The Monitor-register., 1897-10-15

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 n heavenly mansion to
keep out the citizen of a smaller man
sion. No clique in II corner whisper
ing about a clique in another corner.
David taking none Of the airs of a giant
killer. Joshua making no one halt I'M
til he passes because he made the sun
and moon halt. Paul making no assump-
tions over the most ordinary preacher
of righteousness. Naaman, captain of
the Syrian host, no more honored than
the captive maid who told him where
he could get a good doctor. Oh, my
soul, what a countryl The humblest
man a king. The poorest woman a
queen. The meanest house q palace.
The shortest lifetime eternity. And
what is more strange about it all is, we
may all get there. "Not l." says some
one standing back under the galleries.
Yes, you. "Not l." says some one who
has not been in church in 10 years be-
fore. Yes, you. "Not l., " says some one
who has been for so years filling up his
life with all kinds Of wiekedness. Yes,
you.
There are monopolies on earth, mo-
nopolistio railroads and monopolistic
telegraph companies and monopolistic
grain dealers, but no monopoly in reli-
gion. 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 can
not expect to get to Charleston by TAX
ing ship for Portland, and you cannot
expect to get to heaven by going in an
opposite direction. Believe in the Lord
Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
Through that n gate of pardon and
peace all the race may go in.
"But, !" says ONE one, "do you real
ly think 1 would be at home in that
fupernal society if / could reach it?" /
think you would. l know you would.
I remember hat in the husking time
there was a great equality of feeling
among the neighbors. There at one corn
shock a 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 80 acres of
ground, and perhaps all covered by a
mortgage. That evening at the close of
the husking day one man drove home a
roam span SO frisky, SO full of life, they
got their feet over the traces. The 9TH
er man walked home. Great difference
in education, great difference in world
ly means, but 1 noticed at the husking
time they all seemed to enjoy each 9TH
er's society. They did not ask any mar
how much property he owned or what
his education had been. They all SEEM
ed to be happy together in those good
times.
A Picture of Heaven.
And S it will be in heaven. Our Fa-
Their will gather his children around
him, and the neighbors will come in,
and the past will be rehearsed. And
some n 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 m 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 will
say: Here is my darling child, that /
buried in Greenwood, and all the after
years of my life were Swallowed with
desolation. Just look at herl She doesn't
seem as if she had been sick a min
ute" Great sociality. Great neighbor-
hood 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 embarrass-
ment. A monarch yourself, why be en-
barrassed among monarchs? A songster
yourself, why be embarrassed amid glo-
rified songsters? Go in and dine.
All the shocks Of corn coming in in
their season. Oh, yes, in their season.
Not one Of you having died too soon, or
having died too late, or having died at
h~aphazard. Planted at just the right
time. Plowed at just the right time
Cut down at just the right time. Husk-
ed at just the right time. Garnered at
just the right time. Coming in in your
season.
Oh, l wish that the billions of bush
els Of corn now in the fields or on the
way to the seaboard might be a type of
the grand yield of honor and glory and
immortality when all the shocks come
inl
l do not know how you are consti-
tuted, but am SO constituted that there
is nothing that so awakens reminis-
cences in me as the odors Of a cornfield
when l cross it at this time of year
after the corn has been cut and it stands
In shocks. And SO / have thought it
might be practically useful for us today
to cross the cornfield, and l have thought
perhaps there might be some reminis-
cence reused in our soul that might be
salutary and might be saving. In Swe-
den a prima donna, while her house in
the city was being repaired, took a
house in the country for temporary resi-
dence, and she brought out her great
array of jewels to show a 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
n summer night-she sat thinking
and looking into a mirror just in front
OF her chair, when she saw in that mir
ror the face OF a robber looking in at
the window behind her and gazing at
those jewels. She was in great fright,
but sat still, and hardly knowing why
she did SO she began to sing an old nurs-
cry 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. flew days after the prima
donna received a letter from the robber,
saying, Il heard that the Jewels were
to be out that night, and ! came to take
them at whatever hazard, but when ]
heard you sing that nursery song with
which my mother so often sang me to
sleep | could not stand it and I fled.
and l have resolved upon a new and an
honest life" $
Oh, my friends, there are jewels in
peril richer than those which lay upon
that table that night. They are the
jew els Of the immortal soul Would
God that some song rolling up out of
the deserted nursery of Your childhood
or N song rolling up out of the corn