The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-06-20

wrote beautifully with the tears and blood
of her own broken heart:
There was I, shaded chamber,
A silent, watching band
on a low coach a suffering child
Grasping her mothers hand
Bl; mid the gasp and struggle
with shuliering lips she cried.
"M0ther. oh. dearest mother,
Bury me by your ide.''
Only one wish She uttered
AS life was cbbing fast.
"sleep by my side dear mother.
And rise With me at last.
Oh. yes, we want to buried together
Sweet antelope of everlasting residence ~
each others companionshlp.
When the wrccker went down into the
cabin of the lost steamer, he found the
mother and child in each others arms
was appropriate. Together they went
down Together they will rise One on
earth. One in heaven. Is there not some
thing cheering in all this thought, and
something 10 impress upon us thc ldea
that the departed are ours yet-ours for
ever?
But console you again with the fact
of your present acquaintanccship and com
muilicai;on with your departed friends.
! have no sympathy, | need not say, with
tho ideas of modern Spiritualism; but
what mean to say is the theory set forth
by the apostle, when he says: 1--WE are
surrounded by ii great cloud OF witnesses.
Just as in the ancient amphltheatcr therc
pie looking down from the galleries upon
the combatants in the center, 50. says Iaul,
there is a great host of your friends in all
the galleries of the sky, looking down upon
orr earthly sru@g les. 1t Is sweet,
consolne n scriptural idea. With wing
of angel, earth and heaven are i'll constant
communication. Does not the Bible say:
Are they not sent forth as ministering
spirifs to those WHO shall be heirs of sal
yation?' And when mlnistcrlhg spirits
Ia t.lE q
some message back? 1t is impossible to
| realize | know, the idea thai there is such
| rapid and perpetual ntcrcommunication OF
earth and heaven; but it is a glorious re-
aIitv. You take a rail train and the train
| is in full motion. aud another train from
| the opposite direction dashcs past you so
swiftly that you are startled; all the way
| between here and heaven is filled with
I the up trains and the down tralns-spirits
| comiug-SBirits g-cOming-gOing- com
| ing-going. That friend of yours who died
| last month-tlo you not suppose he told
| all the family news about you in the good
lund to the friends who are gone! DO you
not suppose that when there are hundreds
| in heaven to hear from you that they ask
about you? that they know your tears.
| your temptations, your struggles, your VIC
| tories? Aye they do Perhaps during the
last war lou had boy i'll til" army, and
you got pass and went through the mes
and Won found him, and the regiment
coming from your nejghborhood, you knew
most of the boys there. One day you start
ed for home You said: well, now, have
you any letters to send? any messages
10 scnd?" And they filled your
pockets with letters, and you started
| home Arriving home, the ncishbors came
| in. and one said Did you see my John!'
and others: Did you see George! 10
| you know anything about my Frank
| And then yOu brought out the letters ana
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, aud death
and meeting Us and seeing us, ana 1ihohs
| out all about Us, carry back no message
to the skies?
@, there is consolation in it, You are
in present communication with that land
| They are in sympathy with you now moro
| than they ever were, and they are wanting
for the moment when the hammer strok,
shall shattcr the last chain of your earthly
| bondage and your soul shall spring mp
ward and they will stand on the heights
of heaven and see YOU come and when yo'
are within hailing distance your othc
friends will be called out, and. as yo1'
fash through the pcarl-hung gate thei
shout will make the hills trcmbie: Hail
, ransomcd spirit to the city of the blessed
console You sti further l, With the iae
| could bring hundred. but two swarth
passages are enough-and one David vii
strike down the largest Goliath. "Marve
not at this. for the hour is coming whel
all who are IN their graves shall com
forth. The ether swarthy passage is this
The Lord shall descend from HEAVIER
with shout, and the voice of the archangcl
and the trump of God, and the dead il
Christ shall rise first Oh, there will b.
such thing as resurrection
lou ask me great many questions
cannot answer about the reSurrcct;on Yo,
say FOR instance; IF a mans body is con
stantly changing, and every seventh yco
he has an entirely new body, and he live
on to seventy years of age, and so has In,
ten different bodies and at the hour of hi
dcath there is not particle of flesh on hin
that there in the days of his childbonl
III the resurrection which of the ten bodies
Will come up, or will they all rise?' Yo,
say: suppose man dies aud his body i.
scattered in the dust, and out of that dus
vegetables grow, and men eat the vcgeta
bl2s. and cannibals Slay these men and ca
them. and cannibals fight with cannibal
untii at last there shall be a hundred mc1
| who shall have within them some particle.
that started from the dead body first named
coming up through the vegetable. through
| the tlrst man who ate it, and through tht
| cannibals who aferwarl ate him, and thor,
| be more than Il hundred men who hay,
| rights III th" particles of that body-in tn,
resurrection how can they be assorted when
these particles belong to them .Up" You
| say: Ihere Is missionary buried in Green
WOOD, and when he was in China he had his
arm alnputated the resurrection will
that fragment of the body fly 10000 miles
to ION the rest of the body" You say,
VIII it not BE- very difficult thing for a
spirit coming back i'll that day to find the
myriad Particles of its own body, when they
| may have been scattered by the winds or
ovrriaid by whole generations of the dead
| looking for the myriad particles of its own
| body, while there are a thousand million
! other spirits doing the same thing, and all
the assortment TO be made within one day o.
You say IF hundred and fifty men go
INTO place of evening entertainment and
! leave their hats and OyrrcoatS III the hall.
When they come back it is almost impossi-
| bic for them to get the right ones, or TO get
| them without great deal of pcrpIexitv.
! And yet you tell me that myriaols of spirits
| IN the last day will come and find myriads
! Of bodies" Have YOU any more questions
| TO ask. any more difficulties to suggest, any
more mysteries? Bring them on. Against
whole regiment of SkcpticiSni | will march
these two champions: Marvel not at this,
Tor me hour IS coming when all who are
| i'll their graves shall come forth" Tho
| Lord shall descend from heaven with a
| shout, and the voice of the archang,l and
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