Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-01-25
HIS GLORIOUS FAITH.
REV. Or. TALMAcE breaches ON
RECOGNITION IN HEAVEN.

He suaas Up t,sc Evidence of the Bible
and That OF the Dying cs.rEstsa- to Prove
= General EIope-A Sermon of Absorb
ing Interest
MINNEAPOLIS, ban 2A-Dr. Talmage
has been for a few days preaching and
lecturing III Chicago, Minneapolis and
ST Paul, and his serE1cn is ON theme
which will Accordingly interest all who
read it. He returns this week to Wash
ington- The subject is Heavenly Rec
ognition, ard the text IL Sam xii, 81
Il shall go 10 him"
There is q. very sick child In the abode
of David the king. Disease, which
stalks up the dark Lane CT tie poor an6
puts its sIcCtlle-ing hand ON lip anG
nostrn Of the wan and wasted, also
mounts tho palace stairs ard, bending
over the pillow, blows into the face of g
young prince the frosts Of pain and
death Tears are vine to the king Oh
terrors. Alas, for David The kingl He
can neither sleep nor cat and lies pros
trate on his face, weeping and wailine
until the palace rings with the outcry
of woe
Shall Ca, Ga Him.
What arc coGrtly attendants or vic.
torious armies or conquered provinces
under such circumstances? What to any
parent is all splendid surrounding When
his child issick2 Seven days have passed
on. There, in that great i.ouse, two eye
lids arc gently closed, two little hands
folded, two little feet quiet, one heart
still Tho servants ecnse to bear the It'd
ings to the king, hut they cannot make
up their minds To tell him, and they
stand at tho deer whispering about the
matter, ard David hears them, and be
looks up and says to them, rs the child
dead?'' Eyes, he is dead -
David rouses himself UP, washes him.
SELF puts on rSw apparel and sits down
to food. What power husfled that tenn
pest? What s>sih was 1t that lifted
mp that king WEoTa grief had dethroned:
Oh, it was the thought that he would
come again into the possession of that
darling child! No gravedigger's spade
could hide him The wintry blasts OF
death could not put out the bright light.
There would be a forge somewhere that
with silver hammer would weld the
broken links. In city where the hoofs
ment he would clasp his lost treasure.
He wipes sway the tears from his eyes,
and he clears the choking grief from his
throat and exclainas, i shall go to himl',
Was David right or wrong? If we part
ON earth, will we meet again in the next
world? Well says some one, ''thai
seems TO be an impossibility. Heaven is
SO large a place we never could find ou1
kindred there Going into some city
without having appointed a time and
place for meetiSg, you might wander
around for weeks and for months, and
perhaps fer years. and never see each
other, and heaven is vaster than ali
earthly cities together And how are you
going to find your departed friend il
that country? Ii Is SO vast realm
John ,7ent up on one mountain of in
SEPARATION, and he looked off upon the
multitude, and he said, Thousands Oh
thousands Then he came upon
greater altitude of inspiration and looked
off upon it again, and he said, stTen
thousand times ten thousand - And
then he came on u higher mount of in
spiration and locked off again and he
said. "A hundred and forty and fou1
thousand and thousands of thousands. -
And he came On still greater height
of inspiration, and he looked off again
and exclaimed, "a great multitude that
no man can number
Now, I ask, how are you going to find
your friends in such Il throng as that
Is not this idea we have been entertain
ing after all a falsity? Is this doctrine
of future recognition of friends in heav-
EN- guess myth, a within, or is it q
granite foundation upon which the soul
pierced of all ages may build glorious
hope? IntccSc question: Every heart in
this audience throbs right into it. There
is in every soul here the tomb of at least
one dead Tremendous question! II
makes the lip culver, and the cheek
flush, and the entire nature thrill Shall
we know each other there? get letters
almost every month asking me to dis
cuss this subject I get a letter in
bold, scholarly hand, on gilt edged pa
per, asking me to discuss this question,
and say, 'sAh. that is q curious man,
and he wants curious question solved. -
But I get another letter. It is written
with a trembling hand and on what
seems to be a torn out leaf Of book,
and there and here is the mark of tear,
and say, ''Oh, that is broken heart,
and 1t wants to be comforted. -
From Theory to Certainty.
The object of this sermon is to take
this theory out of the region of surmise
and speculation into the region of posi-
tive certainty. People say: sit would be
very pleasant if that doctrine We're true.
I hope it may be true. Perhaps it is true.
/ wish it were true" But I believe that
/ can bring an accumulation of argu-
ment to bear upon this matter which
will prove the doctrine of future recog-