The Tupelo journal., 1903-05-01

lUulM aHgNKM so that she looked
NlNNsM &R- for a city which
- hath foundations.
49, whose Builder and
- Maker is God."
Lot, with his eyes fixed upon the fruit
full plain below, saw that it could sat
isfy worldly ambitions, and so he
chose him the plain of Jordan ano
went there to live. Abraham could
calmly, even cheerfully. see Lot take
the best of the land, for his eye OF falth
beheld with undimmed vision the ghs-
tening turrets and the golden pave
ments of that Celestial City, designed
by God and built upon the enduring
rock of His eternal purposes. II may
be that when Abraham went home ana
told his wife of the bargain he had
made with his nephew Lot that she was
very much dissatisfied and scolded MN
for his short-sighted folly. AND II o1o
seem for a few years as though MIRA
ham had made a mistake. but curing
the centuries which have rolled around
since then Sarah has had plenty OF time
to change her mind, and | imagine as
she walks with Abraham through the
rare gardens of the Celestlal wy
sharing in the peace and JOY and glory
of that beautiful place. she
how she ever could have let a niue
patch of ground down by the Jordan
make her unhappy and dlssatlsneo'
And Lot? Well, after his bargain with
Abraham, I suppose he used 10 run up
and visit his uncle occasionally to tell
him of his great prosperity and his ac-
cumulating riches. He probably had
many a quiet little laugh with himself
over the easy way in which he had over
\ reached his uncle. and wondered gooo
many times how Abraham could be so
contented and so easily satisfied. But
while Lot was gathering the worlds
gold in heaps, Abraham was laying up
treasure in Heaven, which he is ENJOY
ing to this day: but Lot, poor, poverty
stricken soul that he was, got INTO
Heaven $50 as by fire." and every
blessed thing he had was burned up.
~ ONE one has beautifully told OF an
- imaginary but very probable scene
in Heaven Two souls have passed
from earth and entered the pearly
gates of Heaven. Each seeks its man
sion which the Lord has been prepar-
ingsfor them in fulfllment of His prom
Use. The Master leads one. who has
been a gardener. and who has dwelt in
a little matched cottage in one obscure
corner of his employers lordly estate,
to a splendid mansion placed in a good
" location and bids him enter. for this
is his mansion which has been pre-
pared for him. The other soul. who.
while on earth, had lived in the man
sion on the place where the first soul
had toiled in ~obscurity, and was none
other than the mistress who had daily
given him his orders, was then taken
by the Master to a humber part Of the
city where the houses were smaller,
and lower. and palmer, and pointing to
one which was the meanest of all on
the street. He bids her enter. An eX-
clamation of surprise and bitter dis
appointment bursts from her lips and
she eXclaims: "Surely. Lord. this place
cannot be intended for me. I have been
used to livingin a mansion. The stately
house which my former servant has
entered must be mine and this place
his, for he has always lived in a rude,
mean cottage of two rooms upon my
estate" But the Master. with tender
tone and compassionate look. said:
"Nay. dear soul. this is in truth your
mansion. No mistake has been made.
7 have done the best I could with the
materials you gave Me. So little treas
ure did you lay up in Heaven while on
earth that / was hard put to rear even
so small and u~npretentious a dwelling.
But your humble and faithful servant.
whose good and kindly deeds and godlv
life were the talk of all in the commu-
nifty. aiduphistreasure here with such
lavish hand that it was necessary to
enlarge the plans several times and
place minarets and turrets all over the
splendid structure to use up all the ma
terial he provided" Abraham Cooked
for a city which hath foundations.
whose Builder and Maker is Cod and
he undoubtedly secured one of the fin
est mansions in the city. LotIooked to
the plain of Jordan and chose his dwell
ing place there, and he could count
himself fortunate that he even OBJ
tanned standing room in Heaven.
NNE of the problems of this life is
~ hat of choosing a dwelling place.
We have to live somewhere, and house
hunting becomes the task of nearly
every n some time during life. a
few people never know what it is to
move from one home to another. A
great many move but seldom, while
multitudes move yearly or ~biennially.
Some people move, it is said, because it
is cheaper than paying rent; others
move to get out of their own dirt and
because it is the easiest way to house
clean; others move from habit and be-
cause of the restless spirit which
Graves change of scene and surround
ings, and some others move because
larger accommodations are made nee
essary by growing families. And house
hunting is part of the experience. At
this season of the year the tramp of
many feet are heard as they hurry
hither and thither in search of a home,
and, verify, they find what they seek
after. 1t is a long and weary hunt
which the homeseeker pursues, gener-