The Forrest City times., 1890-07-19

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 Dr. Talmage, who lectured at Wascca,
 Minn., on Sunday last, preached to an
 enormous outdoor gathering. His Subject
 was, "Mecting our friends in heaven" The
 eminent clergyman took for his text II. Sam.
 t2: & 'f shall go to him. His sermon
 was as follows:
 There is very sick child in the abode of David the king. Disease, which stalks up the dark lane Of the poor and puts its smoth-
 eripg hand on the lip and nostril of the wan and wasted. also mounts the palacc-stairs, and bending over the pillow blows into the
 lace of young prince tho fros!s of pain and
 sors Alas for @ David f io ,he sse kins is He s can neither sleep or eat, and lies prostrate on his
 face. weeping and wailing until the palace rings with the outcry of woe.
 What arc courtly attendants. or victorious
 armies. or conquered provinces, under such circumstancesf What to any parent is all
 splendid surrounding when his child is sics
 Trest house, two. syelids are gently % closed. e. two little hahus folded two little feet quiet, one heart still. The servants come to bear the tidngs to the king, but they cannot make up their minds to tell him. and they stand al | the door whispering about the matter, and
 David h hears them , ;, and he looks uP and says dead" David rouses himself up washes himseit puts on new apparel, and sits down
 tn food. What power hushcd that tempest '
 What strength was 1t that lifted up that
 king whom grief had dcthroned2 oh 1t
 vas was the he thought that he would come again
 ,ns Of that oa darhing ehiid
 The wintry blasts of death could not put out
 the bright light, There would he forge somewhere that with silver hammer would weld the broken links, In city where tho hoofs of the pale horse never strike the pave
 ment he would clasp his lost treasure. He wipes away the tears from his eyes, and he | clears the choking yrtef from, his threat
 and exclaimss VI shall go to him"
 Was David right pr wrongs If we part on
 rarth will we meet again in the next world
 Well" says some one, !" that seems to he an | tmpossibility Heaven Is so large place we never could find our kindred there" Going Into some city. without having appointed a time and place for meeting. you might wander around for weeks and for months
 and perhaps for years, and never sec each
 other; and heaven Is yastef than all earthly rittes together and how are you going to end your departed friend in that country ? | It Is so vast a realm. John went up on one
 mountain ,an Of inspiration; and he locked or
 ands of thousands" Then he eat,c upon R
 greater altitude of inspiration and looked
 and times ten thousand" And then he camc
 on higher mount of inspiration. and look
 ed on again. and hc said, - hundred and forty and four thousand and thonsands of thousands" And he came on a still greater
 height of inspiration, and he looked on
 aSEain, Ssi and exclaimed; "A great mul,itude
 
 ore you going to find your friends in such n
 throng as thaty Is this doctrine of future
 recognition of friends in heaven "A guess, q
 myth, whim. or Is II granite foundation upon which the soul pierced of all ages may build glorious hopeY Intense question ! Every heart in this audience throbs. right | of at least one dead.
