West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-12-20

Hilate's court room, and L find the Judges
and the p lice and the prisoners box,
but no Jesus / go into the Arimathean
cemetery. but the door is gone, and
the shroud is gone, and Jesus Is gone.
by faith | look upto the Kings palace; and
behold 1 bave found kiml J~oseph-Jesus is
still olivel Glorious religion religion made
not out OF deaths heads, and cross bones,
and undertaker's .screw-driver, but one
bounding with life. and sympathy and glad
ness Joseph is yet alivei
"Iknow that my Redoemcr lives.
Mhst comfort this sweet sentence giyesl
He lives, my everything ileadi
vile lives TO grant me daily breath,
lie lives, and shall conquer death.
lie lives my mansion to prepare,
lie lives 10 bring me safely there.
sic lives, all glory to Ills namO;
lie lives, my Jesus, stu the same.
on, the sweet JOY this sentence giyes,
know that my Redeemcr iiyesin
The Kings wagons will after a while uu-
load, and they will turn around, and they
VIII go back TO the palace, and 1 really think
that you and l VIII go with them. The King
VIII not leave. US in this famine stricken
world, The King has ordered that
we DO lifted into the wagons, and that we
go over into Goshen where there shall be pas
turage for our largest flock Of Joy, and then
we VIII drive up to the palace, where there
are glorles awaiting us which will melt all
the snow OF Egyptian marble into forgetfui-
n0N0s
L think that the Kings WAGONS win tako
us up to see our lost friends. Jacobs chief
anticipation Yves not seeing the Nile, nor of
seeing the long co,onnades of architectural
beauty, nor OF seeing the throne There
was a focus TO all his iourneyings, to ali his
anticipations; and that was Joseph. Well. nv
friends, L do not think heaven would be
worth much IL our brother Jesus was not
there. ~ there were two heavens, the one
with all the pomp and paraphernalia of an
eternal monarchy, but no Christ. and the
ocner were a plain heaven, humbly thatcbed
with a few daisies in the yard, and Christ
were there l would say; "Iet the Kings
wagons take me up To the old house
III Jesus were not In heaven, there wonld
DC no music there; there would be but few
people there; they would be off looking for
sne LOST Christ, crying through the universe:
after they had found him, with LOVING
violence they would take him and bear him
through the gates; and it would be the great
est gay known in heaven within the memory
Oh the oldest inhab .tant. Jesus never won't
OF from heaven out once. and He was so
badly treated on that excursion they win
never let Him go again. -
On. the Joy Of meeting our brother. .Jo-
seph-Jesus! After we have talked about Him
for ten, or fifty, or seventy wears, to taik
WIN him, and TO clasp hands with the hero
OF the ages not crouching as underlinps in
ms presence but, as Jaco5 and Joseph. hug
which to address Vim. On earth We cali Hin
saviour, or Redeemer. or friend: but when
we throw oar arms around Hin in everiast-
lng embrace, We will want some new name of
ehleaIuent can think Of what we shall do
Inrougn the long ages Of eternity; but
what we shall do the first minute / cannot
guess In the first flash of His couutenance
IN Lne nrst rush Of our emotions. what we
snan 40 l cannot imagine. oh, the over.
"hs'UanS glory OF the first sixty seconds in
heaYeni Methinks we will lust stand aud
look, and look, and look. ~"
Inc Kings wagons took Jacob nm 10 SEQ HE
Iose 10Y and so really think that the Kings
wagons VIII take US up TO see our lost kin
dred. How long is il since Joseph went ont
OF your household How many wears IA h
nov last Christmas, or the fourteentb ~
mex month"; 10 was a dark night when he
aled, ana a stormy day it was at tho
burial: and the clouds wept with Won mil
tne winds sighed for the dead. The hell nj
Sreenwoois gate rang only a few mornents
yuI your neart has been tolling, tolling, ever
IInaton lou have been under a de-
iuslon' like Jacob OF old. You have
bought that Joseph was dead. You
put his nalne first In the birth-record
Of the family Bible, md then Won nut
iS 20 the death-recorl OF tho family Bible.
and you nave been deceived. Joseph is yet
alive. lie is more alive than you are. Ofall
the sixteen thousand millions Of children that
statisticlans say have gone into tho future
world, there IS not one Of them dead. and the
Kings wagons will take you up to SEQ
/ knelm Nu Rlbtn NulNk now EitU YOU Will 10
to see them. Have you never thought nv
brother, my sister, how glad they will be to
see yout Jacob was no moro glad 20 SEQ
Joseph than Joseph was to 500 Jacob.
! Every time the door in Heaven opens, they
look 70 see II II IS you coming IN. Joseph,
once standing IN the palace. burst out CRYING
when he thought OF Jacob-Hfar OIL. And
che heaven Of your little ones win not be
airiiy begun until you get there. All the
kindnesses shown them by immortals will not
Il make them gnFgnf van Thee gHgrr -.
the radiant throngs that went out
rom yQnr honest = throw a kiss 10 tho
sweet oarlings They are all well now
IN. the palace The crippled child
lame child yays "Ma, will ] be lamo in
heaFenf NO. my darling, YOU won't DO
aits I'D heaven" A little sick child says:
ma, viii j 10 sick in heaven" emo, my
dear, you won't b. sick IN heaven3n A
little blind child says; Ma. viii j be blind in
heavenf NO, my dear, yOu won't BE- blind
in heaven" They are al veil there.
IN my boyhood. Tor some time wo lived
Shree miles from church. and on stormy days
me children staid no home, but father and
mother always went ~ church. TINT was a
habit thoY had. ON thOio stormy tbbafha
when we siaid at home. the absence of our
parents seemed very much profracted,
Tor the roads were very bad. and fhoy
couli not get ON very fast So w.
would 60 70 the window % twelve
o'clock % SEQ II they we're coming.
hHH eieu We would 90 40 hnlf past twelve 30
re III They we're coming, aud no quarter to
one, and then az one o'clock. After n while.
Wary, OF David. or Dewitt would shout.
'iho wagons cOmingm aud then we would
SEQ 10 windiug ont Of ths woods
and over tbs brook. and through
tho lano, and uD in front "a
me oil farm-hoIse, AMI then we wouil
RUSH ouh leaving the doors vida open. with
many things ~ tell Dhs.n, oskins tHem
mnuE questions. Well. my drar roth.
rem, 4 think We are many o. Us in the KINGS
wagons aud we are ON Ito way home 1hs
ro1d is very bad, and We get on slowly. but
aiter while we vii come winding out ID
thc "oolF aui through the brook ~ death.
and 20 in front ~ ths old heavenly home.
siat aul ouT departed kindred. who hav4
pe.n waiting and WATCHING Tor us. will rn h
yuy tnrouHn The doors ou1 over the lawn.
efylnH ihe wagons are c0mInKi thc Kings
Wagons Gre coming" Hnrkl tho bell II fha
Citg Hail strife7 twelve. Twelve O'Clock IN
earth and likewise 10 o. high noon in hoaeen.
Eco8 not ths subject RI today take the
gloom out n the thoughts tfat Foufd otb
vice Dr. truck through with milnlgbtf We
u.el 10 think tnat when we died we woufd
nave ~ 30 afoot eaggiug down in the mira.
ana the hounds of terror might get affor us.
nndn We got through into Heaven ~ alf. eo
would come in torn, and wounded. and bleed