Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1892-12-15

yuuwoulc rCass-uP IN the agsG Cnea whoie
world of blissful memories. What II she
does sit without talking much She watched
you for many months when you knew
not how 10 talk at all. What II she has
many ailments 70 tell aboutl Daring il-
teen years you ran to her with every little
scratch and brnise, and she dUctored your
little finger as carefully as surgeon would
bind the worst fracture.
You say she is childish now. wonder
II she ever saw you when you were chil9-
ish. You have no patience to walk with
her on the street, she moves 50 slowly.
wonder IL she remembers the time when
you were glad enough to go slowly. Ycu
complain at the expense Of providing for
her now. Iwonder what your financial in
come was from one year to ten years of age.
Do not begrudge what you do for the oil
folks. / care not how much you did for
them; they have done more for you.
THE REUNION AFTER DEATH.
But from this weird text OF the morning
comes rushing in upon my soul a thought
that overpowers me. This watching by
RiZpah was an after death watching. !
wonder If now there is an after death
watching. / think there is. There are
Rizpahs who have passed death, and who
are still watching. They look down from
their supernal and glorified state upon us,
and is not that an after death watchings
cannot believe that those who before their
death were interested in us have since their
death become Indifferent as to whas hap.
pens to US.
Not one hour of the six months during
which Rizpah watched seated urun the
rocks was she more alert or diliSe:t or
armed for US than our mother, if gl3i ifcd,
is alert and diligent anG armed for uG. 1t
is not now Rizpah on ,ock, bu: klzpnh
on thrcne. How long has rGsr mother
ocen dead2 Do you think she has been
lead long enough to forget your My
mother has been dead twenty-nine years.
believe she knows more about me now
han she did when stood in her presence,
md am no Spiritualist either. The Bible
iays, care they not all ministering spirits
Ient forth to minister to them that shall be
leirs Of salyation?"
Young man, better look out what you
10 and where you go, for your glorifed
mother is looking at you. You sometimes
Jay to yourself, "What would mother say
she knew this?" She does know. You
night cheat her once, but you cannot cheat
ler now. Does it embarrass us to think
The knows all about us now? If she had to
)ut up with SO much when she was here,
mrely she will not be the less patient or
xcusatory now.
Oh this tremendous thought of my text
this after death watchingl What an up
:. I ,l,DA
orting thought! Young mother, you who
lave just lost your babe, and who feels the
iced of nearer solace than that which
;omes from ordinary sympathy, your moth
r knows all about it. You cannot run in
md talk it all over with her as you would
| she were still terrestrial resident, but
| will comfort you some, think-yea, it
| will comfort you agood deal-to know that
he understands it all. You see that the
relocities of the heavenly conditions are so
| sreat that it would not take her half Sec
md to come to your bereft heart.
Oh, these mothers in heavenl They can
10 more for us now than before they went
lway. The bridge between this world and
| he next is not broken down. They ap.
roach the bridge from both ways, depart
ng spirits and coming spirits, disimpris-
med spirits and sympathizing spirits. And
o let us walk as to be worthy of the super.
,al companionships and if to any of us life
III earth is a hard grind, let us understand
hat If we watch faithfully and trust fully
ur blessed Lord there will be q correspond
ng reward in the land of peace, and that
aizpah, who once wept on rock, now
eigns on throne.