Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-01-25

God as implied, and you know, my
friends, that that is, after all, the
strongest mode of affirmation. Your
friend travels IN foreign lands. He
comes hczne. He does not begin by ar
guing with you 10 prove that there are
such places as London and Stockholm
and Paris and Dresden and Berlin, but
his conversation implies it. And so this
Bible docs not SO positively state this
theory as all up and down it's chapters
take it for granted.
What docs my text imply? Il shall
90 to him. y What consolation would it
be to David TO go to his child if he
would not know him? Would David
have been allowed to record this antici-
patton for the inspection of all ages if it
were a groundless anticipation? We read
in the first book of the Bible: Abraham
died and was gathered to his people.
Jacob died and was gathered to his peo-
pie. Moses died and was gathered to his
people What people? Why, their
friends, their comrades, tneir old com
paniols. Of course it means that. It
cannot mean anything else. So in the
very beginning of the Bible four times
that is taken for granted The whole
New Testament is an arbOr over which
this doctrine creeps like a luxuriant
vine full Of the purple clusters of con-
ISOLATION JaIass, John and Peter fol
lowed Christ into the mountain. A light
falls from heaven on that mountain and
lifts it into the glories ef the celestial.
Christ's garments glow, and his face
shines like the sun. The door of heaven
swings Open Two spirits come down
and alight on that mountain. The dis
ciples look at them and recognize them
as Moses and Elias. Now, If those dis
ciples standing Oh the earth could recog-
nize these two spirits who have been for
years in heaven, do you tell me that
we with our heavenly eyesight, Will
not be able to recognize those who have
gone out from among us only 5, TO- 30,
80 years ago?
Recognition.
The Bible indicates, over and over
again, that the angels know each other,
and then the Bible says that we are to
be higher than the angels. And if the
angels have the power of recognition,
shall not we, who are to be higher than
UuCy Ill luC uiAt ICstl11l, ltltO tlo SOOO
eyesight and as good capacity? What did
Christ mean, in his conversation with
Mary and Martha, when he said, "Thy
brother shall rise again?o It was as
much as to say: DON cry. DOM wear
yourselves out with this trouble. You
will see him again. Thy brother shall
rise again.
The Bible describes heaven as great
home circle. Well, now, that would be
very queer home circle where the
members did not know each other. The
Bible describes death as a sleep. If we
know each other before we go to sleep,
shall we not know each other after we
wake up? Oh, yes! We will know each
other great deal better then than now,
"for now, says the apostle, 1--WE see
through a glass darkly, but then face to
face It will be my purified, enthroned
and glorified body gazing ON your puri-
fed, enthroned and glorified body.
Now, I demand, if you believe the
Bible, that you take this theory of fu-
ture recognition out Of the realm of
speculation and surmise into the region
of positive certainty, and no more keep
saying: L hope it is so. have an idea
it is SO. I guess it is SO. - Be able to
say, with all the concentrated energy of
body, mind and soul, II know it is sor'
There are, in addition to these Bible
arguments, other reasons why I accept
this theory. In the first place, because
the rejection of it implies the entire OBJ
liberation Of our memory. Can it be
possible that we shall forget forever
those with whose walk, look manner,
we have been SO long kamiliar? Will
death come and with a sharp, keen blade
hew away this faculty of memory?
Abraham said to Dives, "Son, remem-
Der. - If the exiled and the lost remem-
Der, will not the enthroned remember?
You know very well that our joy in
any circumstance is augmented by the
companionship of our friends. We can
not see picture with less than four
eyes OF hear a song with less than four
ears. We want some one beside us with
whom to exchange chances and sympa-
thies, and I suppose the joy of heaven is
to be augmented by the fact that we are
to have our friends with us when there
rise before us the thrones of the blessed
and when there surges up in our ear the
jubilate of the saved. Heaven is not
1t is an expansion. IF
know you here, will know you better
there. Here I see you with only two
eyes, but there the soul shall have
1, 900, 900 eyes. It will be Immortality
gazing on Immortality, ransomed spirit
in colloquy with ransomed spirit, victor
beside victor. When John Evans, the
Scotch minister, was seated in his study,
his wife cam. in and said to him, my
dear, do you think we will know each
other in heaeen?' He turned to her and
said, My dear, do you think we will
be bigger fools in heaven than we are
here?''
The World Expects It.
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