Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-06-23

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other. The child close up to the
| bosom of ITS mother The husband
and wife re-married on their lips the
sacrament of the dust. Brothers and
sisters, who used in sport to fling them
selves on the grass, now again reclin-
ing side by side in the grave, in tlecks
of sunlight sitting through the long,
| 1.-the willows. Then at the trumpet
of the archangel TO rise side by side,
| shaking themselves from the dust OF
ages. The faces that were CHASTITY and
! fixed when you saw them last all atlush
with the light of interruption. The
father looking around on his children,
and saying: Come, come, my dar-
lings, this is the morning of the resur-
rection." Mrs Sigournev wrote beau
| tifully with the tears and blood of her
/ own broken heart:
There was shaded chamber,
| A silent, watching band
| On low couch suffering child
Grasping her mothers hand.
But mid the gasp and struggle,
With shudder,ng lips she cried
"Mother, oh, dearest mother,
Bury me by your side
Only one wish she uttered,
| AS life was ebbing fast,
"Sleep by my side, dear mother,
And rise with me at last"
Oh, yes, we want to be buried to-
| gether. Sweet antelope of everlast-
! ing residence IN each others com
| panionship.
When the wreclser 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 beauti-
full, 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 ought, and something to inn
press upon us the idea that the de-
! parted are ours yet-ours forever?
But l console you again with the
| fact of your present mountaineering
and communication with your de-
parted friends. | have no sympathy,
need not say, with the ideas
of modern spiritualism; but what
l mean Is the Theory set forth by
! the apostle, when he says: I'VE
are surrounded by great cloud Of
witnes, es." just as in the ancient
amphitheater there were eighty or
one hundred thousand people looking
down from the galleries upon the COM
batants in the center, SO, sa, S Paul,
there is great host of your friends in
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| down upon our earthly struggles.
| 1t is a sweet, a consollng. a scrip
tural idea. With wings of angel, earth
and heaven are in constant communi-
cation. Does not the Bible say: Are
they not sent forth as ministering
spirits to those who shall be heirs OF
salvation9" And when ministering
spirits come down and see us. do they
not take some message back? 1t is i'm
| pc ,sible to realize, | know, the itea
that there is such rapid and perpetual
| intercommunication OF earth and
heaven; but it is a glorious reality.
You take rail train andthe train is in
| full motion, and another train from
the opposite 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 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 temp
tations, your struggles, your victories?
Aye, they do. Perhaps during the last
war you had boy in the army, and
! you got pass and you went through
the lines and you found him, and the
regiment coming from your ne ghbor-
hood, 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?" And
they filled your pockets with
letters, and you started home.
Arriving home, the neighbors
came in, and one said; Did
you see my john" and others:
did you see GEORGE" DO
you know anything about my FRANKIE"
And tn n you brought out the letters
and gave them the messages of which
you had been the bearer. Do you sup
pose that angels of God, coming down
TO this awful battle field of sin, and
sorrow, and death, and meeting us
and seeing us, and tnding out all
about us, carry back no message to the
/ skies?
You ask me a great many questions
/ cannot answer about this resurrec-
ton. You say. for instance: "If a
man body is constantly changing, and
! every seventh year he has an entirely
new body, and he lives on TO seventy
years of age, and SO has had ten differ
ent bodies, and at the hour of his
death there is not particle of flesh on
him that was there in the days of his
childhood-in the resurrection, which
of the ten bodies will come up, or will
they all rise?" You say: suppose a
man dies and his body is scattered in
the dust, and ont of that dust vegeta-
bles grow, and men eat the vegetables,
and cannibals Stay these men and eat
them, and cannibals fight with canni-
balls until at last there shall be hun
dred men who shall have within them
some particles that started from the
dead body first named, coming up
through the vegetable, through the
/ first man who ate it, and through the
I cannibals who afterward ate him, and
there be more than hundred men
who have rights in the particles of
that body--in the resurrection how
can they be assorted when these par
ticles belong to them ALP" You say:
There is missionary buried in Green
wood, and when he was in China he
had his arm amputated-in the resur-
rection, will that fragment of
the body fly 10000 miles to join the