The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-01-07

at last made manifest; Luther and Magda-
lene, the daughter he bemoaned; John
Howard and the prisoners whom he gos-
pelized, and multitudes without number
who, once so weary and SO sad. parted on
earth, but gloriously met in heaven. Among
all the rooms of that house there is no one
that more enraptures my soul than that
reception room. "In my Fathers house
are many rooms"
Another room In our Fathers house Is
the throne room. We belong to the royal
family. The blood OF King Jesus flows in
our veins, so we have right to enter the
throne room. 1t Is no easy thing on earth
to get through even the outside door OF
kings residence. During the Franco-Ger-
man war, one eventfde in the summer OF
1870, stood studying the exquisite sculp-
turing of the gate Of the Tuileries, Paris.
Lost In admiration OF the wonderful art OF
that gate, knew not that was exciting
suspicion. Lowering my eyes to the crowds
Of people, I found myself being closely In
spected by the government officials, who
from my complexion. judged me to bea Ger
man and that for some belligerent purpose
might be examining the gates OF the pail
ace. My explanation in very poor French
did not satisfy them. and they followed mo
long distances unfit I reached my hotet
and were not satisfied until from my land
lord they found that was only an inoffen-
sive American. The gates OF earthly PAL
aces are carefully guarded, and II so, how
much more the tEroneroom! A dazzling
place is it for mirrors and all costly art:
No one who ever saw the tbroneroom OF
the first and only Napoleon will ever for.
get the letter N embroidered In purple and
gold on the upholstery Of chair and win
dow, the letter N gfided on the wall, the
letter N chased on the chalices, the letter
N flaming from the ceiling. What con-
fiagration OF brilliance the throneroom
~ eli I'm Sardinia nj
Ferdinand OF Spain, of Elizabeth of
England, OF Eoniface OF Italy. But
the throneroom OF our Fathers house
hath glory eclipsing all the throne
rooms that ever saw scepter wave or crown
glitter or foreign ambassador bow, for our
Fathers throne is a throne OF grace,
throne OF mercy, q throne OF holiness,
throne OF Justice, throne Of universal
dominion. We need not stand shivering
and covering before 1t, for our Father says
we may vet one day come up and sit on 1t
beside Him. "To him that overcometh
will grant 10 sit with Ne In My throne"
You see, we are princes and Processes.
Peter the Great In the garb OF u ship car
penter at Amsterdam or as Queen Tirzah
in the dress OF a peasant woman seeking
the prophet for her chffd's cure, but 1t
will be found out after while who we are
when we get into the throneroom. Aye,
We need not wait until then. We may by
prayer aud song and spiritual uplifting
this moment enter the tbroneroom. .
King, live forever! We touch the scepter
and PROSTATE ourselves at Thy f9e..
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 thrum-
med from trembling string or evoked by
oh ~ {vnr Hoy hst N not that than
something better. There are so many
Christian harpists and Christian composers
and Christian organists and Christian hym1
biologists that have gone up from earth!
there must be for them some place OF es-
pecial delectation. Shall we have music
In this world OF discords and no music in
the land OF complete harmonys
In that music room OF our Fathers house
you will some day meet the cid masters
Mozart and Handel and Mendelssohn and
Beethoven and Doddridge, whose sacred
poetry was as remarkable as his sacred
prose, and James Montgomery and William
Cowper, at last got rid OF his spiritual mel
ancholy, and Bishop Heber, who sang OF
ssGreeniand's icy mountains and midas
coral strand" and DR.. Raffl5s, who wrote
OF 'High in yonder realms OF light" and
Isaac Watts, who went to visit Sir Thomas
Abney and wife for week, but proved
himself SO agreeable q guest that they
made him stay thirty-six years, and side
by side Augustus roplady. who has got.
Charles Wesley, freed from his dislike for
Calvinists, and George W. Bethune, as
sweet as a songmaker as he was great
rs preacher and the author OF "The
Village Hymns" and many who wrote
in verse or song. In church or by eventido
cradle, and many who were passionately
fond of music. but could make none them
| hoy q irp or fhara mr. than
any earthly prima donna and the poorest
players. there more than any earthly Colt.
sehalk. OBJ that music room, the head.
quarters OF cadence and rhythm, SYM
phonv and chant, psalm and antiphonI
May we be there some hour when Haydn
sits at the keys of one of hts own oratortos,
and David the psalmist fingers the harp,
and Miriam of the Red sea banks Chaps 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 '1n my Fathers
house are many rooms" ~ III
Another room In our Fathers house will
be the family room. 1t may correspond
somewhat With the family room on earth.
At 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. Sacred room
in ali our dwellings, whether 1t be luxuri-
Gus with ottonians and divans and books
In Russian lids standing In mahogany case
or there be only few plain chairs and
cradle. SO the family room on high will
be the place where the kinsfolk assem-
bic 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 there7 VIII the aged remain aged
there? Oh, moi Everything Is per-
feet there. The child will go ahead to glori-
ied maturity, and the aged will go back
to glorifed maturity. The rising sun OF
the one will rise to meridian, and the
descending sun Of the other will return to
meridian. However much we love our
children on earth, we would consider It q
domestic disaster IL they staid children,
and so we rejoice at their growth here.
And when we mest In the family room Of
our Fathers house we will be glad that
they have grandly and gloriously matured,
while our parents, who were aged and In
| firm here, we shalt be glad to find re-
stored to the most agile and vigorous i'm
mortality there.
I hope noae Of us will he disappointed
about getting there. There Is room for
| US II we will go and take 1t, but In order
to reach 1t it Is absolutely necessary that
We take the right way, and Christ Is the
way, and We must enter at the right door,
and Christ is the door, and we must start
in time, and the only hour you are sure Of
| is the hour the clock now strikes. and the
only second the one your watch Is now
| Ia fn0 hnI I'm, bus. pnl At