The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-03-30

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ed youth, under the petrifying touch Of
a worldly ambition, hardens into cold,
reckless and unfeeling manhood. The
maiden with her careless laugh, and cheek
where eand lilly blend, feels a strange
pensiveness on her glad spirit and the
flush of health gives place to the Pallor
of death, and she is laid away, wrapped
in the robe that shall enshroud us ALL
But in Heavenis no change--no inf1rmi-
ty to vex us,-no sorrow to sadden, no
temptation TO allure. And how glorious
the thought that there we may meet the
loved ones that have gone before us, or
who may tarry awhile behind, that there
the intercourse which death has broken
of, may be again renewed, and we
shall behold friends whom here we but
partially knew, and unworthily loved,
clothed with the gesture of a more glori-
Gus being and graced with the beauty Of
eternal youth. r e.'sf. Eeszs eaf
We are aware some may deem this
visionary. We know that eminent Di-
vines have proved by argument that
seems incontrovertible that in the future
world, the affections which spring out of
our relations here, will be unknown, and
that love will be inspired by moral excel
lence alone. Butwe know too, that these
same Divnes, when the warn ished coffin
is before their pulpits, and the pious dead
are waiting for the burial rite, will tell
the sorrowing friends of the loving min
istrations of departed spirits, and paint in
strains Of fervid eloquence, the joys Of q
reunion above land we wonder why,
if these affections born and nutured here
are to perish at death, they do not tell
the weeping mourners that when they toe
come to die, they shall see. Deacon Do
good, a very devoted Christian who died
in Texas last January. .----
We know too that the Saviour tells us
that the wicked rich man who died, pray
ed that Lazarus might be sent to warn
his brethren, that they come not where he
was, thus showing that he still retained
the affection for kindred that he felt while
here.
This evidence is enough for us, and we
believe with BRYANT, that in the Heav-
emily Land
..All shall come back each tie
Of pure affection, shall be knit again.
Admitting this, it seems to us one o
the great pleasures of Heaven will be the
opportunity it afo; ds for visiting for
holding free and unrestrained communion
with each other. Here there are many
hindrances to such communion, and the
closest friendship is sadly imperfect and
unsatisfying. When we meet we are
soiled with the dust Of worldly life; in The
glare of day we put on hard armor, the
fountains of tenderness are shut; we cha,
about the INSIGNIFICANT things Of the pres
ent; words Of meaning are left unspoken
thoughts which in quiet hours oft plead
for utterance are kept in silence, AMI the
full heart dares not speak ofits hopes and
fears-its wants and desres-its visions
of Beauty-its. vague warnings for Tho
Good yet unattained. But in Heaven al
dimness of sight-all imperfection of ut
terance shall be cleared away. There
shall we see as we are seen and know as
we are known.
We would not trife with so serious {
subject as this. We would not rashly
discard those stereotyped forms ofspeecl
descriptive of Heaven, which have become
so familiar to our ears. but we would wish
that the language that describes thai
Eternal Home of the good, should be Ian
guage pregnant with meaning, language
that shall mirror with equal clearness anc
force, all for which in better hours W.
hopefor in thought, or plead for in pray
er.