The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-07-25
MEETING in HEAVEN.
WE SHALL RECOGNIZE EACH OTHER
IN THE OTHER WORLD.

IN THE OTHER WORLD.
Tho Eloquent Discourse of DR.. Talmage on
tho Reorganization of Friends and Rela-
ives I'm Heaven.
DR.. Talmage 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 his
text Samuel, xii, %: II shall go to
him" His sermon was as follows:
There is a 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 n 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
victorious armies, OF conquered
provinces, under such circumstances?
What to any parent are splendid sur
roundings when his child is sick?
Seven days have passed on. Then in
that great house two eyelids are
II 1>o, L., co1l
two little feet quiet, one heart still.
The servants come to bear the tidings
to tho kine, ,l,asA they .oannnt naka-np
at the door whispering about the mat
ter, and David hears them and he
3oks up and says to them, els the
child dead!" eyes, he is dead"
David rouses himself up, washes him
self, puts on new apparel, and sits
down to food. What power hushed
that tempest? What strength was it
that lifted up that king whom grief
had dethroned? Oh, it was the
thought 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 he would clasp
his lost treasure. He wipes away the
tears from his eyes, and clears the
exclaims, stI shall go to him."
Was David right OF wrong? If we
part on earth will we meet again in
the next world? 'Well," says some
one, "that seems to be an impossible
ty. Heaven is so large a place, we
never could find our kindred there"
Going into some city, without having
appointed 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 vaster than all earthly
cities together, and how are you 60
ing to find your departed friend in
that country? It is so vast realm.
John wenG up on one mountain of
inspiration, and he looked off upon
the multitude, and he said, "Thou-
sands of thousands" Then he came
upon q greater altitude of inspiration
and looked off upon it again, and he
-~:a "T'e" thousand times ten thou
off again, and he said, "a hundred
and forty and four thousand and
thousands of toousand" And he
came on a still greater height of in
spiration, and he looked off again, and
exclaimed, ga great multitude that
no man can number" Now, ask,
how are you going to find your friends
In such throng as that? Is not this
idea we have been entertaining, after
all, falsity? Is this noctrine of fu-
ture reorganization of friends in heay-
eAN guess, myth, whim, or is it
aEfanitic foundation upon which the
soul pierced OF all ages may build q
glorious hope? 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 quiver, and the cheek flush,
and the entire nature thrill: Shall
We know each other therei 1 get
letters almost every month asking me
to discuss this subject. Iget q letter
In bold. scholarly hand, on gilt-edge
paper, asking me to discuss this aues-
ton, and I say, "Ah! that is curious
man, and he wants a curious question
solved" But 1 get another letter.
1t is written with trembling hand,
and on what seems to be torn-o out
leaf of book, and here and there is
the mark of tear; and say, "Oh,
that is q 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: "1t would be very pleasant if
that doctrine were true. 1 hope 1T
may be true. Perhaps it is true.
wish it were true" But 1 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
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