Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-15

our attention on this earth for while.
NO DOUBT OF IT.
| The Rev. J b. McIlvaine, pastor of
the Church of the Covenant, believes
| that full and complete recollection OF
matters In this world will be retained by
US in the realms of bliss. He said:
81 think that there Is very little room
| for doubt that We shall retain our expe-
riences of this world in the next, so far
as knowing our friends goes. This is, of
course, an expression of our own ideas
Christ has so willed 1t that we should
know Him. and we infer from that that
we shall know each other. 1 have never
questioned the belief at all. We are
plainly taught that Immortality will re-
main with US. 1t runs all through the
teachings of the scriptures that we will
be the same identical persons i'll heave n
that we are here. The life there would
be incomplete without the knowledge Of
those we remember and love here. 1t
seems quite probable that new associa-
| tions will be formed there just the same
| as here.
'tI think if it had been possible to pic
ture heaven to us in terms that we could
understand, that Christ would have
given us larger glimpses of it and more
upon the subject. But the terms and
conditions of life are so different that it
is impossible to put into our vernaoular
the thought connected with it of the God
of life.
'fThe idea of heaven as place merely
of selfish delight makes the hope of
heaven a selfish wish. But the idea of
heaven as place of larger opportunity {,
nobler character and purer love makes
the hope of heaven no longer selfish
hope, but an expression of true and noble
goodness.
81 think that heaven is place of &C.
tivitY, not of rest, activity without wear
mess of affliction or fear of failure. That
kind of activity is the highest joy of eV-
cry noble spirit.
PART OF THE JOYS OF HEAVEN.
The Rev. DR.. E. Walpole Warren,
the rector of the Church of the Holy
Trinity, is a strong believer in a happy
reunion of friends and relations in the
bright hereafter. He said:
al have no hesitation in affirming, as
strong article of my Christian belief
and faith, that the knowledge of inter-
course and communion with those we
have known on earth will be part of the
joys we shall know in heaven. Bible
knowledge and Illustrations, no less
than conclusions from Bible infer
ences and personal convictions, combine
in attesting that far wider knowledge
and q more exact of those we knew on
earth will be but a part of the eternal
blessings of heaven. 1 will even so far
say that should we be free from the him
derances of the body, so much the more
shall we be able to be one in spirit. My
principal conclusion is drawn from my
knowledge of the interview seen in the
flesh on the Mount of TRANSPORTATION.
The fact that three apostles knew that 1t
was Moses and Elijah talking to Christ
on the mount, exhibits to me preset
ence on the part of the apostles of those
who, otherwise, must have been person.
ally unknown to them. Among the par
ables there are many passages that seem
to point in the same direction.
DIR. DEEMS HAS NO DOUBT.
The Rev. DR.. Deems, pastor of the
Church of the Strangers, has no doubt
that he will meet the many different
members of his flock in brighter land.
He said:
"In answering the question as to
whether we shall know each other in
heaven, feel very much like saying, as
did the Welsh peasant to his wife, who
had asked a somewhat similar question:
do you think we will be bigger fools
there than we were here?'
81 have no doubt, however, that we
shall knew each other in heaven,
although it is a mere matter of specula-
ton. We only know that Christ has laid
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have all we need and desire, unless
especially told to the contrary. In the
New Testament his words are: eff it
were not so l would have told you l
believe that the better and more desir-
able are the things, the greater is the
probability of their being granted us. -
HEAVEN WILL NOT DIsAPPoINT US.
The Rev. DR.. Cornelius Duffie, chap
lain of Columbia college and rector of
the church of st. John the Baptist,
said:
Undoubtedly 1 believe that friends
shall know each other in heaven and
even before we reach there. 1 think we
have the Bible warrant for that.
preached sermon on one occasion from
the text of St. Paul: Warning every
man and teaching every man, that we
may present every man perfect in Christ
Jesus The apostle is here represented
as addressing those whom he has con-
verted to Christianity. If he is to pre-
sent them to receive their everlasting
rewards he must be able to recognize
them.
"Then there are the words of David on
the death of his son: Il shall go to him,
but he shall not return to me. David
could not have derived any comfort from
this fact that he expected to meet the
child IS spirit hereafter, unless he could
recognize it.
Gin his epistle to the ThessalonIans,
St. Paul says: Shall be caught up to-
gether with them in the clouds, to meet
the Lord in the air. This would also
seem to promise recognition. Heaven
would not be heaven unless we expect to
meet those who have gone before us, or
whom we leave behind. Our idea of
heaven would be taken from us. 1 do
not think we can even infer the faintsst
idea of the happiness of heaven. Unjust
be something beyond, something we
cannot conceive or imagine. All
the ideas that we imbibed in childhood of