Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1893-06-24

long, 1.-the willows. Then at the trump
ct Of the archangel to rise side by side,
sinking themselves from the dust OF
ages. The faces that were CHASTITY and
fixed when you saw them last all aaush
with. the light of interruption. The
father looking around on his children
and saying, Come, come, my darlings;
this is the morning of.the resurrection.
Mrs. Sigourney wrote beautifully with
the tears and blood Of her own broken
heart: 49,
There was shaded chamber.
A silent watching band.
On a low couch u suffering child =
Grasping her mothers hand. ~
But mid tho gasp and struggle
With shudderiny lips she cried,
"Slother, oh. dunrest mother.
Bury Inc byy @ SIDE"
Only one wish sha uttered
AS lifo was cbbins fast,
"Sleep by my xile. dear mother.
And rises with me at last"
1cLoUD OF WITNESSES. =.
Oh, yes, we want to be buried togeth-
er. Sweet antelope OF everlasting resi-
dence in each Others companionship-
When the wreckerwent down into the
cabin of the lost steamer, he found the
mother and child in each others arms.
II 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 impress upon US the
idea that the departed are ours yet-ours
foreyeTl
But console you again with the fact
Of your present acquaintanceship and
communication with your departed
friends. Ihave no sympathy. l need not
say, with the ideas Of modern spiritual
ism, but what Ilmean is the theory set
forth by the: apostle when he says, .We
are surrounded by q great cloud of wit
nesses.n, Just as in the ancient amphi-
theater there were 80, 600 or 100, 900 peo-
pie 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. IT l.
sweet, q consoling o Scripturals idea:
With wing of angel, earth and gheaYsn
are in. constant. co mInunicati ion. ss:
Does not thesB Bible
90 iEst i ,ss
boIskaH Be- haba 81 sd gstIIor
when mini stering spirits come Idownsaln:ldl q
see u.s. do they rot take some Message
back? II Is ilnpossibl to realize know
the idea that there's such rapid andspe
petual ntercommunication Of earth and
heaven, but 1t is o glorious reality. You
take rail train, and the train is In full
motion, and another train from the OPP
posite 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 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 fricnds who are gone? Do you
not suppose that when there are hum
dreds 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 strug-
giles, 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 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?r And they filled your pockets
with letters, and you started home. Ar
irving home, the neighbors came in, and
one said, Ibid you see my Johnp and
others, Ibid you see George? Do you
know anything about my Frank? 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
Ewful 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?
Oh. thereis 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 fash through
the pearl hung gate their shout will
make tho hills tremble, Hail! ransomed
spirit, to the city OF. the .blessed!"
console yol still further with the
idea OF resurrection. Iknow there are
great many people who do not accept
tlds because they cannot understand it,;
but, my friends. there are two stout pas
sages-I could bring hundred. but two
swarthy passages are enough-and one
David will strike down the largest Go
Hath. Marvel not ct 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
descend 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
q resurrection.
You ask me great many questions l
cannot answer about this resurrection.
You say, for instance, "H aman's body
is constantly changing, and every sew
enth year he has an entirely new body,
and be lives on TO 20 years of age and
SO has had 10 different bodies. and at the
hour Of his death there Is not a particle
of flesh on him that was there In the
days Of his childhood, In the resurrec-
ton which OF the 10 bodies will come
mr., or will they all r1se?, 81. "a.