Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1893-05-31

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der the waves
Oh, crimson floods, foll over them and
drown them, and drown them foreyeri
What celebration II will be--our resur-
rected bodies standing on the beach
whose pebbles are amethyst and emerald
and agate and diamondsl What shaic-
ing Of handsl What a talking over old
timesi Whats jubilcsi What an OPP
portunity to visitl In this world we
have 40 little time for that am looking
forward to eternal socialities. To be
with God and never sin against him. To
be with Christ and forever feel his love.
To walk together in robes Of white with
those with whom on earth we walked
together IN black raiment OF mourning.
To gather up the members Of our scat
tered families and embrace them with no
embarrassment. though all heaven, be
looking on.
TOGETHER AT THE LAST.
A mine In Scotland caved in and
caught amid the rocks o young man
who In few days was to have been
united In holy marriage. No one could
get heart to tell his affianced Of the
death of her beloved, but some one made
her believe that he had changed his mind
about the marriage and willfully disap-
peared. Fifty years passed on, when
one day the miners delving in the earth
suddenly came on the body of that young
man, which had all those years been
kept from the air and looked just as it
was the day of the calamity. Strong,
manly, noble youth, he sat there looking
as on the day he died. But no one
recognized the silent form.
After awhile they called the Oldest in
habitants to come and see II any one
could recognize him. A woman with
bent form and her hair snowy white with
years came last, and looking upon the
silent form that had been 80 completely
preserved gave bitter cry and fell into
long swoon. It was the one to whom
half a century before she was to have
been welded, looking then just as when
in the days Of their youth their affec-
tions had commingled. But the emotion
Of her soul was too great for mortal en-
durance. and two days after those who
80 years before were to have Joined
hands in wedlock were at last married
in the tomb. and side by side they wait
for the resurrection.
My friends, we shall come at last upon
those Of our loved ones who long ago
halted in the journey Of life They will
be as fair and beautiful-yea, fairer and
more beautiful than when we parted
from them. 1t may be old age looking
upon childhood or youth. Oh, my Lord,
how we have missed themi Separated
for 10 years or 20 years or 30 years. but
together at the last. Together at the
last. Just think Of It'll Will 1t not be
glorious2 Miriam's song again appro.
pirate, for death riding ON the pale hores
with his four hoofs on all our hearts shal
have been forever discomforted.
! see them now--the glorifed-as
sembled for celebration mightier and
more jubilant than that on the banks OF
the Red sea, and from all lands and ages,
on beach Of light above beach Of light.
gallery above gallery and thrones above
thrones. in circling sweep Of 10000 miles
Of surrounding and upheaved splendor.
while standing before them on "sea of
glass mingled with FIRE" Michael, the
archangel, with swinging scepter beats
time for the multitudinous chorus, cry
ing: "Singl Singl Sing ye to the Lord,
for he hath triumphed gloriously; the
horse and his rider hath he thrown into
the sea-"