The evening call. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1891-1893, 1893-07-05
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ulRQLS, WD6Q the Wluu comes lOWllI
. through the gorge, you will be compau
; for each other. The child close up
: the bosom of its mother. The husbal
and wife remarked; on their lips the sa
rament of the dust
Brothers and sisters who used in spo
to Sfing themselves on the grass no
again reclining side by side in the grav
in 1ecks OF sunlight Sitting through tt
long, 1.-the willows Then at the trun
pet 0f the archangel to rise side by sid,
shaking themselves from the dust {
ages. The faces that were CHASTITY an
fixed when you saw them last all afus
with the light of interruption. TIL
father looking around on his childre
| and saying. Come, come, my darlings
this is the morning Of the resurrection
Mrs. Sigourney wrote beautifully wit
the tears and blood of her own broke
heart:
! There was shaded chamber
silent watching band
| On q low couch suffering child
| GrasPing her mothers hand
But mid the gasp and struggle
With shuddering lips she cried,
Mother, oh dearest mother
Bury me by yonr side"
| Only one wish she uttered
AS life was ebbing fast,
| Sleep by my side, dear mother,
ana 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 impress upon US the
idea that the departed are ours yet-Ours
| forever?
But console you again with the fact
OF your present mountaineering and
communication with your departed
friends. | have no sympathy, / need
not say, with the ideas of modern spirit
ualism, but what mean is the theory
set forth by the apostle, when he SAYS,
I'VE are surrounded by great cloud Of
witnesses" Just as in the ancient
amphitheater there were 80, 900 or 100
600 people looking down from the gal
lerles upon the combatants in the center,
So says Paul. there is great host of
your friends 10 all the galleries of the
sky looking down upon our earthly strug-
giles. IL is sweet a consoIing, Scrip
tural idea With wing of angel, earth
and Heaven are in constant communica-
ton. Does not the Bible say Are they
not sent forth as minstering spirits to
those who shall be heirs of salvation?'
And when ministering spirits come down
and see us, do they not take some mes
sage back?
Communication Between Earth and
Heaven.
1t is impossible to realize, know, the
Idea that there is such rapid and per.
petual fntercOmmunication of earth and
Heaven, but 1t is glorious reality. You
take rail train, and the train is in full
motion, and another train from the op-
poslte 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
Observation-Disclosures. 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 opportuni- |
ties every day for them in Heaven to
hear from you that they ask about YOU.
that they know your tears your tempta-
lions, your struggles, your victories?
Aye, they do.
Perhaps during the last war you had
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
o. the boys there. One day you started
Tor 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 home.
Arriving home, the neighbors came in.
and one said, Ibid you see nv Johnp'
and others, "Did you see George?'' "Do
you know ANYTHING about nv Frank?"
And then you brought out the letters
and gave them the messages of which
you had been the bearer. Do you sun.
pose that angels of God. coming down to
his awful battlefield of sin and sorrow
md death and meeting US and seeing US
Ind finding out all about US, carry back I
10 message to the skies?
On, there Is consolation in it! You
IRE in present communication with that ,
and. They are in sympathy with YOU
low moro than they.eVer were. and thew ~.
IRE waiting for the moment when the
hammer stroke shall shatter the last :.
main OF your earthly bondage and your :
oul shall spring upward, ana they will I,
tand on the heights of Heaven and see .
'ou come, and when you are within q
railing distance your other friends will =,
,e called out, and as you fash through q
he pearl hung gate their shouts win :
make the hills tremble, Hail, ransomed :
pirlt, TO the city OF the blessed" !.
| console you still further with the
dea OF a resurrection. ! know there
re great many people who do not &C =
ept this because they cannot under :
tand 1t; but my friends, there are two =
tout passages-I could bring hundred. :
ut two swarthY passages are enough
nd one David will strike down the q
argest Goliath Marvel not at this. :
or the hour is coming when all who are
their graves shall come forth" The ).
Their swarthy passage in this: 'sThe =
ord shall descend from Heaven with q =
nout and the voice Of the archanrel. :
nd the trump of God. and the dead in :
hrist shall rise frst" Oh, there will :
Q such thing as a resurrection. =,
Problems OF the Resurrection. =
You ask me great many questions | .
annot answer about this resurrection. Il
'ou say. for instance, IF mans body L
constantly changing, and every Il