True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1857-08-26
FRIENDS IN HEAVEN.

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He must be an unhappy man indeed
who has not single friend. There must
be sad admixture of churlishness or
malice in his composition-something
crooked or grabbed in his very make
On the other hand, he is a rich man who
is rich in honest friends. They make up
great estate. He who can fill his house,
or fill his heart, with those who shall be
to him as David was TO Janathan, or as
Newton was to his brother poet, Cowper
-he is the social Cresus. The beauti
fuI and sympathetic intercourse Of large,
refined, loving, godly minds, is one of the
truest types of heaven. II is an an,epast
Of joys TO come. 1t is the commence.
ment of friendship that shall be perfect
ed beside the crystal waters and under
the shadows of the twelve fruit bearing
trees. In the "many mansions" what
lnlimacies shall spring up! What com.
munings Of soul! What conversations
What reunions of Christ's veterans from
earlh's spiritual battle fields What mar
ralives they will relate TO each other
1t is stirring sight 10 see two Revo.
lutionary pensioners telling over the cam
YPalgns they fought through from Concord
Bridge to Yorktown; TO hear them recall
their common conflicts and their common
triumphs how they leaped together into
the deadly breach how they bore on to
gelher against the enemy's iron steel ant
hail of musket balls; how they came
down like death upon the foe, how they
huzzaed together from The ramparts wher
The victory was won. There will be il
heaven an abundanc of thrilling nara
tlves, from soul 10 soul, OF what God ha
wrought through them and for them :
Friends here who are in Christ will, n
doubt, be friends in heaven. The genia
inlimacies begun below will be perfected
there. The separations at the grave''
mouth viii be followed by the rapturou,
reunions before the throne of the Lamb
Apostles who parted at the stake of mar
lyrdom will meet to congratulate eacl
other on the martyrs crown. Gods he
roes, who shouted farewell in the amphi
theatre of the lions, or amid the smother
ing flames, will tell over their great "fgh
of Affections" all passed away for ever
i Saints Of different ages and centuries will
meet Paul with Abraham-the discipl
who leaned on Jesus breast with tha
"man afterGod's own heart !" Luthe
will hold high converse with Augustine
/. the Wilberforces OF modern reform wit
the Josiahs, Ezras, and oter purifiers 0
} ancient days. +" When get toheaven,
said the dying Emmons, 81 shall hope /
} see Isaiah and David, and talk with then
abouta thousand things, but among then
all, am most anxious to see and tall
} with the Apostle Paul" That was
mos, natural wish from the expiring MAJ
of God. Who does not long and hop
for that very interview when we shal
reach the better world What a pres
sure there will be around that chiefest @
, Gods apostles-once the very chief Q
sinners! How will we love TO embalr
with thankfulness his priceless services t
/ us and TO the whole church of the Re
, deemer!
The meetings in heaven will be end
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ever new sur
prises, and ever fresh delights. Lon
sundered households will come together
The husband will stand beside the viii
in the white bridal array of the saints i
light, and the wedlock of earth will be
) come the everlasting union of Paradise
The praying mother will embrace tn
!, child of her early vows and baplismi
+ CONSIDERATIONS. Faithful pastors will wal
z amid their flocks as the shepherd Psalm
lists did amid his fathers aeecy charge 0
/, the hills of Bethlehem. The teache
will re.assemble the grougs of his Sat
' bath school and in lne train of such gle
3 rifed souls as Robert Raikes and Isabel
Graham we may look to see great trooI
8 Of rejoicing children.
, Those friendships awakened in heave
from common fellowship with Chri
will know no end. Here friendships al
9 proverbially frail and brittle. They brea
5 too often like the pipe-clay. But no .
1 ienalion shall ever separate those wi
/, EdweIl in The same palace Of the Gre
King No enmities will disturb the un
7 versal and amending harmony. All W
Q be as one, for all will follow the Ian
: whithersoever he goelh, and he will le;
/ them 10 living fountains Of waters. y
: A GAIN.-.A merchant was the other d,
reproving the keeper of low grogse
7 for his disreputable mode Of getting
= living,
II get my living as respectfully as y,
do, said the rumseller. "Don't you Ii
by your bargains I" a
"Yes.D
sWsllso do !, BY my bar. .gainsle1 y
If SHARP. "a counryman while walki
It along the streets Of Newly ork, found |
/ progress stopped by close barricade
wood.
.. ''What isthis .for!' said he to . ps
3 son in the street..
: ooh, that's to stop the yellow fever
q "Ah, ] have often heard Of the boa
Of health, but I never saw il before"