The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-06-21

gorge, you will be company for each
other. The child close up TO the bosom
of its mother. The husband and wife
Remarked; on their lips the sacrament
Of the dust Brothers and sisters, who
used in sport to fling themselves on the
grass, now again reclining side by side
in the grave, in hecks of sunlight sift-
ing through the long, 1.-THE willows.
Then at the trumpet of the archangel
to rise side by side, shaking themselves
from the dust of ages. The faces that
were ghastly and fixed when you saw
them last all aflush with the light Of
interruption. The father looking
around on his children and saying:
Come, come, my darlings, this is the
morning of the resurrection" Mrs.
Sigourney wrote beautifully with the
tears and blood of her own broken
heart:
There was shaded chamer
A silent, watching band
On q low couch o suffering child
Grasping her mothers hand
But mid the gasp 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,
"Seep by my side, dear mother,
And rise with me at last"
o, yes, we want to be buried together,
Sweet antetype of everlasting resi-
dence in each others companionship.
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 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
upon us the idea that the departed are
ours yet-ours forever2
But console you again with the fact
of your present acquaintanceship 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: 1--WE are surrounded by a
great cloud of witnesses" Just as in
the ancient amphitheater there were
eighty or one hundred thousand people
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. II is a sweet, a consoling, q
scriptural idea. With wing Of angel
earth and heaven are in constant com
munication. Does not the Bible say
"Are they not sent forth as ministering
spirits TO those who shall be heirs OF
salvation?" And when ministering
spirits come down and see us, do they
not take some message back2 1t is i'm
possible to realize, know, the idea that
there is such rapid and perpetual inter
communication OF earth and Heaven;
but 1t is a glorious reality. You take q
rail train and the train is in full mo
ton, and another train from the oppo
site direction dashes past you so swiftly
that you are startled; all the way be
tween here and Heaven Is filed with
the up trains and the down trains
spirits coming-spirits going-cominf
-going-coming-going. That FRIEND
Of yours who died last month-do yor
not suppose he told all the family new,
about you in the good land TO the
f,.t. IL vhA No, ta,,
pose 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 temptations, your struggles, youl
! victories? Aye, they do. Perhaps dur
ing the last war you had a 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 fol
home. You said; "Well, now, have
you any letters to send? any messages
TO send2" And they filed your pockets
with letters, and you started home
Arriving home, the neighbors came in
and one said: "Did you see my Johnp
and others: "Did you see Georgep
"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. Dc
you suppose that angels Of God, coming
down TO this awful battlefield of sin
and sorrow, and death, and meeting III
and seeing us, and finding out all about
us, carry back no message TO the slsiesi
o, there is consolation in itl You are
In present communication with thai
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 wher
you are within hailing distance your
other friends win be called out, and
as you dash through the pearl-hune
! gate, their shout will make the hill