Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1888-09-14

and the banks will not have anything to
do with his paper. Suppose those peo-
pie who were once elegantly entertained
at his table get so short sighted that
they cannot recognize him upon the
street. How then? Is it so easy. to be
cheerful? 1t is easy to be cheerful in
the home, after the days work is done,
and the gas is turned on, and the house
is full of romping little ones. But sup
pose the piano is shut because the fin
gers that played on it will no more
that asked SO many questions will ask no
more. Then is it so easy? When man
wakes up and finds that his resources
are all gone, his begins to rebel, and be
says: God is hard. God is outrageous,
He had no business to do this to me-"
My friends, those of us who have been
through trouble know what sinful and
rebellious heart we have, and how much
God has to put up with, and how much
we need pardon. 1t is only in the light
of flaming furnace that we can learn
our own weakness and our own lack of
moral resource.
in the fact that there will be family
reconstruction in better place. From
Scotland, or England, or Ireland.
child emigrates to this country. 1t is
very hard parting, but he comes, after u
while writing home as to what good
land it is. Another brother comes, q
sister comes. and another, and after a
while the mother comes. and aftc. q
while the father comes, and now they
are all here, and they have time Of
great congratulation and very pleasant
reunion. Well, it is just SO with our
families; they are emigrating to a bet
&nr lnx,l hoHvy
hard it is to part with him! Another
goes. Oh, how hard it is to part with
her! And another, and another, and we
ourselves will after awhile go over, and
then we will be together. oh, what q
reunion! Do you believe that? Yes"
you say. Youdo not! Youido not believe
it as you believe other things. If you
did, and with the same emphasis, why,
it would take nine-tenths ofy9urtrouble
off your heart. The fact is, Heaven to
many of us is great fog. It is away of
somewhere, filled with an uncertain and
indefinite population. That is the kind
of Heaven that many of us dream about;
but it is the most tremendous fact in all
the universe-this Heaven of the Cos
pei. Our departed friends are not
afoat. The residence in which you live
is not 80 real as the residence in which
they stay. You are ahoat, you who do
not know in the morning what will hap
pen before night. They ore housed and
safe forever. Do not, therefore, pity
your departed friends who have
died in Christ. They do not need any
of your pity. You might as we'll send
a letter Of coincidence to Queen Victoria
on her obscurity, or to the Rothschilds
on their poverty, as to pity those who
have won the palm. Do not say to those
who are departed, "Poor child!" Poor
father!" Poor mother!" They are not
poor. You are poor-you whose homes
have been shattered-not they. You do
not dwell much with your families in
this world. All day you are off to bust
ness. Will not it be pleasant when you
can be together all the while? If you
have had four children and one is gone,
and anybody asks you how many chill
dren you have, do not be SO infdel as to
} Do not think that the grave is I'M
; friendly. You go into your room to
dress for some grand entertainment, and
, you come forth beautifully appareled;
and the grave is only the place where
we go to dress for the glorious resur-
rection, and we will come out radiant,
radiant, mortality having become i'm
, mortality. Oh, how much coincidence
there is in this thought! expect to see
my kindred in Heaven; I expect to see
t them as certainly as expect to go home
, to-day. Az, l shall more certainly see
} them. Eight or ten will come up from
| the graveyard back of Somerville; and
, one will come up from the mountains
, back of Annoy, China; and another will
, come up from the sea off Cape Hatteras;
and thirty will come up from Green
, wood; and shall know them better than
1 ever knew them here. Andyour friends
they may be across the sea, but the
trumpet that sounds here will sound
there. You will come up on just the
, same day. Some morning you have
, oversight yourself, and you open your
, eyes, and see that the sun is high in the
heavens, and you say, Il have oversight,
and must be up and off. So will you
, resurrection, in the full blaze OF
Gods light, and you will say, Il must
be up and away" Oh yes, you will
!. come up, and there will be reunion, a
/ reconstruction of your family. 1 like
r what Halburton, 1 think it was-good
I old Mr.. Harlburton-said in his last
/" moments, Il thank God that I eve,
e lived, and that I have father in
: Heaven, and mother in Heaven, and
n brothers in Heaven, and sisters in
!, Heaven, and 1 am now going to see
- them"
1 remark once more, our troubles il
J. this world are preparative for glory
What transition it was for Paul-fron
!. q slippery deck of laundering ship to
!, the calm presence of Jesus! What ;
t transition it was for Latimer-from thu
e stake to throne! What transition i
!. was for Robert Hall-from insanity t.
IS glory? What transition it was TO
k Robert Baxter-from the dropsy to thu
d saints everlasting rest!" And what
: transition it will be for you-from
s world of SORROW to world of joy! Johl
m Holland, when he was dying, said
j. What mear.s this brightness in tn
n room? Have you lighted the candles?
a No." they replied, we have not lighte'
rs any candles" Then said he, "Welcom
d Heaven!" the light already beamini
1, upon his pillow. o, We who are perse
it cuted in this world! your enemies viii
st get off the track after a while, and all will
II speak we'll of you amongthe thrones. Ho
le We who are sick now, no medicine
d to take there. One breath of the eterna
d hills will thrill you with immortal vigol
l. And We who are lonesome now, Their
will be thousand spirits to welcom
10 Won into their cOnlpaniOnshiD. O v