Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1890-07-19

No form Of religion, for it is received under
nil forms Of religion. Then. Iargue. q senti-
ment, Il feeling, an anticipation, universally
planted, must have been Tod implanted, aud
il Cod implanted it is rightfully implanted.
Socrates writes: "Who woald not part with
great deal to purchase meeting with Or
phe,ls and Homer If it be true that this is
to be the consequence OF death l could even
be able 10 die often"
Cicero living before Christ's coming, said:
ooh. glorious day when shall retire from this
low and sordid scene to associate with thu
divine aSsembase of departed spirits, and
not only with the one have just now mem
toned but with my dear Cato, tho best of
soas and the most faithful OF men. Ii |
seemed to bear his death with fortitrlde it
was hy no means that did not most sensibly
fee. the loss had sustained. 1t was because
was supported by the consoiing reelection
Tint we could not long he separated"
The Norwegian believes it. The milan
believes it. Tho Greenlauder believes it.
The Swiss believes IT, The Turk believes it.
Under every sky, 10y every river, in every
zone, the theory is adopted, and so say a
principle universally implanted must be Col
implautel, aN1 hence right belief. The ar
gument is irresistible.
Again J. adopt this theory because there
are features OF moral temperament and feat
nres of the so;ll 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 liair, or the facial pro-
portions? Oh, no. 1t is by the disposition
As vol, by natural affinity, nSing the word
in tile very best sense and not Ill the DAT
sense, and If in the dust our body should
nnrisi, and lie there forever, aud there should
be no resurrection, still the soul has enough
features and the disposition has enough feat
ureS to make us distinguishabe. L can I'M
lerstand how in sickness a man Will become
10 ,eirious that he will not know nus own
friends: but will we he blasted with such ln-
;uiferable idiocy that, standing beside our
oest friends for all eternity, we Will never
guess vino they are?
AGAIN, think that one reason why we
ought to accept this doctrine Is because we
never in this world have an opportunity to
1--WE thanks to those to whom we are splr-
ituallv indebted. The JOY OF heaven, we are
odd. Is to be inau.c,lrated by Il review of
lies 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 Somervillc, n. D., John
Tredenbursh preached for n great many
rears. He felt TINT his ministry was fall
ire. although lie was faithful minister,
orcac.iinc the Gospel all the time. He died.
and died amid diScoaraSements, ana WENT
lt.:ra to God; for no one ever d0uotci c;0
John Nrc;ienburgh was good ChriS''a.,
minister. y little while after MS d'at''
mere came great awakening III Somsr-
,illc. and one Sabbath two hundred souls
;.ood up at the Christian altar espouSinS tae
..usa OF Christ. among them my own father
md mother. Aud what was peculiar Ill re-
rarl to nearly all of those two hundred
souls was that they dated their religious i;a-
,r,ssions from the ministry of john NreIea-
ourrh. Will that good Christian man be-
:or. the throne OF God never meet thoSe
:ouis brought to Christ through his inSsrI-
mentality? Oh, of course he will kno"' tAenl
remember one Sabbath afternoon, borne
Town with the sense OF my sins, aud Know
mr. not God, l took UP DoddridSeS. 'Rlss
nd Progress Oh, what dark afternoon
It was, and l read the chapters, AMI real
,ae prayers. and triel to make the prayers
M own. Oh, must SEQ Pnilip DoddridSe..
\ glorious old book he wrote. 1t is out OF
fashion now.
There is mother before the throne of
Cod. You say her joy is full Is IT: You
say there can be no augmentation OF it. Can
aoV there be? Her son was 4 wanderer and 4
va-abond on the earth when that good
mother diei. He broke her old heart. She
lied leaving him in the wilderness OF sin.
She is before the throne of God now. 1earS
PASS and that sen repentS of his crimes aud
-:ves MS heart to God and becomes 4 useful
CHRISTIAN and dies and enters the gates OF
heaven. You tell me that that mothers JOY
cannot be augmented? Let them confront
each Other The son and the mother. 'On,
sac says to the angles of God, rejoice with
me. rbe dead is alive again, and the lost Is
found. Halleluiah. Inever expected 10 see
tbs lost one come back" The Bible says ma
tions are to b. born in a day. When Caina
comes to t;od will it noo know DR.. Abasl?
When India comes viii il noo know DIR. Jonn
Scutller: When the Indians come to God
will taey not know David Hrainard:
I sec a soul entering heaven ot last, with
covered face at tie Flea that it has done 50
little foc Carist ami feeling BORA, down with
unworta;ness, un' it says to itself, Il have
no right to ba here a voice from tao
throne says: .OA. y'ou forget that Snna'.y-
school class son invited to C.iist. was on3
OF them An. another voice SaTs; - OF
for..t t.i9s moor man to whom You gave Il
LOAF OF b-sai a:ll told OF the heavenly nr.,al.
was that mln" And another says: ~ ou
tor.es that sick one to whom you gave nedi-
cine for TIN body and the soul. was that
one" Ant then Clrist, from u throne over
topa;.ig all the rest will say: '1nasmuca rs
We Id it 10 ons OF the least OF these, you dill
it to Me- And then the seraphs will take
their harps from the side Of the throne an |
CRY: WHAT song shall it be- And Christ,
bending over tac harpers. shall say: IL
shall be the Harvest Home
One more reason why am dispose 10 ac-
cept this doctrine OF future recognition is
that so many in their last hour on earth
have confirmed this theory. speak not OF
persons who have been delirious in their last
moment and knew not what they were about.
but OF persons who died in calmness AMI
plecility and who wero not naturally super
stitious. Often tho glories of heaven have
struck the diving pillow, and the departing
man has said he saw and heard those who
had gone away from him. How often it Is
in the dying moments parents see their de-
parted children and children see their de
parted parents. came down to the BANKS
OF the Mohawk River. Itwas evening and
wanted to go over Their and SO l waved
my hat and shouted and after while saw
some one waving on the opposite bank and
heard him shout, and the boat came across
and l got in and was transported. And so |
suppose it will DO in the evening of our life.
We will come down to the river of death and
give signal to our friends on the other shore
and they will give a signal back to lis, and
the boat comes and our departed kindred
are the oarSmen, the fires of the setting day
tingeing the tops of the paddles.
Oh, have you never sat by such delth-
bed? In that hour you hear the departing
soul cry, "Harkl Looim You hearkened
and you looked. A little child pining away
because oil the death OF its mother, getting
weaker and weaker every day. was token
into the room where hung the picture of her
mother She seemed to enjoy looking at it,
and then she was taken away aud after
awhile died. In the last moment that wan
and wasted little one lifted her hands, while
her face lighted up with tue glory of the next
world, and cried out Mother" You tell
ME she did not seeher mother? She did. So
in my first settlement ut Bellevils plain
man said to me: ':What do you think
heard last night? I was in the room where
one OF my neighbors was dying. He was u
COOL man, and he said he heard the angels
Of God singing before the throne. | haven't
much poetry about me, but listened and
heard then, too" Seid 1, II have no doubt
of it." Why, we are to be. taken up to;
heaven at last by ministering spirits. Who
are they to be? Souls that went up from