Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1877-11-13

unity, aud Ct the Hood OF lrri alton Using on
all sides, the MdlshaI's advisers vii! still lmpel
him along.
A Loudou Times Paris dispatch says:-"A
lumber OF SpanlardS armed with Remington
rifles. have crossed the Pyrcoees and entered
Spain. 4 rising is expected.
4 correspondent tclegraphj the following -
III is said the German Admiralty are pre-.
l,ariug Tor The eventual necessity Of compelling
Nicaragua to indemnify the German Coosul
Ejscntuek Ter The assault recently committed
upon ilul.
kkcJuSITIoN AFTER DEATH AT tho For
$ytll-sotrtc. Methodist Episcopal Church last
evening Rev. Nathan Hubbell delivered u ratho!
remarkable sermon on the subject of The Re.
cognition Of Friends in Heaven" Tho editice
was crowded and the preacher WAS listened to
with profound attention. Ho ssil:-ln l. Cor.
XIII, l., wo GEd this passsgo-"For now wc
sec through Z ASS dark y but then laco to
face now l now in Iart; but then shall know
even rs also sln known" This seems to my
mind to be almos! directly bearing upon the
subject in which we all have such vital interest.
Men in all ages Eage believed in tho recogni-
ton of friends after death. This idea has been
common to pagan and jew; all the older nations
have held tn it in common, and upon the temp
les even Ct ancient Egypt, washed for centuries
by tue the swi, lloHlHg Nile, tho undimmed
llrFnglypnlCS Tell 10 mouCra lhln kcrS inc UeleI
cflhOsc living in the cloudy pssL in tho recogni-
ton al friends in Immortality. Homer, the
Greek roet who lived 80 years before Christ
WIS borne, sang OF the sweet joys Ct such rocog-
milton after the tolls Hnd tcvers Of this lite were
over; Socrates and Plato, who %cro called Wlsc
men, and who existed leo years before the
ChristanIcrs, gave to the people their adho son to
tho belief that friends, lovers and kindred do
not pass cut Of a life of sympathy and love to
havo their friendships, common ambitions or
aspirations scattered to the four winds ofheaven
without recognition or future result The Hin.
doc willows were burned with their husbands
in tho bcliet-a barbarCus and savage ono 1t is
truG--.hat then tho soul passes out of tho body
it is reunited to and recognized by the friends
loved on earth. When tho Indian Prince of
Mora7a died, fo,ty.seven of his wives, it is said,
elccta, to Do burned with him. The Eastern
gyunosopLists and hcrmts, sent messages 70
heaven by persons committing suicide, suppcs-
ing through their terrible superstition, that they
could thus more directly communicate with their
trionda / only mention some of these matters,
although many Ct them sre revolving to our
modern sense Of religion, TO show how univer'
sal, in all ages, ha; this belief been. In every
ntelloctual mind-and think l can say il the
m,jority Of untutored minds slso-the idea that
friends, kindred and those connected by the
hottest Of earthly ties are to &c reunited pro-
walls. Did God give us these affections and idea;
to mock us No. They are universal because
or the immortality Of the soul. Cicero, the
Roman orator one hundred years before the
birth Of the Saviour taught it to the people, who
hung upon tho sweet t:dings from his lips with
tlss!u! reverence Truth gei1s strength with
time; not so with error: Bope grows in the
humai heart as We grow in grace, and thus the
idea Of q recognition OF friends in heaven is
moro strong in the breasts Of saints than in those
of sinners. Death is called a slsop; but We
swake. Shall We awake in this immortal world
with smsl. er faculties ard less intense desires. {?
Memory | feel sure will exist, and will that
m9mory ftjl to seek the loving face the Ten
der hand the gentle voice that cheerad US on
earth and rendered blessed SO many days and
years? Will not also the mercy snd goodness Of
God permit the ones who have gone before TO
young hearts? As the smallest rll leads to the
ocean, SO the smallest truth leads to God. |
think tho universal desire to be at homo and
with our kindred forbids the idea Of eternal sep.
araton. The Jews said, "Gathered to their
fathers" NJ oses died on Mount Nebo-''gsth..
Jonathan, of ruth and Nsomi-did deathquench
il? Whca Moses and Elias met on the Mount
Of TRANSPORTATION they had been away from the
world for several hundreds of years, and thov
seemed to know each other as their living c;::.
ciplas seemed to know them. One day vouno
girl Was ls.nenting that when she ps' "a ron
from earth she should not know .sseu aTaS
who had died in hor Infancy. Nn No. cnnId
tell her how she looked, eve Nooouy eoI 10Y.
of her hsir but when th> - WA. was inc cJ hor
death bed she raised souns g sf
Presbvterjsn e., other, am comingl Tho
said he wssr 5rgyman who witnessed the scene
in Have atislied Of the recognition of friends
The :"
ha ,njectors to this Wow say if this doctrine
y rue it would be explicitly stated in the Bible
lot necessarily. It is not necessary 20 prove
that the SUI shines, water runs down hill OF
that the soul of msn is immortal. As to tht
statement that in heaven there is 10 be no mar
rage or giving in marriage, my thought is, that
while this is so, according to our human stand.
point, that there will be noble sympsthies and
attractions of higher type than We know on
earth, airested of carnal and animal passions
Some doubters express themselves that VIC vii
be ike flecting spirits, floating in tho air, with
no liked aim or purpose This would be nc
heaven to me, and doubt fit would be TO any
Of yOu.-N. \. Herald.
Mr.. WADE ON TIE PRESIDENT Policy. -
Tx Senator Wade says in reference to Press
dent Hayes speeches il the South:
He drew crowds around him, and then lie
complimontcd those who had been rebels against
the Union and told them that he bevcd they
had been fighting for what they thought to be
right, just as the United States troops had
fought for what they considered right. Now,
1t stands to reason that if the Southerners did
what they thought right they should not be
obligc to suffer for it. Why. then. should the
rebels not receive remuneration for their losses
during the war? Why should not heir soldiers
receive PENSIONS at the hands of the overnment
just rs the injured Union patriots we re granted
pensions? or why should Confsderates 10 taxed
to help psy the Northern pension lis t.? Mr..
Wade says he doesn't "belc7e George Wash.
lneton. in his timo, ever had a more honest
and upright Administration than that Of Gem
crsl Grant"
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