The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1894-02-06

flames refused to destroy as they Dent out
ward till Il spear did the work, and so,.e OF
the Aibimenses and Hu8uenots, and con
secratcd qual1ers, who were slain for their
religion They had on them many scars,
but their scars were iilunined and they
had on thcir faces a looiS Of especial tri-
unph.
Then we passed along Song Row, ard we
met some of the cid Gospel singers THAT
is Isaac Watts said my attendant. AS we
came up to him he asked me If the churches
on earth were still singing the hymns he
composed at the house of Lord and Lady
Abney to whom he paid visit OF thirty
six years, and 1 told him that many Of the
churches opened their Sabbath morning ser
vices with his old hymn, welcome, sweet
Day OF Rest" and celebrated their gospel
trjumphs with his hymn, salvation. Q the
Joyful Song" and often reused they deyo-
tons By his hymn, Come Ie that Love
the Lord"
While we were talking he introduced ne
70 another OF the song writer's, ard said,
This is Charles Wesley, who belonSd Oh
earth to a different church FROM mine, but
we eli now members of the sam"
church: the temple Of God and the Lamb"
Ana | told Charles wesley that almost
every Sabbath we sarG one Ct his old hymns,
Arm of the Lord, AWal1e 80 or Come.
let Us Join Our Friends Above" or, Love
Divine Al Love EXceliin2.' And While we
were talking on that street called song ROW,
Kirk White the con3unptiYe college stu
dent. now eVerlastingly well cane un, ana
vn talked over his old Christmas hymn,
"Wheu AIarshaled on the Nightly Pam.
And William Cowper came Up, now entirely
recovered from his religious melancholy,
and not looking rs if he had ever in defnehtll
attempted suicide, and we talked over the
vide earthly celebrity and heavenly power
Of his Old hymns "Whcn Can Read MY
Title Clear and, "Ihere AS a touH'diA
| Filled with Blood
And there we met George W Bethunc,
of v-on!roua Broo'lyn pastcrate, ard tCii
him Of how he comforting hymn had been
sung at obsequjes all around the Norid-'It
Is Not All of Death to Die And Top,2oy
came up ard asked about whether
the church was sti]i making use
of his old hymn, Rock OF Ages
/ cleft for Me" And we met also On
| Song Row. Newton, and Hastings anu
! Montgomery and Horatio Bonar ana we
hoard floating from window to window
! s;atclles Of the cid hymns which they start
! ed on earth and started never to die
"But." say some of my hearers did you
see anything Of our friends in heaven On,
! YES I did. Ibid you see my children the1e!
/ ea rs some one, land are there any mSrhS
OF their last sickness SUI upon them?
| did see thcm, but there was no pithot' no
! couch DO fever. no l2nGuor &DoCt th.i','
! They are all well and ruddy, ana sons ~,
ana bounding with eternal n1irth. Iiley ,oiu
! me 10 give their love TO you; 'hat theS
! thought Of yoE hour by hour, ana that WilGi
| tha,- could be excused from the heAHShlE
| plaYErou0u& they c,ti''e Wv" s G]Io1
| over you, and A!sad your che@N' an 49,
yonr dreams With their glad faces, ana mag
3,,l. ,,.o,,la no st the gate to greet you
' C,i' WV, aer9aded to be with them forever
"..Ti ~ f,-a, voices "did you sec our
hH u fi., Gt',s' 9 Te. saw them and
they are wei IN thc lahu al ir 2S2 or
~ rUcuincai';, ca pm ~, e'', 0t ,9,3+ta over
t>pAo!ds ever sweep: ne az G Gi,1 e1-a
from ofc-,S'tGa ~ " ~ an1 Gardens compared
poailatt o. 'tT'1t' 'l,tr j. . desert. me
WIN Win"h Ni';ilr r,f 20 - e -, c1rthIv June
cHli3te - I,iTT,, r. thn one and the
and Ocso4t1' ~ JAN ~. e,niol Hfo in mat
tonic OF me 9ihef, - ,,,'.irh all1 narfect
realm where thr% "re - 80 ~. but
10 eontToE&is4e5, o o. Jritjn love Ana
love, na.Ettatsl IN va, I}of 10 weep Tor
they t9ld ~ ,,ai,. h a1,r,i,ieGt knows no bound
.le 1 i Il oyiV . orosIion OF time when you
g si,,t raign With them in the same palace
nj '.slss 81, ,.,, ,,s \ " ~
;t II tda, to i. -
ares Of chose in heaven 'Do my ddeparted
/ cniflreu remain children, or have they lost
thcir rhiiti!sn ViNacity? 30 nay CepGr
nareuts remain aged OF have they lost
Inc venerable out Of their nature?' Veil,
from what I saw, I thi~k childhood h9d ad-
vanc6G to fail maturity Cf faculty retaining
all the resiicace Of childhood. and that the
a"Cd had r-tssajed to mjd-life freed from
all drD3GaDcp, but GttIl retaining the charm