The Wilmingtonian., 1882-09-23
81 shall go to Him.'-u. SAMUEL xiii, %,

81 shall go to Him."--u SAMUEL XIII, 20,
Heaven is not contraction. it is an ex-
pansion. If know you here | will know
you better there Here only see you with
two eyes, but there the soul shall have a
million eyes 1t will be immortality gazing
on mmortality-ransomed spirst in colloqy
with ransome spirit-victor beside victor.
When John Evans, the Scotch minister,
was seated in his study, his wife came in
and said to him, MY dear, do you think we
will know each other in heaven?" He tur-
ned to her and said, "My dear, do you
think that we will be bigger fools in heaven
than we are here?"
II. Again l except this doctrine of future
recognition because the worlds expectancy
atirms it. In all lands and ages this theory
is received. What form of religion planted
it? No form of religion, for it is received
under all forms of religion. Then, l argue
a sentament, feeling, an anticipation, uni
versally planted, must have been God-im-
planted, and if God implanted it is rightful-
ly implanted Socrates writes. ''Who
would not part with grea deal to purchase
a meeting with Orpheus and Homer? If
it be true that this is to be the consequence
of death, could be able to die often"
Among the Danes, when the master dies
the servant sometimes slays himself that he
may serve the master in the future world
Cicerd living before Christ's coming, said,
sob, glorious day when l shall retire from
this low and sordid scene, to associate with
the divine assemblage OF departed spirits,
and not with the one that have Just now
mentioned, but with my dear Cato, the best
of sons and the most faithful of men. If l
seemed to bear his death with fortitude, it
was by no means that did not most sensi-
bly, feel the loss that l had sustained 1t
was because was supported by the consol-
ing reflection that we could not long be sep
arated."
The Norwegian believes it, The Indian
believes it. The Greenlander believes it.
The Swiss bslieve it. The Turks believe it..
Under every sky, by every river, in every
zone, the theory is adopted and SO say a
principal universally implanted must be G od-
implanted, and hence a right belief. The
argument is irresistible,
III Again, adopt this theory because
features of the soul that will distinguish us
forever How do we know each other in
this world? Is it merely by the color of the
eye, or the length of the hair, or the facial
proportions? Oh, no. Il is by the DISPOSE
ton as well, using the word in the very best
sense and not iu the b sense; and if in the
dust or body should perish and lie there for
ever and there should be no resurrection,
still the soul has enough features and the
disposition has enough features to make us
distinguishable. can understand how in
sickness a man will become so delirious that
he will not know his own friends; but will
we be blasted with such insufferable idiocy
that standing beside our best friends for all
eturnity, we will never guess who they are?
". Again, | think that one reason why
we ought to except this doctrine is because
we never in this world have an oppurnity to
give thanks to those to whom we are spirit
ualiy indebted. The joy of heaven, we are
s6ld, is to be fnauguFated by review OF l1fss