The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-12-23

singer there more than any earthly
prima Donna and the poorest players
there more than any earthly 0ottschalk'
Oh, tha, music room. the headquarters
OF cadence and bythm, symphony and
chant. psalm snd antiphonl May we
be there some hour when Haydn sits
at the keys o. one Of his o~ratorios'
and David the psalmist fingers the harp
and Miriam o. the Red sea banks elaps
the cymbals, and Gabriel puts his lips
10 the trumpet and the four and twenty
elders chant, aud Lind and Parepa rem
der matchless duet In the music room
OF the old heavenly homestead In
my Fathers house are many rooms"
Another room In our Fathers house
will be the family room. II may CORE
spond somewhat with the family room
on earth. Al morning and evening, you
know. hat Is the place we now meet.
Though every member ofthe household
have a separate room, in the family
room they all gather, and joys and sor-
rows and experiences Of all styles are
there rehearsed. Sacred room In all
our dwellings, whether 1t be luxurious
with ottomans and dlvans and books In
Russian lids standing In mahogany case
or there be only a few plain chairs aud
u cradle. SO the family Don on high
will be the place where tbs kinSfolk
assemble and talk over the family ex-
perienees OF earth, the weddings, the
births, the burials, the festal days Of
Christmas and Thanksgiving reunion.
VIII the children departed remain chill
dren there? Win the aged remain aged
there? Oh. moi Everything is perfect
there. The child will go ahead 10
glorifed maturity, and the aged will
go back to gloriied maturity. Tie ris-
ing sun of the one will rise TO meridian,
and the descending sun Of the other will
return to meridian. However mnch we.
love our children on earth, W. would
consider 1t a domestic disaster II 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 matured, while our par
ents, who were aged and infrm here, we
shall be glad 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 childhood will
advance 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 other struggle? Did you know
when we lost our property and sympa-
with us? Did you know we had
that awful sickness? We're you hover
ing anywhere around us when we
plunged into that memorable accident?
Did you know Of our backsliding? Did
you know Of that moral victory? We're
you pleased when we started for
Heaven? Did you celebrate the hour
our conversion? And then, whether
they know It or not, we will tell them
al. But they win have more TO tell us
than we TO tell them.
Ten years on earth may be very event
but what must be the biography OF
ten years In Heaven They will have to
us the story Of coronations. story
II news from all immensely, story OF
,onquerors and hierarchs, story of
wrecked or ransomed planets, story OF
victory over diabollc revolts, OF
'xtingulshed suns. OF obliterated con
Itellatlons. Of new galaxies kindled and
Iwung, Of stranded comets, Of worlds
N fire and story OF Jehovah's majestic
II In that family room OF our
house we have so much TO tell
hem Of what we have passed through
ince we parted, how much more thrill.
ng and arousing that which they have
o tell us Of what they have passed
through since we parted! Surely that
room will be one OF the most IA.