Vermont telegraph. [volume] (Brandon [Vt.]) 1828-1843, 1837-02-01
o. S. MURRAY, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

others. 1t is believed by some, that there
is a real and marked difference between
the death of the righteous and of the wick
ed. That while 1.-THE righteous hath
hope in his DEATH" and is filled with un-
speakable foretastes of happiness that is
never to end, 1.-The wicked is driven away
in his wickedness," hurried reluctantly
from the world where all his fond desires
terminate, and plunged into an uptried
state of being, of which his fearful 70 bod
ings already fill his soul with horror
What means the expression, "a certain
fearful looking for of judgment and fiery
Indignation" if it is not this !? A distin-
guished physician, after long observation,
declared his belief, that this difference is
so great as generally to leave its impress
sion visible on the features; that on the
cold clay of the saint the Joy and exulta-
ton of the ransomed spirit might be still
visible, while the frown of horror and
ghastly despair on the corpse Of the wick
ed man, record the agony with which the
conscicnce-strlcken soul anticipated ever
lasting burnings. o, "let me die the
death of the righteous, and let my last
end be like HIS
Why should it not be'so! The text
proves that one saint was permitted to see
the heavens opened, and Jesus standing on
the right hand of God. And Christian
philosophy has no reason to offer why it
may not be so again, or always. Those
who believe in the Immortality ofthe soul,
and that man lives alter death in an inter-
mediate state before the resurrection, must
admit that disembodied spirits can make
their presence known and express their
thoughts to one another, without the in
PREVENTION of bodily organs. Those spir-
ituaI beings must freely communicate with
each other, or heaven is one vast solitude
till the resurrection. Here, then, is a
child ofGod about to die. In an hour or
two his spirit will be competent to see and
hear and converse with other spirits with
out bodies He will see God, face to face,
and Jesus sitting at the right hand of God.
The holy angels, and all the glorious
saints above, will be as visible to him as
his weeping wife and children are now
The songs ofthe redeemed will then be as
distinct to his ear, as the hymns with
which his friends around his bed are striv-
ing to soothe the spasns of dissolution
What reason can Christian philosophy
give, why it is not just as practicable for
Him who made US, to break through the
dissolving clay, before it is quite deserted,
and let in upon the soul the reality ofthose
sights, and sounds and Joys, that are soon
to be so familiar None There is no
contradiction in it, no incompatlbility, no.
thing incongruous, so far as we can see,
nothing that it would be unsuitable for
f God TO bestow, nothing that it would be
) improbable for the dying saint to receive
} nothing that it would be dangerous for ev
cry true believer TO hope, and pray, anc
strive to attain before he goes hence to b
t here no more, nothing calculated to lowe
the grace Of the gospel in the esteem o
, those who may be privileged to stand II
the "chamber where the good man meet:
his fate"
IT is A FACT 1t has been so with ma
: ny. No one can say it has not been so
in greater or less degree, with all who
have died in the faith. No reason can be
alleged why every believer may not strive
! SO to live and believe and pray as to enjoy
, the same. (2)
The dying hours of the devoted servan
E of the Lord, whose mortal remains lie be-
D fore us, afford delightful example ofwha
: we have now been considering. But be
, fore advert 10 this scene the audience WI
. bear with me while give a hasty sketch
ofthe life ofthe deceased, particularly from
: the time when he entered upon his public
}. career in this city.
| JOHN ROBERT MDowALL, son OF Rev
t Robert MDowall, Of Fredericksburgh
k q. c., was born at that place, Sept. y
: 1901. His father, a respectable clergy
Il man Of the Presbyterian order, still live
at the same place to mourn the loss and t
rejoice in the deliverance ola son in who's
career of public usefulness and sufterln
he ever sympathised with the most pater
nal feelings. This son was educated j
the states, at different institutions | be
(2) At the moment of going to pres
casting my eyes on one Of our exchang
papers, find an account from the Moravla
Missionary Intelligencer, of the death {
Mrs. Tellner, the wife Of missionary
Antigua, who died of yellow fever, in De-
1885.
"Aiter praying sometime in silence, sh
exclaimed, quoting favorite, hymn,
Hide me, oh my Savior, hide,
Till the storm of life is past
She then requested to have read to ne
the well known hymn Of Bishop GamboId'
II And when Pm to die, receive me Pll crl
= For Jesus hath loved me- cannot say why
a She continued sometime in prayer wit