The Globe-republican., 1893-06-23

and fixed when you saw them last all
afiush with the light of interruption.
The father looking around on his chill
dren. and saying: Come. come. my
darlings. this is the morning of the res
direction" Mrs. Sigourney wrote
beautifully with the tears and blood of
her own broken heart:
| There was a shaded chamber,
| A silent watching band.
| On a low couch q suffering child
| Grasping her mothers hand
| But mid the grasp and struggle,
| With shudderiny lips she cried,
| Mother. oh dearest mother,
| Bury me by your side
| OIlr one wish sheuttered,
| As llfe was ebbing fast
| Sleep bv nv side. dear mother.
And rise with me At last"
| Oh. yes. we want to be buried to-
gether Sweet antelope of everlasting
residence in each others companion
ship.
But console you again with the fact
OF your present acquaintauceship and
communication with your departed
friends. have no sympathy. l need
not say. with the ideas of modern
| sp;ritualiSm: but what l mean is the
theory set forth by the apostle. when
he says: I'VE are surrounded by a
great cloud of witnesses" Just as in
the ancient amphitheater there were
$4,000 or 100000 people looking down
from the galleries upon the combat
ants in the center. SO. says Paul, there
is great host of your friends in all the
| gallaries of the sky. looking down upon
our earthly struggle. 1t is a sweet.
consoling, Scriptural idea. With
wing of angel. earth and Heaven are
| in constant communication Does not
the Bible say: Are they not sent
forth as ministering spirits to those
who shall be heirs of salvation?" And
when the ministering spirits come down
and see us. do they not take some mes
sage back? 1t is impossible to realize.
l know. the idea that there is such rapid
and perpetual INSTRUMENTATION of
earth and Heaven: but it is glorious
reality. You take rail train and the
train is in full motion. and another
train from the opposite direction
dashes past YOU so swiftly that you are
startled: all the way between here and
Heaven is filed with the up trains and
the down trains-spirits coming
spirits going-coming- going-coming
going. That friend of yours who
died last month-do you not suppose
he told all the family news about you
in the good land to the friends who are
| gone? Do you not suppose that when
there are hundreds of opportunities
every day for them in Heaven to hear
from you that they ask about you? that
they know your tears, your tempta-
tons. your struggles, your victories?
Aye. they do. Perhaps during the last
war you had boy in the army, and
you got pass and you went through
the lines and you found him, and the
regiment coming from your neigh
borhood. you knew most of the
boys there. One day you started
for home. You said: well,
now. have you any letters to
send? any message to send?' And they
! filed your pockets with letters, and
YOU started home. Arriving home, the
neighbors came in, and one said: did
you see my John?" and others: did
YOU see George?" do you know any
thing about my FRANKIE" And then
YOU brought out the letters and gave
them the messages of which you had
been the bearer. Do you suppose that
angels of God. coming down to this
awful battlefield of sin, and sorrow.
| and death. and meeting US and seeing
US. and finding out all about us. carry
back no message to the skies?
console you still further with the
| idea of resurrection. l know there
are great many people who do not &C
cept this because they cannot under
| stand it. but. my friends, there are two
| stout passages-I could bring hun
| bred. but two swarthy passages are
| enough-and one David will strike
down the largest Goliath Marvel
not at this. for the hour is coming when
all who are in their graves shall come
| forth" The other swarthy passage Is
| this: 1.-The Lord shall discend from
| Heaven with shout. and the voice of
the archangel and the trump of God.
and the dead in Christ shall rise first"
Oh, there will be such thing as res
| direction.
| You ask me a great many questions
can not answer about this resurrec-
ton. You say. for instance: If a
mans body is constantly changing. and
! every seventh year he has an entirely
new body, and he lives on 70 20
| years of age. and SO has had ten differ
ent bodies. and at the hour of his death
| there is not particle of flesh on him
| that was there in the days of his child
| hood-in the resurrection. which of
! the ten bodies will come up. or will
they all rise?" You say: suppose
| man dies and his body is scattered IN
the dust, and out of that dust vege-
| tables grow. and men eat the vege-
tables. and cannibals Stay these men
and eat them. and cannibai fight with
cannibals until at last there shall be 100
| men who shall have within some parti-
cles that started from the dead DO dy
first named. coming up through
the vegetable. through the trst
man who ate it. and through
the cannibals who afterward ate him,
and there be more than 100 men who
have right in the particles of that body