The Princeton union., 1904-12-22
Just as / Am.
The Great Organ of Jubilee.

It is Christmas story Of ClOudland
where reigned Gladiman the Glori-
Gus, whose big happy soul heard the
cry:
Backward turn backward O Time in thy
fight,
Make me child again just for tonight
He made old lives new lives and
young lives, and changed the long
white locks of old age to brown curly
locks Of youth. He made the dull eye
brighter with the flame of childhood.
Listen:
1t was Christmas Eve, and away
down in the Valley of Long Ago lived
a little old man, all bent over as if
stopped to look into the hereafter,
and his face was shrunken and
wrinkled. Our little old man had
lived long, long years since his
mother ceased singing her nursery
songs to him, and he left the old
homestead and went out into the wide,
wide world into new life. His good
faithful wife had passed away, and
children he had none. He was alone
on cold Christmas Eve in his little
hut away down in the valley, and was
smoking his pipe before the fireplace.
AS he puffed away he fell asleep, and
he dreamed of his childhood. The
curled up into the frosty air and
seemed to meet a shining white cloud
that nestled down from the blue dome
of heaven where myriads of stars ap-
peared like glittering candles on the
Christmas tree of heaven.
AS the cloud came down Jubilee, the
Fairy of Cloudland, came along with
a great chorus of fairies whose voices
were joined in singing the hallalujahs
of holiday time. Jubilee and the
chorus rode in pearly cloud and it
stopped over the hut of our little old
man while the air was filed with the
symphony of the serenade.
'Let's take the little old man to
Cloudland and to Gladiman," said
Jubilee. See him down there, he's
dreaming. We will make his dream
come true.'
eyes, Jubilee, he will enjoy it so
much!' exclaimed the cloud of fairies,
and the dwellers in the valley could see
a pillar of clouds reaching up from
the chimney of our little old mans
nut to the heavens, but they could
not see the golden ladder inside the
cloud on which he ascended to
Cloudland. It was along ways,
and up, up, up climbed the little
old man, while the fairy chorus sang.
At last he reached the top, and
what sight awaited him. AS far as
he could see was one immense sweep
of clouds. Overhead was the deep,
blue of heaven, glittering with the
light Of stars while all around
him were magnifcently-hue clouds
riding majesty in the heavens. The
great place echoed with the music of
harps and voices of a thousand Choir
uses from the clouds that foated
about like the pure white sails at sea-
It was indeed Cloudland, the realm of
Gladiman the Glorious, who could
roll away the stones of sorrow and
disappointment, and bring the bound
less JOY of innocent childhood at
Christmas time.
Our little old man stood as in a
trance, and his soul became filled with
the majestic spirit of the place. AS he
stood gazing at the beautiful sight, he
was caught up into Jubilee's cloud
chariot, and went sailing away
through cloud realm, until they came
to great cloud of purple, which
they passed into, and the cloud cham
ber that they entered contained the
throne of Gladiman who wore crown
of great splendor and his face was
radiant with love and peace.
The music from great organ filed
the chamber. It was the music of
the great masters, eternal as the
heavens. None such had our little old
man ever heard and as the chamber
reverberated with the grand strains,
Jubilee waved sceptre of diamonds,
and exclaimed, ''Peace, be still.''
Salute the east, salute the west'
and as Jubilee droped her sceptre
there was total darkness for the space
of few minutes, and in the far east
could be seen the Star of Bethlehem
shining in perfect splendor, radiant
with the spirit of the Christ-child.
Presently the throne chamber be-
came illuminated with dazzling light,
for Gladiman the Glorious stood in
front of the throne in his rich robes
OF silk, and he said in voice of ex-
quisite sweetness: "Jubilee, whom
hast thou as thy guest?''
20, Gladiman, most glorious, he is
pilgrim from the earth, who seeks
thV great pleasure and renernus hos