Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-11-30

| their lives, and there was neigh bor-
hood 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 .chOrus, The husking time
was the time of neighborhood reunions,
and so Heaven will be Just that. There
they come up! They slept in the old
village churchyard. There they come
up! They reclned amid the fountains
and the sculpture and the parterres Of
a city cemetery. There they come up!
They went down when the ship foun-
dered off Cape Hatteras. They come up
from all sdes-from potter's field and
out OF the solid masonry of Westminster
abbey. They come up! Tkey come up!
All the hindrances 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 dis
agreeable 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 i'm
PROJECTIONS have been husked off. They
did not mean on earth to be Disagree
able.
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. and 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, concentrated, we'll
meaning disagreeables. Now in Heaven
all their offenslveness has been husked
off. Each one is as happy as he can be-
livery one he meets as happy as he can
| be-
! heaven-one great neighborhood re-
union. All kings and queens, all song
sters, all millionaire, 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 como in; out of the frosts into the
sunshine, 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
in in his season"
Y es Heaven is great sociable, with
joy like the Joy Of husking time. No
Que there feeling so big he declines 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 one heavenly mansion to keep out the
citizen of a smaller mansion. No CLIQUE
in one corner whispering about a clique
| in another corner. David taking none
Of the airs of giant killer; Joshua max
ing 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 get q good doc
tor oh, my soul, what Il country! The
humblest man king, the poorest woman
a queen, the meaneSt house a palace, the
shortest lifetime eternity. And what is
more strange a1Out it all is we may all
get there.
Not /, says some one standing back
under the galleries. Yes, you. Not
l." SAYS some one who has not been in
church in fifteen years before. Yes, YOU
Not |, Y" says some one who has been
for fifty years filling up his life with all
kinds of wickedness. Yes, you. There
are DOnop1Ies on earth-monopolis3ic
railroads and mOnOpOliStic telegra phi
companies and monopolistic grain deab-
eys but no mOnOpoleS in religion. All
who want to be saved mag 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-
poet to get TO Charleston by taking the
ship for Portland, and you cannot get to
Heaven by going in an opposite direc
ton Believe in She Lord Jesus Christ
and tpou shalt be saved. Though that
one gate of psDfdOD and peace a1l the race
may go ill.,.
! do not know bow you are. eOnstitu-
ted. bus ann So constituted THAT there
is nothing that SO awakans "reminiscences
in me as the Odors of corn field when
/ cross u at this, time Of year after the
corn has been grat and it StandS,3n shocks.
And so | have thought it mighG be prac-
ideally Useful faN us to-day to cross the
corn felcs, and i have Thoughts perhaps
there might be some reminisceace reused
in our Soul that nighs be salutary and
might be saving LIS SWedens q prima
donna,, while he9- house in the city was
being repaired, 50Olk house ins the cOun-
try for temporary residence and she
brought out her great array OF jewels to
show a. friend WHO, wished to sae them.
One night after displaying these jew
els and leaving them on the table, and all
her friends had gone, and the servants
had gone-One' SKINNER night - she sat
hinking aasd locking into a mirror just
in front OF her chair, whenl she saw in
that mirnOr the face Of a rObb@r looking
in at the window behind her-aMd gazing
at those jewels. She was in great fright
bmt sat still, and hardly knowing why
She did So She began to sing an old
! napsery song. her fears ma iEing the pa
tines Of the song more telling. Suddenly
she noticed while looking alb the mirror
that tho robbers face had gone from
the window, and it did not come back,
A few days after the prilaIa donna Ia
ceived "a letter from the bber saying,
II heard that the jewels we're to be can't
that night, and | came to take thena at
VIVA teyer hazard, but when l heard yOu
sing that nursery song with which
1ranshnr often ClpAn I