Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1881-12-22

Soihe way he lhouShe II hs heie ~
speak as he sometimes did when a childI
.she perhaps might know him. So be:
said, "Mither wull ye gle me a leetlei
parritch." Instantly her eyes shone!
with a new light and instead of thel
thing asked for he received a glad
smother's fond embrace.
A few years ago a company of mi
zdians were captured on the westernI
frontier. Among them were a numberI
] of stolen children. They had beenI
with the savages for years. Word was
sent through the region, inviting ALL
! who had lost a child to come and see!
] if among the little captives they couldi
recognize their own. A long way off
was a woman who had been robbed of
sher darlings-a boy girl With
!, mingled hope and fear she came nearer
and with eyes filled with mother love
! land earnestness, peered into their faces
one after another; but there was moth
ling in any that she could claim Nor
was there anything in her to light up
their cold faces. With the dull pain
sof despair at her heart, she was turn
ling away when she paused, choked
sback the tears, and in soft, clear notes,
sbegan a simple song she used to sing to
sher little ones of Jesus and Heaven.
Not line was completed before boy
and girl sprang from the group, ex-
claiming, Mamma Mamma - and
she folded her lost ones to her bosom.
So shall we know each other in
sheaven. But to strengthen this posi-
! ton there is positive evidence, in the
Bible that individuality will be pre-
sserved so as to be recognized. In
Rev. 3-5, we find Christ saying 81
will not blot out his name, Chin
who overcometh) out Of the book of
slife." Ali are identified and registered.
have already referred to Dives. He
recognized both Lazerus and Abraham;
and Paul said to some who had been
converted through his preaching, eye
are our glory and our JOY at the com
ling of the Lord Jesus" How could
they be any source of JOY to the Apos-
atle unless he could know them
sThen, as an incentive to righteousness.
Christ says of his true followers, They
shall come from the east and the west
sthe north and the south and sit down
with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the
aheavenly kingdom" Now unless We
{ can recognize them we might DIS we'll
ssit down with the smallest and weak
Test of Gods saints; those who perhaps
y did comparatively nothing for God or
3 Humanity who like the thief upon the
cross were barely saved. If these be
aany direct inference, if Christ meant
Ito teach anything, it was that we
Eshould know these ancient worthies
kand converse with them. go what a
Egrand thing, Bro Philleo used to often
ssay. "what grand thing it will be
Ito sit down and talk with Abraham,
\ Moses, Daniel, Ezekiel, Isaiah, Paul
Eand john" To-day he knows his
Efaith was we'll founded, This idea of
Epost mortem recognition is one that
universally obtains; and is confessed,
Atoo, when consciousness is allowed to
sspeak. Take a case from civilized life.
Ia man in affluent circumstances lost
shis wife, she was his idol. To drown
khis grief he drank deeply of the cup
aof pleasure. Meeting a gay associate
Zone day in his counting room he open
BED his safe and took out locket con-
! taining a lock of golden hair, once
Ehis wife's. He said to his friend,
ED, do you, think [ shall ever see
Cher again % He answered, II don't
kthink you ever will" What never
Esee her again, why not? "No George
abecause you have not lived that kind
Eof life that will take you where she has
Egone.'! But he added, "You can
sm4et her there Geo. said, ''I'm
hgoing to meet her" 1t was not long
sbefore they both joined the church.
sGeo used to say to his paster, (Rev.
EDr. Hepworth) Il would not take a
Emillion for my hope
4 Take another case, from savage life.
q A minister in Ashantee, went to visit
ahis first convert. He was dying.
sSaid he, "When [ get to heaven, I'll
Eco and thank Jesus that he ever sent
syou to preach the gospel to US poor
Eheathen, and then I'll come and sit by
1.-THE gate and wait for you; to greet
ayou as you come home to the better
bland" When universal consciousness
Hspeaks out, it testi6es to what God has
Hwritten there it speaks the truth, and
Hnothing but the truth. Not only shall
1--WE recognize our friends in heaven,
Ebut [ think we shall do so more readily
Ethan we do here There will be vast
Improvement as TO the method of
agrasping knowledge. Iapprehend we
Ashall have wonderful powers Of intui-
Etion that the mind will act with a
sspeed, a precision and power, it never
Eknew or thought Of while here. We
ssometimes get hint of what the mind
swill be capable of by and by, just as
1.-THE grey dawn gives US some slight
aidea of meridian sunlight, or as the
little sprig does of the giant oak.
4 Perhaps you have heard of that
! young boy who prior to his early death
1 was employed in bank in old Eng
Hand. No matter how difficult, or in
stricate the problem in mathematics, he
B would give the solution instantly, as
soon as the question was stated
HThere was apparently no calculation
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