 Tremendous question, 1t makes the lip
 oniver. and the cheek flush. and the entire
 nature thrill: Shall we know each other | | ul AN.rx i hsking me to discuss this subject I grt a | letter in bold scholarly hand, on gilt edged | paper. asking me 10 discuss this question. and
 ] say, An that is n curious man. and hs. l wants curious question solved" Hut yet
 another letter, IL Is written with trcnib- l ling hand. and on what seems to b- a torn out leaf of n book, and here and there is tho mark of tear; and l say. ~Oh, that is n
 broken heart and it wants to be comforted" ] Tho object Of this sermon Ia to take this I theory out of tho region of surmlse and spscnlati9n , into the region Of positive ccr- | U may be true. Perhaps it is true, wish | 1t were true" But I believe that can bring
 an accumuiation of argument to bear upon this matter which will prove the doctrine of |utnrc recognition as plainly that there
 IS any heaven 9t all, and that the kiss If 1 reunion at the celestial gate will bc ns cur l tain ns the dying kiss at the door of tho | scpulchfe
 l Now when you are going to build a shin I you must get the right kind of timber. You I ] very best materials. tho keelson, stanehionS
 plank shear, counicr-timbcr-k knee, tran~o,ns
 sll of solid oak, You may build a ship of lighter material, but when the cyclone comes 1 on, it will 20 down. Now we may have i. 1 great many beautiful theories about tho
 future world, built out of our own fancy, aud they may do very we'll Hs long As wr l have smooth sailing in the worldl but when 1 !hs storms of sorrow come upon ms, and the
 hnrricane of death, we will be -wsmpcd-we i will he founurred We want \ theory bullt | out of the solid oak of Gods eternal Word | The doctrine Of future recognition Is not so
 often positively stated in the Word of God ns Implied, and you know, my friends that
 that is after all. the strongest mode Of
 affirmation, Your friend travels In foreign
 lands. He comes home, He does not hogin
 by arguing with you to prove that there Are
 such places as London and stockhom and
 Paris and Dresden and Berlin but his coa-
 versation implies it. And so this Bible does
 not so positively state this theory as. ali ,,e
 and down its chapters. take it for granted
 What does my text implys ''l shall go ta him, What consolation would it h, Ia David to ro to his child fl he did not know
 himi Would David have been allowed to
 record this anticipation for the inspection of | We read in the first book of the Hihle, Abra
 ham died and was gathered to his people. Jacob died and was gathered to hts people What peopici Why, their friends. their 1 comrades, their old companions Of course
 ], means that. It cannot mean anything Clse' so in tho very beginning of tho Rihte
 Tour times that is taken for granted The i whole New Testament Is an arhs,r over which | shis doctrine ereeps like laxuriant vine luli of the purple clusters of consolation l James. John, and Peter followed Christ Into the mountain. light falls from heaven on 1 that mountain and lifts II Into the glories of the celestial Christ's garments glow and | His face shines like the sun, The door of | heaven swings open. Two spirits come down and aiight on that mountain, The disciples inok af them and recognize them aS | Moses and Elias. Now II those diseiplrs standing on the earth could recognize these two spirits who had been for years in heaven, | do you tell me that we. with onr heavenly eyesiHbt, will not be able to recognize these who have gone out from among us only i've i ten. twenty, thirty years agoi
 | The Bible indicates over ana over again that the angels know each other: and then l the Bible says that we are to be higher than see angels. and II the angels have the power of recoenition. shall not we, who are to be higher than they tn the next realm, have as
 gc9d syesight and as good capacityi What Mary and Martha. when lie said Thy bro. 1 thcr shall rise againi' It was as much as To
 say; sy ,hon,s ,n cry; Don't wear yourselves out l Thy brother shall rise again" The Bible
 %Hssrrioes % heaven as great homo circle Well, now. that would bc . very queer home The Bible describes death as sleep. If we know each otbcr before we ED to sleep, shall
 we no! know each other after wc wake; Oh, yes. Wewill know each other a great deal better then than now; for now" says the
 apostle. We see through glass darkiy, but | tben iNct 10 tNcc. It VIII he purified cnthroncd and gioriAed body gazing on your purified, cnthroned and giorlh.d body
 Nov, demand, n you believe the Bible i that you take this theory of future recogpl- ton out of the realm of Speculation and sur mise Into the region of positive certainty 1 and no more keep saying "I hope it is so, I have an Idea II is soi guess it k so." Re able to say, with all Inc concentrated encr- | " of body. niiud and soul. II kssss IL i~ SO" There are. In addition to these Bible argu- ments. other reasons why l accept this theory. In the first place, because the rcjec- tion ot II Implies the entire obllteration nf our memory. Can it be possible that We shall forget forever those with whose walk
 lnok. manner wc have bcen so long faninarf Will death como and with sharp. keen blade hcw away this faculty of memoryf Abraham said to Dives; "Son, remember" l II the exifcd, and lost remember will net the cnthroncdf You know very well that our Joy in any circumstance is augumented by the conspanioaship of our friends We cannot see picture with less than four eyes l or hear song with less than four ears. We want soMconc beside with whom to ex- change Elauccs and sympathies; and sup ps~e the joy of heaven Is to be augun,entsd hr hs fns lSul tu