The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-07-23
MEETING IN HEAVEN.
WE SHALL RECOGNIZE EACH OTHER
INTHE OTHER WORLD.

the Recosnization of Friends and Rcla
tives in Heav IL.
DR.. Talmagn preached to an enor
nous outdoor gathering at Wa q
Mimi, on Sunday. His subject was
Meeting Our Friends in Heaven.
The eminent clergyman took for hi:
text ? Samuel, vi, %: Il shall go te
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 smothering hand on
the lip and nostril Of the wan and
wasted, also mounts the palace stairs
and. bending over the pillow, blows
into the face of q young prince the
frosts of pain and death. Tears are
wine to the king of telrors. Alas!
for David the king. He can neither
sleep nor eat, and lies PROSTATE on
his face, weeping and wailing until
the palace rings with the outcry OF
Woe
What are courtly attendants, or
h victorious armies, or conquered
SRrovinces, under such circumstances?
hat to any parent are splendid sur
bindings when his child is sick?
gen days have passed on. Then in
It great house two eyelids are
lily closed, two little hands folded,
little feet quiet, one heart still.
servants come to bear the tidings
king, but they cannot make up
minds to tell him, ,and they stand
n door whispering about the mat
Ad David hears them and he
up and says to them, ':Is the
$ deade" '.Yes, he is dead"
rouses himself up, washes him
1ts on new apparel, and sits
~ 10 food. What power hushed
mpest? What strength was it
ted up that king whom grief
Ydethroned? Oh, it was the
%aght that he would come again
into the possession of that darling
child. No grave digger's spade could
hide him. The wintry blasts Of death
could not put out the bright light.
There would be forge somewhere
that with silver hammer would weld
the broken links. In city where
the hoofs of the pale horse never
strike the pavement be would clasp
his lost treasure. wipes away the
tears from his eyes, and clears the
choking grief from his throat, and
exclaims, Il shall go to him
Was David right or wrong? Ii we
part on earth viii we meet again in
the next world? "Wen," says some
one, ssthat seems to be impossible
ty. Heaven is so large q place, we
never could find our kindred there"
Going into some city, without having
~eppointed time and place for meet
ing, you might wander around for
weeks and for months, and perhaps
for years, and never sees each other,
and heaven is yaster than all earthly
cities together, and how are you go
ing to find your departed friend IN
that country? It is so vast realm:
John wenS up on one mountain OF
inspiration, and he looked off upon
the multitude, and he said, ''Thou-
sands of thousands" Then he came
upon greater altitude of inspiration
and looked off upon it again. and he
said, iSTen thousand times ten thou
sand" And then he came on high
er mount of inspiration, and looked
off again, and he said, ga hundred
and FORT and four thousand and
thousands of toousand." And he
came on q still greater height Of IN
spiration, and ne looked off again, and
exclaimed, "a great multitude that
no man can number" Now, I ask,
how are you going find your friends
in such a throng as that? Is not this
idea we have been entertaining, after
all, q falsity? Is this noctrine of fu-
ture reorganization of friends in heav-
On q guess, myth, q whim, or is 1t
q granite foundation upon which the
soul pierced of all ages may build a
glorious hopee Intense question!
Every heart in this audience throbs
right into it. There is in every soul
here the tomb of at least one dead.
Tremendous question! It makes
the lip quiyer, and the cheek flush,
and the entire nature thrill: Shall
we know each other there7 I get
letters almost every month ashngme
to discuss this subject. Iget letter
in bold, scholarly hand, on glt-edge
paper, asking me to discuss this ques-
ton, and 2 say, s:Ah! that is curious
man, and he wants curious question
solved" But I get another letter.
It is written with a trembling hand,
and on what seems to be torn-out
leaf of book, and here and there IS
the mark of tear; and I say, ooh,
that is broken heart and it wants to
be comforted.'
The object of this sermon is to
take this theory out of the region OF
surmise and speculation into the
region of positive certainty. People
say: s.It would be very pleasant if
that doctrine were true. I hope it
may be true. Perhaps it is true. ]
wish it were true" But / believe
that can bring an accumulation OF
argument to bear upon this matter
which Will prove the doctrine OF future
recognition as plainly as that there is
any heaven at all, and that the kiss o1
reunion at the celestial gate will be
as certain as the dying kiss at the doc,
of the sepulchre.
Now, when you are going to builc
a ship you must get the right kind O.
timber. You lay the keel and make
the framework of the very best mate
rails, the keelson, stanchions, plank
eboo,. co,,nter tinher-knae transoms