The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-07-19
THE HEAVENLY HOME.
Dr.. Talmage on the Meeting of
Friends In Heaven.
Ths Muititudes I'm waiting to Welcome
Friends In Glory-No Doubt Of Reoog-
milton Of Friends In H~saven-1he
Glorious Reunions

Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage recently
preached to . great throng at Waseca,
MINI, his subject being Meeting Our
Friends In Heaven" His text was from
ii. samuel, xii 90. III shall go TO him."
DIR. Talmage said:
There is a very sick child In the abode
Of David the King. Disease, which
stalks up the dark ant 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 .
young prince the frosts of pain and
death. Tears are wine to the king Of
terrofs. Alasl for David the King. He
q neither eat nor sleep and lies pros
trate on his face, weeping and wailing
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 Ii sick? Seven days
have 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
oan not make up their minds TO tell
him. and they stand at the door whis-
pering about the matter, and David
hears them and he looks up and says
70 them: SIS the child dead2" Eyes,
he II dead" David rouses himself up.
washes himself, puts on new apparel.
and sits down to food What power
hushed that tempest? What strength
was IL that lifted up that King whom
grief had dethroned? oh, 1t was the
shought that he would come again into
possession Of hat 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 o 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 tears from his eyes, and he clears
the choking grief from his throat, and
sxcisims: 81 shall go to him"
Wes David right or wrong? II we
part on earth will we meet again In the
next world? "Well," says some one,
'thst seems to be an impossibility.
Heaven II 80 large q place we never
could find our kindred there" Going
into some city without having appointed
Q 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?
The object of this sermon is to take
this theory out of the region OF surmise
and speculation into the region Of pos
itive certainty. People say: 1T would
be very pleasant II that doctrine were
true. I hope It may be true. Perhaps
IL Is true. / wish 1t we're true" But l
believe that ! can bring an accumula-
ton Of argument to bear upon this mat
ter which will prove the doctrine of flu
lure recognition as plainly as that there
IL any Heaven at all, and that the kiss OF
reunion ut the celestial gate will be as
certain rs the dying kiss at the door OF
the sepulcher.
The doctrine of future recognition Is
not so often positively stated IN the
Word of God MS implied, and you know,
my friend, that that Is after sll the
strongest mode Of affirmation. Your
friend travels In foreign lands. He
comes home. He does not begin by
arguing with you to prove that there are
such places IS London, and Stockholm.
and Paris. and Dresden and Berlin, but
his conversation implies 1t. And so this
Bible does not so positively state this
theory as, all up and down Its chapters,
take il for granted. What docs my text
IMPLY 81 shall go to Him." What
consolation would 1t be to David to go
20 his child II he would not know himP
Would David have been allowed TO re-
cord this anticipation for the inspection
OF ell ages Il It we're groundless antici-