The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1897-10-22

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slain in some of the battles. Good,
pious, eonseerated,. well-meanins dis.
agreeables.
Now, in Heaven, ali their offensive
ness has been hussed of. Each one is
as happy as LIE can be. Everyone ne
meets is as happy as he can be. Heav-
en- n great neighborhood reunion.
All kings and queens, all songslers, all
~millioaaires, all banqueters. God. the
Father, with His children all around
Him. No good by" 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 mingled with fire. Stand ut the
gate OF the granary and see the grain
come in; out of the frosts into the sum
shine, out of the darkness into the
light, out of The tearing and the rip
ping and the twisting, and the wrench
ing, and the decorating, and the husk.
ing time of earth into the wide open
door of the Kings granary, like AS II
shock of corn corneth in in his season"
There are ~monopolies on earth, mo-
nopolistic railroads, and m~onopolistic
telegraph companies, and m~onopolistic
grain dealers. hut 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 tn mat
ter. You eau 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 may go in.
but" says some one, do you really
think would be ut home in that SUI
pernal society if | should reach it," l
think you would. know you would.
| remember that in the husking time
there was a great equality of feeling
among the neighbors. There ut one
corn shock a arine would be at work
who owned 200 acres of ground.
The man whom Le was talking with
at the next corn shock owned but 80
acres OF ground, and perhaps all COW
cred by Il mortgage. That evening, at
the close of the husking day, one man
drove home IA roam span so fri,Lv. 81
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 il will IA. in Heaven Our
Father will gather His childrro around
Him, and the nc,phbors 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 grvee thai fetched him out
of it. And some one will say: Here
is my old faLEer that put away with
heartbreak. Just look at him, he is as
young as any of u.s. And some one
will say: ''tIere is nv darling child
that buried in Greenwood, 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 II minute" Great s~ociality.
Great ncighhorhood kindness.
tWhat though John Milton sit down
on one side and John Howard sit down
on the other side? No embarrassment.
What though Charlotte Elizabeth sit
down on one side and Hannah More sit
on the other side? No embarrassment.
a monarch yourself, why be en-
b~arrasSed among monarchs? A songster
yourself, why be embarrassed amid
glorliied songsters? Go in and dine.
All the shocks of corn coming in in
Not n Of you having died too soon. or
having died too laLe, Or having died ut
h~apliazard. Planted at just the right
time. Ploughed at just the right time.
Cut down at just the right time.
lIusked at Just the right time. Gar
| iiCICu dl JUol VIC I1pIIb tliut. lOullUU
in in your season.
Oh. | wish that the billions Of hush.
els of corr now in the field, or ON the
| wav to the seapoard might H.. , tvn.
of the yrtnd Weld of honor and ginrv
and Immortality. when all the sh,uk,
come in,
din nat kno,v hou, ,o, NJ oo,s,;.
tuted INIT / am 90 constituted ,h..
th.r. is NOTHING that al ,w,ksu. r.ni.
niscenc.s In me- as the ,do,s ~ , .nrn.
field when | cross IL at this ,i,ne nf
wear. after the corn ma, been emf and
it stand, in the shocks. And so Inv.
thought il might be practically useful
for us to-day to cross til. corn6eId.
aud | have thought perhaps there
might be some remini,cencs roused
in our soul that might b, sanitary
and might be saving. I'm swe-