The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-01-18

ness, nave your TO anywhere III hoa'-
en-, and they will be glad to see you.
On the highest throne you will find
one who said. Behold thy mother"
Sit anywhere you please. You will be
at home anywhere. Take your pick
out of that sheaf Of scepters. What!
The wrinkles have all gone out OF
your face, and the once rheumatic step
has become like that of the bounding
roe. Just as l expected, you aged. glor-
flied soul. you had an abundant en-
trance.
Consocratcd Afiuence.
Well, this man of consecrated af-
fluence is about to go out of the 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 col
lapses under the exhaustions of the
twenties and thirties of his lifetime.
When the morning papers announce
that he is gone, there is excitement not
only on the avenues where the man
sions stand, but all through the hos
pitfalls and asylums and the homes of
those who will henceforth have no
helper. But the excitement of sadness
on earth is very tame affair COM
pared with the excitement of gladness
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 few
hours he would arrive. and there is
mighty stir in heaven. HE comes!"
cries seraph to seraph. The Kings
heralds are at the gate to say, Come,
We blessed" and souls who were saved
through the churches that good man
supported 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 phil
anthropy. why, that is the man who,
when was a-hungered, gave me
bread" why, that is the man." says
another, who encouraged me when
was in the hard struggle Of business
lifep 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
missionary spirit l heard the gospel
call in Bombay" why, that is the
man." says another 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 deliverance!" Stand
back" commanded the gatekeeper Of
heaven, "all we throng redeemed
through this mans instrumentalities
Make way for him to the feet Of the
King, where he will cast crown, and
then make way for him to the throne,
where he shall reign forever and everl"
Now, that is what | call an abundant
entrance. You see. it is not necessary
to be a failure on earth in order to be
a success in heaven.
Demand of Filial Devotion.
After years of filial fidelity on the
part of this self-sacrifcing daughter,
the old folks so home. Now the daugh-
ter is free from marital alliance, but
the damask rose in her cheek is faded,
and the crows feet have left their mark
on the forehead. and the gracefulness
is gone out of the figure, and the world
calls her by a mean and ungallant
D,,t
surely thou wilt make it up for that
girl in heavenly reward! On all the
banks of the river of life there is no
castle of emerald and carbuncle richer
than that which awaits her. It's win
dows look right out upon the Kings
park, and the white horses of the
chariot are being harnessed to meet her
at the gate, and if there are no others
to meet her, father and mother will be
there to thank her for all she did for
them when their strength failed and
the grasshopper became burden, and
they will say: MY daughter, how kind
you were to us even until the lasti How
good it is to be together in heavenl
That is the Kings chariot come for
you. Mount and ride to your ever
lasting home!" Now that is what I
call an abundant entrance.
The Stranger In Heaven.
But imagine one of these scarcely
saved Christians entering the shining
realm! He passes in stranger. Saint
says to saint. who comes there?"
And angel says to angel, "Who is
that?" He moves up and down the
streets and meets no one whom he
helped to get there. He goes into the
great temple and finds among the
throngs Of the white robed not one soul
whom he helped to join the doxologies.
He goes into the house of many man
sions" and finds not one spirit whom
he helped to start for that high resi-
dence. am glad that he got in, but
am amazed that in the 80 or 40 or 20
years of his life he did nothing for God
and the betterment of the world which
woke the heavenly echoes. Oh, child OF
God, if you had never thought of it
before, present the startling fact that.
you are now deciding not only the
style of your heavenly reception, but
the grade of your association and en-