Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-11-11
Oh, that throneroom of Christ! "In
my Fathers house are many rooms"


Another room In our Fathers house
Is the music room. ST. John and other
Bible writers talk SO much about the
music OF heaven that there must be
music there. perhaps not such as on
earth WAS thrummed from trembling
string or evoked by touch OF ivory
key; but. If not that, then something
better. There are so many Christian
harpists and Christian composers and
Christian organists and Christian
choristers and Christian hymnologists
that have gone up from earth. there
must be for them some place Of espe-
cfal delectation. Shall we have music
in this world Of dlscords and no music
in the land of complete harmony? /
cannot give you the notes Of the first
bar of the new song that Is sung In
heaven. l cannot imagine either the
solo or the doxology. But heaven
means music, and can mean nothing
else. Occasionally that music has es-
capped the gate. DR.. Fuller, dying at
Beaufort, S. c., said: DO you not
hear" "Hear what" exclaimed the
bystanders. 1.-THE music! Lift ME
up! Open the windows"
In that music room Of our Fathers
house you will some day meet the old
masters, Mozart and Handel and Men
delssohn and Beethoven and DOd-
bridge, whose sacred poetry was as re-
markable as his sacred prose, and
James Montgomery and William Cow
per, mt last got rid of his spiritual mel
ancholy. and Bishop Heber, who sang
Of "Greenland's Icy mountains and In
dia's coral strand" and DR.. Rallies.
who wrote of High in yonder realms
Of light" and Isaac Watts. who went
to visit Sir Thomas Abney and wife
for n week, but proved himself so
agreeable guest that they made him
stay So years, and side by side Au-
gustus Toplady, who has got over his
dislike for Methodlsts. and Charles
Wesley. freed from his dislike for Cal
yinists, and George w. Bethune. as
sweet as a songmaker as he was great
as a preacher and the author of 1.-The
Village Hymns" and many who wrote
In verse or song. in church or by
eventide cradle, and many who were
passonately fond Of music, but could
make none themselves. the poorest
singer there more than any earthly
primn donna and the poorest players
there more than any earthly Colt
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 "In my Fa-
theirs house are many rooms"
Joyful Reunions.
Another room In our Fathers house
will be the family room. 1t may CORE
spond somewhat with the family room
on earth. Al morning and evening.
you know. that is the place we now
meet. Though every member OF the
household have separate room, IN
the family room they all gather. and
joys and sorrows and experiences OF
all styles are there rehearsed. Sa.
cred room In all our dwellings, wheth-
er 1t be luxurious with ottomans and
dlyans and books In Russian IDS
standing In mahogany case or there
be only few plain chairs and era
die. So the family room on high will
be the place where the kinsfolk assem-
BILE 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
aged there? Oh, no! Everything Is
perfect there. The child will so ahead
to glorfed maturity. and the aged
will 20 back to glorifled maturity. The
rising sun Of the one will rise to meri-
dian, and the descending sun OF the
other will return to meridian. How
ever much we love our children on
earth, we would consider 1t a domestic
disaster If they stald children, and 80
we rejoice at~thelr growth here. AID
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 lnfirm here. we shall be glad
to find restored to the most agile and
vigorous Immortality there. II 40 or IS
or so 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 retreat to
that. When we join them In that faml-
ly room. we shall have much to 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 ether
struggle? Did you know when we
lost our property and sympathlze with
US? Did you know we had that awful
sickness? We're you lowering any.
where around us when we plunged
into that memorable. accident? Did
you know Of our bachslidlng? 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, wheth-
er they know It or not. we will tell
them all. But they Will have more to
tell as than we to tell them.
Ten years on earth may be very
eyentful, but what must be the biogra-
ply OF ten years In heaven? They Will
have to tell us the story Of eoYoRations,
story Of news from all immensely. sto-
ry Of conQuerors and hlerarchs, story
Of wrecked or ransomed planets, sto-
ry of angelic victory over diabolic re
volts, of eYtlnguished suns, of oBiit-
Grated consultations. Of new gala1ies
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