St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-09-05

his feet. bring him up into the palace.
for / want to show him everlastinR
kindness for Jonathan's sake"
Again: Mephibosheth in my tcxs
stands for the disabled human soul
lifted to the Kings table. It was moro
difficult In those times even than it u
now for common men to get int .
royal dining room. The subjects might
have come around the rail of the PAL
acc and might have seen the lights
kindled, and might have heard the clash
Of the knives and the rattle Of the gold
On goblets. but not get in. Stout mon
with stout feet could not get in all
their lives to one banquet, yet poor
Mephibosheth goes in. lives there, and
il every day 1t the table. Oh, what .
getting up in the world it was for poor
Mcphibosheth! Well, though you and
may DO woefully famed with sin, for
our divine Jonathsn's sake. hope we
will all get in to dine with the King.
Before dining we must be intro
duced. II you are invited to q COM
pany of persons where there arc dis
tinguished people present, you are i'm
troduced: This Is the senator" This
Is the governor" "This il the presi.
dent" Before We sit down 1T tho
Kings table in Heaven think we will
want to be introduced. Oh. what .
time that will be. when you and !. by
grace OF God, get into Heaven,
and are introduced to the mighty
spirits there, and some one will say:
This is Joshua" ''This is Paul" "This
Is Moses" ''This is John Knox" This
Is John Milton" ''This is Martin Luz
Their" This is George Whitefield. !"
oh, shall we have any strength left
after such q round of celestial intro
duction? Yea! We shall be potentates
ourselves. Then we shall sit down at
the Kings table with the sons
and daughters OF God, and one
will whisper across the table to
us and say: "Behold what man
ner of love the Father hath be-
slowed upon us that we should DO
called the sons Of God!" and someone
ut the table will say: 'How long will
It last? All other banqusts at which I
sat ended. How long will this last?'
and Paul will answer Forever" and
Joshua will say "Forever!" and John
Knox will say ''Forever!' and George
Whiteaeld will say Forever
And the wine At that banquet will be
old wine; it will be very old wine; it
will be the oldest wine Of Heaven; it
will be the wine that WAS trodden out
from the red clusters on the day when
Jesus trod the wine press alone. Wine
already more than eighteen centuries
old. And no one will deride us as to
what we were in this world. No one
will bring up our imperfections
here, our sins here. All our earth
~ imperfections completely covered up
and hidden. Mephibosbeth's feet un.
der the table. Kingly fare. Kingly
vesture. Kingly companionship. Wa
shall reign forever and ever. think
that banquet will mean more to those
who had it hard in this world than to
those who had it easy. That ban.
quet in David's palace meant moro
to Mephibosheth than to anyone
else, because he had been poor
aud crippled, and despised, and re-
jected. And that man who in this
world is blind will better appreciate
the light Of Heaven than we who in
this world had good eyesight- And
that man who in this world was deaf
will better appreciatesthe music of
Heaven than we who in this world had
good hearing. And those will have a
higher appreciation of the easy locomo-
ton Of that land who in this world
were eMephibosheths.
Omy soul, what . magnificent Cos
pei! It takes q man so low down and
raises him so high. What q Gospel!
Come now. who wants to be banqueted
and empalaced? As when Wilberforce
was trying to get the emancipation
bill'' through the British parliament.
aud all the British isles were
anxious to hear of the passage of tho
emancipation bill, when q vessel was
coming into port and the captain of
the vessel knew that the people were
SO anxious to get the tidings, he step
ped out on the Prov of the ship and
shouted to the people, long before he
got up to the dock: "Free!" and they
cried it, and they shouted it, and they
sang it all through the land, Free!
free!' So to-day Iwoulk like to sound
the news of your present and your
eternal emancipation until the angels
Of God lowering in the air, and watch
men ON the battlements, and bell men
in the town cry it, shout it, sing it,
ring it: Free! free!' 1 come out now
Is the messenger of the palace to in
vite Mephibosheth to come up. am
here to-day to tell you that God has q
wealth of kindness to bestow upon
you for His Sons sake. The doors of
the palace are open to receive you.
The cupbearers have already put the
chalices on the table, and the great,
loving, tender, sympathetic heart Of
God bends over you this moment, say.
ing: rs there any that is yet left: Of
the house Of Saul, that may show him
kindness for Jonathan's sake?"
TERMINATION OF NUTS.
Those Of Cold Countries Retain Their VI
tality for Many Years.
It is . very common notion in the
north that nuts-butternuts, for in
stance-will not grow until they are