Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-07-14
able to say, with all the concentrated energy
OF body, mind and soul, 81 knowl it is so. T"
FoRGErFuLNEss IMPOSSIBLE.

tion of it implies the entire obliteration oi
our memory. Can it 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 awav this faculty of memory?
Abraham said to Dives, "Son, remember. "
II the exiled and lost remember, will not
the enthroned remember? You know very
we'll that our joy in any circumstance is
augmented by the companionshlp OF our
friends. We cannot 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 sympa-
thies; and L 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 ex-
pansion. II know you here, / will know
you better there. Here see you with only
two eyes, but there the soul shall have
1000, 600 eyes. 1t will be Immortality gaz-
ing on mortality-ransomed spirit in
colloquy with ransomed spirit-victor be-
side 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 hesven
than we are here?"
Again: 1 accept this doctrine of future
recognition because the worlds expectancy
afirms 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, uni
versally planted, must have been God
implanted, and if God-implanted, it is
rightfully implanted. Socrates writes:
"Who would not part with great deal to
purchase a meeting with Orpheus and
Homer? If it be true that this is to be the
consequence of death, 1 could even be able
to die often" Among the Danes, when a
master dies his servant sometimes stabs
himself that he may serve his MASTER in the
future world. Cicero, living before Christ's
coming, said, "Oh, glorious day, when 1
shall retire from this low and sordid scene,
to associate
WITH THE DIVINE AssEMBLAGE
of departed spirits, and not only with the
one have just now mentioned, but with nv
dear Cato, the best of sons and the most
faithful of men. If 1 seemed to bear his
death with fortitude, it was by no means
that did not most sensibly feel the loss
had sustained. 1t was because was sup
ported by the consoling reflection that we
could not long be separated" The Nor
wegian believes it. The Indian believes it.
believes it. The Turk believes it. Under
every sky, by every river, in every zone,
the theory is adopted; and SO L say
principle universally implanted must be
and hence a right belief
The argument is irresistible.
Again: adopt this theory because there
are features Of moral temperament and feat
ures OF the soul that will distinguish us for
ever. 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-
portions? Oh, no. 1t il by the disposition
as well as by natural affinity, using the
word in the very best sense and not in the
bad sense; and If in the dust our BODY
shopld perish and lie there forever, and
there should be no resurrection, still the
soul has enough features and the DISPOSE
ton has enough features TO make il dis
/ can understand how in
sickness o man will become so delirious that
be will not know his own friends; but will
we be blasted with such insufferable dioey,
hat, standing beside our best riends for all
sternity we will never guess who they are7
Again, ! think one reason whv we ought
10 accept this doctrine IL because we never
IN this world have an aH opportunity 10
give thanks 10 those TO whom we are spirit.
ially ineebted. The Joy Of heaven, we are
old. is 10 be inaugurated by o revival OF
ife's work. These Christian men and
women who have been telling for Christ,
ave they seen the full result Of their work?
Oh, no. In the church at somerviile, N,
l., John VFedenburgh preached for great
many years, He lelt that his ministry was
! failure, and others thought so, although
le was faithful minister, preaching the
Gospel all the time. He died, and died
Imid disoouragements, and went home 10
lodi tor no one ever doubted that John
Vredenburgh was good Christina minister.
A little while after his death there came
a GREAT AWAKENING
n somerville, and one Sabbath 200 souls
TODD up at the Christian altar espousing
he cause oi Christ, among them my own
ather and mother. And what was pecu lar
n regard TO nearly all OF those 200 souls was
hat they dated their religious impressions
rom the ministry Of John Vredenburgh
VIII that good Christian man before the
,roupht 10 Christ through bIs in.,rvnsrs
ality? oh, OF course he will know them T
one Sabbath afternoon. borne
lowp with a sense of NV sins and kpnwins
lot God, ] took mp Doddridge's "Rlse and
Progress" oh, what dark afternoon Il |
vas, and read the chapters, and read the
prayers. and tried TO make the prayers my |
,wn, oh. l must see PbilIp Doddridce < |
,lorious old book he wrotei II is ont Of |
ashon now.
There is a mother before the throne of God,
You say her Joy Is full. Ia n? You ssy
here can be no augmentation of r. Can,
lot there be2 Her son was wsnda.o, VA
yagabond on the earth when ,hat ed
mother died, He broke her oid bass, ST.
lied leaving him In the wilderness of sin
,he is before the throne of God now year.
Ass and that son repents of his criu.s .nd
ives his heart 10 God and hecnmss = Ch.;S
ian. and dies and enters the cata. ~ hsonan %
You tell me that that mother's ;ny oarnn;