Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1880-12-09
The Rev w. II H. Murray on Life
Afier Death.
From his lec1use il Roston.T

how shalt we rerognlze our friends
SOP IN many cases the new hodie
% will not look at all as fhe olG ore
o did Certainly not The resulr
of sin and the mis-ehances Of tn
= earth Will not he preserved, res
assured. He was dwarf hrre-h,
: will I've tall and shape fy there. Thu
misShapernent Of the skull made
hina an i.sfot .here-the organ o
fh"gyht shall be adequately accom-
raotf-.ted there. 4 friend leave.
eur side and is brought back al
moor, bmrnt 80 Disagreement, and we
know him through the hijcons dis
gnise of the explosion. If we re
cognrze onr loved ones when they
are rpade ugly, shall we not recog-
n;ze them when they are ma lie
beautiful If the eyes of love are
pot deceived by deforDlity, think
you they shall be deceived BY SYM
metry Nay Never fear, we
shall know thelN in their bcantv,
and because Of it perhaps even
quicker than we knew them here.
But, touching this matter of recng-
milton Of people in heaven AS if it
were a spot of snch limited cxtens
that they woufd naturally run
against abnnt everybody that they
every knew, in a couple of days at
IN ost nay. some seem TO think
that all their friends and acquaint-
anccs will be drawn up in row to
receive them. | trust this will not
be So, in my case at least, for if my
friends shuuld be drawn mp in a
row to receive me, | should Ger
tainly run. have seen so nnch
of them on earth that | should like
to take "A rest of "A few Thousand
years before | meet them again
One of the happiest points i'll my
conception of heaven ls, that it is
large enough to enable me To dodge
a great many people. That is
felicity.
But, though there are many we
do not wish to meet. there are those
we must meet, or heaven would be
less than heaven. Hands that we
must clasp voices We must hear !;
faces into which we mast look once
more, yea, be privileged to look
forever. L nave within me the
sweet iaith, call 1t childish if YOU
please, 10 believe that by and by
the dear old faces will ke seen once
more the truety hands clasred
again The loved voices heard anew,
and all the sweet lost things will
come sailing back to Us, like ships
winch parted by night and the
stroke of tempest, at snurise, with
sails all washed, and tairer than
they went, c"mc burr, ing back to
anchorage. We shall find what we
miss 10y and by.
Death, therefore, is a pcfnirion,
that is AL. All the terror there is
in it we put there by our own SUI
persiiiiuns. O,he,wi it were no
more dreadful than going out If Il
house or crossing a river. There
was no superstition or terror in 1t
to the early Christians. For three
centuries they locked at it as we
look at any event which is constant
ly occurring, aud whose signiii-
cance is fully Known. When II
man died, those who loved him
wrote on his tombstone, ''obit," he
has gone out, or s'transtuiit," he
has been Borne across, aud that
ended it. Those matter-ot-tacl
epitaphs in the old catcombs al
Rome show the true faith and con-
tradici the theology OF the modern
! Church. There is not the leas
e evidence that death is the seriun,
event the Church describes it al
e being not the least evidence tha
it produces any change in IT.,
character or modities by tith
one's spiritual aud mental traits
Some results will flow from il
The condition Of some it will i'm.
prove, for it Will deliver til. M u,,
of bodies that have been their bar,
and torment. The splendid tello,
whose love Of liquor is heredita,
10 his flesh shall find the curse
fever in him cooled forever wlic
once he dips beneath the shadow,
. tide. But the structure of IL
III ,Iilrd will reulain the Same on ii
5 other side THAI i, as on this side
the grave. Disposition will be ur
charged. The nninst will be u,
just still, the .hllhy will I've fill
Istill and the idea that death 4,
affect the quality of the mind-t1
idea oi passing out OF the house
7 which ] now live and taking no
scssi"n OF sp,nei ,habiratlnn L..
invisible TO me : is prcposterous.
But issrge Amount OF the teac
ings given to the people, week
,s week, iHthc chu, cIes, stands far