The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-11

turb HIM IN prayer, and some t me
after went in and found him in the
same posture, and stepped back again,
but after a w4Iie we ut IN and touched
finished his last journey, aud he had
died in the grautest and mightlest
posture man ever takcs-on his knees. He
he'd served his generation by unrolling the
scroll of a continent, ami by the will of
God fell on sleep. Grim,haw, the evan
gelist, when asked how he felt in his last
moments, responded: LAS happy as l can
be on earth and as sure of glory as if | were
in it. have nothing to d. but to step out
of this bed into heaven" Having served
his generation in succ ssful evangelism by
the will of God he fell on sleep.
In the museum of Greenwich hospital,
England, the 9 IS fragment Of q book tina.
was found in the Arctic regions amid the
relics Of Sir John Franklin, who had per-
ished amid the snow and ice, and the leaf
OF that piece of book was turned down at
the words, "When thou passest thrSi gh the
waters ! will be with thee" Having served
his ge Grafton in the cause of science and
discovery, by the will Of God he fell on
sleep.
Why will you keep us all 50 nervous
talking about that which is only dormi-
tory and a pillowei slumber, cauopied by
angels wingsf Sleep! Transportstipg
You and have sometimes been tho -oughly
bewildered after long aud fat gung
journey We have stopped at a friends
house for the night, and after hours Of
complete NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. we have opened
our eyes the high risea sun full in our
faces, and before we could fully col
lect our faculties, have said: "Where
am !, whose house is this, and whose are
the gardens" And thenit has flashed upon
us in glad reality. And | should not won
der if, after we have served our generation
and, by the will If God, have fallen on
sleep, the deep sleep. the restful sleep, we
should awake in blssfu bewiderment and
for little while say: wv nere am /? What
palace is this? Who hung this upholstery?
What fountains are these tossing in the
light? Why, this looks Ike heaven
1t is 1t is. Why, there is a build
ing grander than all the castles of
earth heaved into a mountain Of splen-
dor, that must be the palace of Jesus. And
look there, at those walks lined with a foli-
age more beautiful than anything | ever
saw before, and see taose who are walking
down tn So aisles Of verdlre From VIII &
have heard Of them those two arm in arm
! must be Moses and Joshua, him of Mount
Sinai and him of the hating sun over
AjaIon. And those two walking arm in
arm must be John and Paul, the one so
gentle and the other so mighty. And those
| two with the robes as brilliant as though
made out of the cooled off flames of martyr
dom, must be John Huss and Hugh Lati-
mer.
HOUSE NOT BUILT WITH HANDS.
But must not look any longer at those
gardens Of beauty, but examine this build
ing in which | have Just awakened. | look
out of the window this way, and that, and
up and down, and | find it is mausion Of
inn 81 in uybiOf, I mn or
it's windows of agate and its colonnades
of porphyry and alahaster. Why,
wonder if this is not the house of
''many mansions" Of which | used to
readl It is, it is. There must be many of
my kindred and friends in this very
mansion. Hark. whose are those voices.
whose are those bounding feet? l open the
door AID see, and lo they are coming
through all the corridors and up and down
all the stairs, our long absent kin
dred. Why, there Is father, there
is mother, there are the children. All
well again. All young again. All of US
together again. And as we embrace each
other with the cry, Never more to part
Never more to part" the arches, the
Glcoves, the Railways echo aud re-echo
the words, "Nevsr more t. part! Never
more TO part Ten our glori-
fed friends say; Come out with us and see
heaven" And, some Of them bounding
ahead Of us and some of them skipping be-
side us, we start down the ivory tairway.
And we meet, coming up, one of the kings
of ancient Israel, somewhat small Of stat
ure, but having a countenance radiant with
q thousand victories. Aud as all are max
ing obeisance to this great one of heaven [
cry out, Who is hes" and the answer
comes: This is the greatest of all the
kings II Israel 1t is David, who after he
had served his generation by the will of
God, fell on sleep"