Jeffersonian Republican. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1840-1853, 1846-10-22


ate reply. James continued: "There will be
music there, and why shouldn, there be flow
ers there 7"
81 am no, prepared 10 say that there will no.
be flowers in heaven"
Il always love to think there will be flowers
there, and flowers which will never fade"
You could be happy there, even if lha,
should not be the case, could you 2"
:" | can be happy in any place in which God
sees fit 10 place me--in any place where his
presence is not wanting: but as flowers are
among The finest things which he has made,
and as the blessed Saviour was grea, lover of
flowers when he was on the earth, [ think, (if
the Lord should see fil,) il would be all The bet
ter if they were to bloom in heaven"
What authority have you for saying thai
the Saviour was lover of flowers ?"
" Because il is expressly said so in the GOOD
book and if it wasn't, we might know lha, he
was great friend TO flowers, because he was
gentle and lovely himself"
Il don't recollect any passage of Scripture
which expressly affirms that The Saviour was
peculiarly fond of flowers"
=" Doesn't he say, sir. " consider the lilies Of
the field how they grow, they toll not neither
do they spin, yet say unto you lha, even Sol
omon in all his glory was not arrayed like one
Of these. Wherefore if God so clolhe The
field" &c. You see. Sir. that he ascribes The
clolhing of The flower with beauty to God, and
not 10 nature, the healhen among US do"
Thinking that he had STOOD idle long enough,
he prepared 10 resume his work saying as he
did so, "Well, whatever may be the case with
my old friends here" pointing 10 The lilies and
roses and other flowers, &" hope that dear oI-
i've plant of yours will be there"
THAT mus, depend" said Mr. Parkman SOL
emnly, " in one sense, al least upon herself"
When they had passed on so far as TO be out,
Of James hearing. Louisa said 10 her father,
q do you believe there will be flowers in heav-
en- 2"
1T is point, my daughter, in respeci to
which have neither belief or unbelief. The
Bible is silent respecting it,"
But James seems 10 be certain about it, and
be is great reader Of the Bible you know"
In James case, you have an example of The
effect of desire, in causing belief without sufii-
Glen, evidence. We believe what we strongly
desire 10 be true, on very slight evidence
James is such lover Of flowers, his life, as il
were, is so bound up in Them. that he can hard
ly form conception Of happy place where
they shall be wanting. Hence, he strongly de.
sires thai they may be found in paradise. and
hence believes that they will be found there. on
very slight evidence or rather on none at all.
II didn't see as The passage which he quo.
ted, proved that the Saviour was peculiar ad-
mirer of flowers"
"1'rue," said her father, 1.-The words were
spoken by Him 10 illustrate point very differ
ent from The one we were considering YET
have no doubt but that the Saviour as perfec
tOdI, llusl nave udU d hSSH S6HolUHttS W tut
beauties of nature, and hence must have beer
an admirer of flowers. James is there without
doubt righ, in his premises, but | do not see
that his conclusion follows. Ii may be, and
doubtless was a fact that the Saviour loved
rhese beautiful specimens of his Fathers handy
work, but do not think that it follows from
this fact that there will be flowers in The be,el
land"
Il think the idea of unblighted and fadeles.
flowers is beautiful one"
, . Ii is so /; but it is a poe,ical rather than :
spiritual idea. ALI moral perfection will be
found In heaven: every thing necessary 10 The
: complete perfection and the highest happnes,
; of the soul will be found there The grea
question is 'are,we prepared for residence
lherer"
This suggestion awakened thoughts in Lou
isas mind which we're no, altogether pleasant
She was not christian: she intended TO be.
come one, but was no, ready yet. She was in
teres,ed in The subject Of religion, and loved le
hear persons converse upon il, and 10 coaver.s