The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1897-10-23

thing valuable in you. or the Lord
would not have husl;ed you.
The husking time was the time OF
neigh borhood reunion. and SO Heaven
will be just that. There they come upI
| They slept in the old village church
yard! There they come up! They re-
clined amid the fountains and the
sculpture and the parterres OF n city
1 cemetery. There they come up! They
went down. when the ship foundered
off Cape Hatteras. They come up from
all sides--from potter's field and out OF
the solid masonry of Westminster
abbey. They come up! They come
up! All the hinderances to their better
nature huslSed off. All their physical
ailments husked off. All their him
ORANGES to usefulness husked off. The
grain, the golden grain, the God-fash-
toned grain, visible and conspicuous.
| Some of them on earth were such
disagreeable Christians you could hard
ly stand 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 dis.
agreeable. 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 almost that they had been
slain in some of the battles. Good,
pious, consecrated, well-meaning dis
agreeables.
There are monopolies on earth, mo-
nopolistic railroads, and monopolistic
telegraph companies, and monopolistic
grain dealers, but no monopoly in re-
ligion. All who want to be saved may
be saved, without money and with
out price salvation by the Lord Je-
sus Christ for all the people OF
course, use common sense in this mat
ter. You can not expect to get to
Charleston by taking ship for Portland,
and you can not expect TO get to Heav-
en- 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 luay 80 in.
But" says some one, do you really
think | would be at home in that SUI
pernal society if l should reach IT." l
think you would. | know you would.
| remember that in the huslIing time
there was great equality OF feeling
among the neighbors There at one
corn shock "A farmer would DC at work
who owned 200 acres of ground.
The man whom he was talking with
at the next corn shock owned but so
acres OF ground, and perhaps all COW
cred by mortgage. That evening, at
the close of the husking day, one man
drove home roam span SO frisky, SO
full of life. they got their feet over the
traces. The other man walked home.
Great difference in education, great
difference in worldly mean; but
noticed at the husking time they all
seemed to enjoy each others society.
They did not ask any man how much
property he owned or what his educa-
ton had been. They all seemed to be
happy together in those good times.
And SO it will be in Heaven. Our
Father 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 of great struggle, and we will all
praise the grace that fetched him out
of t. And some one will say: Here
is my old father that put away with
heartbreak. Just look ut him, he is as
N ~ nd
will say: Here is my darling child
that buried in Green wood, and all
the after years of my life were
Swallowed with desolation. Just look
at her! She doesn't seem as is she had
been sick minute" Great sociality.
Great neigh borhoo kindness.
1 do not know how you are consti-
tuted, but l am so constituted that
there is nothing that so awakeus remi-
niscences in me as the doors of corn
field when l cross it at this time of
year, after the corn has been cut and
it stands in the shocks. And so have
thought it might be practically useful
I for, US to-day to cross the cornfield,
and l have thought perhaps there
might be some "Reminiscences reused
in our soul that might be salutary
and might be saving. In ! Swe-
den, prima donna, while her home in
the city was being repaired, took
house in the country for temporary
residence, and she brought out her
great array of jewels to show friend
who wished to see them. One night,
after displaying these jewels, and
leaving them on the table, and
all her friends had gone, and
the servants had gone = one
summer nigh-she sat tn hiking
and looking into mirror just in front
of her chair, when she saw in that
mirror the face of a robber looking in
at the window behind her and gazing at
those jewels She was in great fright,
but sat still, and, hardly knowing why
she did so, she began to sing an old
nursery song, her fears making the
pathos of the song more telling.
Suddenly she noticed while looking
at the mirror that the robbers face had
| gone from the window, and it did not