The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-10-21
ng back under the galleries.

not been In church in Is years before
Yes. you. Not l." says some one
who has been for so years filling uE
his life with all kinds Of wickedness
Yes. you.
There are monopolies on earth. mo.
nopolistic railroads. monopolistlc tel.
egraph 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
Jesus Christ for all the people. OF
course use common sense in this mat.
ter You cannot expect to get tc
Charleston by taking ship for Port.
land, and you cannot expect to get to
heaven by going in the opposite direc.
tion. 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 | would be at home in that
supernal society II should reach it?"
think you would. | know you
would. | remember that in the husk.
ing time there was a 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 talk
ing with at the next corn shock owned
lint Of
all covered by a mortgage. That ev-
ening at the close of the husking day,
one man drove home a roam span so
frisky, 50 full of life, they got their
feet over the traces. The other man
walked home. Great difference " ed
ucation glat difference in worldly
means, but ] noticed at the husking
time they all seemed to enjoy each
others society. Thy did not ask any
man how much property he owned ur
what his education 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 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
put away with heartbreak. Just look
at him, he is as young as any of u.s."
And some one will say: Here Is my
darling child that buried in Green
wood. and all the after years OF my
life were shadowed with desolation.
Just look at her! She doesn't seem
as IL she had been sick a minute"
Great sociality. Great neighborhood
kindness
What though John Milton sit down
on one side and John Howard sit
down on the other side No embar-
rassment. What though Charlotte
Elizabeth sit down ON one side and
Hannah More sit down on the other
side? No embarrassment. A mon
arch yourself, why be embarrassed
among monarchs? A songster your
self. why be embarrassed amid glOri-
fed songsters? Go in and dine.
All the shocks coming in in their
season. Oh. yes, In their season.
Not one of you having ded too late or
having died at haphazard. Planted at
just the right time. Plowed at just
the right time. Cut down at just the
right time. Husked at Just the right
time. Garnered at just the right time.
Coming in in your season.
/ do not know how you are con3..-
tuted, but | am so constituted th@t
there is nothing that so awakens rci.l-
iniscences In me as tho odorS C' a
cornfeld when cross it at this time
OF year after tho corn has bean cut
and 1t stands IN shocks. And so
have thought 1t might be practically
useful for us to-day to cross the corr
field, and l have thought perhaps
there might be some reminiscence
reused in our soul that might be salu-
tary and might be saving. In Sweden
a prima donna, while her house in tho
city was being repaired. took house
in tho country for temporary resi-
dence, 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 night-she sat thinking
and looking into a mirror Just In front
OF her chair when she saw In that
mirror the face Of robber looking in
at the window behind her and gazing
at those jewels. She was in great
fright, but sat still, and hardly know
ing 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 come back. A few days after the