Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-12-10

lives. 1 go in. I see where she sat in the
| sittipg-roOm. l 90 out where Martha
worked in the kitchen, but find no
Jesus. / 90 into Pilates courtroom, and
fihd Tho Judges and the police and the
prisoners hox, but 10 Jesus. 20 into
the Arimethean cemetery; but the door is
gone, and the shroud is gone, and Jesus is
gone. By faith l look up to the Kings
palace; and behold / have found him
jose ph-Jesus is still alive! Glorious re-
ligion, religion made not out Of deaths
heads, aud cross bones, and uudertaker's g
scIew.driver, but one bounding with life,
and sympathy, and gladness. Joseph is
yet alive!
81 know that my Redeemer lives.
What comfort this sweet sentence gives!
He lives, He lives, VINO once was dead,
He lives, my ever living Head!
"He lives TO grant me daily breath,
He lives, and | shall conquer death.
lie lives my mansion 70 prepare,
He lives TO bring me safely there.
"He lives, all Rlrry to His name;
He lives, my Jesus still the same.
Oh. the sweet JOY this sentence gives,
know that my Redeemer lives"
THE KINGS WAGONS
will after a while unload, and they will
turn around, and they will go back to the
palace, and really think that you and ]
will go with them. The King will not
leave Us in this famine-struck world The
King has ordered that we be lifted into the
wagons and that we 90 over into Goshen
where thers shall be abundance for our
largest flock of Joy, and then we will drive
up to the palace, where there are glories
Awaiting us which will melt all the snow
Of Egyptian marble into forgetfuluess.
think that the Kings wagon will take
US up to sce our lost friends. Jacobs chief
anticipation was not seeing the Nile, nor
Of seeing the long colonsdes of srchtsctu-
raj beauty, nor of seeing the throne.room.
There was focus to all his jourpeyings,
to all his anticipatiops; aud that WAS
Joseph. Well, my friends, do net think
heaven would he worth much If our brother
Jesus YVES not there. II there wers two
heavens, the one with all the pomp and
psrsphenslia of an eternal monarchy, but
no Carist, and the other were plain
heaven, hupbly thatched, with few dai'
sizes in the yard, and Christ were there !
would say: Let the Kings wagons take
me up to the old farmhouse
II Jesus were not in heaven, there would
be no music there; there would be but few
people there; they would be of looking for
the lost Christ, crying through the uni
verse: "Where is Jesus? where is Jesus?''
and after they had found him, with loving
| r,o tla,, rrAulI kaHa him ond
him through the gates; and it would be
the greatest day known in heaven within
the memory of the eldest inhabitant
Jesus never went off from heaven but ace,
and he was so badly tye,ted on that ex-
cursion they will never let him go sgain.
THE MEETING OF BROTHERS.
Oh, the joy CT meeting our brother
JosepI-Jesus After we have talked
about him for ten, or fifty, or seventy
years, TO talk with him, and to clasp
bands with the hero of the ages; not
crouching rs underlings in his presence,
but as Jacob and Joseph, hug each other.
We will want some new term by which to
address Him. On earth we call Him
Saviour, or Rsdsemer, or Friend; bus when
we th1o our arms around HIM in ever
lasting embrace, we will want some new
name of endenment. ! can think OF what
we shall do through the long ages Of eter-
nity: hut wrat we shall do the first minut:
can not guess. In the fret flash of His
countenance, in the first rush OF our emo
tiOas, what we shall do can not imagine.
GA, the overwhelming glory of the flts'
sixty seconds in heaven! Methinks ~e
will lust stand, and lgok and look and look
The kings wagons tOnk Jacob up TO Set
lis lost boy, and s0 really think that the
Kings wagons will take Us up to see oul
lost kindred. How long is it tince Joseph
went out Of yCur household? How many
years is it now last Christmas or the four
te anth of nsxt month? 1t was dark night
when hs died, and stormy day it was a,
the burial; and the clouds wept with you,
and the winds sighed for the decd. The
bell q. Gresnwo)d's gate rang only few
moments, but your heart has been tolling,
tolling ever since. You have been under 9
delusiOn, like Jacob OF old. You have
thought that Jo3eph was dead. YOu put
his name fivs. in the birth record of the
family Bible, and then you put it in the
death record Ct the family Bible, and you
have te,n deceived. Joseph is yet alive.
lie is more alive than you are. Of all the
sixteen thousand millions of children that
statistiCians say have gone into the future
world, there is not one Of them dead, and
thu Kings wagons will take you up TO see
them. You often think
HOW GLAD YOU WILL BE
10 see them. Have you never thought,
my brother, my sister, how glad they will
be TO see YOU? Jacob was no more glad
to see Joseph than Joseph was to Be- e
Jacob. Every time the door in heaven
opens, they look 10 zee il it is you COM
ing in. JO'eph, once Otanding in this
palace, burst out crying when he thought
Of Jacob off Aud the heaven OF
your little ones will not be fairly begun
until you get there. All the kinduesses
shown them by immortals will not make
them forget you There they are; the ra-
diant throngs that went out from your
homes | throw a kis3 to the sweet darl-
iugs- They are all well now in the palace.
The crippled child has souRd foot now,
4 little lame child says: ma, will be
lame in hesven?" "No, my darling, you
won't be lame in heaven" A little sick
child says ma, will be sick in heaven?''
mo, my dear, you won't be sick in
heaven" A little blind child siys: MA,
will l be blind in heaven?" mo, my
deer, yoG won't be blind in heaven n
They are ell well there.
In my bovhood, for tome time we lived
three miles fcom church and on stormy
days the children staid at home, but faith
er and mother always went to church
that was q habit they had. On thoss
stormy Sabbaths when We staid al home,
the absercs Of cur parents seemed very
much protrscted; for the roads were very
bad, and they could not get on very fast.
50 we would 90 to the window at twelve
O'Clock to see if they were coming. aud
then we would 90 at half-psst twelve tf
zee if ttsy were OoTaiug, and 1T o qusrtsl
10 one, snd then at one O'Clock. After q
while Mary, or David, or Dewitt would
shout: "Tae wagons coming" and ther
we would see it winding out Of the woods
and oyer ths brook, and through the lane,
and up in fIoat of the old farmhouse, anC
then we would rush ont, leaving the door
wide opsn, With many things 10 tell them
ssking them many auestions- Well, ny
| dsar rsthran I think We ara MANY of u