Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-12-14

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Graham and her sailor son; Alfred and
| George Goodman, the mystery of the seq
| at last made manifest; Luther and Magda-
lene, the daughter he bemoaned; John
| Howard and the prisoners whom he gos-
/ peliZed, and multitudes without number
| who, once so weary and so sad, parted on
| earth, but 81 gloriously met in heaven. Among
all the rooms OF that house there is no ono
| that more enraptures my soul than tha.
reception room. "In my Fathers house
| are many rooms"
Another room in our Fathers house /
| the throne room. We belong to the royal
| family. The blood OF King Jesus flows in
| our veins, so we have Il right to enter tho
throne room. 1t is no easy thing on earth
| to get through even the outside door of I.
| kings residence. During the Franco Ger.
man war; one eventide in the summer OF
1870, l stood studying the exquisite scup.
turing OF the gate Of the Tuileries, Paris.
Lost in admiration of the wonderful art OF
that gate, knew not that was exciting
suspicion. Lowering my eyes to the crowds
OF people, I found myself being closely in
spected by the government officials, who
from my complexion, judged me to bea Ger
man and that for some belligerent purpose
| might be examining the gates OF the pail
ace. MY explanation in very poor French
| did not satisfy them. and they foliowel mo
long distances until | reached my hotel
and were not satisfied until from my land
lord they found that 1 was only an inolren.
|
aces are carefully guarded, and IL 80, how
much more the throneroom! A dazzling
| place Is 1t for mirrors and all costly art.
No one who ever saw the throneroom OF
the first and only Napoleon will ever for
| get the letter embroidered in purple and
gold on the upholstery OF chair and win
| dow, the letter N gilded on the wall the
| letter N chased on the chalices, the letter
N flaming from the ceiling. What a con-
fagration Of brilliance the throneroom
| l@f ..al - H.
Ferdinand of Spain, of Elizabeth of
England, OF Boniface Of Italy. But
the throneroom of our Fathers house
hath glory ecipsing all the throne
rooms that ever saw scepter wave or crown
glitter or foreign ambassador bow, for our
| Fathers throne is throne of grace,
throne OF mercy. throne OF holiness,
throne of justice, a throne of universal
dominion. We need not stand shivering
and covering before 1t, for our Father says
we may yet one day come up and sit on it
| beside Him. 'To him that overcometh
will grant to sit with Me in My throne"
| You see, we are princes and princesses
| Perhaps now we move about incognito, rs
Peter the Great in the garb of II ship car
penter ut Amsterdam or as Queen Tirzab
| in the dress of n peasant woman seeking
the prophet for her child's cure, but II
will be found out after while who we are
when we get into the throneroom. Aye,
we need not wait until then. We may by
| prayer and song and spiritual uplifting
| this moment enter the throneroom. o
King, live forever We touch the scepter
| and PROSTATE ourselves at Thy fee..
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 rs on earth was thrum.
med from trembling string or evoked by
touch Of ivory key; bat, IL not that, then
something better. There are so many
| Christian harpists and Christian composers
and Christian organists and Christian hym-
| nologistS that have gone up from earth,
there must be for them some place of es-
| pecial delectation. Shall we have music
in this world Of discords and no music in
the land Of complete harmony?
| 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
| poetry was rs remarkable as his sacred
| prose, and James Montgomery and William
Cowper, at last got rid of his spiritual mel
ancholy and Bishop Heber, who sang of
! "Greenland's icy mountains and 1ndia's
coral strand" and DR.. Raffies, who wrote
of High in youder realms of light" and
Isaac Watts, who went to visit Sir Thomas
Abney and wife for Il week, but proved
himself so agreeable IL guest that they
made him stay thirty-six years, and side
by side Augustus Toplady, who has got
over his dislike for Methodists. and
| Charles Wesley, freed from his dislike for
Calvinists, and George w. Bethune. as
sweet as a songmaker rs he was great
~ a preacher and the author of "The
| in verse or song, in church or by eventide
| cradle and many who were passionately
| fond of music, but could make none them
| selves, the poorest singer there more than
any earthly prima donna and the poorest
| players there more than any earthly Gott-
schalk. Oh, that music room, the head
| quarters OF cadence and rhythm sym
phony and chant, psalm and antiphon!
| 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 match
less duet in the music room OF the old
heavenly homestead! SIN my Fathers
house are many rooms"
| Another room in our Fathers house will
be the family room. 1t may correspond
somewhat with the family room on earth.
AT morning and evening, you know, that
is the place we now meet. Though every
member OF the household have II separate
room, in the family room they all gather
and Joys and sorrows and experiences of
| all styles are there rehearsed. Sacred room
in all our dwellings. whether it be luXuri-
| Gus with ottomans and divans and books
or there be only few plain chairs and
cradle. SO the family room on high will
be the place where the kinsfolk assem-
bic and talk over the family expert
ences OF earth, the weddings. the
births, the burials, the festal days of
Christmas and Thanksgiving reunion.
viii the children departed remain chill
dren there? viii the aged remain need
there2 Oh, no! Everything is per-
feet there. The child will go ahead to glori-
fed maturity, and the aged will go back
to glorined maturity. The rising sun OF
the one will rise to meridian, aud the
descending sun of the other will return to
meridian. However much we love our
children on earth, we would consider it II
domestic disaster if they staid children,
| and so we rejoice ut their growth here
And when we meet in the family room of
our Fathers house we will be glad that
they have grandiy and gloriously matured,
| while our parents, who were aged aud in
firm here, we shall be glad to flnd re-
| stored to the most agile and vigorous i'm
mortality there.
l hope none of us will he disappointed