The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-06-30
darlings. this is the morning of the res

L n st4c9t- Watching
On low couch . suffering child
Grssping her mothers hand
But mid the grasp and struggle,
With shuddering 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 everlasting
residenee in each others companion
ship.
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 up
on US the idea that the departed are
ours yet-ours forever?
But / console YOU again with the fact
of your present acquaintauceship and
communication with your departed
friends. | have no sympathy. | need
not say. with the ideas of modern
spiritualism: but what | mean is the
theory set forth by the apostle, when
he says: Eve are surrounded by a
great cloud of witnesses" Just as in
the ancient amphitheater there were
$4,000 or 100000 people looking down
from the galleries upon the combat
| ants in the center, so. says Paul, there
is great host of your friends in all the
gallaries of the sky. looking down upon
our earthly struggle. 1t is a sweet. a
eOnsoling, a Seriptural idea With
| wing of angel, earth and Heaven are
in constant communication Does not
the Bible say: Are they not sent
forth as ministering spirits to those
| who shall be heirs of salvation?" And
when the ministering spirits come down
and see US. do they not take some mes
sage back? 1t is impossible to realize,
| know. the idea that there is such rapid
and perpetual REORGANIZATION of
earth and Heaven: but it is glorious
reality. You take rail train and the
| train is in full motion. and another
train from the opposite direction
| tdShCS past Nph 81 SNAAhAF CN III
startled: all the way between here and
Heaven is filed with the mp trains and
| the down trains-spirits coming
| spirits going-coming- going-coming
going. That friend of yours who
died last mCnth-do yOu not suppose
he told ali 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 tempta-
tions. your struggles. your victories?
| Ave. 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 neigh
borhood, you knew most of the
boys there. One day You started
| for home. You said: well,
now. have you any letters to
send? any message to send?" And they
filed 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 any
thing about nv 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
awful 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?
| 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 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 flash through the pearl-hung gate,
| their shout will make the hills trem-
BILE: Hail. ransomed spirit. to the city
| of the blessed"
l console you still further with the
| idea of resurrection. l know there
are great many people who do not ac-
| cept this because they cannot under
stand it, but, my friends, there are two
| stout passages-I could bring a hun
dred. 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 passage is
] this: THE Lord shall discend from
| Heaven with a shout. and the voice OF
the archangel and the trump of God,
and the dead in Christ shall rise first. "
On, there will be such thing as a res
direction.
| You ask me a great many questions
I can not answer about this resurrec-
| ton You say, for instance: IF a
mans body is constantly changing. and
every seventh year he has an entirely
new body, and he lives on to 20
years of age, and so has had ten differ
ent 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 child
| hood-iu the resurrection. which of
| the ten bodies will come up, or will
| thew all rise?' You say: Suppose a
man dies and his body is scattered in
the dust, and out of that dust vege-
tables grow, and men eat the vege-
tables, and cannibals slay these men
and eat them, and cannibali fight with
cannibals until at last there shall be 100
men who shall have within some parti-
cles that started from the dead body
| first named, coming up through