The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-11-17

the household have separate ROOM |
in the family room they all gather,
and Joys and sorrows and experiences
of all styles are there rehearseo'
Sacred room in all cur DWELLINGS,
whether il be luxurious with ottomaas
and divans, and books in Russian AUS
standing in mahogany case, or tneIe
be only a few plain chairs anu
cradle. SO the family room on hlsh
will be the place where the klns-ioih
assemble and talk over the family ex-
periences of earth, the weddings tue
births, the burials, the festal DAYS "a
Christmas and Thanksgiving reunion
VIII the children departed remain
children there? viii the aged remain
aged there? Oh no; everything Is per-
feet there. The child will so ahead 10
glorifed maturity, and the aged VIII
60 hack to glorified maturity. Inc
rising sun Of the one Will rise 10
meriulan, and the descending sun oi
| the other will return to merlulah'
| However much we love our Children
on earth we would consider it domes-
tic disaster if they stayed children, ana
so we rejoice at their growth mere
And when we meet in the family room
of our Fathers house, we will be giau
that they have grandly and gloriously
matured; while our parents, VINO WERE
aged and inirm here, we shall be glau
to find restored to the most agile anu
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 VIII al
vance to that, and the heavenly ola
age will retreat to that When we
ioin them in that family room we
shall have much to tell them. we
shall want to know Of them, rlgh'
away, such things as these: DID you
see us in this or that or the otheI
struggle? Did you know when we los
cur property, and symaathize with US
Did YOU know we had that awful SICK
ness? Were you lowering anywhere
around us when we plunged into ina
memorable accident? Did you know
of our backsliding? Did you know o
that moral victory? were you pleased
when we started for heaven? DID yo'
, celebrate the hour Of our conversion
And then, whether they know 1t o
not. we will tell them ALL But the
will have more to tell us than we |
tell them. Ten years on earth may D
very eventful, but what must be IN
d biography of ten years in heaven
y They will have to tell us the story c
~ from
t immensely, story of conquerors an
: hierarchs story of wrecked or rar
u somed planets, story of angelic victor
l. over diabolic revolts, Of eXtingulshe
suns, of obliterated consultations.
u new galaxies kindled and swung,
L stranded comets, of worlds on nj
D, and story of Jehovah's majestic reg
= II in that family room OF our Father
:; house we have so much to tell the
lie Of what we have passed through SIN
4 we parted, how much more thrilliT
?; and arousing that which they have
a tell us of what they have pass'
l. through since we parted. Sure
$ that family room will be one
t; the most favored rooms in
er our Fathers house. What loi
le lingering there, for we shall new
Id again be in a hurry! Let me open
ce window" said an humble Christi
tn self up in a dark room, and reius
lg Of the death of her child, had shut NJ
is servant to Lady Rallies, who, becau
ul to see anyone. You have been ma
ny days in this dark room. Are you I
ashamed to grieve in this mann
se when you ought to be thanking u
Ter for having given you the most pe'
he tiful child that ever was seen, ana
be stead of leaving him in this world
on he should be worn with trouble,
rs not God taken him to heaven In all
Try beauty! Leave off weeping, and
ms me open a window" So today l
an trying to open upon the darkness
nd earthly separation the windows
ian doors and rooms of the heave
SITS homestead. I'm my Fathers no
ere are many rooms