Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1899-11-06


uplifting this moment enter the throne
room. 0 King, live forever. We
touch the scepter and PROSTATE our
selves at thy feet.
The crowns of the royal family Of
this world are tossed about from gen.
Grafton to generation and from family
to family. There are men comparative
ly young in Berlin who have seen the
crown on three emperOrs. But wher-
ever the coronets of this world rise or
fall they are destined to meet in one
place. And [ look and see them COM
ing from north and south and east and
west, the Spanish crown, the Italian
crown, the English crown, the Turk
ish crown, the Russian crown, the Per-
sian crOwn-aye, all the crowns from
under the great archivolt of heaven
and while 1 watch and wonder they
are all flung in rain of diamonds
around the pierced feet.
Jesus shall reign whereer the sun
Does his successive journeys run,
His kingdom stretch from shore to shore
Till shall rise and set more.
Oh, that thrOnerOOm Of Christ! "In
my Fathers house are many rooms"
Music of Heaven.
Another room in our Fathers house
is the music room. St. John and other
Bible writer's talk so much about the
music Of heaven that there must be
music there, perhaps not such as on
earth was thrummed from trembling
string or evoked by touch of ivory
key; but, if not that, then something
better. There are so many Christian
harpists and Christian composers and
Christian organists and Christian
choristers and Christian hymnologists
that have gone up from earth, there
must be for them some place of espe-
cial delectation. Shall we have music
in this world Of discords and no music
in the land of complete harmony? I
cannot give you the notes of the first
bar of the new song that is sung in
heaven. I cannot imagine either the
solo or the doxology. But heaven
means music, and can mean nothing
else Occasionally that music has es-
capped the gate. DR.. Fuller, dying at
Beaufort, S. c., said: do you not
hear?" "Hear what?" exclaimed the
bystanders ''The music! Lift me
up! Open the windows"
II .
house you will some day meet the old
masters, Mozart and Handel and Men
delssohn and Beethoven and Dod-
bridge, whose sacred poetry was as re-
markable as his sacred prose, and
James Montgomery and William Cow
per, at last got rid of his spiritual mel
ancholy, and Bishop Heber, who sang
of "Greenland's icy mountains and In
dia's coral strand" and DR.. Rallies,
who wrote of High in yonder realms
of light" and Isaac Watts, who went
to visit Sir Thomas Abney and wife
for a week, but proved himself so
agreeable a guest that they made him
stay So years, and side by side Au-
gustus Toplady, who has got over his
dislike for Methodists, and Charles
Wesley, freed from his dislike for Ca
vinists, and George w. Bethune, as
sweet as a sougmaker as he was great
as a preacher and the author of 1.-THE
Village Hymns" and many who wrote
in verse or song, In church or by
eventide cradle, and many who were
passionately fond of music, but could
make none themselves, the poorest
singer there more than any earthly
prima donna and the poorest players
there more than any earthly Gott-
schalk. Oh, that music room, the head
quarters Of cadence and rhythm, SYM
phony and chant, psalm and antiphon!
May we be there some hour when
Haydn sits at the keys of one Of his
own oratorios, and David the psalmist
fingers the harp, and Miriam of the
Red sea banks claps the cymbals, and
Gabriel puts his lips to the trumpet
and the four and twenty elders chant,
and Lind and Parepa render match
less duet in the music room of the old
heavenly homestead! ''In my Fa-
theirs hause are many rooms"
Joyful Reunions.
Another room in our Fathers house
will be the family room. It may CORE
spond somewhat with the family room
on earth. At morning and evening,
you know, that Is the place we now
meet. Though every member Of the
household have "a separate room, In
the family room they all gather, and
joys and sorrows and experiences Of
all styles are there rehearsed. Sa
cred room in all our dwellings, wheth-
er it be luxurious with ottomans and
divans and books in Russian lids
standing in mahogany case or there
be only a few plain chairs and a era
die. So the family room on high will
be the place where the kinsfolk assem-
BILE and talk over the family expert
ences of earth, the weddings, the
births, the burials, the festal days Of
Christmas and Thanksgiving reunion.
VIII the children departed remain chill
dren there? Will the aged remain
aged there? Oh, no! Everything is
perfect there. The child will go ahead
to glorified maturity, and the aged
will 90 back TO olOrified matnritv The