The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-19


the wind comes bowling through the
gorge, Won will be company for each
other The child close up 10 the bosom
Of its mother The husband and wife
remarked on their lips the sacrament Of
the dust. Brothers and sisters. VINO used
I'm sport to fling themselves on the grass,
now again reclining side by side I'm the
grave. in flecks of sunlight sitting through
the long 1.-THE willows. Then al the
trumpet Of the arChangel % rise side by
side, shaking themselves from the dust Of
ages The faces that were CHASTITY and
fixed when you saw them last ali atiush
with the light of interruption The father
looking around on his children, and say
ing: "COme. come, my darlings, TINS is
the morning of the resurrection Mrs.
SigOumey wrote beautifully with the
tears and blood of her own broken heart:
There was a shaded chamber.
A silent watching band,
On a low couch a suffering child
Grasping her mothers hand.
But mid the gasp and struggle,
With shuddering lips she cried,
Smother. Oh dearest mother,
Bury me by your side
Only one wish she uttered,
AS life was ebbing fast,
sSleep by nv side dear mother.
And rise with me at last
o, yes, we want to be buried together
Sweet antelope of everlasting residence
II eacn ObnGf' S COUlpdQlOuSDlp.
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 il
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 upon us the
idea that the departed are ours yet-Ours
forever2
But l console you again with the fact of
your present acquaintanceship and COM
municatiOn 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 sur
rounded by great cloud of witnesses"
just as in the ancient amphitheater there
were eighty or one hundred thousand PEG
pie looking down from the galleries upon
the combatants in the center So says
Paul, there is a great host of your
friends in all the galleries of the
sky, looking down upon our earthly strug-
giles. It is sweet, consoling, script
ural idea. With wing of angel earth
and heaven are in constant communion
tion. Does not the Bible say: Are they
not sent forth as ministering spirits to
those who shall be heirs of salvation2"
And when ministering spirits come down
and see US, do they not take some mes
sage backl 1t is impossible to realize,
! know, the idea that there is such rapid
and perpetual intercommunication of
earth and heaven; but it is a glorious re-
atty You take a rail train and the 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 down trains-spirits COM
ing-spirits going-cOming -going-com-
ing-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
gomez 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 your that they
know your tears, your temptations, 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
neighborhood, 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 nelghbors came in, and one said:
Ibid you see my JOhn2" and others:
''Did you see GeOrgel" do YOU know
anything about my 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 battle
field of sin, and sorrow, and death, and
meeting us and seeing us, and finding out
all about us, carry back no message to
the skies2
o, there is consolation in It'll 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 win
stand on the nights 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
tremble: "Hail ransomed spirit, to the
city of the blessed"
console you still further with the idea
OF a resurrection. l know there are a
great many people who do not accept this
because they cannot understand it; but,
my friends, there are two stout passages
lcould bring a hundred but two swarthy
passages are enough-and one David will
strike down the largest Goliath MAR
vel 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 descend from
heaven with shout, and the voice of the
archangel, and the trump of God, and the
dead in Christ shall rise first" o, there
will be such thing as resurrection.
You ask me a great many questions
cannot answer about this resurrection.
You say, for instance: "If 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 different 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 childhOod-in the resurrec-
tion, which of the ten bodies will come
up, or will they all rise2" You say: Sup
pose man dies and his body is scattered
in the dust, and out of that dust
vegetables grow, and men eat the
vegetables, and cannibals slay these men
and eat them, and cannibals fight with
cannibals until at last there shall be a
hundred 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
1t, and through the cannibals who after
ward ate him. and there be more than a
hundred men who have rights in the par
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