Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-12-01


they had to stand up for you In some bat |
ties until you wished almost that they had |
been slain in some Of the battles. Good, |
pious, concentrated, well meaning dis
agreeables Now in heaven all their Of |
fensiveness 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 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
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 rip
ping, and the twisting, and the wrenching
and lacerating, 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."
THE SOCIETY OF HEAVEN.
Yes, heaven is great sociable, with joy
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 smaller
mansion. No clique in one corner whisper
ing about clique in another corner. David
taking none of the airs of n 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 get good doctor. Oh,
my SOUL what country, The humblest
man king, the poorest woman queen,
the meanest house n palace, the shortest
lifetimeeternity. And what is more strange
about Il 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. 'Not
l." says some one who has been for City
years filling up his life with all kinds of
wickedness. Yes, you. There are mUnop-
olies on earth-nEBnopolistic railroads and
mouopolistic 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 te get to Charleston by taking
the ship for Portland, and You uaGannot get
TO heaven ty going in an opposite direc.
tion. Belisre in the Lord Jesus Christ
} and thou shalt be saved. Through that
one gate Of pardon and peace'a all the race
may 20 in
ALL WILL BE AT HOME THERE.
| But" says some one, "'do you really
think Iwould be ut home in that supernal
society il should reach it?" l think you
! would. know you would. l remember
, that in the husking time there was great
J equality of feeling among the neighbors
/ There at one corn shock a farmer would bt
J at work who owned twe hundred acres o.
ground. The man whom he was talking
with at the next corn shock owned bu
thirty acres of ground, and perhaps al
= that covered Dy a mortgage.
That evening, at the close of the huskint
day zone man drove home roam span 81
| frislSy, so full of life they got their fee
over the traces. The ,other man walked
l home Great difference in education, grea
/ difference in worldly means, but l noticed
/ at the huslzing time they all seemed tt
: ENJOY each others sDciety. They did no
s ask any man how much property he ownet
: OF what his education had been. They al
: seemed to be happyitogether in those goo'
D times. And so it will be in heaven. Ou
t 4Father will gather his children arount
e HIM, and the neighoors will come in, ant
t the past will be rehearsed. And some on
r wall tell of victory, and we will all celebrat
1 IT. And some one will tell of great strug
gle, and we will all praise the grace tina
;, ifetched him out Ofiit. And some one will
SAY: Here is my g0ld father that I pu
c -away with heartbreak Just look at him
q He is as young as any of usl"
And some one wiz say: Here is my dar
D ling child that l baIried in Greenwood, an,
/ Ioaal the after years.of my life were shad
p to0yed with desolatien. Just look at her
!, She doesn't seem asiif she had been sick
8 ,rninute!m Great ,tSSciality. Great neigh
: aborhood kindness GO in and dine. Wha
1 Though John Milton sit down on one sid
e sand John Howard sit down on the othe
+ side? No embarrassment. What though
:. charlotte Elizabeth sit down ON one sid
s and Hannah More sit down on the othe
q side? No embarrassment. A monarcl
t yourself, why be embarrassed among mon
g ;archs? A songstsr yourself, why be EN-
C bnrrassed among Giorified songsters? G.
e in and dine.
All the shocks ofcorn coming in in thei
+ season. Oh, yes, in their season. Not on
0 Of you having died too soon, or having die
| teo late, or having died at haphazard
/ PLANTED at just the right time PloweC
f at. just the right time. Cut down at jus
t the right time. Husked at just the rigb
r time. iGarnered at just the right time
D Coming in in your season. Oh, l wisl
: that the two billionibushels of corn now il
5 thet&elds or on theirway to the seaboart
r might be type of the grand yield of homo
1 and glory and Immortality when all tn
: shocks come in.
. THE MEMORIES OF YOUTH.
I LIDO not know how ypn are constituted
but q am so constituted that there is moth
ing that so awakens "reminiscences in mi
{ as the odors of corn field when cross i
at this time of year aftar the corn has beer
3 cut and it stands in shocks. And SO I havt
! Thought it might be practically useful fo
= US today to cross the corr field, and hav'
3 Thought perhaps there might be som,
"Reminiscences reused in our soul thai
, might he salutary and might be saving
la Sweden prima donna, while her hous'
; In the dity was being repaired, took
house in the country for temporary res
deDce, and she brought outher great ARA
of Jewels ito show a friend who wished t
see them.
One night after displaying these jewel
and leaving them ON the table, and all he
friends had gone, and the servants ha
! gone--one summer night-she sat thinking
and looking into mirror just in front o
, her chair, whea she saw in thatmirror tn
+ face of rSbheG looking in at the window
behind her and gazing at those Jewels. Sh
was in great fright but sat still. an