The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1899-11-11

,''m' donna and the poorest PLAYERS
mere more than ans earthly GottscbuIl..
"l' maj music room, the headuuarters
OF cadence and hythm symphony and
'h'nI psalm and mtiphou. MAY wr
"e lHrIn some hour when HAYDN SID,
III lhr Keys of one OF his own oratorIo,.
ana David thcpsaImIst fingers the harm
"N" MIRIAM OF the Red sea bank, clan.
lNr r}mb1ls, and Gabriel puts his lips
10 'hc trumpet and the four and twenty
e'"tfs chant and Lind and Parcpa rene
"ei malchIcs duet in the music room
oil The old heavenly homestead I'm
my Fathers house are many rooms"
Nh"lhrr room In our Fathers house
VIII be the family room. II may CORE.
Sp"hd somewhat with the family room
ON earth. At morning aud evening. Won
Know that is the place we now meet.
though every member of the household
nave a separate room, in the family
room they all gather, and JOYS and sor-
rows and experiences of all STYLES are
there rchearsed. Sacred room in All
our dwellings, whether it be luxurious
with ottomans and diyans and books In
russian lids standing in mahogany case
or there be only few plain chairs and
a cradle. So the family room on bigb
WI be the place where the kinsfolk
assemble and talk over the family ex-
perlenccS of earth, the weddings. The
births, the burials, the festal DAYS Of
Christmas and Thanksgiving reunion.
WIZ the children departed remain chill
dren there? win the aged remain AGED
there Oh, no! Everything is perfect
there The child Will 90 ahead 10
giotiied maturity, and the aged will
go back TO glorifed maturity. The ris.
ing 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
il a domestic disaster if they
staid children, and so we re ioice 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
anrs, who were aged and infrm here, we
shall be glad to find restored to the
most agile and vigorous immortality
here. If 40 or IS or 50 years be the
apex Of physical and mental life on
Earth, then the Heavenly childhood will
advance to that, and the Heavenly old
lge will retreat to that. When we Join
hem in that family room we shall have
much to tell them. We shall want TO
snow of them, right away, such things
Is these: Did you see us in this or that
II the other struggle? Did you know
when we lost our property and sympa-
hize with MS? Did you know we had
hat awful sickness? We're you hover
ng anywhere around MS when we
plunged into that memorable accident? !
Did you know of our backsliding? Did |
ou know of that moral victory? We're
on pleased when we started for |
Ieavcn? Did You celebrate the hour
4 our conversion? And then, whether |
hey know ii or not, we will tell them |
II. But they win have more to tell us
han we to tell them.
Ten years on earth may be very event.
III, but what must be the biography of
en- years in Heaven? They will have to
FL us the story of coronations. story
f news from all immensely, story of
onquerors and hierarchs, story Of
rocked or ransomed planets, story of
ngolic victory over diabolic revolts. of
suns, of obliterated con-
relations, of new galaXies lindIed and
wung. Of stranded comets, of worlds
D fire and story of Jehovah's majestic
ign If in that family room of our
ather's house we have so much to tell
ZEN Of what we have passed through
nee we parted, how much more thrill
q and arousing that which they have
tell us of what they have passed
rough since we parted! Surely that
mily room will be one of the most ia
,red rooms in all our Fathers house.
hat long lingering there, for we shall
,ver again be in hurry! LET me
zen a window" said a humble Chris
an servant to Lady Ratfles, who, be-
use of the death of her child, had shut
,rself up in a dark room and refused
see anyone. you have been many
Tvs in this dark room. Are you not
named to greve in this manner, when
III ought to be thanking God for hav-
o given YOU the most beautiful child f
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