Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-05-28
NUMBER 46

gether all the while! II you have mad
four children and one is gone, and any
body asks how many children you have,
do not be SO infdel as to say three. Say
four-one in heaven. Do not think that
the grave is unfriendly. You go into
your room and dress for some grand en-
tertainment, and you come forth beau
tifully appareled, and the grave is only
the place where we go to dress for the
glorious resurrection, and we will come
out radiant, mortality having become
immortality. Oh, how much coincidence
there is in this thought expect to see
my kindred in heaven. I expect to see
them just as certainly as expect to go
home today. Aye, shall more certain
ly see them Eight or ten will come up
from the graveyard back of Somerville,
and one will come from the mountains
back of Annoy, China, and another will
come up from the sea off Cape Hatteras,
and 30 will come up from Greenwood,
and shall know them better than l ev.
er knew them here
Morning of the Resurrection.
And your friends-they may be across
the sea, but the trumpet that sounds
here will sound there. You will come
up Oh just the same day. Some morning
you have oversight yourself and you
open your eyes and see that the sun is
high in the heavens and you say, II
have oversight and I must be up and
away" So you will open your eyes on
the morning of the resurrection, in the
full blaze Of Gods light, and you will
say, 81 must be up and away" Oh.
yes you will come up, and there will
be reunion, a reconstruction of your
family I like what Halliburton Il
think it was)-good old MIR. Halliburton
said in his last moments: II thank
God that ever lived and that have a
father in heaven and mother in heaven
and brothers in heaven and sisters IN
heaven, and am now going up to see
them. -
l remark once more, our troubles In
this world are preparative for glory.
What transition it was for Paul
from the slippery deck of laundering
ship to the calm presence OF Jesus
What transition it was for Latimer-
from the stake to throne What a
transition it was for Robert Hall-from
insanity to glory What transition 1t
was for Richard Baxter-from the
dropsy to the Saints Everlasting
Rest!" And what transition it will
he for you-from a world Of sorrow to
a world Of joy! John Holland, when he
was dying said: 'What means this
brightness in the room? Have you light
ed the candles?'' No." they replied,
eve have not lighted any candles"
Then said he, Welcome, heaven!" the
light already beaming upon his pillow.
Oh, ye who are prosecuted in this world,
your enemies will get off the track after
awhile and all will speak well Of you
among the thrones Ho, We who are sick
now! No medicines to take there. One
breath of the eternal hills will thrill
you with immortal vigor. And ye who
are lonesome now, there will be million
spirits to welcome you into their COM
panionship! Oh, ye bereft souls, there
will be no gravedigger's spade that will
cleave the side of that hill. and there
will be no dirge wailing from that tenn
pie! The river of God, deep as the JOY
of heaven, will roll on between banks
odorous with balm and over depths
bright with jewels and under skies
roseate with gladness, argosies of light
going down the stream to the stroke of
glittering car and the song of angels
Not one sigh in the wind; not one tear
mingling with the waters.