Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-07-24


ton out of the realm Of speculation and sur
mise into the region OF positive certainty,
and no more keep saying: Il hope It is 50, L
have an idea it IS so. guess it is So" Be able
| to say, with all the concentrated energy OF
body, mind and SOUL Il know it is So"
There are in addition to these Bible argu-
ments other reasons why l accept TINS
theory. In the first place because the reJec-
ton Of it implies the entire obliteratlon OF
our memory. Can it be possible that we
shall forget forever those with whose walk,
| look, manner we have been so long famliars
Win death come, and with sharp, Keen
blade hew away this faculty OF memorys
Abraham said to Dives: ''Son, remember
If the exiled and lost remember will not the
enthroned remember?
You know very well that our Joy in any
circumstance is augmented by the compan-
ionship of our friends. Wecannot see PIC
ture with less than four eyes or hear song
with less than four ears. We want some one
beside us with whom to exchange Chances
and sympathies, and l suppose the JOY OF
heaven Is to be augmented by the fact that
We are to have our friends with us wnen
there rise before us the thrones OF the
blessed, and when there surges up in our ears
the iubilate of the saved. Heaven is not
contraction; it is an expansion. IL know
you here l will know you better there. Here
see you with only two eyes, but there the
soul shall have million eyes. IL Will be inn
mortality gazing on immortality, ransomed
spirit in colloquy with ransomed spirit, victor
beside 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, doyo
think we will be bigger fools in heaven than
we are hereg
Again accept this doctrine of future re-
cognition because the worlds expectancy af-
Ill afuf IL
received. What form of religion planted ity
No form of religion, for it is received under
oil forms of religion. Then, Iargue. senti-
ment, a feeling, an anticipation, universally
planted, must have been God implanted, and
II God implanted it is rightfully implanted
Socrates writes: "Who would not part with
a great deal to purchase meeting with Or
nheus and 'Homeri II it be true that this is
to be the consequence OF death 1 could even
be able to die often"
Cicero, living before Christ's coming, said
ooh, glorious day when | 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 men
toned, but with my dear Cato, the best OF
sons and the most faithful of men. Ii
seemed to bear his death with fortitude il
was by no means that did not most sensibly
feel the loss had sustained. Ii was because
| was supported by the consoling reflection
that we could not long be separated"
The Norwegian believes it. The Indian
believes it. The Greenlander believes il.
The Swiss believes il. The Turk believes il.
Under every sky, by every river, in every
zone, the theory is adopted, and so | say
principle universally implanted must be God
implanted, and hence a right belief. The ar
gument is irresistible.
Again l adopt this theory because there
are features Of moral temperament and feat
- =.
ever. How do we know each other IN this
worlds Is it merely by the color of the eye.
or the length Of the hair, or the facial pro-
portionss Oh, no. Ii is by the disposition
as well, by natural affinity, using the word
in the very best sense and not In the bad
sense, and If in the dust our body should
perish, and lie there forever, and there should
be no resurrection, still the soul has enough
features and the disposition has enough feat
ures to make us distinguishable. can UNI
derstand how in sickness a man will become
so delirious that he will not know his own
friends: but will we be blasted with such in
siderable idiocy that standing beside our
best friends for all eternity, We will never
guess who they are2
Again. | think that one reason why we
ought to accept this doctrine is because We
never in this world have an opportunity 10
give thanks to those 10 whom we are spir
itually indebted. The JOY of heaven, we are
told is to be inaugurated by review OF
life's work. These Christian men and women
who have been toiling for Christ, have they
seen the full result of their work. oh, no.
In the church Of Somerville, n. j., John
preached for a great many
years. He felt that his ministry was fail
ure although he was l faithful minister,
the Gospel all the time. He died.
and died amid discouragements, and went
home to God; for no one ever doubted that
John Vredenburgh was a good Christian
minister A little while after his death !
there came a great awakening in Somer-
Vile, and one Sabbath two hundred souls |
stood up at the Christian altar espousing the
cause of Christ. among them my own father /
and mother. And what was peculiar in re
gard to nearly all of those two hundred /
souls was that they dated their religious i'm.
pressions from the ministry of John Vreden-
burgh VIII that good Christian man be |
fore the throne of God never meet those
souls brought to Christ through his instru- |
Oh, of course he will know them. /
remember one Sabbath afternoon, borne /
iown with the sense Of my sins, and know /
ing not God, took up Doddridge's Rise /
and Progress" Oh, what a dark afternoon 1
It was, and | read the chapters, and read /
5he prayers. and tried to make the prayers /
ny own. Oh, | must see Philip Doddridge. I
A glorious old book he wrote. 1t is out OF I
fashion now.
There is a mother before the throne
Sod. You say her joy is full Is it, y
'ay there can be no augmentation of il. c
not there bes Her son was wanderer and
on the earth when that go
mother died. He broke her old heart. :
lied leaving him in the wilderness of sin
She is before the throne of God now. Year, /
PASS and that son repents of his crimes aud
yives his heart to God and becomes a useful
christian, and dies and enters the gates OF
heaven. You tell me that that mothers JOY /
,annot be augmented Let them confront
zach other. The son and the mother. ''Oh'
he says to the angles of God, rejoice with
ne. The dead is alive again, and the lost is
ound. Hallelujahl never expected to see
his lost one come back" The Bible says ma
ions are to be born in day When China
,omes TO God will it not know Dr. Abeely
When India comes win it not know Dr. John
5cudder? When the Indians come to God
will they not know David Brainardg
see soul entering heaven at last with
severed face at the idea that it has done so
title for Christ and feeling borne down with
inworthiness and it says to itself, II have
10 right to be here" A voice from the
hrone says: 'Oh, you forget that Sunday
chool class you invited to Christ / was one
II them" And another voice SAYS: 'sYou
Or0ef that moor man IN whom Won cava a /