The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1899-11-17

the household have separate room,
In the family room they all gather,
and Joys and sorrows and experiences
of all styles are there rehearsed.
Sacred room in all our dwellings,
whether 1t be luxurious with ottomans
and divans, and books IN Russian lbs
standing in mahogany case, or there
be only a few plain chairs and
cradle. So the family room on high
will be the place where the kins-foiK
assemble and talk over the family eA-
periences OF earth, the weddings the
births. the burials, the festal days OF
Christmas and Thanksgiving reunion.
Will the children departed remain
children there? VIII the aged remain
aged there? oh no; everything is per-
feet there. The child will so ahead to
glorified maturity, and the aged VIII
go back to glorified maturity. Inc
rising sun of the one Will rise 10
meriuian, and the descending sun Oh
the other will return to meridian.
However much we love our children
on earth we would consider 1t domes-
tic disaster If they stayed children, and
so we rejoice at their growth here.
And when we meet in the family room
of our Fathers house, we will be glad
that they have grandly and gloriously
matured; while our parents, who were
aged and infirm here, we ehall be giau
to find restored to the most agile and
vigorous Immortality there. If forty
or forty-five or fifty years be the apex
of physical and mental life on earth,
then the heavenly childhood will ad-
vance to that, and the heavenly OLD
age will retreat to that. When we
join them in that family room we
shall have much to tell them. We
shall want to know of them, right
away such things as these: Did you
see us in this or that or the otner
struggle? Did you know when we lost
our property, and sympathize with us!
Did YOU know we had that awful SICK
ness? Were you lowering anywhere
around us when we plunged into that
memorable accident? Did you know
Of our backsliding? Did you know OF
that moral victory? were you pleased
when we started for heaven? Did you
celebrate the hour of our conversion!
And then, whether they know 1t or
not, we will tell them ALL But they
will have more to tell us than we TO
tell them. Ten years on earth may be
very eventful, but what must be the
biography of ten years in heaven!
They will have to tell us the story OF
coronations, story of news from all
immensely, story of conquerors ana
hierarchs, story of wrecked or ran
somed planets, story of angelic victory
over diabolic revolts, of extinguished
suns, of obliterated consultations, OF
new galaxies kindled and swung, OF
stranded comets, of worlds on fire,
and story of Jehovah's majestic reign.
If in that family room of our Fathers
house we have so much to tell them
of what we have passed through since
we parted, how much more thrilling
and arousing that which they have to
| tell us of what they have passed
| through since we parted. Surely
| that family room Will De one y.
the most favored rooms in all
our Fathers house. What long
lingering there, for we shall never
again be in a hurry! Let me open
window" said an humble Christian
self up in a dark room, and refused
of the death of her child, had shut her
servant to Lady Rafiies, who, because
! to see anyone. "You have been many
days in this dark room. Are you not
ashamed to grieve in this manner,
when you ought to be thanking God
for having given you the most beau
tiful child that ever was seen, and II.
! stead of leaving him in this world till
he should be worn with trouble. has
not God taken him to heaven in all his
beauty Leave off weeping, and let
me open q window" So today | ana
trying to open upon the darkness OF
earthly separation the windows ana
| doors and rooms of the heavenly
| homestead. I'm my Fathers house
are many rooms"