Connecticut western news., 1889-10-30

you to hush up your crying: It will bea Father who will take you on his left arm, his face gloaming. into yours, while with the soft tips of the fingers of the right hand, he shall wipe away all tears from your eyes. l have noticed when the children get hurt, and their mother is away from home, they always come to me for comfort and sympathy; but I have noticed that when the children get hurt and their mother is at home, they go right past me and to her; I 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 Jesus? Where is Jesus?' Dear Lord, what a mag niicent thing to die if thou shalt thus wipe | away our tears. Methink it will take some time to get used to heaven; the fruits of God without one speck the fresh pastures without one nettle; the orchestra without 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 I wish to finger in the wild,
 When thou art waiting, Father, to receive thy
 child?
 Still, if we could get any appreciation of what God has in reserve for us, il would make us so homesick we would be unfit for our every day work. Professor Leonard, formerly of Iowa University, put in my hands a meteoric stone, a stone thrown of from some other world to this. How sugges- tive it was to me. And I have to tell you the best representations we have of heaven are only aerOlites flung off from that world which rolls on, bearing the mutitudes of the redeemed. We analyze these aerolites, and find them crystallizations of tears. No won- der, flung off from heaven. "God shall wipe | away all tears from their eyes,"
 Have you any appreciation of the good and | glorious times your friends are having in | heaven? How different it is when they get | news there of a Christians death from what | it is here. It is the difference between em- | barkation and coming into port. Everything | depends upon which side of the river you stand when you hear of a Christians death. l If you stand on this side of the river you mourn that they go. If you stand on the other side of the river you rejoice that they come. Oh, the difference between a funeral | on earth and jubilee in heaven-between | requiem here and triumphal march there parting here and reunion there. Together! | Have you thought of it? They are together. 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 mansions. Together! never appreciated that thought so much | as when we laid away in her last slumber my sister Sarah. Standing there in the village cemetery, looked around and said: "There | is father, there is mother. there Is grand father, there is grandmother, there are whole circles of kindred; ," and thought to myself, .'Together in the Jgraye-together in glory" not think it is any fanaticsm 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 are in glory, and tell them am trying to fight the good fight of faith, and win join them aftera while."
 | believe the message will be delivered; and I believe it will increase the gladness of those | who are before the throne. Together are | they, all their tears gone. No trouble getting 1 good society for them. All kings, queens, princes and princesses. In 1751 there was a bill offered in the English parliament pro- posing to change the almanac so that the 1st of March should come immediately after the | 18th of February. But, oh, what 8 glorious change in the calendar when all the years of your earthly existence are swallowed up in the eternal year of God.
 My friends, take this good cheer home l with you. These tears of bereavement 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
 fretting. about anythingp Oh, what an exhilaration it ought to be in
 Christian work! See on the pnnacles against the sky? It is the oity of our | Oou1 onu WO alO oPPhVoCuiuS N.s Ou,
 etus be busy in the few days that shall remain
 for us. The Saxons and the Britons went
 out to battle. The SaXons were all armed.
 The Britons had no weapons at all; and yet
 history tells us the Britons got the victory.
 Why? They went into battle shouting three
 times, ''Hallelujah~ p and at the third shout
 of "Hallel9jah!,' their enemies fled panic
 struck and SO the Britons got the victory. l. And, my friends, if we could only appre-
 ciate the glories that are to come, we would
 be so filled with enthusiasm that no power of
 earth or hell could stand before us; and at
 our first shout the opposing forces would be-
 gin to tremble, and at our second shout they
 would begin to fall back, and at our third
 shout they would be routed forever. There
 is no power on earth or in hell that could
 stand before three such volleys of hallelujah.
 put this balsam on the wounds of your
 heart. Rejoice at the thought of what your
 departed friends have got rid of, and that
 you have a prospect of so soon making your own escape. Bear cheerfully the min istry of tears, and exult at the thought that
 soon it is to be ended.
 There we shall march up the heavenly street,
 And ground our arms at Jesus feet.