Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1893-03-24

the bed OF the river and the other loot on
the other bank, we struggle upward. That
will be heaven. Oh, pray for all my dear
people a safe Jordanic passagel That Is
what the dying Christian hus and felt WHEN
he said: ''How thu can lie fiickers Nelliel
Put it out. shall sleep we'll tonight and
wake in the morning"
tosether forever. Wouldn't it be pleasant
for you to take all your family into that
blessed country it, you could all go togethers
remember my mother in her dying hour
seid to NV father. "Father, wouldn't it be
PLEASANT il we could all go together~ But
we cannot all 90 together. We must go one
by one, and we must be grateful If we get
there at all. What heaven it will be- It
we have all our families there to look
around and see all the children ara present.
You would rather have them all Tn err. ana
YOU 90 with bare brow forever. han that
one should be missing to complete tne ear
lands of heaven for your coronal. The Lord
God of Joshua gave them safe lorraine
passage.
Those of us who were brought up In the
country remember, when the su n uer was
coming on in our boyhood days. we always
longed for the day when we were to go
barafooted. and after teasing our mothers
in regard TO it for good While, an they
consented. we remember the delicious sensa-
ton of the cool grass waen we put our IN
covered foot on it.
One wcrd of comfort on this subject for
all the bereaved. You see, our departed
friends have not been submerged, nave not
been swamped in the waters. Ihey nave
only crossed over. These lsraelites were
Just as thoroughly alive on the western
banks of the Jordan as they had been on the
eastern banks of the Jordan, AMI our de-
parted Christian friends have only crossed
over-not sick, not dead, not exnausteu, no1
extinguished, not blot5ed out but with
healthier resoiratlon, and stouter pulses, and
keener eyesight. and better prospects
crossed over. their sins, their physical and
mental disuuiet, all left clear this side, an
eternally flowing, impossible obstacle De-
tween them and all human an 1 satanic pur
sniff. Crossed overl On, shake hands OF
CONGRATULATE n with all the bereaved In tne
consideration that our departed Christian
friends are safel
Why was there so much JOY In certain
circles in New York when people heard
from the friends who were on board tnat
beIatei steamer? 1t was feared that Ve5sei
had gone to the bottom of the sea, and wnen
the friends on this side hear1 thlG 1ns
steamer had arrived safely in Liverpool ma
we not right to congratulate the people IN
New York that their friends had got safely
across? Aud is il not ght this morning
that congratulate you that your departed
| friends are safe on the shore Oh heaven:
Would you have them back agains Would
Won have those old parents back againy You
know how hard it was sometimes for them TO
get their breath in the stit1ed atm os2nere OF
the summer. Wonld you have them back IN
this weather? Didn't taey use their BRAIN
long enoughf Would you have your chill
dren back again? Would you have them
take the risks of temptation which throng
every human pathway? Would you have
them cross the Jordan three times? In a"'
dition to crossing it already, cross 1t again
TO greet you now al then cross back AFTER
wards For certrinlY you would not want 70
keep them forever out OF heaven.
Pause and weep, not for the freed fro pun.
But that tae sign OF love would oring them oacs
again.
I ask a question, and there seems to come
back the answer in heavenly echo: What,
will YOU never be sick again. Never
sick-apain." -"Wh will you never be
tired again?e ''Never - tirei - again.
''Wnat, will you never weep again" Never
-weep-again." "Wnat, will you never
die again?S "Never-die-again."
Oh, We army of departed kindred, we hail
YOU from OaQK 10 DdukI w dit lOi W w hSh
the Jordan OF death shall part for us. Come
down and meet us half way bstween tne
widowed banks Of earth AMI the palm groves
of heaven. May our great Righ Priest &c
anead OF us auu with bruised feet toucn tne
water, and then shall be fulfilled the words
of NV .ex-: All Israel went over on ds!
ground until al the people were gone cleaf
through Jordan"
II ASK you what shall be the glad hymn
of this morning, think there would
be a thousand voices that would choose the
same hymn-the hymn that illumines SC
many death cnamoers-the hymn tnat mas
been the parting hymn in many an instance
the old hymn:
On Jordan's stormy banks stand
And cast wistfu eye
To Canaan's far and happy land,
Where my possess .ons lie.
Oh, the transporting apsnrous scene
That rises on my sight!
Sweet felds arrasei In living green,
And rivers Of delight