The Washington weekly post., 1899-11-08

PERFECT mere. Inc cHil1 VIII 90 4nes4u
to gi8rihed maturity and the aged VIII
go back 70 gIorifed maturity. The rising
sun ol the one viii rise 10 meridian. and
the descending Il q Of the other viii return
to meridian
Meet In Our Fathers House.
However much We love our children on
earth. We would consider il a domestic
disaster IL they stayed children. and 80
we rejoice at their growth here. And
when we meet in ti5s family roon OF oar
Fathers house. we will be glad that they
have grandly and gloriously matured.
While our parents, who were aged and
inhrm here. we shall be glad to find r.
stored to the most agile and vigorous
immortality there. II forty or f0Tty-ays
or afty years be the apex Of physical
and mental life on earth. then TIE heav-
enly childhood SiIl advance 20 that, ana
the heavenly old age viii retreat to that
When we join them in that family room
We shall have much 10 tell them We
shall want TO know Of them. right away,
such things as these: Did you see US In
this or that or the other struggle, Old
you know when we lost our property, anu
sympathiZe with Us? Did you know We
had that awful sickness Were you h0F-
ering anywhere around us when we
NlUUEPU
Did you know of our backsildiGg? Die
YOU know OF that moral victory Were
you pleased when we started for heaven!
Did you celebrate the hour Of our con-
version: And then. whether they know u
or rot we will tell them all. But tfey
viii have more 70 tell us than We 10 yes
them Ten years on earth may DC NeIy
eventful but what must be the oiggral'hy
OF ten years in heaven? They VIII haEs
N4s N
TO tell Us the story OF corohatioIis, 80, o,,.
OF news from all immensity. story OF con-
querOrs and hierarchs, story o. Wreehed
or ransorned planets, story or anSenc VIC,
tory over diabolic revolts. or exiting uisIltu ,.'
suns, OF obliterated consteilauons, OF nv Nv
ealaxieg kindled and swung. OF strahHe1
comets of worlds on FIRE, ana storS OA
Jehovah's majestic reign
Much TO Tell Each Other.
of IN that family room Of our Father
hoTsa wa have so much to tell them OF
what We have passed through since We
parted. now much more thrilling anu
arousing that which they have TO tell US
OF what they have passed through since
we parted. Surely. that family room Will
he one of the most favored rooms In an
our Fathers house What long lingering
there. for we shall never again be IN
hurry, Let me open a window, SAID an
humble Christian servant 70 Lady haInes'
who because of the Death Of her ehhd,
had shut herself up in a dark ROOM anu
refused 20 see anyone. You have peeh
many days in this dark room Are you
not ashamed to grieve in this manner
when you ought to be thanking Iod loI
having given you the most beautl1ul emu
that ever was seen, and instead OF led'ihs
him in this world till he should De "oiii
with trouble, has not God taken MN "
heaven N all his beauty! Leave OH weep
ing. and let me open window. So to-uaS
| am trying 10 open upon the darkness u
earthly separation the windows and doors
and rooms of the heavenly homestead IN
my Fathers house are many rooms.
How would it do for my sermon TO
leave you in that family room to-day
am sure there is no room IN winch Sod
would rather stay than in the enraptuieu
circle of your assembled and gloflHei
kingfoIk We might visit other rooms III
cur Fathers house. There may De pictuIe Z
galleries penciled not with earthiy arr
but by some process unknown IN ms ms
world. preserving Tor the next world the
brightest and most 5tupendoGs scenes Oh
human history And there may be INES
and forms of earthly beauty preseIEeu
for heavenly inspection IN something
whittier, and chaSter, ana rlche1 thdn We
netian sculpture ever wrought. Rooms
beside rooms. Rooms over rooms. LaIs
rooms, majestic rooms, opalescent rooms.
amethVStine rooms. In my talneE ;
nOuse are many rooms
East Take Right Path.
Il hone none OF us will be disappointed
about getting there There is room for
us. if we viii go and take II, but in order
TO reach it it 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 a roll of letters inviting you, as
the spirit of them practically says: My
dying, yet immortal, child in earthly
neighborhood, / have built for you a great
residence. 1t is full of rooms. l have
furnished them as no palace was ever
furnished. Pearls are nothing, emeralds
are nothing, chrysopraSuS is nothing, IL
lUmined panels of sunrise and sunset
Eothing the aurora of the northern heav-
ems nothing, compared with the splendor
with which / have garnitured them. But
yCu must be clean before you can enter
there, and so l have opened a fountain
where you may wash all your sins away.
Come now! Put your weary but Cleansed
/ see amid the thick foliage on the heaven
! ly hiltops the old family homestead? IN
my fathers house are many rooms "