Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-02-22

the Oath OF office as PRESIDENT OF Cno uni
ted States, the road sides were lined with
glad men and women, all anxious to see
the great man, who, under God, had led
the colonial forces to victory. Floral arch
es spanned the road at Trenton, and a
"Strew, ye fair, his way with flowers,
Strew your hero's way with flowers
These were glad days to Americans.
The war was over and sweet peace had re-
turned. But what was the delivery of the
American colonies from British DONNA
ton to the delivery of sinners from the
guilt and pollution of sin? Nothing. o.,
what extatic delight the redeemed will
experience when they behold him who
bought them with his own blood. With
what delight they will sing, and sing for
eve that new song, called the song of
Moses and the Lamb, only a few words OF
which have been revealed.
But not only will the redeemed see Je-
sus in glory, but they, in some sense, viii
be like him. The beloved disciple says to
believers, beloved, now are we the sons
of God, and it doth not yet appear what
we shall be but we know that, when he
shall appear, we shall be like him." Vain
curiosity inquiries in what will the like
ness of the redeemed to the redeemer con-
sist. Let us remember that beyond what
is revealed we cannot 60. We cannot
know what has not been made known.
We may safely say, however, that the re-
deemed will be like the redeener in that
they will be entirely freed from every
faint and trace of sin. Heaven is not only
a happy place, but it is a holy place, in
habited by holy beings. While in this
world believers suffer the sad effects of sin,
both in soul and body. To no man this
side of the grave is God all in all. The
love of sin dies out slowly in all, and the
growth of gracGiagradual. The tares and
the wheat grow together in the church,
because they are together in the heart of
every believer. When sin in its love and
l9sts is entirely eradicated from the hearts
of believers, then glory succeeds grace,
Heaven.
Some change will take place in the
bodies of believers at the resurrection, or
before they are taken to Heaven. Paul
says the bodies of believers are ''sown in
dishonor, but they are raised in honor,
they are sown natural bodies, but they are
raised spiritual bodies" If we knew
what a spiritual body means, then we
would know what change will take place
in the bodies of the redeemed at the resur-
rection. All that we certainly know is
that the bodies of the redeemed will be
like the glorifed body of their Saviour.
They will retain their identity, that is they
will be the same bodies, which in various
ways and under various circumstances,
crumbled into dust. Just as the body of
the redeemer, which assembled to Heaven,
and in which he sits at the right hand Of
bought people, is the same identical body
(which woo poilo5 IN tho orocc on6 laid in
the tomb of Joseph of Arimathea. With
regard to the resurrected body of our Sa-
viour, John makes a very suggestive state
ment. 1t is as follows. "Then, the same
day at evening, being the first day of the
week, when the doors were shut where the
disciples were assembled for fear of the
Jews, came Jesus and stood in the midst"
John 20: 10. The remarkable clause in
this statement is, the door being shut. We
are told that while the doors were shut
"Jesus came and stood in their midst"
How did he enter the house, the doors be-
ing closed? Was his glorified body not
subject to that law of matter which makes
it impossible for two bodies to occupy the
same space at the same time? This seems
to be the most reasonable conclusion.
There was evidently something miracu-
lous in the entrance of our Saviour. If he
entered the. house without opening the
closed doors, and it is positively stated that
he did, then we are warranted in conclu-
ding that the resurrected body of our Sa-
yiour was not subject to the laws which
govern ordinary matter. We may ask,
Will the bodies of the redeemed be like
the body of our Saviour in this respect ?
Again, we are told that after his resurrec-
ton our Saviour accompanied two of his
disciples on their way to Emmaus, but
they did not know him, and also, ''that he
vanished out of their sight," literally be-
came invisible from them. Something
very like this occurred on the Mount of
TRANSPORTATION. Moses and Elijah were
seen by Peter and James and John. The
TRANSPORTATION seems to have taken place
in a moment and the appearing of Moses
and Elijah as suddenly. The disciples,
sore afraid, fell on their faces, when they
heard the voice out of the cloud. Jesus
touched them, bidding them arise. This
they did, but when they looked up Moses
and Elijah were gone. They had vanished
out of the sight of Peter and James and
John.
The power of divine grace is the Won
der of angels. 1t was the wonder of Paul.
1t will be the wonder of all the redeemed
throughout all eternity. The sinner dead
in trespasses and sins is not only "saved to
sin no more" but he is made by adoption
a child of God, and if a child then an heir,
heir of God, a joint heir with Christ, to
an inheritance ~incorruptible, and undefiled
and fadeth not away, reserved in Heaven.
Great and indescribable glory will be re-
vealed both to believers and unbelievers,
when the affairs of this world are brought
to an end. Bright prospects are before the
humble child of God. What a pleasant
thing it is to think of Heaven. 1t cheers
the dropping spirits to think that a few
more losses and crosses and we will be
home safe in our fathers house.
THOUGHTS ON HoME.--The road to home
happiness lies over small stepping-stones.
Some men are at home everywhere ; 9TH
ers are at home nowhere. He is happiest,
be he king or peasant, who finds peace in
his home. The first indication of domes-
tic happiness is the love of ones home.
TO Adam, Paradise was home ; and among
the good of his descendants home is para
disc. What a man is at home, that he is
indeed-if not to the world, yet to his WI
conscience and to God. Some persons can
be everywhere at home /; others can sit
musingly at home and be everywhere.
There is something in that little word
"home" which lifts the heart into the
throat, and ever excites intense emotion.
"a" Everyone wishes to have truth on
his side," says Whately "but it is not
everyone who sincerely wishes to be on
the side of TRUTH" A vital difference.
Those who wish to have truth on their
side, are apt to persuade themselves that
what is on their side is truth, and thus to
give the authority of truth to their error.
Those who wish to be on the side of truth,
search honestly to discover on which side