Milford chronicle., 1893-06-23

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There was a shaded chamber,
A silent, watching band,
On a low couch q suffering child
Grasping her mothers hand
But mid the gasp and struggle
With shnddsring lips she cried,
mother, oh, dearest mother,
Bury me by your side"
Only one wish she uttered,
As hfe was ebbing fast,
"sleep by my side dear mother,
And rise with me at last"
Oh. YES. we want to be buried together.
Sweet antetype 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. IL
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 I'M
press upon us the idea that the departed
are ours yet-Ours forever!
But console you again with the TACT OF
vour present acauaintanceship and cOmmu-
nication with your departed friends. have
no sympathy, / need not say, with the ideas
of modern spiritualism, but what mean Is
the theory set forth by the apostle, when he
saws. I'VE are surrounded by great cloud
of witnesses" Just as in the ancient amphi-
theater there were $1,000 or 100000 people
looking down from the galleries upon the
combatants in the center, so, says Paul,
there is a great host of your friends in all
the galleries Of the sky looking down upon
our earthly struggles. 1t Is a sweet, con-
soling. 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 sh..ll be heirs ofsalvationW And
when ministering spirits come down and
see us, do they not take some message backE
/ COMMUNICATION BETWEEN EARTH AND
HEAVEN
/ It is impossible to realize, know, the
/ idea that there is such rapid and perpetual
| intercommunication Of earth and heaven.
/ but it is a 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
4 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 gong IhaJ
friend Of yours who died last month-do
Won 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 temptations, your
struggles, your victories? Aye, they do,
Perhaps duriug 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
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 sendi' And they
filed your pockets with letters, and you
started home. Arriving home, the neigh
bors came in, and one said, Did you see
NV JohnY" and others, did you see
Georgep" do you know anything about
my Frankg" 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 ui
and finding out all about US, carry back nc
message to the skies2
Oh, there is consolation in itl You ar
in Dresent communication with that land
2 They are in sympathy with you now mor'
than they ever were, and they are waiting
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shall shatter the last chain of your earthly
bondage and your soul shall spring upward
and they will stand on the heights of HEAVIER
, and see you come, and when you are within
hailing distance your other friends will b
called out, and as you flash through tn
7 pearl hung gate their shouts will make th'
J hills tremble, Hail, ransOmed spirit, Il
the city Of the blessed"
r console you still further with the idei
of a resurrection. know there are grea
many people who do not accept this be
} cause they cannot understand it; but, m!
J friends, there are two stout passages
could bring hundred, but two swarth.
p passaQes are enougll-and one David viii
{ strike down the largest Goliath. 'Marve
3 not at this, for the hour is coming when al
who are in their graves shall come forth.
The other swarthy passage is this: 9Th
Lord shall descend from heaven with
r shout. and the voice Of the arehangel, ant
? the trump Of God, and the dead in Chris
D shall rise first" Oh, there will be such
thing as a resurrection.
PROBLEMS OF THE RESURRECTION.
t You ask me a great many questions
D cannot answer about this resurrection
e You say, for instance, If a mans body !
l constantly changing, and every seventh
year he has an entirely new body, and b
: lives on to 20 years Of age and 50 has hai
10 different bodies, and at the hour OF hl
D death there is not particle OF flesh on hin
r that was there in the days Of his childhoo
! jim the resurrection which of the 10 bOdie
o will come up, or will they all risei"
You say, "SuppOse a man dies, and hi
/ body is scattered in the dust, and out @
= that dust vegetables grow, and men eat tn
t vegetables, and cannibals slay these me
Y and eat them, and cannibals fight with car
y nibals until at last there shall be 100 me
5 who shall have within them some particle
0 that started from the dead body frs
g named, coming up through the vegetabl
s through the first man who ate 1t, an
n through the cannibals who afterward at
8 him, and there he more than 100 men VIII
l. have rights in the particles Of that hody-t
p the resurrection how can they be assorte
when these particles belong to them alp
r You say, "There Is missionary burie
Z. in Greenwood, and when he was in Chin
e he had his arm amputated-in the resul
}. rection will that fragment of the body fl
e 10000 miles to Join the rest Of the body2"
It You say, "Will it not be very dificul
r thing for spirit coming back in that da
r to find the myriad particles Of its ow
u body when they may have been scattere
d by the winds or Oyerlald by Whole gene
n ations Of the dead-looking for the myria
It particles OF It's own body, while there al
e Thousand million other spirits doing q
! same thing, and all the assortment to
= made within one dayP
y You say, "If hundred and fifty men
into place of evening entertainments al
leave their hats and overcoats in the ha
when they come back it is almost tmposi
= = bic for them to get the right ones, or to
i them without great deal of perplexit
II and vet YOU tell me that ni-riads of spiri
!, in the last day will come and fiHd myria
: Of bodies"
!. Have you any more questions to as
Il any more difficulties to suggest, any mo
II mysteries? Bring them on Against
~ whole regiment Of skepticism I will mar
= these two champions: marvel not at tn
IA for the hour is coming when all who are