St. Tammany farmer., 1901-04-20

they told you how often they mad 70
stand up for you in some battles. unail
you wished almost that they had been
slain in some Of the battlea Good.
pious, consecrated, well-msaning dis
agreeables a - -
Now. Ia Heaven, all THAR offensive.
neas hae ben husked Of. Each one is
9 happy = hs Co - Everyoae hs
nests is - happy ss he can be. Heav-
len one great neighborhood reunion.
All kings and queens, all songsters, all
millionaires, all banqueters. God. tue
Father, with His children all around
Him. No ''good-by" in all the air.
No grave cut in all tho hills. River Of
crystal rolling ovDr bed Of pearl. under
arch OF chrysoprssus, into the sea Of
glass mingled with fire. Stand at the
gate Of the granary and see the grain
come in; out of the frosts into the sum
shine. out Of the darkness into the
light, out of the tearing and the rip
ping and the twisting, and the wrench
ing, md the lacerating, and the husk-
ing time of earth into the wide open
door of the Kings granary, like IS .
shock of corn cometh in in his season."
There are monopolies ON earth. mo-
nopolistic railroads, and monopolistic
telegraph companies. and monopolistic
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ligion. All who want to be saved may
be saved, without money and with
out price," Salvation by the Lord Je-
sus Christ for all the people. OF
course, use common sense in this mat
ter. You can not. expect to get to
Charleston by taking ship for Portland.
and you can not expect to get to Heav-
en- by going in m opposite direction.
Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and
thou shalt be saved. Through that
one gate Of pardon and peace all the
race may 60 in.
But" says some one, do you really
think would be ct home in that SUI
pernal society if should reach it?r /
think you would. know you would.
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there was great equality of feeling
among the neighbors. There at one
corn shock q farmer would be ut work
who owned 200 acres of ground.
The man whom he was talking with
at the next corn shock owned but 80
acres Of ground, and perhaps all COW
cred by mortgage. That evening, at
ho xyl< ~ ho - Il t0vv
drove home q roam span SO frisky, so
full Of life, they got their feet over the
traces The other man walked home.
Great difference in education, great
difference in worldly mean; but l
noticed At the husking time they all
seemed to enjoy each others society.
They did not ask any man how much
property he owned or what his educa-
tion had been. They all seemed to be
happy together in those good times.
And SO it will b. in Heaven. Our
Father will gather Ills children around
Him, and the neighbors will come in.
and the past will be rehearsed. And
some ono will tell of victory, and we
will all celebrate it. And some one
will of great struggle, and we will all
praise the grsce that fetched him out
of it And some one will say: Here
is my old father that put away with
heartbreak. Just look ut him, he is as
young Is any of us-' And some one
will say: "Here is my darling child
that buried in Greenwood, and all
the after years Of my life were
shadowed with desolation. just look
at her! She doesn't seem as is she had
been sick a minute" Great sociality.
Great neighborhood kindness
WHAT though John Milton sit down
on one side and John Howard sit down
on the other side? No embarrassment.
What though Charlotte Elizabeth sit
down on one side and Hannah More sit
on the other side? No embarrassment
A monarch yourself. why be en-
barrassed among monarchs? A sougster
yourself. why be embarrassed amid
glorified songsters? Go in and dine.
ALI the shocks of corn coming in in
their season. Oh yes, in their season.
Not one Of you having died too soon, or
having died too late, or having died at
haphazard. Planted at just the right
time. Ploughed at just the right time.
Cut down at just the right time.
Husked at just the right time. Gar
nered at just the right time. Coming
in in your season.
Oh, wish that the billions Of bush
els of corn now in the fields or on the
way to the seaboard might be q type
of the grsLd yield of honor and glory
and Immortality, when all the shocks
come in.
/ do not know. how you are consti.
tuted. but l am SO constituted thai
there is nothing that SO awakeus remi-
niscences in me = the odors of corn
field when cross it ~ this time of
year, after the corn has been cut and
it stands in the shocks. And so have
thought it might be practically useful
for Us to-day to cross the cornfield,
and l have thought perhaps there
might be some "Reminiscences reused
in our soul that might be salutary
and might be saving. In Swe-
den. . prima donna, while her home in
the city was being repaired, took .
house in the country for temporary
residence, and she brought out her
great array Of jewels to show friend
who wished to see them. One night,
after displaying these jewels, and
leaving them ON the table, and
all her friends had gone, and
the servants had gone one
summer nigh-she sat thinking
and looking into mirror just in front