Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-10-20


dependencies husl<ed off All their
hindrances TO usefulness huslSed off.
The grain, the golden grain. the God.
fashioned grain, visible and conspicu.
Gus.
Some of them ON earth were such
disagreeable Christians you could hard
ly stand IL in their presence. Now i'm
Heaven they are SO radiant YOU hardly
know them. The fact is. all their in-
projections have been huslled off. They
did not mean ON earth To be Disagree
able. They meant we'll 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. ri Gus,
conseerated, well-meaning Disagree
ableS
Now, in Heaven all their offensive
ness has been huslled off Each one is
as happy as he can be. Every one no
meets is as happy as he can bc.
Heaven one great neighborhood re-
union. All kings and queens, all song
sters, all millionaires, all banquetcrs.
God, the Father. with the 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 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 shock of corn cometh in in his
season
Yes, Heaven great sociable. with
JOY like the joy of the husl<ing 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 boiling of the
door OF caste at one heavenly mansion
To keep out the citizen of n smaller
mansion. No clique in one corner
whispering about a clique in another
corner. David taking none of the airs
of a 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 mald
who told him where he could get a
good doctor: Oh, my soul, what IA
country! The humblest man n king.
The poorest woman queen. The
meanest house "A palace. The shortest
lifetime eternity. And what is more
strange about il all is, we may all get
there. Not 1, says some one who has
not been in church in Is years before.
Yes, you. Not L." says some one who
has been for 30 years filling up his life
with all kinds of wicxedncss. Yes,
you.
There are monopolies on earth,
monopolistic railroads, and monopolis-
tic telegraph companies, and monop-
olistic grain dealers, but no monopoly
in religion. 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 mat
ter. You can not expect To get to
Charleston by taking ship for Portland,
and You can not expect To get to
Heaven by going in an opposite direc-
ton. 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 woul be at home in that super
nal society if ] should reach it?" [
think you would. / know you would.
| remember that in the husl<ing time
there was great equality of feeling
among the ncighbors. 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 30 acres.
and perhaps all covered by mort
gage. That evening at the close of
the husl<ing day, one man drove home
"A roam span so frislSy, so full of life,
they got their feet over the traces
The other man walked home. Great
difference in education. great differ
ence in worldly means: but | noticed at
the husking time they all seemed 10
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 win bc 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 il. And some one
will tell of great struggle, and we
will all praise the grace that fetched
him out of IL. And some one
will say: Here is my old father. that
| put away with hcartbreal< 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 we're Swallowed with desol alton.
Just look at her! She dosen't see III as
il she had been sick a minute Great
socially. 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 Moore
sit down on the other side2 Noembar.
rassmenL A monarch yourself, why
be embarrassed among monarchs? A
songster yourself, why be embarrassed
amid glorified sOngsters2 Go in and