The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1899-11-17

reception room Oh tue newly |
from this world-what scenes 1t must
have witnessed since the first. guest
arrived the victim of the first tratrl-
eide, pious Abel! In that room CHRIST
lovingly greets all newcomers. ne
redeemed them, and he has the rlsnt
! to the first embrace on arrival. Wha'
a minute when the assembled spirit hrsU
sees the Lord! Better than all we
ever read about him, or talked ABOUT
him, or sang about him in all the
churches and through all our earthly
lifetimes, will it be, just for one sec
ond to see him. The most rapturous
idea we ever had of him On sacEaiheu
| tai days or at the height Of some great
revival or under the uplifted baton OF
an oratorio are a bankruptcy Oh
thought compared with the first ilash
OF his appearance in that reception
room. At that moment when you con-
front each other, Christ looking upon
you, and you looking upon Christ'tAere
will be an ecstatic thrill and surglns
of emotion that beggars all description.
Look! They need no introduction.
Long ago Christ chose that repentant
sinner, and that repentant sinner choSe
Christ. Mightiest moment OF an I'M
mortal history-the first kiss of heaV-
: en-! Jesus and the soul. The soul ana
, Jesus.
But now into that reception room
pour the glorifed kinsfolk Enough
Of earthly retention to let you know
, them, but without their wounds or
? their sickness or their troubles See
= what heaven has done for them! so
radiant, so gleeful, so transportingly
! lovely! They call you by name; they
i greet you with an ardor proportioned
Q to the anguish of your parting and the
4 length of your separation. Father!
: Mother! That is your child. Sisters!
: Brothers! Friends! l wish you JOY.
$ For years apart, together again in the
: reception room of the old Homestead.
o You see. they will know you are COM
A ing. There are so many immortals
: filling all the spaces between here ana
n heaven that news like that flies ike
I, lightning. They will be there IN an
ar instant, though they were In some
20 other world on errand from God sig
10 nal would be thrown that would fetch
is them. Though you might at first feeI
81 dazed and oyerawed at their supernai
"a splendor. all that feeling will be gone
,e at their first touch OF heavenly saluta'
IN ton, and we will say, "Oh, my los
he boy!" "Oh. my lost companion! "Oh
nd my lost friend, are we here together?
in What scenes in that reception room
the old homestead have been Wit
liz messed! There met Joseph and JACOB
a finding it a brighter room than any
-st thing they saw in Pharaoh's palace
ut David and the little child for whom
ry once tasted and wept; Mary and La
n zarus after the heartbreak of Bethany
nd Timothy and grandmother Lois; lisa
w. bella Graham and her sailor son; Al
nd fred and George Goodman, the mys
ed. terry of the sea at last made manifest
ow Luther and Magdalene, the daushte
in. he bemoaned; John Howard and tn
ae- prisoners whom he gospeli2ed; an
nd multitudes without number who, ono
viii so weary and so sad, parted on cart
the but gloriously met in heaven. Anon
all the rooms of that house there
md 70 one that more enraptures my sol
yht ;han that reception room. In Il
ar Fathers house are many rooms.
ne Another room in our Fathers hou!
INV Is the music room. st. John and 9TH
be Underwriters talk so much about Il
We music of heaven that there must
but music there, perhaps not such as
.om earth was thrummed from urembii
the string or evoked by touch Of ivo
han key. but if not that, then somethii
.ent better There are so many Christie
leet harpists and Christian composers al
and Christian organists and Chrisu
and choristers and Christian hymnologii
but that have gone UP from earth, inc
g in must be for them some place Of
er's necial delectation. Shall we ha
see. music in this world Of discords, and
one music in the land Of complete n;
or mony? I cannot give you the no
of the first bar Of the new song that
tho sung i'm heaven. cannot imaS
nty- either the solo or the doXology. /
eru- heaven means music, and can NE
n he nothing else. Occasionally that mu
the has escaped the gate. DR.. Fuller,
If II ing at Beaufort, S. c., said DO
aven not hear?" Hear what?" eXclain
llion me bvstanders. THE music. Lift
GER nm, Open the windows?" In I
aven music room Of our Fathers house,
that will some day meet tAe olu HaS'
sand Mozart and Hahdei ana MenueisS'
are and Beethoven anu Douuiluse' p"
room sacred poetry was as reIlai N"DIe
wide, his sacred prose; ana JAMES -io
faith gomery, and Wl'lan Co"pei' a.
, He got rid of his spiritual melancht
m all and Bishop Heber, who sang
atial "Greenland's icy mountains and
ougb dia's coral strand" and DR.. Raj
ty of who wrote OF Hlgh IN yonoet l''
that of light" and Isaac Watts, who
vded TO visit Sir Thomas Abney and
or in for a week, but proved himself
have agreeable a guest that they made
most stay thirty-six years; and side by
louise, Augustus loplauy' VIM n@s So