The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-01-28

anu NO mors Keep saying: ~ hope IL Ia so.
nave an Idea II Is SO. 1 guess itis o." Bs
aoie TO say, with all the contracted energy
OF BODY, mind and soul. al know 4, Is sou
There are IN addition to these Bibis arsu-
ments other reasons why L accep. this theory.
In the first place, because the rejection OF il
implies the entire obiiteration OF our mamory.
CAM 1t be possible That we shall forget for
ever those with whose walk, look. manner
we have been so long familiar? viii death
coma and with a sharp, keen blade hew away
this faculty OF memory? Abraham said to
Dives, "SOn, remember" II the oxlied and
the lost remember, will not the enthroned
remember?
You know very we'll that our low in any
circumstance is augmented by the comuan-
ionship OF our friends. We cannot seq a
picture with less tlan four eyes. or he IT n
song with less than f0ur ears. We want
someone beside Us with whom to exchange
Slances and sympathies. aud | 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. AMI when there surses 10 in our eur
the iubilate OF the saved. Hea;en Is not n
contraction. IL Is an expansion, IL know
You here, L will know you better there. Here
L SEQ you with only two eyes, but there the
soul shall have "A million eyes. 1t viii be
immortality gazing on immortality-rnn-
somei spirit in colloquy with ransomed
spirit victor beside victor. When John
Evans, the Scotch minister, was seated in
his study, his WHO came In and said to him,
"My dear, do you think we will know each
other in heaven?' He turned to her and
said, 'My dear, do you think we will be
bigger fools in heaven than We are here?"
Again, L accept this doctrine of future
recognition because the worlds expectancy
afllrms it. In nil lands and ages this theory
Il received. What form ci religion planted
III No form Of religion, for II is received
under all forms OF religion. Then, l argue.
II sentiment. n feeling. an anticipation,
universally planted, must have b ZEN God
implanted, aud II Col implanted 1t is right
fully implanted. Socrates writes: ''Who
would not part with n great deal TO purchaee
u meeting with Orpneus and Homer? III it
be true that this Is to be- the consequence OF
death, | could even b. able to die often"
Again, l adopt this theory becau ~ there
nre features OF moral temperament aud
features OF tho soul that Will distingu sh
US forever. How do We know each other in
this world? l. 1t merely by tho color of the
eye, or the length OF the heir, or the facial
proportions? Oh, no. 1t j. by the DISPOSE
ton rs well. by natural affinity, using the
word in the very best sense and not in the
bad sense, md if in the dust our body should
perish and lie there forever. IN there should
be no resurrection. still the soul has enough
''HA'A| - ~ 'A'IFFANh iAtN0 'AIblE l'tA~
lures 10 make Va dislingulshablc. l can un-
derstand how IN sickness Il man will become
so delir.ous that he will not know his own
friends, but will we be blasted with such
insuTerable iliocy that, standing beside our
best irienis for all eternity, We will never
guess who they arey
Again, Think that ono reason why we
ought to accept this doctrine Is brcHUse we
never In tn $ world have M opportunity TO
give THANKS to those to whom we are spirit
ualiy indebted. The Joy Of heaven, We ar,
told, Is to DO inaugurO;rd by u review Of
LIES work. Those Christian mon and wo-
mrn who have been toll ng for Christ. have
they seen the full result OF their work? On,
no!
In the church Mt SomCrvlllc. N. J., John
VredenburSh preached for a great many
years. He felt that his ministry was II
failure, although he vas n faithful minister
preaching toe gospel all the time. lie died,
and died amid discouragements, and went
home TO God. for no one ever doubted that
John NredenburSh was u good Christian
minister. A little while after his death
there came n oreat awakening in SomerviiIc,
md ono Sabbath 200 souls stood up Mt tho
Christian altar espous ng thcerause OF CnrIst,
among them my own father and mother.
And what was peculiar in regard TO nearly
all of those 20D souls was that they dated
their religious impression from the ministry
OF John Vredenburgh. viii that good Chris
tian man before tho throne OF God never
meet those souls brought 10 Christ through
his instrumentality? ON, OF course he will
know them. remember ono Sabbath after
noon, borne down with the sense OF my sins
and knowing not Col. TOOK up Doddridge's
rise and Progress" Oh. what n dark
afternoon it was. and read the chapters,
and l read tho prayers, aud tried to make
the prayers my own. Oh. | must see Philip
Doddridgc. A glorious Old book he wrote!
1t is ont OF fashion now.
There Is n mother b3fOre the throne OF God. !
You say FER JOY is full. Is IN You say there
can be no augmentation OF It. Cannot there
be! Her son was u waudcrer and q vGgabOnd
on the earth when that good mother died.
He broke her old heart She died lraving
him in tho wilderness Of sin. She il before
the throne of God now. Years pass, and that
son repents OF his crimes and gives his hear
to God and becomes Il useful Christian and
dies and enters thn gates Of heaven. You
tell mo that that mothers joy cannot BIZ aug
mentci? Let then confront each o,hsr, the
son aud tho wo.her. "Oh." she says TO the
angels OF God, "~reioico with mel The dead
is alive again, and the lost is founl. Halle
luiah! | never expected to srr this lost ono
come bIck.h The Bible says Nations arc to
be born in Il day. When China m to God.
will it not know DR.. AbeeI? when India
comes. Wilt not knDW DR.. John S'uidorH
When tho Indians come TO Cos, will they not
know David Brainerd1
l see u soul entering heaven nj last, with
covered face n, tho liea tina. it has done so
little for Christ and fceling borne down with
unworthinsss, aud It says 20 itself, az have
no right TO DO here" A voice from n throne
says; 'Oh, you forget that Sunaal-school
ciass YOU invited to Christ! l was one Of
them" And another voice says: you for
get that poor nan to whom You gltn u loaf /
of bread aud told OF tho heavenly bread. | !
was that man." Aud another says: You ,
fn, get that sick one to whom YOU gave meli- T
cine for the body AMI the soul. | was Tint !
one" And then Christ. from . throne over 4
all the rest. will say. 'lna4much Us ,
We did It 10 one OF the least Of these. you did
it to me-" Aud then the snraphS wall tako ,
their harps from the side OF the throne ana I
cry. "What song shall it bC?" And Christ, y
bending over the harptr-. shall say, "lt a
shall be the harvest homer
One more reason why / am disposcl to !
accept this doctrine OF future recognition " n
that so many In their last hour on 'arth a
have confirmed this theory. lsp"at mol OF n
who have been d~eliriou5 IN tno'r "
last moment and knew not what they wero
about, Int OF persons who died In caimnfss
and placiiity, and who were not mutually y
superstitlous. Often tho clortcs OF heaven =
ha Ia