The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1897-11-20

of glass mingled 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 twisting and the
Wrenching and the lacerating and the
husking time of ;. earth into the wide
open door Of the kings .granary, like
as a shock of corn cometh in in his
season." i, S-= r., ~ :
: Yes, heaven, 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
mansion. No clique in one corner,
whispering about a clique in another
corner. David taking none of the airs
or giant killer. Joshua making no
one halt until he passes, because he
made the sun and moon halt. Paul
making no assumptions over the most
ordinary preacher of righteousness.
Naaman, captain of the Syrian host, no
more honored than the captive maid
VINO told him where he should get a
good doctor. o! my soul, what a
country! The humblest man a king.
Ihe poorest woman a queen. The
meanest house a palace. The shortest
life time eternity. And what is more
strange about it all is, we may all get
tnere. Not I, says some one stand
ing back under the galleries. Yes,you.
Not H. says some one who has not
Deen IN church in fifteen years before.
Yes, you "Not l." says some one who
mas been for fifty years filling up his
llte with all kinds of wickedness. Yes,
you.
Ihere are monopolies on earth, mon
opol1stic railroads and monopolistic tel
egraph companies, and monopolistic
grain dealers, but no monopoly in relig
ion. 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
cannot expect to get to Charleston by
taxing ship for Portland, and you can
not expect to get to heaven by going in
an opposite direction. Believe in the
Lord Jesus Christ and thousshalt 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 at home in that su-
pernal society if I should reach it,"
i think X You would. .ss I know. you would
| remember that in the husking time
there was great equality of feeling
among the neighbors. There at one
corn shock a farmer would be at work
who owned two hundred acres of
ground. The man whom he was talk
Ing with at the next corn
shock owned but thirty acres of
ground, and perhaps all covered by a
mortgage. That evening, at the close
OF the husking day, one man drove
nome 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 means; 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 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 I 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 I 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 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 embarrassment
What though Charlotte Elizabeth sit
down on one side, and Hannah More
sit down on the other side? No embar-
rassment. A monarch yourself, why
be embarrassed among monarchs? A
songster yourself, why be embarrassed
amid glorifed songsters? Go in and
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