The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-02-04

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the glory of the next world, and cried
out, .Mother! Do you tell me she did
not see her mother? She did. So in
my first settlement at Belleville plain
man said to me. What do you think
heard last night? l was in the room
where one of my neighbors was dying.
He was good man, and he said he
heard the angels of God singing be-
fore the throne. I haven't much poetry
about me, but I listened, and heard
them, too" Said I, It have no doubt OF
it." Why, we are to be taken up to
heaven at last by ministering spirits
Who are they to be? Souls that went
up from Madras, or Antioch, or Jerusa-
lem? Oh, no! our glorified kindred are
going to troop around us.
Heaven is not a stately, formal place.
as sometimes hear it described, very
frigidity of splendor, where people
stand on cold formalities and go around
about with heavy crowns of gold on
their heads. No, that is not my idea
Of heaven. Ny idea of heaven is more
| like this: You are seated in the even
| ing-tide by the fireplace, your whole
family there or nearly all of them there.
While you are seated talking and en-
! joying the evening hour, there is a
knock at the door, and the door opens,
| and there comes in brother that has
! been long absent. He has been absent,
for years you have not seen him, and
no sooner do you make up your mind
4 that it is certainly he than you leap
up, and the question is who shall give
| him the first embrace. That is my idea
! of heaven great home circle where
they are waiting for us. Oh, will you
! not know your mothers voice there?
She who always called you by your
first name long after others had given
you the formal Mister" You were
never anything but James, or John, or
j George, or Thomas, or Mary, or Flor
/, ence to her. Will you not know your
J child's voice? She of the bright eye
! and ruddy cheek, and the quiet step,
who came in from play and flung her
self into your lap. very shower of
mirth and beauty? Why, the picture is
craven in your SOUL It cannot wear
out If that little one should stand on
the other side of some heavenly hill
and call to you, you would hear her
voice above the burst of heavens great
orchestra. Know it! You could not
help but know it. /.
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