The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1899-11-08

else Occasionally that music has escap-
ed the gate. DIR. Fuller, dying at Beau
| fort, S. c., said, do you not hear!'
'Hear what?" exclaimed the bystanders.
'The music. Lift me up. Open the win
dowsr'
/ In that music room of our Fathers
house you will some day meet the Old
masters. Mozart and Handel and Men
delssohn and Beethoven and Doddrdge,
! whose sacred poetry was as remarka bAe
| as his sacred prose, and James Mont
gomery, and William Cowper, at last got
rid of his spiritual melancholy, and B1sh-
OPP Heber, who sang Of "Greenland's ICY
mountains and India's coral strand, and
DR.. Raffles, who wrote Of High in yon-
der realms Of light" and Isaac Watts,
who went to visit Sir Thomas Abney and
wife for week, but proved himself SO
agreeable a guest that they made him
stay thirty-six years, and side by side
Augustus Toplady, who has got over his
dislike for Methodists, and Charles Wes-
ley, freed from his dislike for Calvanists,
and George w. Bethune, as sweet as a
song-nlaker as he was great as preach
/ err and the author of "The Village
Hymns" and many who wrote i'll verse or
song, in church or by eventide cradle, and
many who were passionately fond Of mu-
SIC but could make none themselves, the
poorest singer there more than any earth
| ly prima donna and the poorest players
there more than any earthly Gottschalk.
| Oh, that music room, the headquarters OF
cadence and rhythm, symphony and
chant, psalm and antiphon! May we be
there some hour when Haydn sits at the
keys Of one Of his own oratorios, and Da-
vid 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
matchless duet in the music room Of the
old heavenly homestead! ''In my Faith
| er's house are many rooms"
Room for the Family.
| Another room in our Fathers house
will be the family room. 1t 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 re-
hearsed. Sacred room in all our dwell
ings, whether it be luxurious with otto
mans and divans and books in Russian
| lids standing in mahogany case or there
! be only few plain chairs and cradle
| So the family room on high will be the
place where the kinsfolk assemble and
talk over the family experiences of earth,
the weddings, the births, the burials, the
| festal days of Christmas and Thanksglv-
| ing reunion. Will the children departed
remain children there? Will the aged
remain aged there? Oh no! Everything
is perfect there. The child will go ahead
to glorifed maturity, and the aged VIII
go back to gloriied maturity. The rising
sun of the one will rise to meridian, and
the descending sun of the other will re-
turn to meridian However much we
love our children ON earth, we would con-
slider it a domestic disaster if they staid
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
glorously matured, while our parents.
who were aged and in6rm here, we shall
be glad 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 advance to
that, and the heavenly old age will re-
treat 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
other struggle? Did you know when we
lost our property and sympathize with
us? Did you know we had that awful
sickness? 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 cele-
brate the hour of our conversion? And
then, whether they know it 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 event
full, but what must be the biography of
ten years in heaven? They will have 20
tell us the story of coronations, story Of
news from all immensely, story of con-
uuerors and hierarchs, story Of wrecked
or ransomed planets, story of angelic vic
tory over diabolic revolts, of eXtinguish-
ed suns, of obliterated consultations. of
new galaXies kindled and swung, of
stranded comets, Of worlds on tire, and
story of Jehovahs majestic reign. Ii 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 part
ed! Surely that family room will be one
OF the most favored rooms in all our
Fathers house. ''In my Fathers house
are many rooms"
The Invitation to All.
How would it do for my sermon to
leave you in that family room to-day?
am sure there is no room in which you
would rather stay than in the enraptured
circle of your assembled and gloriGed
kinsfolk. We might visit other rooms in !
our Fathers house. There may be pie
ture galleries penciled not with earthly
art, but by some process unknown in this
world, preserving for the next world the
brightest and most stupendous scenes of
human history, and there may be lines
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