Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1893-06-22

WILLOWS. linen at the trumpet OF the arch
angel to rise side by side, shaking them
selves from the dust Of ages. The faces
that nere CHASTITY and fixed when you saw
them last all ahush with the light of incor-
ruption The father looking around on his
children and saying, Come, come, my
darlings, this ia the morning of the resur-
rection." 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 suffering child
Grasping her mothers hand
But mid the gasp and struggle
With shuddering lips she cried,
"Nfother, oh, dearest mother,
Bury me by your side"
Only one wish she uttered.
As life was ebblng fast.
"Sleep by my side dear mother,
And rise with me at last"
Oh, YES. we want to be buried together.
Sweet antelope of everlasting residence in
each others companionship.
When the wreCker went down into the
cabin of the lost steamer, he found the
mother and child in each others arms. 1t
was sad, but it was beautiful, and it was
appropriate. Together they went down.
Together they will rise. One on earth. One
In heaven. Is there not something cheering
in all this thought, and something to inn
press upon us the idea that the departed
are ours yet-ours forever?
But console you again with the fact of
your present aoquaintanceship and commu-
nication with your departed friends. have
no sympathy, | need not say, with the ideas
of modern spiritualism, but what l mean is
the theory set forth by the apostle, when he
says, 1--WE are surrounded by great cloud
of witnesses" just Us in the ancient amphi-
theater there We're $1,000 or 100000 people
looking down from the galleries upon the
combatants in the center, so, says Paul,
there is great host of your friends in all
the galleries of the sky looking down upon
our earthly struggles IL is a sweet, a con-
soliug, a Scriptural idea. With wing of an
gel, earth and heaven are in constant com
munication. Does not the Bible say, Are
they not sent forth as ministering spirits to
those who shall he heirs of salvaton?" And
when ministerinI spirits come down and
seeus, do they not take some message back?
COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN EARTH AND
HEAVEN.
1t is impossible to realize, know, the
idea that there is such rapid and perpetual
intercommunication of earth and heaven,
but it is glorious reality. You take rail
train, and the train is in full motion, and an
other train from the opposite direction
dashes past You so swiftly that you are
startled. All the way between here and
heaven is filled with the up trains and the
down trains--spirits comiug-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
H.,
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 temptations, your
struggles, your victories? Aye they do.
Perhaps during the last war you had a
boy in the army, and you got a pass, and
You went through the lines, and YOU found
him, and the regiment coming from your
neighborhood you knew most of the boys
there. One day You started for home. You
said: "Well, now, have you any letters to
send? Any messages to send?" And they
filled your pockets with letters, and you
started hon Arriving home, the neigh
bors came nd one said, Did you see
my John? al others, Did You see
George % you know anything about
my Franks' 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 alS meeting us and seeing MS
and finding out all about us, carry back no
message TO the skies
Oh, there is consolation in it, You are
in present communication with that land
They are in sympathy with you now more
than they ever were, and they are waiting