Connecticut western news., 1899-11-09

to visit Sir Thomas Abney and wife
 for week, but proved himself so
 agreeable a guest that they made him
 stay 36 years, and side by side Au-
 gustus Toplady, who has got over his
 dislike for Methodists, and Charles
 Wesley, freed from his dislike for Cal vinists, and George W. Bethune, as sweet as songmaker as he was great as a preacher and the author of ''The Village Hymns" and many who wrote in verse or song, In church or by
 eventide cradle, and many who were passionately fond of music, but could make none themselves, 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! Tn my Fla ther's house are many rooms"
 Joyful Reunions.
 Another room In our Fathers house will be the family room. It may core spond somewhat with the family room on earth. At morning and evening, ha iG
 meet. Though every member of the household have a 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- CT 1t be luxurious with ottomans and divans and books in Russian lids standing in mahogany case or there be only a few plain chairs and era dle So the family room on high will be the place where the kinsfolk assem- ble and talk over the family expert ences of earth, the weddings, the
 births, the burials, the festal days of Christmas and Thanksgiving reunion. Will the children departed remain chil- dren there? Will the aged remain aged there? Oh, no! Everything Is perfect there. The child will go ahead to glorified maturity, end the aged
 will go back to glorified 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 l earth, we would consider 1t a domestic l disaster if they staid children, and so we rejoice at their growth here. And 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 infirm here, we shall be glad | to find restored to the most agile and | vigorous immortality there. If 40 or 45 | or 50 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 fami- I 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 other struggle? Did you know when we
 
 | us? Did you know we had that awful sickness? Were you lowering any where around us when we plunged | into that memorable accident? Did | you know of our backsliding? Did | you know of that moral victory? Were 1 you pleased when we started for heaven? Did you celebrate the hour | of our conversion? And then, wheth- | CT they know it or not, we will tell
 them all. But they will have more to tell us than we to tell them.
 Ten years on earth may be very eventful, but what must be the biogra- phy of ten years in heaven? They will have to tell us the story of coronations, story of news from all immensity, sto- | ry of conQuerors and hierarchs, story
 of wrecked or ransoSaed planets, sto- | ry of angelic victory over diabolic re- | volts, of extinguished suns, of oblit- | erated cancellations, of new galaxies | kindled and swung, of stranded com | cts, of worlds on fire, and story of Je- hoyah's majestic reign. If in that fam | fly room of our Fathers house we have
 so much to tell them of what we have |
 much more thrilling and arousing that | which they have to tell us of what they
 have passed through since we parted! | Surely that family room will be one | of the most favored rooms in all our l Fathers house. What long lingering
 there, for we shall never again be in a hurry! "Let me open a window" said
 humble Christian servant to Lady Rallies, who, because of the death of her child, had shut herself up in dark room and refused to see any one.
 You have been many days In this | dark room. Are you not ashamed to
 grieve in this manner when you ought | to be thanking God for having given 1 you the most beautiful child that ever ! was seen, and, instead of leaving him | In this world till he should be worn with trouble, has not God taken him
 to heaven In all his beauty? Leave of | weeping and let me open window" So today l am trying to open upon the darkness of earthly separation the win | dows and doors and rooms of the
 heavenly homestead. "In my Fathers
 house are many rooms."
 | hOOms For All.
 How would it do for my sermon to | leave you in that family room today? | I am sure there Is no room in which l you would rather stay than In the en. | raptured circle of your ascended and | glorified kinsfolk. We might visit oth- CT rooms in our Fathers house. There
 may be picture galleries penciled not
 with earthly art, but by some process
 unknown in this world, preserving for l the next world the brightest and most stupendous scenes of human history,
 and there may be lines and forms of
 earthly beauty preserved for heaven | ly inspection in something whiter and chaster and richer than Venetian | sculpture ever wrought-rooms beside
 rooms, rooms over rooms, large rooms,
 majestic rooms, opalescent rooms, | amethystine rooms. Tn my Fathers | hpnsa ra many ,.onr,c