Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1892-12-02

lovetll he chasteneth," and It is proof
positive that there Is something valu-
able in you, or the Lord would not
have husked you.
You remember also, that in the time
of huslSing it was n neighborhood re-
union. by the great fireplace in the
winter, the fires roaring around the
glorifed back-logs on an old-fashioned
hearth, of which the modern stoves
and registers are only the degenerate
Descendants, the farmers used TO gather
and spend the evening, and there
would be much sociality; but
it was not anything like the
JOY of the huslSing time, for then
all the farmers came, and they came
in the very best humor, and they came
from beyond the meadow, and they
came from beyond the brook, and they
came from regions two and three miles
around. Good spirits reigned supreme,
and there were great handshakings,
and there was carnival, and there was
the recital OF the brightest expert
ences in all their lives, and there was
neighborhood reunion the memory
of which makes all the nerves of my
body trembe with emotion as the
strings of harp when the fingers of
The husking time was the time of
neigh borhood reunion, and so heaven
will be just that. There they come
up! They slept in the old village
churchyard There they come up!
They reclined amid the fountains and
the sculpture and the parterres OF
city cemetery. There they come up
They went down when the ship foun-
dered off Cape Hatteras. They come
up from all sides-from Potter's Field
and out of the solid masonry of West
minister Abbey. They come up! They
come upl All the hindrances to their
better nature husled off. All
their spiritual dependencies huslSed
Off. All their hindrances TO usefulness
hushed off The grain, the golden grain,
the God-fashioned grain, visible and
conspicuous. Some of them on earth
were such disagreeable Christians you
could hardly stand it in their presence.
Now in heaven they are SO radiant
you hardly know them. The fact is, all
their imperfections have been husled
off. They did not mean on earth to
be disagreeable. 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 aim lst
that they had been slain in some of
the battles. Good, pious, consecrated,
well-meaning disagreed bles. Now, in
heaven all their offensiveness has been
husled off. Each one is as happy as
he can be. Every one he meets as
happy as he can be. Heaven one great
ighborhood reunion. All Kings and
Queens, all songsters, all millionaires,
all banqueters. God, the Father,
with his children all around him.
No ''good-by" 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 decorating
and the huslSing time of earth into the
wide-open door of the Kings granary,
like as a shock of corn cometh in in
his season."
Yes, hsaven is great sociable, with
Joy like the Joy of the husling time.
to speak to some one that is not so
large. Archangel willing to listen to
smallest cherub. No boiling of the
door of caste at enc heavenly mansion
to keep out the citizen of n smaller
mansion. No clique in one corner
whispering about n clique i'm 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 or
binary preacher of Righteousness.
Naaman, captain of the Syrian host, no
more honOred than the captive maid
who told him where he could get
good doctor. o my soul, what a coun-
try! The humblest man King. The
poorest woman a Queen. The meanest
house palace. The shortest lifetime
eternity. And what is more strange
about it all is we may all get there.
Not j, " says some one standing back
under the galleries zee, you Not
/, says some one who has not been in
church in fifteen years before. Yes,
you. mot l. says some one
who has been for fifteen years
filling up his life with all kinds of
wickedness.' Yes, you. There are
monopolies on earth, monopolistic
railroads, and monopolistic telegraph
companies, and monopolistic 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 cannot eX-
pect to get to Charleston by taking the
ship for Portland, and you cannot get
to heaven by going in the 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 SUI
pernal society IL should reach ito" /
think you would. | know you would.
l remember that in the huslxing time
there was great equality of feeling
among the neighbors. There at one
corn-shock a farmer would be at work
who owned 200 acres of ground. The
man whom he was talking with at the
next corn-shocls owned but thirty
acres of ground and parhans all that