The Washington weekly post., 1899-11-08

they greet yoE With IN aTdor Pre- cpeFiion-
ed 10 the anguish of your parting and the
length OF your separation Fatheri Moth
er! There II your child. Sisters Broth
tre! Friendsl with you Joy. For years
apart together again in the reception
room OF the old homestead. You see,
they Will know you are coming. There
are so many immortsis filing all the
spaces between here ard heaven that
news Ike that flies ike lightning They
will be there In an instant: though tney
were In some ether world on errand froin
God. a signal would be thrown that would
fetch them. Though you might at hrst
.eel dazed and overawed at their superhsi
EplendoT. all that feeling Will pe s"he u
their first touch OF heavenly sslutaii2n'
end we viii say; 'Oh, my lost boy Oii'
my lost companionT Oh. my lost iIieiiu'
are We here togstherF what scenes II
t,,a, recep,lon-ro.s1 Of the old homestead
have been Witnessed There net JOSEPH
and Jacob. finding Il a brighter r0oh
than anything they saw In rh4raoh PAL
ace David and the little child Tor Whom
>. o,ce tasted ami wept. Mary and Lax
ar1s after the heaTtbreak OF bethel,i{ Y
Timothy and grsndmother Lcla; lsapehd
Graham and her sailor son, Ailitu et.e ~
George Goodman, the mystery q Ii's 80
at last mace rlanli+stt i.e-t--'- - Tc6,
dalene. the daughter he bemoanedi Johh
Howard and the prisoners Nnoin he 80
neIfzad. and muiti1uces without huhIDea
who. once 50 weary ana 80 sdS- 49,, 20. -
on earth but gloriousiy net III ~ - -, : = -
Aunne gU the rooms OF that mousse lhsI :
ie no one that more enrsptures my soel
tbsn that reception-ro room. In my father :
house are many rooms
I'm the Throne Room.
"sno.her room in our Fathers mouse =
,be throne room. We belong to the royai
tarofIv The blood Of King Jesus hows III
o,,- veins. so we have right 70 enter
the throne room. 1t is no easy thing on
o.r,b n get through even the OUTSIDE
door of a kings residence During tne
Eranco-German war one eventide IN 'he
summer of 1870. ] stood studying the eN-
o,,isi,e scrlpturing Of the gate OF the
TuiIeries. Paris. Lost In s>mirauoh U
the wonderful art OF that gate. / Khe"
rot that l was exciting suspicion. Low
4ring nv eyes to the crowds OF people,
found myself being closely Inspected pg
the government officials, who, from my
complexion. Judged me 10 be a German,
and that for some belligerent purpose
might be examining the gates OF the pal-
ace Nv explanation in very poor trehch
did not satisfy them, and they foilo"eu
me long distances until / reached my
hotel. and were not satisfied until from
nv landlord they found that | was ohly
an inonfensiye American. The gates OF
eartbly palaces are carefully guarueu'
and II so. how much more the throne
room, A dazzling place is ii for mirrors
and all costly art. No one who ever saw
the throne room of the first and only
NapoIeon will ever forget the letter \
embroidered in purple and gold on the up
holstery of chair and window, the letteT
\ gilded on the wall. the letter y cnased
on the chalices. the letter naming LioHi
the ceiling. What a confiagration OF prll-
lance the throne room of Charles I'm.
manuel of Sardinia, OF Ferdinand o.
Spain. of Elizabeth OF England, OF Bonl-
face of Italy, OF Alexander OF RUSSIA.
But the throne room OF our FatheT 5
house hath a glory eclipsing all the throne
rooms that ever saw scepter wave, or
crown glitter, or foreign ambassador DOW;
for our Fathers thrones is throne OF
grace, a throne of mercy, throne OF
holiness, a throne of justice, q throne OF
universal dominion
Princes and PriBcesses.
I'VE need not stand shivering and COW
ering before it, for our Father says we
may yet one day come up and sit on II
beside him. TO him that overcometh will
] grant 10 sit with Ne in My throne You
see we are princes and princesses. Per
haps now we move about incOgnito, as
Peter the Great in the garb of ship
carpenter at Amsterdam, or as Queen
TirZah in the dress of a peasant woman
seeking the prophet for her child's cure
but il will be found out after awhile who
we are when We get into the throne room
Ayei we need not wait until then. We
may by prayer and song and spiritual
uplifting this moment enter the throne
room. King, live forever! We touch
the scepter and PROSTATE ourselves al
Thy feet.
THE crowns of the royal family OF This
world are tossed about from generation
to generation, and from family to family
There are men comparatively young in
Berlin who have seen the crown on three
Emperors But wherever the coronets oi
this world rise or fall, they are destined
to meet in one place. And l look and
see them coming from north and south
and east and west, the Spanish crown
the Italian crown. the English crown. the
Turkish crown, the Russian crown, the
Persian crown, aye, all the crowns from
under the great archiVolt of heaven: and
while / watch and wonder they are al
flung in rain of diamonds around the
pierced feet.
"Jesus shall reign where er the sun
Does His successive journeys run,
His kirsdom stretch from shore to shore
Till sun shall rise and set no more.
Oh, that throne room of Christ, In my
Fathers house are many rooms
The Music Room.
Another room in our Fathers house Is
the music room. St John and other Bible
writer's talk SO abouf the n
heaven that there must be music there
perhaps not such as on earth was thrum
med from trembling string or evoked by
touch of ivory key. but if not that, ther
something better. There are SO many
Christian harpists and Christian compos
ers and Christian organists and Chris
tian choristers and Christian hymnologist
that have gone up from earth, there mus
be for them some place OF especial delee
tation Shall we have music in this worlC
of diseords, and re music in the land oi
complete harmony? / cannot give yol
the notes of the first bar of the new sons
that Is sung in heaven. l cannot imagine
either the solo or the doxology Bu
heaven means music, and can mean moth
ing else. Occasionally that music has es
capped the gate. Dr. Fuller dying at Beau
fort, s. c, said: Do you not hear?
Hear what? exclaimed the bystanders
The musici Lift me up Open the win
dowsg In that music room of our Faith
er's house, you viii some day meet tn
old masters, Mozart and Handel an'
! Mendelssohn and Beethoven and Dodj
ridge, whose sacred poetry was as re
markable as his sacred prose, and Jane
Montgomery. and William COwper. al las
got rid of his spiritual melancholy Gni
Bishop HebeF. who sang OF Greenland
ley mountains ana India's coral strand
and DR.. Rallies, who wrote o. High Il
yonder realms of light; and Isaac Watts
who went to visit Sir Thomas Abney an
wife for a week. but proved himself ;
agreeable a guest that they made mir
stay tnirty-siX years; and side by sid
Augustus TOp:ay. who has got over hi
dislike for Methodists. and Charles Wes
ley, freed from his dislike for Calvinists
and George w. Bethune as sweet as
song maker as he was great as a preach
er and the author of THE Nillag
HYMNS and many who wrote in vers
or song, in church or by eventide cradle
and many who were passiOnately fond c
music, but could make none themselVe:
Gabriel and the Trumpet.
"The poorest singer there more than az