The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1899-11-22

that gnte, Iknew not that was exciting
suspicion. Lowering my eyes to the croWoS
OF people, found myself being closely 10. 10.
spected by the government officials, Tno
from my complexion, judged me to bea Ger
man and that for some beIligerent purpose
might be examining the gates OF the pale
ace. My explanation In very poor French
did not satisfy them, and they followed me
long distances Spntil reached my hoteit
and were not satisfied until from my land.
lord they found that was only an inonen-
sive American. The gates OF earthly pal-
aces are carefully guarded, and II SO, how
much more the throneroom! dazzling
place Is 1t for mirrors and all costly art.
Noone who ever saw the tbroneroom ol.
get the letter N embroidered in purple andl
gold on the upholstery OF chair and win.
dow, the letter N gilded on the wal, the
letter N chased on tile chalices, the letter,
N flaming from the ceiling. What q con-
lagration Of brilliance the throneroom
Of Charles Emmanuel OF Sardinia. OF
Ferdinand of Spain, OF Elizabeth OF
England, OF Boniface of Italy. But:
the throneroom OF our Fathers house
hath glory eclipsing oil the throne;
rooms that ever saw scepter wave or crownS
Fathers throne is q throne OF grace, e.
throne OF mercy, throne OF holiness, 8
throne OF justice, a throne of UNIVERSAL:
dominion. We need not stand shiyerfng
and covering before 1t, for our Father says
we may yet Vne day come up and sit on IT.
beside Him. ITO him that overconett5
will grant to sit with Me in MY throne."
You see, We are princes and princesses.
Perhaps now we move about incogDito, as
Peter the Great in the garb OF a ship car
penter at Amsterdam or as Queen Tirzah
In the dress OF peasant woman seeking
the prophet for her cnild's cure, but It
will BE- found out after while who we are
when we get into the throneroom. Ave.,
We need not wait until then. We may by
prayer and song and spiritual uplifting
this moment enter the throneroom. @.
King, live forever! We touch the sceptees
and PROSTATE ourselves at Thy fee:. "a
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 thrum-.
med from trembling string or evoked BY
touch of ivory key; bat, II not that, then
something better. There are so many
Christian harpists and Christian composers
and Christian organists and Christian hym-g
nologists that have, gone up from EARTH,
there must be for them some place oles.1
pecial delectation. Shall we have musics
In this world Of dlscords and no mueic inY
the land OF complete harm ony? 8
In that music room Of our Fathers house
you WILL some day meet the cid masters,
Mozart. and Handel and .Mendelssohn and
Beethoven and Doddridge, whose sacred
prose, and James Montgomery and William
Cowper, at last got rid Of his spiritual mel-
ancholy, and Bishop :Heber, who sang or
"Greenland's 10y mountains and India'S
coral strand" and Dr.. Raf1es, VINO wrote
Of "High in youder realms OF tlight,n and
Isaac Waits, who went to visit Sir Thomasf
Abney and wife for week, but proved
himself SO agreeable a guest that they
made him stay thirty-six years, and side
by side Augustus Topiady, who has got
over his dislike for Methodists. and
Calvinists, and George ". Bethune, as
sweet as songmaker as he was great 4
as a preacher and the author OF The
Village Hymns" and many who wrote
in verse or song, in church or by eventid0f
cradle, and many who were passionRteIy&
fond Of music, but could make none them
selves, the poorest singer,there moro than
any earthly prlma donna and the poorest
players. there more than any earthly Gott 4
schalk. Oh, that music room, tae head
quarters OF cadence and rhythm, sym
puonY auu Cuaut, Poaitn ohu on.Lpnpnt3a
May we be there some hour when Haydn
sits at the keys OF one OF his own oratorios,
and David the psalmist 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 Parepa render matcn..
less 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. It may correspond.
somewhat with the family room on eatth..
At morning and evening, you know,th
is the place we now meet. Though every
member OF the household have separate !
room, In the family room they all gasber,
and Joys and sorrows, and experiences OF
ass styles are there rehearsed. Sacred roomtS
In all our dwellings, whether 1t be luxurt-
GUS with ottomans and divans and books
In Russian lids standing In mahogany case
or there be only few plain chairs and 81
cradle. So the family room on high VIII
be the place where the kinsfolk assem-
bic and talk over the family expert-
ences' Of earth, the weddings, the
Christmas and Thanksgiving reunion.
Will the children departed remain chill
dren there? viii the aged remain aged
there? Oh, no! Everything is per-
feet there. The child will go aheadto glort-
fled maturity, and the aged will go back
to gloriled maturity. The rising sun Oh.
the one, Will rise to meridian, and the.
descending sun OF the other will return TO!
meridian. However much we love ouriE
children on earth, we would consider It a.
domestic disaster II they staid children,
and 80 we rejoice at their growth here.
And when We meet In the family room OF
H. ,pfit hn
hey have grandly and glonously natured, e
while our parents, who were aged and fn-ts
firm here, we snail De glad to find re-
stored to the most agile and vigorous I'M
there.
I hope none OF US will he disappointed
nbout getting there. There Is u roor: for !.
Us II We will 60 and take 1t, but In order
to reach it 1t is absolutely necessary thatt..
we take the right way, and Christ fs the.
way, and We must enter at the right door,
md Christ Is the door, and We must start
In time, and the only hour you are sure OK
~ the hour the clock now strikes, and the
ouly second the one your watch is now 4
licking. I hold in my hand a roll ofi Il
letters inviting you oil to make that
your home forever. The New. Testa-
N ent Is only roll OF letters inviting
you, az the spirit OF them practically
says: My dying yet immortal child IN
earthly nelghborhood, have built for yo1
, great residence. It Is full OF rooms.
buve furnished them as no palace was ever
furnished. Pearls are nothing, emeralds
ire nothing. chrysoprasus is nothing, illu.
mined panels OF sunrise and sunset moth
ng, the aurora o: the northern heavens
nothing, compared with the splendor with
which l have garnitured them. But you
must be clean before you can enter there,
md so l have opened fountain where you =
nay WASH all your sins away. Come nowt
Put your W cary but rleaused feet on the
lpwnrd pathway. Do you not see amid
ho thick foliage on the heavenly hittope
ho old family homes.ead?" "In my
Fathers house are many rooms"
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