The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-11-06
DUFFY MALT WHISKY co., Rochester, n. =.

ed While OH .at as, Eao were aged and
inlirm here, We shall be glad IL End re-
stored to the most a2ilr and vigorous i'm
mortality there. If 20 or 45 or 80 years
be the apex of physical aad mental life
on earth, then the heavenly childhood
will advance TO that. and the heavenly
old age will retreat to that. When we
join them in that family room. We shall
have much to tell taem. We shall want
to know Of them. liSat away. such things
as these: Did you b"r 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 hove ne
anywhere around us VIXEN we plunged IN
to that memorable accident? Did you
know Of our backsl ding? Did you know
of that moral victory? Were you pleased
when We started for heaven? 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.
Ten years on earth may be very event
full. but what must BIZ the biography Of
ten years in hraven2 They will have to
tell Us the story of corouations. story of
news from all immensely, story of con-
querors and hierareks, story Of wrecked
or ransOmed planets. story of angelic vic
tory over diabolic revolts. Of extinguish-
ed suns, of obltegated consultations, Of
new galaxies kindled and swung Of
stranded comets. of worlds on fire. and
story Of Jehovah's majestic reign. II in
that family room Of our Fathers house
we have so much to tell them of what
we have passed through since we parted,
how much more thrilling and arousing
that which they have to tell us of what
they have passed through since we part.
ed. Surely that family room will be one
Of the most favored rooms in all our Fa-
theirs house. What long lingering there,
for We shall never again be in Il hurry!
'Let me open widow" said hum
bic Christian servant to. Lady Raiiles,
who. because Of the death of her child,
had shut herseif Zip in dark room and
refused to see any one you have been
many days in this dark room. Are you
not ashamed to gricve in this manner
when you ought TO be thanking God for
having given you the most beautiful child
that ever was seen. and. instead of leav-
ing him in this world till be should be
worn with trouble. has not God taken
him to heaven in all his beauty? Leave
off weeping and let me open window"
So today | am trying to open upon the
darkness of earthly separation the win
dows and doors and rooms Of the heaven
ly homestead. ''In my Fathers house
are many rooms"
The Invitation to All.
How would it do for my sermon to
leave you In that family room today?
am sure there is no room in which you
would rather stay than in the enraptured
circle of your assembled and gloriied
kinsfolk. We might visit other rooms in
our Fathers house. There may be pic
ture galleries pencled not with earthly
art, but by some process unknown in this
world, preserving for the next world the
brightest and most stupendous scenes Of
human history. and there may be lines
and forms of earthly beauty preserved
whittier and chaster and richer than We
netian sculpture ever wrought-rooms
beside rooms. rooms over rooms, large
rooms, majestic rooms, opalesccnt rooms,
amethystine rooms. in my Fathers
house are many rooms"
I hope none of us will be disappointed
about getting there. There is room
for us il we will go and take it, but in or
der to reach it il 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
is now ticking. hold in my hand roll
of letters inviting you all to make that
your home forever. The New Testament
is only roll Of letters inviting you, as
the spirit of shem practically says: "MJ
dying yet immortal child in earthly neigh
borhood. have built for you great res
idence. 1t is full Of rooms. | have fur
nished them Ms no palace was ever fur
nished. Pearls are nothing, cmeralds are
nothing. chrysoprasus is nothing, illumin-
ed panels OF sunrise and sunset nothing,
the aurora of the northern heavens moth
ing, compared with the splendor with
which have garntured 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
now! Put your weary but cieansed feet
on the upward pathway. Do you not see
amid the thick foliage on the heavenly
hilltops the old family homestead" I'm
nv Fathers huuce are many rooms "