The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1899-11-15
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gcmery, and ll!lam CoWpT, az laSI
got rid of his spiritual melancholy, and
Bishop Hvber, who sang Of Green.
laad's icy mountains and lndia's coral
strand, aid Ds Raffies. who wrote OF
High in yonder realms of light, and
Isaac Watts, who went to visit Thomas
Abney and wife for week, but proved
himself 50 agreeable a guest that they
made him stay IS years, aud side by
side Augustus Toplady. who has got
over his dislike for Methodists, and
Charles Wesley, freed from his dislike
for Calviaist>, and George w. Bethure,
as sweet soogster as he was great as
preacher aud the author of The Vii,
lage Hymns" and many who wrote in
verse or song, in church or by even
tide cradle and many who were passion
ateiy fond of music, but coIld make
none themselves, the POOREST singer
there more than any earthly prima
donna and the poorest players there
more than any earthly Gottschalk. On,
that music room, the headquarters OF
cadence and rhythm, symphony and
chant, psalm aud antiphon May We
be there some hour when Haydn sits at
the keys of one Of his own oratorios,
and David the psalmist fngers the
halp, aud Miriam Of the Red Sea banks
claps the cynbals, and Gabr el puts
his lips to the trumpet and the four
and twenty elders chant, and Lind and
Parepa render matchless dpet in the
music room Of the old heavenly home
stead In my Fathers house are
many rooms"
Another room in our Fathers house
will be the family room 1t may cor
respond somewhat with the family
room on earth. At morning and even
ing, you know, that is the place we
now meet Though every memb,r cf
the household have a separate room,
in the family ICON they all gather,
and joys and sorrows and expert
ences OF all styles are there re-
hearsed Sacred room in all our dwell
iues, whether it be luxurious with ot
tomans and divans 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 kinsfolk assemble and
talk over the family experiences of
earth, the weddings, the births, the
buria!s, the festal days of Christmas
and Thanksgiving reunion. Will the
children departed remain children
there? Oh, no! Everything is perfect
there. The child will go ahead to glo
rifeld maturity, and the aged will 6
back to gloriicd maturity. The risin
sun of the one will rise to meridian
and the descending sun Of the othe
will return to meridian. Howevc'
much we love our children on earth:
re would consider it domestic DIS
aster if they staid children, and 50 We
rejoice 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 ma
tured, while our parents, who were
aged and infrm here, We shall be glad
to find restored to the most agile and
vigorous Immortality there. 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 age will re-
treat to that When we join them in
that family room, We shall have much
to tell them. We shall want to know
of them, right away, such things as
thesc: Did you see US in this or that
or the other struggle? Did you know
when We lost our property and sympa-
thize with US? Did you know we had
that awful sickness? Were you hover
ing anywhere around US when we
plunged into that memorable accident?
Did you know of our backslidiDa? Did
you know Of that moral victory? We're
you pleased when we started for heav-
en-? Did you celebrate the hour of our
conversion? And then, whether they
know it or not, we will tell them all.
But they will have more to tell US than
we to tell them. ''Iu my Fathers
house are many rooms.
How would it do for my sermon to
leave you in that family room
today? l am sure there IS no rom in
which you would rather stay than in
the enraptured circle of your ascended
and glorifed kinsfolk. We might visit
other rooms in our Fathers house.
There may be picture galleries penciled
not with earthly art, but by some pro-
ceas unknown in tits world, preserving
for the next world the brightest and
most stupendous scenes of human his
tory, and there may be lines and forms
of earthly beauty preserved whittier and
chaster and richer than Venetian sculp-
ture ever wrought-rooms beside rooms,
rooms over rooms, large rooms, majestic
rooms, opa!escent rooms, amethystine
rooms. IN my Fathers house are
many rooms
l cope rcne Of US will be disappoint-
ed about getting there. There is a
room for US if We will 60 and take it,
but in order to reach it it is absolutely
necessary that we take the night way,
and Christ is the way, aod We must en-
ter 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 nov strikes, and the or;ly
second the one your watch is uoS ,i>k-
ing. | hold in my hand a roll of letters
inviting You all to make that Your
home forever. The New Testament
is only a roll Of letters inviting you, as
the spirit of them practically says
'My dying yet immortal child in earth
ly neighborhood, ! have built for you
great residence. It is full of rooms.
i have furnished them as no palace was
ever furnished. Pearls are nothing,
emeralds are nothing, chrysoprasus is
nothing, illuuincd panels Of sunrise
and sunset is nothing, the aurora Of