The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-07-18
THE HEAVENLY HOME.
DR.. TslmRge on the Meeting of
Friends in Heaven
The sIultitudes In waitinE to weIeom.
Friends In GIory-=No Doubt of Reooe-
milton Of Frlends In HeAven-1hs
Glorious Reunions


preached to a great throng at Wasecas
Mimi, his subject being Meeting our
Friends in Heaven" His text was from
II. samuel, xii %. 'I shall 60 to him.
Dr. Talmage said: - -
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
ncstrh of the wan and wasted, also
mounts The palace stairs, and bending
over the pillow blows into the face of a
young prince the frosts of pain aud
. death Tears are wine to the king of
terrors. Alas! for David the King. lie
can 'neithcr eat nos sleep and lies pros
trate on his face, weeping and waiIing
until the palace rings with the outcry of
woe.
What are courtly attendants. or vic
torious armies, or conquered provinces
under. such circumstances. What to
any parent Is all splendid surrounding
when his child Is sick2 Seven days
.heve passed on Then in that great
- house two eyelids are gently closed, two
little hands folded, two Little feet quiet.
one-heart still The servants come to
bear the tidings TO the King. but they
can not make up their minds to tell
LAuh- anu bncl SJAuu the uOOr WIS
pering about tho matter, and David
hears them and he looks up and says
to- them: els tho child dead?'' ''Yes,
he is dead" David rouses himself up.
washes himself, puts on new apparel,
and, sits down TO food. What power
hashed that tempest? What strength
was IL that lifted sup that King whom
grief had dethroned? Oh, it was the
thought that he would come again into
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. lie wipes
away tears from his eyes, and he clears
the choking grief from his throat, and
-exelaims: Il shall go to him"
Was David right or wrong? If we
part on earth will we meet again in the
--Hext -worid?' -%'Wcli," says some one,
that seems to be an impossibility.
Heaven is so large a place we never
could find our kindred there" Going
into some city without having appointed
time and place for meeting you might
wander around for weeks and months,
and perhaps for years and never see
each other, and Heaven is vaster than
all earthly cities together, and how
are you going to find your departed
friend in that country? 1t is so vast q
realm. John went up on one mountain
of inspiration and looked off upon the
multitude and he said: Thousands Of
thousands" Then he came upon a
greater altitude of inspiration and
looked of upon it again and he said
Ten thousand times ten thousand.
And then he came on a higher mount o.
inspiration and looked off again and he
said: "a hundred and forty and -four
thousand and thousands OF thousands
And became on u still greater height Of
inspiration and he looked of again and
exclaimed: "a great multitude that ne
man can number" Now, 1 ask, how
are you going to find your friends in
such a throng as that? Is not this idea
we have been entertaining after all &
falsity? Is this doctrine of future rec
oguitiou of friends in Heaven a guess,
myth yhip. or Is 1t a granitic foun
dalton upon which the soul pierced Of
an ages may build glorious hopeP In
tense quest on Every heart in thii
ea-tn every soul here the tomb of at leas
one dead
The object of this sermon is to TAX
this theory out of the region of surmis
and speculation into the region of pos
tive certainty. People say; at woul,
be very pleasant IL that doctrine wer
true. hope IL may be true. Perhap
II Is true. I wish it were true" But
believe that can bring an accumula
ton of argument to bear upon this mat
ter which will prove the doctrine of fu
ture recognition as plainly as that Their
Is any Heaven at all, and that the kiss O
reunion at the celestial gate VIII be a
certain as the dying kiss ut the door O
the sepuloher.
Tho doctrine OF future recognition 1
not 80 often positively stated in tn
Word of God as implied. and you know
my friend, that that is after all tn
Strongest mode OF affirmation. You
friend travels in foreign lands. ii
comes home. He does not begin b
arguing with you to prove that there ar
such places rs London, and Stock holm
and Paris, and Dresden and Il Rim, blu
his conversation implies it. And so thi
Bible does not so positively state thi
theory as, all up and down its chapters
take 1t for granted What does my tex
imply? At shall go to Him" VIVA
consolation would 1t be to David to g
20 his child IL he would not know him
Wepld 9aYid have been allowed to re
cora "a enticlpat ton for the inspectio
OF AZ ages II itwere groundless antic
y pa5on?s We Eead in the first book 9
the Bible ABRAHAM died and was gath
cred to his people. Moses died and wa
gathered to his people. What people
Why their friends. their comrades, thei
old companions. OF course it mean
that It can not mean. any thing elss
$50 in the very beginning of the Bib
four times that is taken for granted
The whole New Testament Is an arbo
over which this doctrine creeps like
iuxuriant vine full of the purple clu:
ters of consolation James, John an
Peter followed Christ into the mount
ain A light falls from Heaven on tina
mountain and lifts it into the glories G
the celestial Christ's garments glo,
= and His face shines like the sun. Tn
door of.Heaven swings open. Two spii
q ms come down and alight on tina
- 'moantain. The discipes look at ther
and recognize them as Moses and Elias
Now, IL those disciples standing on tn
earth could recognize these two spirit
who had been for years in Heaven. d
ruSop tell mo that we. with our heavenl
eyes'ght will not be able to rocogniz
- those who have gone out from anon
Rs only hve ten. twenty, thirty year
N4oa IS
4 Fhe Bible indicates. over and owe
again, that the angels know each othel
and then the Bible says that we are
be higher than the angels aad-if th
ANGELS have tho rnonLar .cl ,.ncn...,i4i.,