looking |
into q mirror just in front OF her chair,
when she saw in that mirror the face of |
3 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 making the pathos Of the song
more. telling. Suddenly she noticed, !
vhilel looking at the mirror, that the 1
,ebbsf's fare had gone from the win
low. #Dd Il did not come back A few /
days ser the prlma 0snna received a /