The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-11-09


ace. My explanation in very poor French
did not satisfy them, and they followed me
long distances until i reached my hotel
md were not satisfied until from my land
lord they found that was only nm inoffen-
sive American. The gates OF elrthly pal
aces are carefully guarded, aud II so, how
much more tho thronerooml A dazzling
place is 1t for mirrors and all costly art.
No one who ever saw the throneroom OF
the first and only Napoleon will ever for
get the letter embroidered in purple and
gold on the upholstery OF chair aud win
dow, the letter N gilded on the wall, the
letter chased on the chaices the letter
N flaming from the ceiling. What con-
migration OF brlliance the throneroom
of Charles Emmanuel OF Sardinia, OF
Ferdinand OF Spain, of Elizabeth of
England, OF Bonface OF Italy. But
the throneroom OF our Fathers house
hath n glory ecllpsing all the throne
rooms that ever saw scepter wave or crown
glitter or foreign ambassador bow, for our
Fhshe ers throne Is n throne OF grace, IL
thrones OF mercy, throne OF holiness,
throne OF n..,tice, a throne OF universal
dominion. We peed not stand shiverlng
and covering before'it sSg Gnr Father says
we may yet one day come up and sit on It
beside Him. "ro him that overcometh
will grant to sit with Me In My throne"
You see, we are princes and princesses.
Perhaps now we move about incognito, as
Peter the Great In the garb Of ship car.
penter Mt Amsterdam or as Queen Tlrznh
in the dress OF II peasant woman seeking
the prophet for her childs cure, but II
will be found out after n while who we are
when we get into the throneroom. Aye,
we need not walt until then. We may by
prayer and song and spiritual uplifting
this moment enter the throneroom O
King, live forever! We touch the scepter
and PROSTATE ourselves at Thy fee..
Another room In our Fathers house IL
the music room. st. John and other Bible
writer's talk 50 much about tho music OF
heaven that there must be music there,
perhaps not such MS on earth was thrum.
med from trembling string or evoked by
touch of ivory key; bat IL not that then
something better. There are so many
Christian harpists and Christian composers
and Christian organists and Christian hym-
nologists that have gone up from earth,
there must be for them some place OF es-
pecial delectation. Shall we have music
in this world OF dscords and no music In
the land OF complete harmony?
In that music room OF ou- Fathers house
you will some day meet the cid masters,
Mozart and Handel and Mendelssohn and
Beethoven and Doddfidge, whose sacred
poetry was as remarkable as his sacred
prose, and James Montgomery and William
Cowper, ut last got rid OF his spiritual mel
ancholy, and Bishop Heber, who sang OF
"Greenland's icy mountains and India's
coral strand" and Dr. Raffles, who wrote
OF High in youder realms OF light" and
Isaac Watts, who went to visit Sir Thomas
Abney and wife for week, but proved
himself so agreeable 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 Wesley, freed from his dislike for
Calyinists, and George W. Bethune, as
sweet as songmaker as he was great
as preacher and the author OF 1.-The
Village Hymns" and many who wrote
in verse or song. in church or by eventide
cradle, and many who were passionately
fond of music, but could make none them
selves, the poorest singer there more than
any earthly prima donna and the poorest
plavers.there more than any earthly Gott.
schalk. Oh, that music room, the head.
quarters OF cadence and rhythm, sym.
phony and chant, psalm and antiphoni
May we be there some hour when Haydn
sits at the keys OF one OF his own oratorics,
and David the psalmst 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 Parepn render match.
less duet in tho music room OF the old
heavenly homestead! "In my Fathers
house are many rooms"
Another room In our Fathers house will
ne the family room. 1t may correspond
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 separate
room, In the family room they all gather,
and joys and sorrows and experiences oil
NIL styles are there rehearsed. Sacred room
in all our dwellings, whether 1t be luxurl.
Gus with ottomans and dlvans 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 knsfolk assem-.
BILE and talk over the family expert.
ences OF earth, the weddings, the
births, the burials, the festal days OF
Christmas and Thanksgiving reunion.
VIII the children departed remain chill.
dren there? VIII the aged remain aged
there? Oh, mol Everything Is per-
feet there. The child will go ahead to glorl.
fled maturity, and the aged will go back
to glorined maturity. The rising sun OF
the one will rise to meridian, and the
descending sun of the other will return to
meridian. However much We love our
children on earth, we would consider 1t a
domestic disaster II they staid children,
and so we rejoice Mt their growth here
And when we meet In the family room oil
our Fathers house we will be glad that
they have grandly and glorlously matured,
While our parents, who were aged and In.
firm here, we shall be glad to fnd re.
stored to themost agile and vigorous i'm.
mortality there.
/ hope none of us will he disappointed
about getting there. There Is room fol-
us IL we will go and take 1t, but In order
TO reach 1t 1t Is absolutely necessary that
we take the right way, and Christ Is the
way, and we must enter at the right door
and Christ is the door, and we must start
In time, and the only hour you are sure OF
Is the hour the clock now strikes, and the
only second the one your watch Ia now
ticking. L hold In my hand roll oi
letters inviting you all to make that
your home forever. The New Testa
ment Is only roll OF letters inviting
you, as the spirit OF them practically
says: my dying yet immortal child In
earthly neighborhood, have built for YOU
n great residence. 1t is full OF rooms. |
have furnished them as no palace was ever
furnished. Pearls are nothing, emeralds
are nothing, chrysoprasus is nothing, ilu-
mined panels OF sunrise and sunset moth.
ing, the aurora OF the northern heavens
nothing, compared with the splendor with
which l have garnitured them. But you
must be clean before you can enter there,
and so have opened fountain where YOU
may wash all your sins away. Come nowl
Put your weary but cleansed feet on the
upward pathway. Do you not see amid
the thick foliage on tho heavenly hilltops
the old family homestead?" SIN my
Fathers house are many rooms"
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