The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-12-27

news Tor us The Kings wagons como down
and tell us that our loseph.lesus is yet
alive; that l'ehss fo.giyea us because 70
threw Him into the nit OF suffering and the
DUNGEON OF shame ilehas sisen fron, thence to
stand In apalace. yNS nethlehem shepherds
! were awaken@, 1T midnight 10y tt, rafting OF
the wagons that brought the tidings. Our
Josenh-Jesus sends us u message OF pardon,
! OF lie, of heaven; corn for our hunger, raj.
mont for our nakedness Joseph-Jesus Ia vet
! alivel
Igo to hunt up Jesus go to the village
OF bethany, and say; "Where docs Mary
liver They say "Yonder Mary lves,n !
go IN. l sec where she sat in the sitting
room. l go out where Martha worked in
the kitchen, but ind no Jesus. | 20 into
| Pilates courtroom, and find the Judges
aud the y lice and tho prisoners box,
but no Jesus. go into the Armathesn
cemetery; but the door is gone, axd
BY faith look upto the Kings palace; snd
behold have found himl Joseph.Jesus is
still alive! Glorious feligion,a religion made
not out of deaths heads, and cross bones,
and andertakers screw-driyer but one
Founding with life, and sympathy and glad
ness Joseph is yet alive!
81 know that my Redoemer lives,
What comfort this sweet sentence giyesl
lie lives, lie lives, who once was dead,
lie lives, my eNer-liying Head
ale lives to grant me daily breath,
lie lives, and shall conquer death
lie lives my mansion to prepare,
lie lives TO bring me sefey there
! "ile nves, ell glory TO Ills name;
lie lives, my Jesus, still the same.
oh, the sweet joy this sentence pives,
know that my Redeemcr lives'"
The Kings wagons vii, after a while un.
| load and they viii turn around, and they
Will go back TO tho palace, and really think
that You and VIII go with them. The King
Will not leave. Us in this MANIFESTATION
world. The King has ordered that
we be lifted into tho wagons and that we
! go over into Goshen where there shall be pas
,urage for our large5 i1ek Of Joy and then
we VIII drive up 10 ttr palace, where there
are glories awaiting Us which will melt ell
the SHOW of Egyptian marble into forgetfu-
ness.
thini that Tie Kings wagons will take
us up to see our lost friends Jacobs chief
anticipation was not seeing the Nile, nor of
seeing the long co oanades OF architectural
beauty, nor of seeing the throne room. There
was focus to all his iourneyingS to all his
authorizations; and that was Joseph Wcll.my
friends, l do not think reaven would lie
| worth much II ultr brother Jesus was not
there. IL there were two heavens, the one
with all the pomp aud paraphemalia of an
eternal monarchy, bat no Christ. and the
otner We're a pam heaven numoly matched,
with a few daisies in tho yard, and Christ
were there | woull say: N'i4es tire Kings
wagons take me up TO the Old farm .house.n
Ii JESUS were not in heaven there would
he no music there; there would be but few
people there; they would bs oil looking for
the lost Christ, crying through the universe:
w mere is Jesus. where is Jcsusm AMI
att2e they had found him, with loving
violence they would take him and bear him
through the gates; and it would be the great.
c.t DAY known IN heaven within the ineinory
OF the oldest inhab tant. Jesus never went
on from heaven bat once, and He was SO
Dadiy treated on that excursion they will
never let Him go again.
IN, the Joy of meeting our brother, Jo-
seph-Jesus After we have talked about Him
Tor ten, Or fifty, or seventy years, to talk
with HIM, and to clasp hands with the hero
Oh the ages; not crouching as underlinrs in
His presence, bnt as JACOB and Joseph, HUG
each otaen We will want some new term by
which 30 address Him. On earth we call Him
saviour, or Redeemer, or friend but when
we throw orr arms around Him in everlast-
ing embrace We will want some new name of
endearment can think of what we shall do
through tho long ages Of cterpity; but
what se shall do the first minute | cannot
guess IN the first flash of His countenance,
IN Inc first rush OF our emotions, what we
snail do l cannot imagiue, Oh, the over
whe!hiing glory Of the first sixty seconds in
heaven. Methinks we will lust stand, and
look, AMI look and look.
The Kings wagons took Jacob ND to see his
iosS oy, and so really think that the Kings
wagons VIII take us up to see our lost kin.
oreu how long is it since Joseph went Out
OF your household. How many Years is II
nov last Christmas or the fourteenth of
next month"; ii was o dark night when he
DIED, ami stormy day it was at the
nurlai; and the cloud wept with you, and
tne winds sighed for the dead. The bell at
Greehwooi's gate rang only few moments,
but your heart has teen toiiing, tolling ever
| since. You have been under q de-
inslon; like Jacob of old vou have
bought that Joseph was dead. You
put hrs name ti's5 in the birth-record
! it in the death record of the family Bible
| and you have been deceived. Joseph Is yet
| alive. lie is more alive than YOU are OF all
| the sixteen thousand millions of children that
statistlclans say have gone into the future
J world, there is not one Of them Dead and the
| Kings wagons win take you up to see
| them. gu often think low glad you will be
! to 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 SEES Jacob.
| Every time the door in Heaven opens, they
| look to see il is is Sou coming in. Joseph,
! onae standing IN the palace, burst out CRYING
1 the heaven of your little ones win not he
fairy begun until you get there All the
kindnesses shown them by immortals will not
make them forget you. There they are,
the radiant throngs that went out
from your homes! | throw kiss to the
sweet darlings. They are all well now
IN the s palace fo The crippled G Sfa
lame child says: "Ma, will 1 be lame in
| heaven:' mo, my darling, you won't be
lame in heaven.n A little sick child says
Ma. vii! | be sick in heaven" mo, my
dear, you won't be sick in heaven2" A
| little blind child says: MA will be blind in
| heaven" mo, my dear, you won't be blind
! liz heaven" They are all well there.
| =, In my boySood, for some time we lived
three miles from church, and on stormy DAYS
the children staid at home, but father ana
| mother always went to church, that was q
habit they had. On those stormy Sabbaths
when we staid at home, the absence of our
parents se5med very much protracted,
couii net get on very fast SO we
would go to the window at twelve
O'Clock to see if they were coming
/ and then we would go at half past twelve to
see II they were coming, and at quarter to
one, and then at one O'clock After whi'e
Mary, or David, or Dewitt would shout
he wagons comingl" and then we would
see 1t winding out Of the WOODS,
and over the brook, and through
the lane, and up in front of
the, old farmhouse and then we wouli
rush out, leaving the doors wide open, with
many things to tell them, askln. them
many questions. Well, my dear lreth-
! ren, think we are many of us in the Kings
wagons, and we are on the way home. The
road is very bad, and we get on slowly: but
a. Ter while we will come winding out of
the woods, and through the brook Of death.
and up in front of the old heavenly hons.
itead; and oar departed kindred, who have
been waiting and watching for us, will rush
out through the doors and over the lawn,
crying: "The wagons are comingi the Kings
wagons are comingm Harlz! the bell of the
Cily Hall strikes twelve. Twelve o'clock on
earth, and likewise it is high neon in heaven.
Does not the subject of to-day take the
gloom out of the thoughts that would other
wise be struck through with midnight We
use to think that when we died we womb
nave TO go afoot, sagging down in the miro.
ana q the hounds of terror might get after u.s.
ana u we got through into Heaven at All Wa
would com1 in torn. and wounded and hIsed
ing; remember when my teeth chatJereu