The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1901-01-25

mere iS-n0 THE &c read IT No SeiecI
Of good books. The neighbors calling
are full Of the same grinding routine.
sonder So many of them 90 into deme
tiaI Oh, the country is beautiful to los
and a recuperatiye place in which {
spend summer and If you nave I'll
means to bring yourself amusements {
go where they are or you can surroun
yourself by inspiring social life il is
good place to stay all the year round
But, alas for the thousands OF good al,
noble women who are dying by inches IL
its solitudes!
Gladly Welcomed In Heaven.
Now, the mother Of whom / speak as
living on the banks of that great river in
Ohio or Alabama OF Maine has gone
through all the drudgery mentioned, and
her children have turned out well, good
and useful men and women,
Of society, pillars in the house of God,
and that whole family, after the years
have passed by and their work is done,
will meet in the heavenly country. From
such a family some will certainly have
preceded her, and the time of her expect
ed arrival will be announced to all the
members of that family already glori-
fed and to the old earthly neighbors who
put down their tolls a little sooner than
she did, and she will have the warmest
kind of home coming, and she will go
through the gate as easily as ever she
lifted the latch of her front door coming
from the old country meeting house
where she used to worship. Go in.
mother! Heaven has been waiting for
you a good many years. Got rid Of all
your aches and pains and WEAKNESS, have
you? Go anywhere in heaven, and they
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throne you will find one who said, BE
hold thy mother" Sit anywhere you
please. You will be at home anywhere.
Take your pick out of that sheaf of scep-
tiers. What! The wrinkles have all gone
out of your face, and the once rheumatic
step has become like that of the bound
ing roe. Just as / expected, you aged,
glorifed soul. you had an abundant en-
rance
There is another kind of spirit who will
have radiant admission to the upper do
minion. There is q fact which ought to
a most emphatic announcement. All
over the world today there are men and
women of consecrated wealth. They are
multiplying by the day and hour-people
who feel themselves the Lords stewards,
and from their o%pulence they are making
O distribution which pleases the heavens.
The ~checkbook in the Office drawer of
that man has on it's stubs q story of be-
nefcence clear up into the sublime In all
the round of the worlds suffering and
ignorance and woe you cannot mention
one worthy object to which that prosper
Gus and good man has not made contribu-
ton. He is not irritated, as many are,
by solicitations for aims. In some poor
woman in thin shawl, holding in her arms
n 4I.Il r.tI e.
man sees the Christ who said, "Inas-
much as We ave done it unto one of the
least of these. ye have done it unto me-"
C~0nsccrated Afiuence.
Well, this man of consecrated ~af1uence
Is about to go out of this world. He feels
in brain and nerve the strain of the early
struggles by which he won his fortune,
and at 60 or 70 years ~collapses under the
eXhaustions of the twenties and thirties
Of his lifetime. When the morning pa
pers announce that he is gone, there is
excitement not only on the avenues
where the mansions stand, but all
through the hospitals and asylums and
the homes of those who will henceforth
have no helper. But the excitement of
sadness on earth is a very tame affair
compared with the excitement of glad
ness in heaven. The guardian angel of
that good mans life swept by his dying
pillow the night before, and on swift
wing upward announced that in q few
hours he would arrive, and there is a
mighty stir in heaven. HE comes!"
cries seraph to seraph. The Kings her.
aids are at the gate to say, "Come, We
blessed" and souls who were saved
through the churches that good man sup
ported and hundreds who went up after
being by him helped in their earthly
struggle will come down off their thrones
and out of their palaces and through the
streets TO hail him into the land which
they reached some time before through
his Christian philanthropy. why that
is the man who, when l was ~a-hungered,
gave ME breadp" why that is the
man." says another, "who encouraged me
when | was in the hard struggle of
business lifer!' "Why, that is the man.
says another, "who paid my rent when /
had nothing with which to pay!!" "Why,
that is the Man through whose mission
AIRY spirit l heard the gospel call in Bonn
bay" Why, that is the man." says an
other. who helped send the gospel OF
Christ to the aborigines Of America and
caused me TO exchange the war whoop Of
the savage for the song of Christian de-
livcrancer." Stand back" commands
the gatekeepeT of heaven. "all We throngs
redeemed through this mans instrument
t~alities! Make way for him to the feet
Of the Kii.a, where be will cast his
crown, and then make way for him to the
throne. where he shall reign forever and
ever!" Now. that is what / call an abun-
dan entrance. You see, it is not neces-
sary to be q failure on earth in order to
be n success in heaven.
But ] promise that all those who have
lived for others and been truly Chris
tan, whether on a large scale or O small
scale, will lave ilfustrious introduction
into the inipearled gateway. Here and
there in some large family you see an at
tractive daughter who declines marriage
that she may take care Of father and
mother in old days. This is not an abb
straction. I have known such. You have
probably known such. There are in this
world womanly souls as big as that.
They cheerfully endure the whimsical
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