Democratic messenger., 1892-12-10

many months when you knew not now
to talk at all. What il she has many
ailments to tell about? During fifteen
years you ran to her with every little
scratch and bruise, and she doctored
your little finger rs carefully as q sur
geon would bind the worst fracture.
You say she is childish now; wonder
if she ever saw you when you were
childish. You have no patience to wall
with her on the street, she moves so
slowly; wonder IL she remembers the
time when You were glad enough 10 go
slowly. You complain at the expense Of
providing for her now; wonder what
your financial income was from one year
TO ten years of age. Do not begrudga
what you do for the old folks. care
not how much you did for them; they
have done more for you.
But from this weird text OF the morn
ing comes rushing in upon my soul
thought that overpowers me. This
watching by Rizpah was an after death
watching. Iwonder if now there is an
after death watching. think there is.
There are Rizpahs who have passed
death and are still watching. They look
down from their supernal and glorified
state upon us. and is not that an after
death watching! / cannot believe that
those who before their death were inter-
ested in us have since their death become
Indifferent as to what happens to rs.
Not one hour of the six months during
which Rizpah watched. seated upon the
rocks. was she more alert or diligent or
armed for us than our mother, IL glori-
fed, is alert and diligent and armed for
us. 1t is not now Rizpah on rock, but
Rizpah on a throne. How long has your
mother been dead? Do you think she
has been dead long enough to forget
you? My mother has been dead twenty
nine years. believe she knows more
about me now than she did when stood
in her presence. and am no Spiritualist
either. The Bible says, Are they not
all ministering spirits sent forth TO min
lister to them that shall be heirs Of saliva
tion?'
Young man, better look ont what
you do and where you go, for your glo-
rified mother is looking at you. You
sometimes say to yourself. What would
mother say if she knew thisf" She does
know. You might cheat her once, but
you cannot cheat her now. Does 1t en-
barrass us to think she knows all about
us now? II she had to put mp with so
much when she was here, surely she
will not be the less patient or excusa-
tory now.
THE WATCH AFTER DEATH.
Oh. this tremendous thought Of my
text-this after death watchingl What
an uplifting consideration, and what q
comforting thought! Young mother.
you who have just lost your babe. and
who feel that need of q nearer solace
than that which comes from ordinary
sympathy, your mother knows all about
it. You cannot run in and talk it all
over with her as you would il she were
still terrestrial resident, but 1t will
comfort you some, / think-yea, It will
comfort you good deal-to know that
she understands it all. You see that the
velocities of the heavenly conditions are
so great that il would not take her half
second to come to your bereft heart.
Oh, these mothers in heaven! They
can De more for us now than before
they went away. The bridge between
this world and the next is not broken
down. They approach the bridge from
both ways. departing spirits and coming
spirits. disimprisoned spirits and SYM
pathizing spirits. And so let us walk as
to be worthy of the snpernal companion
ships. and if to any of rs life on earth is
hard grind. let us understand that il
we watch faithfully and trust fully our
blessed Lord there will be correspond
ing reward in the land of peace, and
that Rizpah. who once wept on = rock,
now reigns ON n throne.