The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-05-04
Less

1t less money for marketing? Less
temptation to ruin the health Of your
family with pineapples and indigesti-
BILE salads. Is 1t little deaf? Not
hearing so many disagreeables.
meet you this springtime at the
door OF your new home. and while
help you lift the clothesbasket over
the banisters and the carman Is get
ting red in the face in trying to trans
port that article of furniture to some
new destination | congratulate you.
You are going to have better time
this year, some of you, than you ever
had. You take God and the Christian
religion in your home, and you will
be grandly happy. God in the parlor-
that will sanctify your sociabilities.
God in the nursery-that will protect
your children God in the dining hall
that will make the plainest meal an
imperial banquet. God in the morn
ing-that will launch the day brightly
from the drydocks. God in the even
ing-that will sail the day sweetly into
the harbor.
And get joy, one and all Of you,
whether you move or do not move. Get
joy out of the thought that we are
soon all going to have a grand moving
day. Do you want picture of the new
house into which you will move? Here
it is, wrought with the hand Of mas
70 a bat nth "
house of this tabernacle were dis
solved, we have a building Of God.
a house not made with hands, eternal
in the heavens" How much rent will
we have to pay for it? We are going
to own it. How much must we pay for
it? How much cash down, and how
much left on mortgage? Our Father Is
going to give it as free gift. When
are we going to move into it? We are
moving now. On moving day heads Of
families are very apt to stay in the old
house until they have seen everything
off. They send ahead the children, and
they send ahead the treasures and the
valuables. Then after awhile, they will
come themselves. remember very we'll
in the country that in boyhood NOV
ing day was jubilation.
Going to the Fathers House.
On almost the first load we, the
children, were sent on ahead to the
new house, and we arrived with shout
and laughter. and in an hour we had
ranged through every room in the
house, the barn and the granary. To-
ward night, and perhaps in the last
wagon, father and mother would come,
looking very tired, and we would come
down to the foot of the lane to meet
them and tell them of all the wonders
we discovered in the new place, and
then, the last wagon unloaded, the
candles lighted, our neighbors who had
helped us to move-for in those times
neighbors helped each other-sat down
with us at table on which there was
every luxury they could think Of
Well, my dear Lord knows that some
of us have been moving a good while.
We have sent our children ahead, we
have sent many of our valuables
ahead, sent many treasures ahead. We
cannot go yet. There is work for us
to do. but after awhile it will be to-
ward night, and we will be very tired,
and then we will start for our new
home, and those who have gone ahead
of us they will see our approach, and
they will come down the lane to meet
us, and they will have much to tell us
of what they have discovered in the
house of many mansions" and of
how large the rooms are and of how
bright the fountains. And then, the
last load unloaded. the table will be
spread and our celestial neighbors will
come in to sit down with our reunited
families, and the chalices will be full,
not with the wine that sweats in the
vat of earthly intoxication, but with
1.-The new wine of the kingdom" And
there for the first time we will realize
what fools we were on earth when we
feared to die, since death has turned
out only to be the moving from a
smaller house into larger one, and
the exchange of pauper's hut for a
princes castle, and the going up stairs
from a miserable kitchen to a glorious
parlor. o house of God not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens!