Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1888-12-16

wagons that brought the tidings. Our
Joseph-JeSus sends us a message of
pardon, Of life, of heaven; corn for
our hunger, raiment for our naked
ness. Joseph-Jesus is still alivel
/ go to hunt up Jesus. / go TO the
village Of bethany, and say: Where
does Mary livei" They say: 'Yon-
der Mary lives" / go in. see where
she sat in the sitting room. | 90 out
where Martha worked in the kitchen,
but / find no Jesus. / go into Pilates
court room, and find the judges and
the police 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 up TO the Kings palace,
and behold | have found himl Joseph
Jesus is still alive Glorious religion,
a religion made not out Of deaths
heads, and cross bones, and under
takers screw driver, but one bound
ing with life, and sympathy, and glad
ness. Joseph is yet alive!
know that my Redcemer live,
What comfort this sweet sentenIs givesi
He lives, be lives, who once wa cad,
He lives my ever living head
He lives to grant me daily breati,
lie lives, and shall conquer deal l.,
He lives my mansion to prepare,
He lives 70 aring me safely there.
He lives all glory 10 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 while
unload, and they will turn around,
and they will go back to the palace,
and really think that you and l 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 go
over into Goshen, where there shall
be pasturage for our largest flock Of
JOY, and then we will drive up to the
palace, where there are glories await
ing us which will melt all the snow of
Egyptian marble into forgetfulness.
WE WILL SEE OUR FRIENDS AGAIN.
/ think that the Kings wagons
will take us up to see our lost
friends. Jacobs chief anticipation was
not seeing the Nile, nor Of seeing the
long colonnades Of architectural beau
ty, nor of seeing the throne room.
There was focus to all his journey
ings, to all his anticipations, and that
was Joseph. Well, my friends, l do
not think heaven would be worth
much if our brother Jesus was not
there. If there were two heavens, the
one with all the pomp and parapher-
MALTA of an eternal monarchy, but no
Christ. and the other were a plain
heaven, humbly thatched, with few
daisies in the yard, and Christ were
there, | would say: Let the Kings
wagons take me up to the old farm
house
II Jesus were not in heaven, there
would be no music there; there would
be but few people there; they would
be off looking for the lost Christ, cry
ing though the universe: Where is
Jesusi where is Jesusln and after they
had found him, with loving violence
they would take him and bear him
through the gates; and il would be the
greatest day known in heaven within
the memory of the Oldest inhabitaut.
Jesus never went off from heaven but
once. aud he WAS SO badly treated on
that excursion they will never let him
go again.
Oh, the joy of meeting our brother,
JOSEPH Jesus! After we have talked
about him for ten. or fifty. or seventy
years. to talk with him, aud TO clasp
hands with the hero of the ages; not
crouching as underlings in his pres
ence, but, as Jacob and Jostsh, hug
each other. We will want some new
term by which TO address him. On
earth we call him Saviour. or Re
deemer. or friend; but when we throw
our arms around him in everlasting
embrace we will want some new name
Of endearment. i can think Of what
we shall do through the long ages OF
eternity; but what we shall do the
first minute | cannot guess. In the
first flash of his countenance, IN the
first rush of our emotions, what we
shall do | cannot imagine. Oh, the
overwhelming glory OF the first sixty
seconds in heaveni Methinks we will
Just stand, and look and look and
look.
The kings wagons took Jacob up to
see his lost boy, and so really think
that the Kings wagons will take us up
10 see our lost kindred. How long is
il since Joseph went out of your
household How many years is it
now last Christmas, or the fourteenth
of next month"; Ii was dark night
when he died, and a stormy day it
was at the burial and the clouds wept
with you and the winds sighed for the
dead. Tho bell at Greenwood's gate
rang only few moments. but yoor
heart has been tolling, tolling, ever
since. You have been under delu-
sion, like Jacob of old. You have
thought that Joseph was dead. You
put his name first in the birth record
Of the family Bible and then you put
il in the death record of the family
Bible, and you have been deceived.
Joseph is yet alive. He is more alive
than you are. OF all the sixteen thou.
sand millions Of children that statisti.
clans say have gone into the future
world, there is not one Of them dead.
and the Kings wagons will take YOU
up 10 see them. You often think how
glad you will be 90 see them. Have
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