Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1897-01-30

be no resurrection, still the soul has
enough features and the disposition has
enough features to make us distinguish
able. I can understand how in sickness
man will become so dolirious that he
will not know his own friends, but will
we be blasted with such insufferable
idiocy that, standing beside our best
friends for all eternity, we will ncyer
guess who they are?
One Reason For Belief.
Again, L think that one reason why
we ought to accept this doctrine is be-
cause we never in this world have an
opportunity to give, thanks to those to
whom we are spiritually indebted. The
JOY of heaven, We arc told, is to be in
nugurated by a review of lifc's work.
These Christian men and women who
have been toiling for Christ, have they
seen the full result of their work? Oh,
mol
In the church at Somerville, N. j.,
John Vredenburgh preached for great
many years. He felt chat his ministry
was Il failure, although he was faith
full minister preaching the gospel all
the time He died, and died amid dis
couragements, and went home to God,
for no one ever doubted that John Vrc-
dcnburgh was IL good Christian minister.
A little while after his death there came
:; great awakening in Somcrville, and
one Sabbath 200 souls stood up at the
Christian altar espousing the cause Of
Christ, among them my own father and
mother. And what was peculiar III re-
gard to nearly all of those 200 souls was
that they dated their religious impress
sions from the ministry of John Vrc-
dcnburgh. Will that good Christian
m;ln before the throne of God never
meet those souls brought to Christ
through his instrumentality? Oh, of
course he will know them! remember
one Sabbath afternoon, borne down with
the sense of my sins and knowing not
God, l took up Doddridge's Rise and
Progress. " Oh, what dark afternoon
it was, and I read the chapters, and /
read the prayers, aud 1 tried to mako
the prayers my own. Oh, must SEQ
Philip Doddridgc! A glorious old book
he wrotel 1t is out of fashion now.
There is Il mother before the throne
of God. You say her joy is full. Is it?
You say there can be no augmentation
of it. Cannot there be? Her son was u
wandcrcr and vagabond on the earth
when that good mother died. He broke
her old heart. She died, leaving him in
the wilderness of sin She is before the
throne of God now Years pass, and
that son rcpcrts Of his crimes and gives
his heart to God and becomes Il useful
Christian and dies and enters the gatos
of heaven. You tell me that that moth
crs JOY cannot be augmented. Let them
confront each other, the son and the
mother. "Oh, she says to the angels Of
God, "rcioicc with me! The dead is alive
again, and the lost is found. Hallelu-
iah, [ never expected to see this lost one
come back. :" The Bible says nations are
to be born i'll day When China comes
to God, will it rot know DR.. Abeel?
When India comes, will it not know DR..
John Scudder? When the Indians come
to God, will they not know David
Brainerd?
L see soul entering heaven at last
with covered face at the idea that it has
done so little for Christ and feeling
borne down with unworthiness, and it
saws to itself, Il have no right to be
here A voice from throne says:
ooh, you forget that Sunday school
class you invited to Christ! I was one
of them And another voice says
"You forget that poor man to whom
you gave a loaf of bread and told of the
heavenly bread I was that man. F" And
another says: "You forget that sick one
to whom you gave medicine for the body
and the soul. was that one. " And
then Christ, from throne overlapping
all the rest, will say, "Inasmuch as We
did it to one of the least of these, you
did it to me. And then the seraphs
will take their harps from the side of
the throne and cry, "What song shall
it be-" And Christ, bending over the
harpcrs, shall say, "It shall be the
Harvest Home. %
Theory Confirmed by the Dying.
One more reason why am disposed
to accept this doctrine Of future recogni-
ton is that so many in their last hour
on earth have confirmed this theory. I
speak not of persons who have been de-
lirious in their last moment and knew
not what they were about, but OF per
sons who died in calmness and placidity,
and who were not naturally supersti-
tious. Often tho nries of heaven have
struck the dying plllo =, and the depart
ing man has said he saw and heard
those who had gone away from him.
How often it is in the dying moments
parents see their departed children and
children see their departed parentsl l
came down to the banks of the MohaMk