The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1890-09-12

ola not most sens1bly feel the loss l
had sustained. It was because was
supported by the consoling reflection
that we could not long be separated"
The Norwegian believes it. The In
dian believes it. The Greenlander be-
feves it. The Swiss believe it. The
Turks believe it. Under every sky, by
every river, in every zone, the theory
is adopted, and SO say principle
universally implanted must be God i'm
planted, and hence right belief The
argument is irresistible.
INDIVIDUALITY WILL REMAIN.
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 pro-
portionsa Oh, no. 1t is by the dispo-
sition as well, by natural affinity, using
the word in the very best sense and not
in the bad sense; and if in the dust our
body should perish and lie there for
ever, and there should be no resurrec-
tior, still the soul has enough features
and the disposition has enough features
to make us distinguishab1e. I can under
stand how in sickness man will be-
come so delirious that he will not know
his own friends; but will we be blasted
with such insufferable idiocy that,
standing beside our best friends for all
eternity, we will never guess who they
are?
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 life's work.
These Christian men and women who
have been toiling for Christ, have they
seen the full result of their work
Oh, no.
In the church at Somerville, N. j..
John Vredenburgh preached for great
many years. He felt that his ministry
was failure, although he was faith
full minister, preaching the gospel all
the time. He died, and died amid dis
couragements, and went home to God,
for no one ever doubted that John Vre-
denburgh was a good Christian minister.
A little while after his death there
came a great awakening in Somerville,
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 of those
200 souls was that they dated their re-
igious impressions from the ministry
of John Vredenburgh. Will that good
Christian man before the throne of
God never meet those souls brought to
Christ through his fundamentally
Oh, of course he will know them. l
remember one Sabbath afternoon,
borne down with the sense of my sins
and knowing not God, I took up Dodd-
ridges Rise and Progress" Oh, what
a dark afternoon it was, and I read the
chapters, and I read the prayers, and l
tried to make the prayers my own. Oh,
I must see Philip Doddridge. A glori-
GUS old book he wrote. It is out of
fashion now.
THEY KNOW EACH OTHER IN HEAVEN.
There is a mother before the throne
of God. You say her joy is full. Is it2
You say there can be no augmentation
of it. Cannot there be2 Her son was
a wanderer and vagabond on the
earth when that good mother died.
He broke her old heart. She died
leaving him in the wilderness of sin.
She is before the throne of God now.
Years pass and that son repents of his
crimes and gives his heart to God, and
becomes a useful Christian, and dies
and enters the gates of heaven You
tell me that that mothers Joy cannot
be augmented Let them confront
each other. The son and the mother.
"Oh," she says to the angels of God,
''rejoice with me. The dead is alive
again and the lost is found. Hallelu-
jah! I never expected to see this lost
one come back" The Bible says ma
tions are to be born in a day. When
China comes to God will it not know
DIR. Abeel? When India comes will it
not know DR.. John Scudder2 When
the Indians come to God will they not
know David Brainard2
/ see soul entering heaven at last,
with covered face at the idea that it
has done SO little for Christ, and feeling
horne down with unworthiness, and it
says to itself, II have no right to be
here" A voice from throne says,
"Oh, you forget that Sunday school
class you invited to Christ. was one
of them" And another voice says,
''You forget that poor man to whom
you gave loaf of bread and told of
tho heavenly bread. was that man"
And another one says, 'You forget that
sick one to whom you gave medicine
for the body and the soul. was that
one." And then Christ, from throne
overlapping all the rest, will say, "Inas-
much as We did it to one of the least of
these, you did it to me-" And then
the seraphs will take their harps from
the side of the throne and cry, ''What
song shall it beY' And Christ, bending
over the harpers, shall say, "It shall be
the Harvest Home.'"
CONFIRMED IN THIS WORLD.