Connecticut western news., 1897-10-14

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 disagreeables.
 Husked On.
 Now in heaven all their offensive ness 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 reunion. All kings and queens, all songsters, all mil lionaires, all banqueters. God, the Fla ther 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 chrysoprasus, into the sea of glass min gled 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 the lacerat- ing, and the husking time of earth into the wide open door of the Kings gran ary, "like as @ shock of corn cometh in in his season..
 Yes, heaven a great sociable, with joy like the joy of the husking time. No one there feeling so big he declines to speak to some one who is not so large. Archangel willing to listen to smallest cherub. No bolting of the door of caste at one heavenly mansion to keep out the citizen of a smaller man. sion. No clique in one corner whisper ing about clique in another corner David taking none of the airs of giant killer Joshua making no one halt un- til he passes because he made the sun and moon halt. Paul making no assump- tions over the most ordinary 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. Oh, my soul, what countryl The humblest man king. The poorest woman queen. The meanest house a. palace. The shortest lifetime eternity. And what is more strange about it all is, we may all get there "Not I" says some one standing back under the galleries. Yes, you. "Not 1" says some one who has not been in church in 15 years be- fore. Yes, you. "Not I, says some one who has been for 50 years filling up his life with all kinds of wickedness. Yes, you.
 There are monopolies on earth, mo- nopolistic railroads and monopolistio telegraph companies and monopolistic grain dealers, but no monopoly in reli- zion. 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 can not expect to get to Charleston by talk ing ship for Portland, and you cannot expect to get to heaven by going in an 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 real ly think I would be at home in that supernal society if could reach it?' think you would. I know you would. I remember that in the husking time there was great equality of feeling among the neighbors. There at one corn shock farmer would be at work who owned 200 acres of ground. The man whom he was talking with at the next corn shock owned but 80 acres of ground, and perhaps all covered by mortgage. That evening at the close of the husking day one man drove home . roan span so frisky, so full of life, they got their feet over the traces. The oth- CT man walked home. Great difference in education, great difference in world ly means, but noticed at the husking time they all seemed to enjoy each oth- er's society. They did not ask any man how much property he owned or what his education had been. They all seem- ed to be happy together in those good times
 A Picture of Heaven.
 And so 1t will be in heaven. Our Fla ther will gather his children around him, and the neighbors will come in, and the past will be rehearsed. And some one will tell of victory, and we will all celebrate it. And some one will tell of great struggle, and we will all praise the grace that fetched him out of it. And some one will say: Here Is my old father, that I put away with heartbreak Just look at him. He is as young as any of us. And some will say: "Here is my darling child, that buried in Greenwood, and all the after years of my life were shadowed with desolation. Just look at her She doesn t seem as if she had been sick min | ute.'' Great sociality. Great neighbor- hood kindness.
 What though John Milton sit down oi1 1a TDhy ox.I cif | on the other side. No embarrassment. | What though Charlotte Elizabeth sit down on one side and Hannah More sit down on the other side? No embarrass- ment. A monarch yourself, why be en- barrassed among monarchs? A songster | yourself, why be embarrassed amid glo- rified songsters? Go in and dine. All the shocks of corn coming in in their season. Oh, yes, in their season. Not one of you having died too soon, or 1 having died too late, or having died at haphazard. Planted at just the right | time. Flowed at just the right time. l Cut down at just the right time. Husk- ed at just the right time. Garnered at just the right time. Coming in in your season.
 | Ou, l WlSu bldb Lu6 UllllOuS Ol uuSUs els of corn now in the fields or on the way to the seaboard might be type of the grand yield of honor and glory and
 immortality when all the shocks come in | I do not know how you are consti-
 tuted, but l am so constituted that there
 is nothing that so awakens reminis-
 cences in me as the odors of oornfeld | when I cross 1t at this time of year
 after the corn has been cut and it stands
 in shocks. And so have thought it
 might be practically useful for us today
 to cross the cornfeld, and have thought
 perhaps there might be some repinis-
 cence reused in our soul that might be
 salutary and might be saving. In Swe-
 den prima donna, while her house in
 the city was being repaired, took a
 house in the country for temporary resi-