Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-06-22


"Sleep by my side, dear mother,
And rise with me at last"
Oh, yes, we want to be buried to
gether Sweet antelope of eyerlast
ing residence in each others com
panionship.
When the wrecker went down into
the cabin of the lost steamer be found
the mother and child in each others
arms. 1t was sad, but it vas beauti
full, and it was appropriate Together
they went Gown. Together they will
rise. One on earth. One in heaven.
Is there not something cheering in all
this fought, and something to i'm.
press upon us the idea that the de.
parted are ours ye:-ours forever?
But | cousole you again with the
fact of Your pr, sent mountaineering
and communication with your de-
parted friends. | have no sympathy,
/ need not say, with the ideas
of modern spirithalism; but what
/ mean Is the theory set forth by
the apostle. whcl he SAYS: I'VE
are surrounded by a great cloud OF
wiJncs es. Just as IN the ancient
amphitheatcr there We're eighty or
one hundred thousand people looking
down from the galleries upon the com
| Eatants in the center, so, sa s Paul,
there is a great host of your friends in
all the galleries of the sky, looking
down upon our earthly struggles.
1t is n sweet, consollng, a scrip
tural idea. With wings of angel, earth
and heaven are in constant commune
cation Does not the Rible say: Are
they not sent forth as ministerins
spirits t. those who shall lie heirs oil
sdlgationH' And when ministering
spirits come down and see us do they
not take some message back? 1t is i'm
ossible to realize, | know. the idea
that there is such rapid and perpetual
intercommunication Of earth and
heaven; but it is q glorious reality.
| You take Il rail train iindthe 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
tr;lins--spirits ing-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
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every day for them in heaven to hear
from you that they ask about you?
that they know your tears, your temp
tations, your strugg es, your victories?
Aye, they do. Perhaps during the last
war you had a boy in the army, and
you got a pass and you went through
the lines and you found him, and tn
regiment coming from your ne ghbor-
| l.n Of 4 IN No;
One day you started for home. You
said: well, now, have you any lottcrs
to send! any messages to send!" And
they filled your pockets with
letters, and you started home.
Arriving home, the neighbor
came in, and one said: did
you see my John?" and others:
did you see George" "Do
you know any thing about my Frank?
And tn 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
10 this awful battle field of sin, and
sorrow, and death, and meeting us
and seeing us, and Lnding out all
about us carry back no message to the
skies?
| O, there is 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 mo
mcnt when the hammer stroke shall
shatter the last chain of your earthly
bondage and your soul shall spring up
ward; and they will stand on the
heights of heaven and see you come
and when you are within hailing dis
lance Your other friends will be
called out, and, as you flash through
The pcarl-hung gate, their shout will
make the hills tremble: Hail. ran,
somed spirit, to the city of the
blessed"
/ console you still further with the
idea of n resurrection | know there
are great MANY people who do no,
accept this because they cannot under.
stand it: but my friends, there are two
stout passages-I could bring hun
drcd, but two swarthy passages are
enough-and one David will strike
down the largest Goliath. Marvel
not at this, for the hour is coming
when all who are in their graves shall
come forth" The other swarthy pas
sage is this: 1.-THE Lord shall descend
from heaven with a shout, and the
voice of the archangel, anQthe trump
of God, and the dead in Christ shall
rise first Oh there will be such a
thing as resurrection.
You ask me great many questions
I cannot answer about this resurrec.
t on. You say. for instance: "lf q
mans 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.
J ent bodies, and at the hour of his
death there is not particle of flesh OF
him that was there in the days of mis-
childhood--in the resurrection, which
OF the ten bodies will come up, or will
they all rise?" You say: suppose 6
man dies and his body is scattered il
the dust, and out of that dust vegeta
bles grow, and men eat the vegeta bles
and cannibals STAY these men and ca
them, and cannibals fight with canni
balls until at last there shall be hun
, dred men who shall have within then
= some par ticles that started from tn,
: dead body first named, coming III
/ through the vegetable, through tn,
! first man who ate it, and through tn,
cannibals who afterward ate him, ant
there be more than hundred mel
? who nave rights IN the particles o
} 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 h
3 had his arm amputated-in the resur
( rection, will that fragment o
l the body fly $4,000 miles to join tn
r rest of the body?" You say: "Will i
not be a very difficult thing for spiri
( coming back in that day to find tn
A myriad particles of its own body, whe
t they may have been scattered by tn
t winds or overlaid by whole genera
0 lions of the dead-looking for tn
e myriad particles of its own body, Will
/. there are thousand million othe
t spirits doing the same thing, and a.
o the assortment to be made within on
G day?" You say, If hundred an
a fifty men go into place of evening ell
n tertainment. and leave their hats an
u oyercoa, in the hall, when they com
1 back it is almost impossible for theI
4 to get the right ones, or TO get ther
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