The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-11-12
RECOGNITION AFTER DEATH.
REV. NATHAN HUBDELL DIsCoURsEs ON A
SUBJECT VERY INTERESTING 9O ian zu11AN

MIND.
At the Forsyth Street Methodist Episcopal Church
last evening Rev. Nathan Hubbell delivered gather
remarkable sermon on the subject OF ''Tne Recogni
ton OF Friends In Heaven" The odihce crowded
and the preacher listened TO with profound alton
ton. He said:-In l. Corinthians. xiii, II we find
this passage-"For now we through glass darkly;
but then face to face now l know III purt but then
shall know even also am known" This seems
to my mind 10 DO almost directly bearing upon the
subject In which We all have such vital
interest Men In all ages have believed In the
recognition OF friends after death. THIS idea has been
common to pagan and Jew; all The older nations have
held TO 1t in common, and upoL the temples even OF
ancient Egypt, washed Tor centuries by the swift
flowing Nile, tho undimmod hicrogyphic tell to
modern thinkers the belief Of those living In the
cloudy past In the recognition oil friends in imlnor
tally. Homer, the Greek poot who lived 900 years
before Christ born aang OF the sweet joys OF such
alter the tolls ana oil this lilo
over; Socrates and Plato, VINO were called wise men,
ana who existed 400 years beiore the Christian era
gave tho people tnoir adhesion TO the belief that
friends lovers anu kindred do not pass out OF lie OF
sympathy love to have their friendships, common
ambitions or aspirations scattered to the iour winds OF
heaven without recognition or futuro result. Tue
Hindoo widows were burned with their husbands IN the
bclle--a barDarous anu savage one Is Is truo-that
when the soul pusses out oil body II Is reunited TO
the Indian Prince Morava died forty OF his
wives Is SAID, elected 10 be burned win him. Tho
Eastern gymnosophsts, or bareiooted philosophers
ana hermts, sent messages 10 heaven by persons
committing suicide, supposing, through their Terrible
superstition, that thcy could thus moro directly com
nunicaLc with their trends only mention some OF
these matters, although many vi them aro revolving
10 our modern sense OF religion. to snow how univcr
sal IN ali apos has this bcei heen. In overy INTEL
Iec.ua mind-,ud Think say III Tao majority ol
untutored minus aisotno dea that friends, Kindred
aud those connected ny tho hottest OF earthly ties
n pl
US these affections and IDEAS 70 mock usY No. They
universr because they are tueas truo as the ex
istcnce OF God or Of tue Immortality OF the SOUL
C,eero the Roman orator, one hundred years before
the birth VI the Saviour taught to the people, who
hung upon the sweet tidings from his lips with bIissu
reverence. truth gains strength with tiinc not 80
with error. Hope grows IN Tue human heart as We
grow grace and thus tho idea Vi recognition OF
friends heaven 10 moro strong In Tue breasts Of
than those vi sinners Death 10 called sleep
but we awake Shall We awake IN this immortal world
with smaller faculties ana less intense desircs2 Mem
DRY iec Will exist and will that memory fail TO
seek loving lace The tender hand, tue geute voice
that cheered US on earth and rendered blessed so
goodness vi Coo permit the ones who have before
hasten tuat recognition ana clasp Us ~ their young
heartsY AS the smallest r leads " the ocean, SO the
smallest truth ieuus God think the universal desire
u home aud with kindred forbds the idea or
eternal separation. Tue Jews laid, Gathered to their
| futnsrs" Moses died Mount NeOo-'gatneroe to
his people," The love ofDavlo and Jonathan, o. Ruth
and Naomi-did death qusnch ~ When Moecs an q
Enas met ON tho Mount OF Trunshguratlon they had
been away from the world for several hundreds oi
years, they seemed 10 know each other US ineir
| living disciples seemed TO know them. One Gay
young giri was lameuIng that whom she passed away
from earth she should not know her mother, who had
dcd 10 her infancy. Nobody could tell her how she
| looked, even what was the color ot hor hair, but
/ wnen the young girl was GU her doath bed she
raised her heaven ana cried, "Mother, mother
| comingl" The Presbyterian clergyman wne
Witnessed the said he was satisfied VI The rocoI
milton ui trends III heaven.
| The objectors TO tins view say II this doctrine b.
truo 1t would DO explicitly stated In the Bible. NO
necessarily IL mot necessary 10 prove tnat the sur
SHINES, runs down hIii or that the soul Of maj
Is immortal As to the statement that III heaven thcr
s TO DO no marriage or giving IN marriage, my though
s that while this Is according 10 our human stand
point that Will DO noble ympatnics aud atrac
lions of higher typo than We know ON oarth uivcstc
| OF carnaI aud animal passlopA Some doubters OF