The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1897-03-13
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You know very we'll that our joy In any
circumstance is augmented by the compan.
ionshlp Of our friends. We cannot see
picture with less than four eyes, OF hear
song with less than four ears. We want
sone cone beside us with whom TO excnanHe
glances and sympathies, aud suppose the
ioy of heaven Is to be augmented By the iacs
that We are to have our friends with us wnen
there rise before us the thrones Oh the |
blessed. and when there surges up 10 our ear |
the iubilate OF the saved. Heaven IS nor |
contraction. 1t is An expansion. II know
you here, will know you better there. Hero
see YOU with only two eyes, but there the
soul shall have million eyes. Will De
immortality gazing on acknowledgement
somei spirit in coloquy with. ransomcd
spirit victor beside victor. When 9ohn
Evans, the Scotch minister, was seated In
mis- study. his wife came in and said to MIN,
.sNy dear. do you think we will know each
other in heaven?" He turned to her and
said, "BIy dear, do you think we Will DC
bigger fools in heaven than we are heref
Again, 1 accept this doctrine OF future
recognition because the worlds expectancy
aflrms it. In all lands and ages this theory
Is received. What form Of religion planted
1t? No form of religion, for IL Is received
| under all forms Of religion. Then, argue,
n sentiment, feeling, an anticipation.
universally planted, must have been GOD
| implanted, and IL God implanted it is right
| fully implanted. Socrates writes: no
| would not part With great deal 10 purena:e
| a meeting With Orpheus and Homer Ii II
| be true that this Is to be the consequence OF
! death. I could even be able to die often.
| Again. 1 adopt this theory because there
| are features OF moral temperament ana
| features of the soul that will diatlngush
| US forever. How do we know each other IN
this world? Is it merely BY the color OF the
eve. or the length OF thu hair, or the facial
| proportions3 OBJ, no. II is by the dtsposi-
lion as well. by natural affinity, using tins
| word in the very best sense and not In the
bad sense. and il In the dust our body should
! perish and lie there forever, and there snouia
be no resurrection. still the soul has enough
feature and the disposition has enough lea
lures 10 make US distinguishable. ! can I'M
derstand how in sickness man Will become
90 delirlous that he will not know his own
friends. but will we be blasted with such
insufYsrable idiocy that, standing beside our
best friends for all eternity, we VIII never
1 guess who they are!
Again, I think that one reason why We
ought to accept this doctrine Is because We
never in this world have an opportunity TO
give thanks to those TO whom we are spirit.
ualiy indebted. The Joy OF heaven, we are
told. is to be inaugurated by review o.
: iife's work. These Christian men and wo-
men who have been toiling for Christ. have
they seen the full result OF their work? On
no!
, In the church at Somerville. N. j., JohI
Z Vredenburyh preached for great man.
! years. He felt that his ministry was
, failure, although he was a faithful ministe
| preachiny the gospel all the time. He died
. | and died amid discouragements, and wen
1 | home to God. for no one ever DOUBTED ina
. John yredenburgh was good Cnristia
! | minister. A little while after his deaf
I there came q great awakening ID Somervli,e
and one Sabbath 200 souls stood up nj tn
CHI istian altar espousing me cause ., a.he
among them my own father ana molnel
And what was peculiar In regard to neari
. all of those 200 souls was that they date
/, their religious impression from the minlstr
= OF John Vredenburgh. Will that good Chri!
' tian man before the throne OF Goa neVt
i meet those souls brought to Christ tnrouS
II his instrum entalty? Oh, OF course ne WI
n know them, Iremember one Sabbath ate
\ noon, borne down with the sense OF my $40
: and knowing not God, Itook up Doddridge
:, s,Rise and Progress" Oh, what dar
!, afternoon It was, and / read the chapter
I and read the prayers, and tried TO mar
II the prayers my own. Oh, must see Phil
q Doddridge. A glorious old DOCK ne ~rot
!, II IL out OF fashion now.
;, There is a mother before the throne OF Go
a You say her Joy is full. Is it? You say the
a can be no augmentation OF ii. Cannot the
,s be-? Her son was wanderer and vagabor
a on the earth when that good MOL er oie
., He broke her old heart. She died leavii
e. him In the wilderness OF sin. She is befo
I'd tho tnfone OF God now. Years pass, and 10
=. son repents OF his crimes and gives his hea
=, TO God and becomes useful Christian ri
"a iies and enters the gates OF heaven. II
IN tell me that that mothers JOY caunot be au
no mented? Let them confront each other, I
an son and the p,oiher. "0h," she says TO I
OF angels of God, ''rejoice with mel The de
10 is alive again. and the lost is found Hal
a. luiahl l never expected TO see this lost
i'm come back" The Bible says Nations are
a- he born in dav. When China GENES to &c
IN will it not know Dr. Abeel? When Int
on comes. will 1t not know DR.. John Scuon'
he When the Indians come TO Goodwill they
,s. know David Brainerd2
no see a soul entering heaven at last, WI
. covered face a, the idea that 1t has done
ma little for Christ and feeling borne down w
az unyorthiness and it says 10 itself. II nc
mt no right to be- here" voice from thro
~. says: 'Oh, you forget that Sunday-sch'
we class you invited to Christ! l was one
an them" And another voice says: ''You I
he get that poor man to whom you gave II
1ys of bread and told Of the heavenly bread.
,'lt was that man" And another says: "Y
of 70, get that sick one to whom you gave me
civ cine for the body and the soul l was &
nd one" And then Christ. from throne ov
all topping all the rest, will say, "lnasmucn
,nr We did 1t to one Of the least OF these, you
mes il to me-" And then the seraphs will Il
18th their harps from the side OF the throne
az cry. "What song shall 1t be?" And Chr
res bending over the barpers. shall say,
lies shall be the harvest home!"
ely one more leasOa WY w f,trra n recognitio
''' that so many in their last hour on ef
to have confirmed this theory. speak no
70 persons who have been delirious In Il
low last moment and knew not what thsy "
70 about, out OF persons who died in caiml
! of and plaeiiity, and who were not natur
on? superstitious. Often the glories OF hea
BRA have struck the dying pillow, and the
Die. parting man has said he saw and heard u
ple. who had gone away from him. How o
ME. it g In the dying moments parents see u
ON. departed children and children see their
a II parted parentsl came down to the ba
Use of the Mohawk River. twas evening, al
our wanted to go over the river, and so wa
nols my hat ami shouted, and alter while
this some one waving ON the opposite bank.
4 Of heard him shout. and the boat came ACT
mes. and got In and was transported. And
the suppose it will be In the evening OF our
on We will come down to the river OF death
g of give signal TO our Irienos on tue y
His shore, and they will give signal back K
wen and the boat comes, and our depa
and kindred are the oarsmeD, the fires OF the
look ting day tinging the tops Of the paddles.
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