The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1897-01-30
SOUL RECOGNITION.
aEv. OR. TALMA0E SAYS WE SHALL
KNOW EACH OTHER.

Il Into the Region Of Positive Certainty.
A 0lorsons Faith.
MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. a4.-Dr. Tnlmage
has been for a few days preaching and lee
turing in Chicago, Minneapolis and St.
Paul and his sermon Is on a theme which
will absorbingly interest NIL who read it.
He returns this week to Washington. The
subject IL s.HeavenIy Recognition" and
the text, IL Samuel XII, 30, ~ shall 60 20
him."
There ia q very siok child In the abode
OF David the king. Disease, which stalks
up tho dark lane Of the poor and puts Its
sGnothefing hand on lip and nostril Of the
wan and wnsted, also mounts tho palace
stairs and bending over the pillow blows
Into the fnce Of q young prince the frosts
RI pain and death. Tears are wine to the
Ing of terrors. Alas for David the king.
He oan neither sleep nor cat and lies pros
erAto on his face weeping and wailing I'M
I'll the palace rings with the outory of woe
What arc courtly attendants, or viotori-
Gus armies. or conquered provinces under
such c,reumstanccae What TO any parent
10 all splendid surrounding when his child
n siok2 Seven days here passed on. There
In TINT grcat house two eyolids are. gently
rlOssd, two little hands folded, two little
i foot quiet, one honrt still. Tho servants
como ~ bear tho tidings 70 tho king, but
vl1Fy Cn0 nos Ouk0 Wy tu01x AuiAu6 W WA
hi,n, and .3,ry eta nd At the door whisper
Ing abons tho matter, and David hears
them, ia &c looks up and says 10 them,
s.Is tho child dead?" Eyes, he is dead"
David rouses himself mp, washes himself.
puts on nsw apparel and sits down to food.
Whnt power hushcd TINT tempest What
s strength was IL that lifted up that king
whom grief had detbroneds Oh, 1t was-tt,o
thought that he would como again into the
4 POSSESSION Of that darling child. No grave
d1RgoPss spade could hide him. The win
Try blasts of death could not put out the
bright light. There would be forge some
whore that With silver hammer would weld
tho broken links. In city where the
ho0fs Of ths pale horse never strike the
pavCmcnt he would clasp his lost treasure.
He wipes away tho tears from his eyes, and
no olcars The choking grief from his throat
and sxoaaims, II shalt go 10 him.
Tho Heavenly Throng.
Was David right or wrongt II we part
On car4h, will wo meet again in tho next
worlde "Wsli." says. some one. that
soems 20 b an impossibility. Heaven is SO
dred thsrs." Going into some city, with
out having appointed n time and place for
nnootiuge you might wander around for
weeks and for months, and perhaps for
gears, and never sea each other, and heaven
In vaster than all earthly cities together.
s ana now OfO you going 70 Auu your Oe-
parted friend In that country It Is SO
vast roalm. John went up on one noun
tain Of inspiration, and he looked OF upon
cha multitude. md he said, Thousands OF
thOunnds.'' Then no cane upon a greater
altitude OF Inspiration and looked of upon
1tagnin, and he said, "Ten thousand times
Sen thousand." And thsn he came on a
higher mount Of inspiration and looked of
aeain, and no said. IA hundred and forty
and four thousand and thousands of thou
snnds.' And no came ON n still greater
height OF inspiration, and he looked of
again and exclaimed, IA great multitude
thAt no man can number
Now, nsk, how arc you going to find
your friends in such throng as thats Is
not this tdca We have been entertaining,
after NIL, a fnlsityf Is this doctrine of fu-
turc recognition OF friends In heaven a
gncss, myth, a within, or is 1t granitio
foundation upon which the soul pierced of
all nges may build q glorious hopes In
tense question: Every heart In this audi
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