The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-07-25

wear yourselves out with this trouble.
You will see him again. Thy brother
shall rise again" The Bible describes
Heaven as great home circle. Well,
now, that would be very queer home
circle where the members did not know
each other. ~ - , = - ~
There are, in addition to these Bible
arguments, other reasons why l accept
this theory. In the first place. because
the rejection of it implies the entire
obliteration of our memory. Can 1t be
possible that we shall forget forever
| those with whose walk look, manner,
we have been so long familiar? Will
death come and with sharp, keen
blade hew away this faculty of memory?
Abraham said 20 Dives: e'Son. remem-
ber." If the exiled and lost remember,
will not the enthroned remember? You
know very well that our Joy in any cir
cumstance is augmented by the COM
partnership of our friend. We can not
see picture with less than four eyes,
or hear a song with less than four ears.
| We want some one beside us with whom
to exchange glances and sympathies;
and suppose the Joy of Heaven is to be
augmented by the fact that we are to
have our friends with us when there
rise before US the thrones of the blessed,
and when there surges up in our ears
the jubilate of the saved Heaven is
not a contraction, it is an expansion.
II l know you here, l will know you
better there. Here I see you with
only two eyes, but there the soul shall
have a million eyes. 1t will be immor-
tality gazing on acknowledgements
spirit in colloquy with ransomed spirit
victor beside victor. When John
Evans the Scotch minister, was seated
in his study. his wife came in and said
to him: my dear, do you think we
will know each other in Heaven" He
turned to her and said: ''My dear, do
you think We will be bigger fools in
Heaven than we are here?"
| Again: ] accept this doctrine of fu-
ture recognition because the worlds ex-
| pectancy affirms it. In all lands and
ages this theory is received. What
form of religion planted it? No form
Of religion, for it is received under all
forms of religion. Then. / argue, a
sentiment feeling, an anticipation.
universally planted, must have been
God-implanted, and If God-implanted, 1t
is rightfully implanted. ...
Among the Danes. when master dies
his servant sometimes stabs himself
that he may serve his master in the fu-
ture world. Cicero, living before
Christs coming, said: 80. glorious day
when shall retire from this low and
sordid scene, to associate with the d.
vine assemblage of departed spirits and
not only with the one l have just now
mentioned, but with my dear Cato, the
best of sons and most faithful of men.
If seemed to bear his death with forth
tude, it was by no means that / did not
most sensibly feel the loss had sus-
! tanned. 1t was because / was supported
by the consoling reflection that we
could not long be separated" The Nor
wegian believes it The Indian believes
it The Greenlander believes it. The
Swiss believes it. The Turk believes
it Under every sky, by every RIVER, in
every zone, the theory is adopted; and
so / say a principle universally i'm
planted, and so right belief. The ar
gument is irresistible.
Again: / adopt this theory because
there are features of moral tempera-
ment and features of the soul that will
distinguish US forever. How do we
know each other in this world? Is it
merely by the color of the eye, or the
length of the hair, or the facial proper
tons? o, no. 1t is by the disposition
as we'll, by natural affinity, using the
word in the very best sense and not in
the bad sense, and if in tho dust our
body should perish and lie there for
ever and there should be no resurrec-
ton, still the soul has enough features
and the disposition has enough features
to make US distinguishable. .ra
Again: think that one reason why
we ought to accept this doctrine is be-
cause we never in this world have an
opportunity to give thanks to those to
whom we are spiritually indebted. The
Joy of Heaven, we are told, is to be in
augurated by review of LIES work.
These Christian men and women who
have been toiling for Christ have they
seen the full result of their work? o,
no.
In the church of Somerville, n. J..
John Vredenburg preached for great
many years. He felt that his ministry
was failure and others felt so, although
he was a faithful minister preaching the
Gospel all the time. He died, and died
amid discouragements, and went home
to God. for no one ever doubted that
John Vredenburg was good Christian
minister. A little while after his death
there came great awakening in Somer-
vile and one Sabbath 200 souls stood up
at the Christian altar espousing the
cause of Christ, among them my own
father and mother. And what was pc
culiar in regard to nearly all those 200
souls was that they dated their relig-
ious impressions from the ministry of
John Vredenburg. Will that good
Christian man before the throne of God
never meet those souls brought to
Christ through his instrumentality? o,
of course he will know them. remem-
Der one Sabbath afternoon, borne down
with sense of nv sins and knowing
not God, TOOK up Doddridge's Rise
and Progress" o. what dark after
noon it was, and l read the chapters.
and read the prayers, and tried to
make the prayers my own. o, must
see Philip Doddridge. A glorious old
book he wrotel 1t is out of fashion now.
There is mother before the throne of
God. You say her JOY is full Is it?
You say there can be no augmentation
of it Can not there be? Her son was
a wanderer and vagabond on the earth
when that good mother died He broke
bar old haarf She diad loavi hin, in