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II 1 seemed to bear his death with forti-


most sensibly feel the loss I had sus-
tanned. It was because I was supported
by the consoling reflection that we could
not long be separated. =
The Norwegian believes it; the Indian
believes it; the Greenlander believes it;
the Swiss believe it; the Turks believe
it. Under every sky, by every river, in
every zone, the theory is adopted. And
SO I say principle universally implant-
ed must be God implanted, and hence a
right belief. The argument is irresisti-
BILE.
| Again, I adopt this theory because
there are features of moral temperament
and features of the soul that will distin-
guish us forever. How do we know each
other in this world? Is it merely by the
color of the eye, or the length of the
hair, or the facial proportions? Oh, no!
It is by the disposition as well, by nat
ural affinity, using the word III the very
best sense and not in the bad sense. And
if in the dust our body should perish
and lie there forever, and there should
be no resurrection, still the soul has
enough features and the disposition has
enough features to make US distinguish
able 1 can understand how in sickness
q man will become so Gelirious that he
will not know his own friends, but will
we be blasted with such insufferable
idiocy that, standing beside our best
friends for all eternity, we will never
guess who they a,e?
One Reasc.2 For Belief.
! Again, I think that one reason why
we ought to accept this doctrine is be-
| cause we never in this world have an
opportunity to give thanks to those to
whom we are spiritually indebted The
| JOY of heaven, we are told, is to be in
augurated by review of LIES work.
These Christian men and women who
have been toiling for Christ, have they
seen the full result Of their work? Oh
mol
In the church at Somerville, N. j.,
John Vredenburgh preached for great
many years. He felt that his ministry
was failure, although he was a faith
full minister preaching the gospel all
the time He died, and died amid dis
couragements, and went home to God,
for no one ever doubted that John Vre-
denEurgh was a good Christian minister.
A little while after his death there came
great awakening in SOmervllle, and
one Sabbath 900 souls stood up at the
Christian altar espousing the cause of
Christ, among them my own father and
mother And what was peculiar in re-
gard to nearly all of those 200 souls was
that they dated their religious impress
sions from the ministry of John Vre-
denburgh. Will that good Christian
man before the throne of God never
meet those souls brought to Christ
through his fundamentally? Oh, of
course he will know them! [ remember
one Sabbath afternoon, borne down with
the sense of my sins and knowing not
God, I took up Doddridge's Rise and
Progress. - Oh, what dark afternoon
it was, and I read the chapters, and I
read the prayers, and I tried to make
the prayers my own. Oh, I must see
Philip Doddridge! H glorious old book
he wrote! It is out of fashion now.
There is a mother before the throne
of God. You say her joy is full. Is it?
You say there can be no augmentation
of it. Cannot there be? Her son was
wanderer and vagabond on the earth
when that good mother died. He broke
her old heart. She died, leaving him in
the wilderness of sin. She is before the
that son repents of his crimes and gives
his heart to God and becomes a useful
Christian and dies and enters the gates
of heaven. You tell me that that moth
er's Joy cannot be augmented. Let them
confront each other, the son and the
mother. ooh, she says to the angels of
God, rejoice with ms! The dead is alive
again, and the lost is found Hallelu-
iah, I never expected to see this lost one
come back The Bible says nations are
to be born in day. When China comes
to God, will it not know DR.. Abeel?
When India comes, will it not know Dr.
John Scudder? When the Indians come
to God, will they not know David
Brainerd?
see a soul entering heaven at last
with covered face at the idea that it has
done so little for Christ and feeling
borne down with unworthiness, and it
says to itself, IT have no right to be
here A voice from a throne says:
"Oh, you forget that Sunday school
class you invited to Christi I was one
Of them And another voice says:
"You forget that poor hAlan to whom
you gave loaf of bread and told of the
heavenly bread. was that man. And
another says: s'You forget that sick one
to whom you gave medicine for the body
and the soul I was that one.' And
then Christ, from throne overlapping
all the rest, will say, "Inasmuch as We
did it to one of the least of these, you
did it to me- And then the ssraphs
will take their harps from the side of
the throne and cry, "What song shall
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harpers, shall say, "It shall be the
Harvest Home. -
Theory Confirmed by the Dying.