The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1857-10-17

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a0h, mother, why do you talk SO? 1t
gives me such pain.
"Only because 1 want my little girl to
think Of another SUM-"
"Sun-day," said Mary, thoughtfully. "To-
day is called Sunday"
Yes, Mary, it was called so by those who
LONG ago worshipped the sun, because they
were in darkness, and the Sun of Righte-
BUSINESS had not risen on them"
dThey did not know that JESUS" and
Mary bowed her little head, "was the Sun
of Righteousness, but / know it, mother,
and now know what you mean. He the
Sun of whom you wanted me to think, and
it was in the East that He was born, and it
was on this day He rose from the dead, and
its yery name seems to suit us, Sunday
our Sunday" said Mary.
eyes, Mary, the LORDS day, when He
rose 81 set no more; and now tell me, should
we not look at Him and seek to be like Him,
turning to Him always as the sunhOwer turns
to the SUM-"
aBut we can't see Him mother,-I often
think I should have been so happy to have
seen Him as the disciples did"
ave can't see Him, Mary, with our bo-
div eyes, for the heavens have received
Him out of our sight, but we can read the
holy gospels, and think of all His goings
and d5ings, and we can lift up our hearts to
Him in prayer, and treasure up His words,
I'll we love Him, and trust in Him, and
liz !. I'm more and more, and are changed
into the same image, made like Him by His
Holy SPIRIT working in us, you know"
81 should like,-is it wrong to say so?-
| do SO long to see Him. and Mary looked
abashed, as if she had spoken foolishly.
Her mother smiled, and said, SIS it wrong
for the sunfower to turn to the SUM-"
"No, mother, but -"
"But what, my love? If | were to die,
would you not long to see my face again 2"
"Oh yes, mother, | couldn't be quite hap
py till them" and Mary's tears fell on her
mothers hand as she kissed it fondly.
"And Just so, darling, we can never be
quite happy till we see our Lord and Sa-
viour's face in glory; and the angels, you
know, stood by His disciples as they were
gazing up into heaven, when Jesus had as
cended in their sight, and told them He
should so come in like manner as they had
seen Him depart
eyes, mother, as the hymn in my book
says,
Every eye shall then behold Him;'
but the next line isn't like what | mean; it
says,
eRobd in dreadful majesty
It's that word dreadful that doesn't seem
like what we read of Him in the gospels.
He wouldn't look dreadful when He took
the little ones in His arms to bless them"
ellis glory was hidden then, Mary, for
YOU know He had come to visit us in great
humility, and John, the beloved disciple,
was allowed to lean upon His bosom, but
when John saw Him in vision, in the isle of
Patmos, we are told His countenancc was as
the sun shineth in his strength. Can You
look at the sun, MaryY
"No, mother, it dazzles my eyes, and
makes my head ache"
"But Mary can walk in the sunlight, and
rejoice in its making all clear and bright
and beautiful around herr"
eyes, mother"
"New then, Mary, attend to me, and |
think ] can help YOU. to understand about
tia5a0sher Sun Of which we we're speaking
Just now, and whose glory we would not
now bear to look upon, though we can re-
ioice to walk day by day in the sunshine of
His love- When the beloved apostle saw
Him in that vision of which we spoke just
now, what does he tell us happened to him7''
"'He fell at his feet as dead but then
you know, mother, the Lord laid His right
hand upon him and said, Fear not"
"And so, my Mary thinks that if that
same right hand were laid upon her she
should find the fear taken away: but what l
want you to understand, darling, is that
while we ought to long very much to see
our dear Lord and Saviour, we are not able
to in these vile bodies, as they are called, to
look upon His glory, and we cannot look up
undazzled at the glory of His love, though
we are walking in its light, and seeing by
it the bright colors, and the true forms Of
all around us; and so the Lord is training
us up in mercy to our weakness to see Him
through glass dimly now as we can bear
it,"
Mary answered eagerly, "Just, mother,
as | could look at the sun through the
smoked glass that father gave me one day,
and then it looked red, not bright and daz-
zling like"
81 see, Mary, you understand me, and so
there are many wells through which we may
see our Lord and Saviour, and hear him
speaking to us even now. We can see and
hear Him when we read and hear the holy
gospels, and does He not speak to little
children by their parents and teachers, and
to all Of us by His Word?'
SIS He speaking to me now by you, mo-
ther" asked Mary, fondly.
les, darling, and when We so to church,
and Mary, the bell tell us it is almost
time,-He will speak to us there many
words of holy peace and comfort, and if We
will listen and obey, we shall be every day
more and more conformed to, that is, made
like Him, changed, Mary, into the same
haage from glory to glory, till that blessed
day shall come, when these vile mortal bo-
dies shall be made like unto His glorious
Body, and we shall not see Him through
glass dimly, but face to face.
Mary did not speak, but she was full of
thoughts, happy thoughts, though they
brought the tears into her blue eyes, and
when little while after she went with her
mother to church, she felt as she had never
done before, that Jesus was speaking to her,
and she covered her face, and bowed down
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