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

dor proportion 10 The anguish 81 your
parting and thg ieRgth OF your sepsra-
ton. Father! Mother. There is your
child. sister, B-others, Friends! ]
wish you joy. FOR years uPar. togeth-
er again in the reception room Of the
old homestead. You see, they will know
you r COMING There are 80 many
immortals nning an the spaces between
here and Heaven that news like that
flies Ike lightning. They viii be there
in an instant Though they were In
some other word on errand from God.
a signal would be thrown out that
would fetch dfm. Thoughyon might
at first feel dBzcd and overawed at
their supernal splendor. all that feel
ing will he goue az their first touch
Of Heavenly SALVATION, and we will say;
"Oh. my lost boy," "Oh. my lost COM
panioni" "Oh. nv lost friendl Are we
here together What scenes IN that
reception Of the old homestead
have been witrcssedl There met Jo-
seph and jaeob, finding Il a brighter
. than anything they saw in Pha-
raoh's palace; David and the little child
for whom he nee tasted and wept.
Mary aud Laz9rus after the heart
break OF BETHANY; Timothy and grand
mother Lois; Isabella Graham aud her
sailor son; Alfred and George Cook
man, the mystery Of the sea at last
made manifest; Luther and Magdalene.
the daughter b. heinoaned; John How
ard and the prisoners whom he gospel.
iEed, and mutt tades without number
who, ono 30 weary and so sad, parted
on earth, but g~loriouSly met in Heaven.
Among all tbs rooms OF that house
there Is no one that more enraptures
my soul than Dat reception DON IN
my Fathers house are many rooms"
Another 100 in cur Fathers house
IS the music room ST. John and ether
Bible writers talk 50 much about the
music Of Heaven that there must be
music ;here, perhaps not so much as
On sar;h was thrummed from trem-
bling string or evoked by touch ofivory
key. but Il aot that. then something
better. There are 50 many Christian
harPlstS and CHRISTIAN composers and
CHRISTIAN o-g3ziSfs and Christian Choir
is'eH and Orisdzr Ay~mnologists that
have go1e Up from earth, there must
be for them some place OF especial de-
location. SHAH Ne have music in this
word q discords and no music in the
land o. complete harmony l cannot
give you TIE aoses o. the first bar Of
the new song that is sung in Heaven.
/ cAnuo; imagine either the solo or the
doxology. But Heaven means music,
and can mean nothing else. Occasional
" that music has escaped the gate.
Dr.. Fuller, dying s. Beaufort, S. C.,
said; do YOU no; hearP" Hear
WHAT exclaimed ths ~bystanders. THE
music Lift ne up. Open the win
dows!~
In that music room Of our Fathers
house you VIII some day meet the old
masters Mozart and Handel and Men
delssohn and Beethoven and Doddridge,
whose sacred poetry was as remark
able IS 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 lndia's coral
strand and Or. RATES., who wrote OF
High in youdsr realms Of light" and
lsaac Watts, who went TO visit Sir
Thomas Abuey aud wife fora week, but
proved himself 10 agreeable a guest
that they made him stay &c years, and
side by side Augustus Toplady. who has
got owe his dislike for Methodlsts, and
Charles Wesley, freed from his dislike
for Calvinists, and George W. B~ethune,
as sweet as a song-maker as he was
great as a preacher and the author OF
"The Village Hymns" and many who
wrote in verse or song, 10 church or by
eventide cradle, and many who we're
passlonately fond OF music, but could
make none themselves, the poorest