Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1889-11-02
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seen child crying one moment and
laughing the next; and while she was
laughing, you saw the tears still on,
her facet And perhaps you stopped
her in the very midst OF her. resumed
glee, and wiped Off those delayed
tears. So, think, after the heavenly:
raptures have come upon us, thereA
may be the mark OF some earthly:
grief, and while those tears are glite:yy
tering in the light of the jasper sea-.
God will wipe them away. How welies
he can do that: 1909
Jesus had enough trial to make him.
sympathetic with all trial. The Short
est verse in the Bible tells the story:
''Jesus wept The scakon the back:
of either hand, the scar on the archgofs
either foot, the row of scars along the
line of the hair, will keep all heaven
thinking Oh, that great weepersis
just the one to silence all earthly:
trouble, wipe out all stains OF earthl ys
grief. Gentlel Why, his step
softer than the step of the dew it5::
will not be a tyrant bidding you to-
hush up your crying. 1t wills boa.
Father who will take you on his left
sarrn, his face cleaning into yours,
while withsth soft tips of the. fingers
.of.the right hand, esshal lsWipe away
all tears from your eyes. I have no
ticed when the children get hurt. and
their mother is away from home, they
go right past me and to her; | am OF
no account.
So, when the soul comes up into
heaven out of the wounds of this life,
it will not stop to look for Paul. or
Moses, or David or John. These did
very well once, but now the soul shall
rush past, crying: Where is Jesus9
Where is Jesus?" Dear Lord, what q
magnificent thing to die if thou shalt
thus wipe away our tears. Methlnk
it will take US some time to get used
to heaven; the fruits of God without
orc speck; the fresh pastures without
one nettle; the orchestra without one
snapped string; the river of gladness
without one torn bank; the solferinos
and the saffron of sunrise and sunset
swallowed up in the eternal day that
beams from Gods countenance!
Why should wish to llngcr In the wild,
When thou art waiting. Father, to receive thy
child?
Sirs, if we could get any apprecia-
ton of what God has in reserve for
us, it would make us SO homesick we
would be unfit for our every day work.
Professor Leonard. formerly of Iowa
university, put in my hands meteoric
stone, Stone thrown off from some
other world to this. How suggestive
it was to me. And l have to tell you
the best representations we have OF
heaven are only aerolites flung off
from that world which rolls on, bear
ing the multitudcs of the redeemed.
We analyze these aerolites, and find
them crystallizations of tears. No
wonder. flung OFF from heaven. God
shall wipe away all tears from their
eyes.
TIE aLonEs or HEAVEN.
Have you any appreciation Of the
good and glorious times your friends
are having in heaven2 How different
it is when they get news there OF
Christians death from what it is here.
It is the difference between embarlla-
ton and coming into port. Everything
depends upon which side OF the river
you stand when you hear of Chris
tian's death. If you stand on this SIDE
of the river you mourn that they go.
IF you stand on the other side OF hhe
river you rejoice that they Gomez oh,
the difference between funen1 OIL
earth and a jubilee in heaven bc-
tween requiem here and triuniphal
march thcre-parting, Asre and re-
union there. Togethea Have you
thought of it2 They are &gether. Not
one of your departed friends in one
land and another in another land;
but together, in different rooms of the
same house-the house OF many man
sions. Togetherl
never appreciated that thought SO
much as when we laid away in her
last slumber my sister Sarah. Stand
ing there in the village cemetery, l
looked around and said: There is
father, there is mother, there is grand
father, there is grandmother, there
are whole circles of kindred;" and l
thought to myself, Together in the
grave-together in glory" | am so
impressed with the thought that l do
not think it is any fanaticisn when
some one is going from this world to
the next if you make them the bearer
of dispatches to your friends who are
gone, saying: Give my love to my
parents. give my love to my children,
give my love to my old comrades who
arc in glory. and tell them am trying
to FIGHT the good fight OF faith, and |
will join them after while.
I believe the message will be dcliv-
cred; and believed. wiiI-increaso tile
cladness of those who are before tho
throne. Together are they, all their
tears gone. No trouble getting good
society for them. all kings, queens,
princes and princesses. In 1751 there
was bill offered in the English par
lament proposing to change the alma
nae so that the list of March should
come Immediately after the 18th OF
February. But. oh, what a glorious
change in the calendar when all the
wears of your earthly existence are
swallowed up in the eternal year of
Godl
NV friends, take this good cheer
home with you. These tears OF be-
reavement that course your cheek.
and of persecution, and of trial, are
not always to be there. The motherly
hand of God will wipe them all;away.
What is the use, on the way to such a
consummation what is the use of
fretting about anything2 Oh, what
all xlI;ailaration it ought ito be IN
Christian work See youEhe pinnacles
against the skye 1t is the city OF our
God, and we are approaching it. Oh,
let us be busy in the few days that
shall remain for us. The Saxons and
the Britons went out to battle. The