Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-05-17

twelve tribes, but they are all Israelites; all
love God and try to keep his commandments.
All over christendom, the tribes of God are
going up to the New Jerusalem. Hand in
hand, heart in heart they sing:
"How glorious is the land we seek,
land without tomb;
An everlasting resting place,
sure and quiet home" ..a 5....
The dull monotony of time is broken by the
travellers to the New Jerusalem as they repeat
in thrilling accents ....... ... ..
"Jerusalem, my happy home,
My soul still pants for thee ......
Then shall my labors have an end,
When thy joys shall see." '...
This relationship-the result Of Gods re-
deeming love and these devotional feelings,
the offspring of Gods regenerating and sane
tifying sprit-will never cease. When the
church militant, in all it's members, becomes
the church triumphant, then that vast assem-
bly, will sing together that new song of which
We read in the 18th and 18th chapters of Rev
elation. o, how the pious soul longs to be
there! o, what it will be to hear that great
multitude of brethren, that no man can mum.
Der, shouting in sweet and harmonious accents,
"Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord
God Almighty; just aud true are thy ways,
thou King Of saints" Rev. xv:3.
This will be heavenly recognition in the
truest and fullest sense. The united voices
of the redeemed, praising the Lamb, will be
like the voice of many waters Oh how the
pious soul longs to be there. In contempla.
ting the scene, the soul is bewildered and the
tongue can only lisp, 1--WE know not what we
shall be, but we know, when Jesus appears,
we shall be like him, for we shall see him as
he is." John iii a. All the ransomed in
heaven will see Jesus the Lamb, upon the
throne, and Jesus will see them, and they will
mutually recognize each other 0, it will
be glorious to bo there! The smiles Of Jesus
will fill the great brotherhood of the redeemed
with inefable bliss. They will love God, and
they will love each other. The friends of
Jesus will meet around the throne, and they
will recognize each other as the children of
the same heavenly Parent, and sharers of the
same heavenly inheritance This will be
bliss. This will be all the recognition that
ransomed souls will desire.
This subject may be turned to profitable
account, by rejecting that those who are chill
dren of God here, will continue to be children
of God in heaven. Death separates the most
intimate friends here upon earth. In some
instances, the separation will be forever; in
others, it will not. In the case of believers,
it is only for time. After the resurrection
and final iudgnsnt, uili H belisuars will meet in
heaven, to part no more. When, however,
at death, the saint and sinner part, it is to
meet no more.
1t is sad to reflect that the same kind of
recognition which will be in heaven among
the saved, will be among the lost in the world
of woe. In heaven, believers will meet as
children of God unbelievers will meet in
the regions of despair, as children of the
wicked one Oh the wailing the hollow
groans the gnashing of teeth, that will be
there No one will have time, in hell, to
think of any pleasant relations which he or
she had in time Boon companions will meet
each other, not with smile, nor with pleas.
ant sautation butwith dark frowns and bitter
curses The doctrine Of future recognition
has no joys for the rejecters of Jesus. On
the contrary, it will be one ingredient in their
cup of woe. In the parable of the rich 6 lut-
ton and Lazarus, (Luke 16) it is stated that
the rich man asked that some one be sent to
his fathers house to "testify to his FIVE breth-
ren, lest they also come into this place of tor
ment." The main design of the parable is
to teach US that if men reject the ordinary
means of grace, no other means would be
eficacious in turning them from their sins.
This being the case, it is thought by some
wise commentators, that the desire expressed
by the rich man is mentioned, not on account
of any love he had for his brothers or desire
for their salvation but that he might avoid
their iibes. 1t is thought that he was, proba-
bly, the oldest of his fathers children and
had exercised a controlling influence over
them. In the event they we're not converted,
they would follow him to that place of tor
ment in which he was and when they would
enter they would greet him with bitter re-
proaches because he had led them astray.
This would be a soul piercing recognition.
No doubt, part of the jargon of the pit of
despair will consist in the abuse which the
deceived and deceiver will heap upon each
other. Dreadful place, indeed Children
heaping abuse upon their parents, because
they did not lead them in the path of duty;
and parents abusing their children, because
they are in the same place of torment with
themselves, as so many glowing Goals in the
fire that is never quenched. This recognition
is part of the food that supports remorse
and despair. Sinner, turn to God before it
is too late The joyous meeting of saints
around the throne of the Lamb, and the
meeting in perdition of those who love moth
ing, and no one, but hate everything, are pre-
sented to your mind as incentives to cause
you to 60 to Jesus. God says to you, "Turn
ye, why will ye die2"
MoNEY,-Wealth is potent in its own
sphere but impotent beyond it. 1t can put
telegraph under the sea and cover the land
with network of wires as with spiders
web. 1t can build railroads and bridge
oceans 1t can buy houses and lands and
every material advantage but here its power
stops. 1t cannot purchase goodness, or JUS
tice, or genteness, or patience, or love, or
true friendship. 1t cannot do anything to