Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-06-24


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 q shaded chamber,
A silent, watching band,
On low couch q suffering child
Grasping her mothers hand.
But mid the grasp and struggle,
With shuddcring lips she cried,
Mother, oh, dearest mother,
Bury me by your side.
Only one wish she uttered
As life was ebbing fast,
Sleep by my side dear mother,
And rise with me NJ 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. l 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: I'VE are surrounded by Il
great cloud of witnesses. Just as in
the ancient amphithcater 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
galleries 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.
know, the idea that there is such rapid
and perpetual Accommodation of
earth and Heaven: but it is n 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 Observation-Disclosures
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-
tions, your struggles, your victories?
Aye, they do. Perhaps during the last
war you had a 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: Ibid
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?
O.. 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 for the moment when
the hammer stroke shall shatter the
last chain of your earthly bondage and
your soul shall spring upward; and
they will stand on the heights OF
Heaven and see you come, and when
you are within hailing distance your
other friends will be called out, and, as
you flash through the pearl-hung gate,
their shout will make the hills trem-
BILE: Hail! ransomed spirit, 10 the city
of the blessed"
! console you still further with the
idea of resurrection. ] know there
are great many people who do not ac-
cept this because they cannot under
stand it, but, my friends, there are two
stout passages-I could bring a hun
dred. 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