The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-17

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the crown on three emperors. But
wherever the oronets of this world
rise or fall they r destined to meet
in one place. And look and see them
coming from north and south and east
and west, the Spanish crown, the Ital-
ian crown, the English crown, the
Turkish crown, the Russian crown, the
Persian crown-aye, all the crowns
from under the great archivoft Of
heaven-and while / watch and wonder
they are all flung in rain of diamonds
around the pierced feet.
Jesus shall reign where'er the sun
Does his successive journeys rum,
His kingdom stretch from shore to
shore
Till sun shall rise and set no more.
Oh, that throneroom Of Christ. I'm
my house are many rooms"
THE MUSIC ROOM.
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 ouch of ivory key,
but If not that, then something bet
ter. There are so many Christian harp
ASND oAa tOtlipOoCIS dllO
Christian hymnologists that have gone
up from earth, there must be for them
some place of especial delectation.
Shall We have music in this world of
discords n 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. 1 cannot
imagine either the solo or the doxolo-
gy. But heaven means music and
can mean nothing else. Occasionally
that music has escaped h gate. DR..
Fuller, dying at Beaufort, s. c.. said,
d you not hear" Hear what?" ex-
claimed the bystanders. THE music.
Lift me up! Open the windowsi'
In that music room OF our Fathers
house you will some day meet h old
masters. Mozart and Handel and Men,
delssohn and Beethoven and Doddridge
whose sacred poetry was as remarka-
BILE as his sacred prose, and James
Montgomery, and William Cowper~ at
last got rid of his spiritual melancholy,
and Bishop Heber, who sang of Green
lands icy mountains and India's coral
strand" and DR.. Raffes, 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 Augustus Top
lady, who has got over his dislike for
MethOdists, and Charles Wesley, freed
from his dislike for Calvinists, and
George w. Bethune, as. sweet as a
songmaker as he was great as a
preacher and the author of 1.-The VIII
lage Hymns" and many who wrote in
verse or song, in church or by even
tide cradle, and many who were pas
sionaItely fond Of music, out could
make none themselves, the poorest
singer there more than any earthly
pr1ma donna and the poorest players
there more than any earthly Colts
chalk. 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 ait the keys Of one of his
own o~ratorios, and David the psalmist
fingers the harp, and Miriam of the
Red Sea banks claps the cymbals, and
Gabriel puts his lips to the
and the four any twenty elders chant,
and Lind and Parepa render match
less duet in the music room of the old
heavenly homestead! I'm my Fathers
house are many rooms.''
ROOM FOR THE FAMILY.
Another room in our Fathers house
will be the family room. 1t may CORE
Goond 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. Sacred
room in all our dwellings, whether it
be luxurious with m and di-
vans and books in Russian lids stand
ing in mahogany case or there be only
a few plain chairs and a cradle. So
the family room on hign 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 Thanksgiving reunion. Will the
children departed remain children
there? Will the aged remain aged
there? Oh, no. Everything is per-
feet there. The child will go ahead to
glorifed maturity, and the aged will
go back to sglorified maturity. The
rising sun of the one will rise to meri-
dian, and the descending sun of the
other will return to meridian. How
ever much we love our children on
earth, we would consider 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 gloriously ma
tured, while u parents, who were
dSeu ana 1nIlTm mere, we snail De giad
to find restored to the most agile and
vigorous immortality there. If 40 or As
or so years be the apex of physical and
mental life on earth, then the heavenly
will advance to that, and
the heavenly old age will retreat to
tina When we join them in that fam
lily room. we shall hav 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 o know when we lost
property and sympathize with US?
Did you know we a that awful sick
ness? Were o lowering anywhere
around us when we plunged into that
memorable accident? Did you know of
backsliding? Did you know of hat
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
eventful, but what must be the biogra-
ply Of ten years in heaven? They will
have to tell us the story of coronations,
of news from all immensely,
story of conquerers and hierarchs. sto-
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