Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-06-19

with the light of interruption. Tho
father looking around on his children
and saying, Come, come, my darlngs;
this is the morning of the resurrection
Mrs. Sigourney wrote beautifully with
the tears and blood Of her own broken
heart:
There was u shaded chamber,
Asllent watching band.
On low couch a suffering child
Grasping her mothers hand.
But mid the gasp and struggle
with shuddorlng lips she cried,
Mother, oh, dearest mother,
Bury me by your siden
Only one wish She uttered
As life was ebhing fast
asleep by my side, dear mother,
And rise with rie at last"
CLOUD OF WITNESSES.
Oh, yes, we want TO be buried togeth-
er Sweet antelope Of everlasting resi-
dence in each others oompanionship.
When the wreuker 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. Ono on
earth One in heaven. Is there not
something cheering in all this thought
and something to impress upon us the
idea that the departed are ours yet-ours
forever
But ! console you again with the fact
of your present acquaintaneeship and
communication with your departed
friends, have no sympathy, | need not
say. with the ideas Of modern spiritual
ism, but what mean is the theory set
forth by the apostle when he says, we
are surrounded by n great cloud Of wit
nesses" Just as in the ancient nmphi-
theatcr there were $4,000 OF 100, 600 peo-
pie looking down from the galleries upon
the combatants in the center so, says
Paul, thore is a great host OF your friend0
in all the galleries of the sky looking
down upon our earthly struggles. It is
a sweet, consoling, a scriptural idea
With wing of angel, earth and heaven
arc in constant communication.
Does not the Bible say, Are they not
sent forth as ministcring spirits to those
who shall be heirs of salvation And
when ministering spirits come down and
see us, do they not take some message
back? 1t 10 impossible to realize, l know,
tho idea that there is such rapid and per-
petual ntercommunication of earth and
heaven, but it is a glorious reality. You
take rail train, and the train is in full
motion, and another train from tho OPP
posite direction dashes past you 30
swiftly that you are startled. All the
way between hero and heaven is filled
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 ne told all
the family news about you in the good
land to the friends who are gomez DO you
not suppose that when there arc hun
dreds Of opportunities every day for
them in heaven to hear from you that
they nsk about you-that they know
your tears, your temptations, your strug-
giles, your victoriesl Aye. they do
Perhaps during the last war you had
a how 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 know most
~ tbe boys there. One day you started
for home. You said; We'll. now have
Won any letters to scndG ANY messages
10 sendy' And they filled your pockets
With letters, and you started home. AT,
80, home tho neighbors came in, and
one said, "Did you sec my john ana
others "Did you see GeorgeF DO you
kpow anything about my Frank Ana
then Won brought out the letters anu
saye chem the messages Of which you
Raj been the bearer Do you suppose
tbat angels Of God. coming down to TINS
a 80 BATTLEFIELD of sin and sorrow and
5oath and meeting US and seeing US ana
finding out all about u.s. carry DacA ~
message 10 the skies. -, -.
on. there is consolation in III you ny
On present Communication with tias
land They are in sympathy win YOU
NOW more than they eysr were, ana tney
80 80 ,raitinp for the moment when the
,ar stroke shall shatter the last
chain Of your earthly bondage ana yo ,.,,
s s snail spring upward, and they wi l
ss IN lie heights Of heaven ana 81
- -, -.on,e and when you are WITHIN WITHIN
i ~ distance your other friends WI
W. calIed out, and as you fash taIo a9ii
ne pearl hung gate their :, shout 'ls,, VII
maize the hills tremble, Han n, usH
shirt TO the city OF the plesslu, .,, .ha
'pi', console You still further win lnu %,
,s.a ~ a resurrection | know there ~ ~.
,Ss rr'at many people who do not so S h.
th;s because they cannot undels'. ~. - =
~ ~ NJ friends, there arc two stou. -. -,
sa,..s-I oonld bring hundred pus w. w.
"a sSvsr,I,y passages are enoHsh---nu 81 ~,
"a viii strike down the iaIse., . ~
ne.h Marvel not Of this, fer me ~, ~,
= hA. anu,,pr when all who are n NJ
a,.aycs shah come forth: ~ a o sssIl
swaFtn S Pom P heaven with shout. ., ana
aeacell w. :, ~ ia srchapgel. sHa tie rgl''D