Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-10-16

nelghborhood reunion, and SO heaven
will be just that There they come upl
They slept in the old village church
yard There they come upl They re-
clined amid tho fountains and the
sculpture and the parterres Of a city
cemetery. There they come upl They
went down when the ship foundered off
Cape Hattcras. They come up from all
sides-from potter's field and out Of
tho solid masonry of Westminster alb
hey. They como up! They como upl
All tho hindrances to their better ma
turo husked off All their physical all
ments huskcd off. All their spiritual
dependencies husked Off All their him
ORANGES to usefulness huslled off. The
grain, the golden grain, the God fash
toned grain, visible and conspicuous.
Some of them on earth were such dis
agreeable Christians you could hardly
stand it in their presence. Now i'll
heaven they are SO radiant you hardly
know them. The fact is, all their inn
PROJECTIONS have been huslled off They
did not mean on earth to be disagreca-
BILE. 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 yol
in some battles until you wished almost
that they had been slain in some Of the
battles Good, pious, consecrated, well
meaning disagrceablos.
Husked Oh. ~
Now in heaven all their offensive
ness has been husked off. Each oneis as
happy as he can be. Every ono he
meets as happy as he can be. Heaven
one great neighborhood reunion All
kings and queens. all songsters, all mil
lionaircs, all banqueters. God, the Fa-
Their, with his children all around him.
No "goodby" in all the air. No grave
cut in all tho hills River of crystal
rolling over bed Of pearl, under arch OF
chrysoprasus, into the sea of glass min
glcd with fire. Stand at the gate of the
granary aud 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 twist
ing, and the wrenching, and the lacerat-
ing, and the hush1ng time of earth into
the wide open door of the Kings gram
airy, "liko as shock of corn cometh i'll
in his season.
Yes, heaven great sociable, with
JOY like the JOY of the huslling 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 smaller man
sion No clique in ono corner whisper
ing about clique in another corner.
David taking none of the airs of giant
killer Joshua making no one halt I'M
til he passes because he made the sun
and moon halt. Paul making no assump-
tons over tho most ordinary preacher
a.
of righteousness. Naamdn, captain OF
the Syrian host, no more honorcd tn;i2
the captive maid who told him where
ho could get a good doctor. Oh, my
soul, what a country! The humblest
man q king. The poorest woman o
queen Tho meanest house a palace.
The shortest lifetime eternity. And
what is more strange about it all is, we
may all get there mot l." says some
one standing back under the galleries.
Yes, you. mot l, says some one who
has not been in church in 10 years be-
fore. Yes, you. mot !, :" says some one
who has been for so years filling up his
life with all kinds of wickedness. Yes,
you.
There are monopolies on earth, mo-
nopolistic railroads and monopolistic
telegraph companies and monopolistic
grain dealers, but no monopoly in reli-
gion. All who want to he saved may
be saved without money and without
price " Salvation by tho Lord Jesus
Christ for all the people. Of course use
common sense in this matter You can
not expect to get to Charleston by tax
ing ship for Portland, and you cannot
expect to get to heaven by going i'll al
opposite direction Believe in the Lord
Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
Through that one gate of pardon and
Deaco all the race NAV 20 in.
"But, says some one, do you real
ly think would be at home in that
society if could reach it," L
think you would l know you would
remember that in the huslling time
there was q great equality of feeling
among the neighbers. 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 OF
ground, and perhaps all covered by
mortgage. That evening at the close of