The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-11-15

! At that moment when you confront
each other. Christ looking upon you
ard you locking upon Christ, there
will be an ecstatic thrill and sursing Of
emotion that begcar all d scription.
! Lock They need no introduction.
Long ago Christ chose hat repcntant
sinner, ard that repentant sinner chose
Christ Migh,iest moment Of an i'm
mortal history-the first kiss of heaven
Jesus s1d the scul. Tie socl and
Jesas.
Bat rog into that + ceptiva room
oour tie glorifed klnsfolks. enough ct
earthly RECEPTION 10 let YOU kno $ item,
bat without thcir wounds or their
sickness O: their l.olhlcs-sce what
heaven has doae FOR them-so radiant,
50 slecfnl, so ans!o,tiugly lovely
They call ycu by name. They greet
you with az arlor prorortloacd to the
argaish Of your parting and the length
Of your separation. Father! Mother.
There is 1our child SISTERS B:o;h-
,rs, Friends. wish ycu j)y. For
wears apart, together asaIn in the
rcccp.ion 70 N cf the old homestead.
You Sc, they will hu"w you are com
;,e. There are 50 many lmmor;als
filing ali tae spaces between here aud
heaven that news like that flies like
lightning. They will be there IN al
instant. Though they were IN some
other world on erraod from God, a
signal wonld be thrown that would
fetch them Though You might at lrst
feel 6azed and ovcrawed at their super
nal spleudcr. all that feeling will be
gone at their f ST touch Of heavenly
Salutatlon, ard we will say: 'Oa, my
E! lost boy .'Oh, mG lost companion!
sOl my lost friend, Are We here to-
sether?: What scepes in that recep
tion room CT the old hom s:ead have
been witnessed There met Joseph
aud Jacob. fl ding it tr:gh'er 10 m
thsn ANYTHING they saw in Pharaoh S
palac.: d .vid and the little child for
whom he once tasted and Tep,; Mary
aod LgzaruS after the hear;break Of
Bethany; Timothy and grandmother
Lois. Isabella Graham and her sailor
son: Alfred and George Cookman, the
mastery Of the sea at last maze man!
fest; Luther AID Magda,ene, the
the daughter he benoaned; John
Howard and the prisoners whom he
gospeliz2d. and multitudes without
number who, once so weary and so sad,
parted on earth, but glo:iously met IN
heaven. .Amcng all the rooms Of that
house there is no one that more enrap
lures my soul than that reception room
In my Fathers house are many
rooms.
Another room 10 our Fathers house
is the throneroom We belong to the
royal family. The b;ood Of King Jesus
flows IN our veins, so We have right
to enter the throneroom 1t is no easy
thing on earth to glt through even the
outside door of king residence.
Daring the Franco-Germau war, one
eventide in the summer Of 1870, |
stood studying the exquisite scuiptur-
ing of the gate Of the Tuilerics, Paris.
Lost in admiration Of the wonderful
art Of that gate, knew not that | WAS
exciting suspicion. lowering my eyes
to the crowds of people, | found my
self being closely inspected by the gov
ernment officials, who, from my COM
plexion, judged me to be German and
that for some belligerant purpose /
might be examining the gates of the
palace. My explanation in very poor
French did not satisfy them and they fol-
lowed me long distances until | reached
my hotel and were not satisfied until
from my landlord they found that | was
only an inofensive American. The
gates Of earthly places are carefully
guarded, and, if so. how much more the
throueroou! \ dazzling palace is 1t
for mirrors and all costly art. No one
who ever saw the throneroom of the
first and only Napoleon will ever forget
the letter n embroidered in purple aud
gold on the upholstery Of chair aod
window, the letter y gilded on til, wall,
the letter n chased on the chalices, the
letter \ flaming from the calling
What copflgration Of brilliauce the
throneroom of Charles Emmanuel Of
Sardinia, of Ferdinand of Spain, of
Elizabeth of England, Of Bodiface Of
Italy. But the throperoom Of our
Fathers house hath glory eclipsing
all the thronerooms that ever saw
scepter wave or crown glitter or foreign
ambassador bow. for our Fathers throne
is throne q grace, a throne Of mercy,
throne cF holiness, throne Of justice,
throne Of universal dominion. We
need not stand shivering and covering
before it, for our Father says we may
yet one day come up and sit on it
beside him. To him that overcometh
will l grant to sit with me in my
throne. You see we are princes and
rri0cesses. Perhaps now we move
about incognito, as Peter the Great IN
The garb of ship carpenter at Amster,
dam or as Queen Tirzah in the dress IT
apeasant woman seeking the prophet for
her child's cure; but it will be found out
after awhile who we are when sc get
into the throueroou. Aye, we need
not wait until then. We may by
prayer and song and spiritual uplifting
this moment enter the throneroom. 0
King, live forever, We touch the
scepter and pros:rats ourselves at thy
feet.
The crown OF the royal family of this
world ale tossed about from generation
to generation, aLG from family to
family. There are men comparatively
young in Is Ilia who have seen the
crown on tnree cmperors. But where
+! ever the corncts Of this world rise or
fall they are destined to meet in one
place. And | look and see them COM
ing from north aod south and east and
west, the Spanish crown, the Italian