The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-05-23

learn our own weakness and our own lac
Of moral resource
Gisrsss Of Reunion.
There Ia also great deal Of comfort i
the fact that there will be family recon
struction in better place. From Scotlan
or England or Ireland o child emigrates t
America. It Is very hard parting, but h
comes, after awhile writing home as +
what good land it is Another brothe
comes, q sister comes, and another, AM
after awhile the mother comes, and afte
awhile the father comes, and now they ar
all here, and they have a time Of grea
congratulation and q very pleasant re
union. Well, it is just SO with our fam
lilies. They are emigrating toward a bet
ter land. Now one goes out. Oh, how
hard 1t is to part with himI Another goes
Oh, how hard it Is to part with her! Ant
another and another, and we ourselve
will after awhile go over, and then we will
DO together. Oh, what reunion! Do yor
believe that9 YES" you say. Oh, yol
do notl You do not believe it as you be
lieve other things II you do, and with the
same emphasis, why 1t would take nine
tenths Of your trouble off your heart. The
fact Is heaven to many of us is great fog
1t is away of somewhere, filed with an
uncertain and indefinite population. That
is tho kind of heaven that many of us
dream about, but 1t is the most tremen.
dous fact in all this universe-this heaven
Of the gospel Our departed friends are
not afloat. The residence in which you
live Is not so real as the residence in which
hax ycfav oHn NH Il
not know in tho morning what will hap
pen before night. They are housed and
safe forever. Do not therefore pity your
departed friends who have died in Christ.
They do not need any Of your pity. You
might as well send letter Of coincidence
to Queen Victoria on her obscurity or to
the Rothschilds on their poverty as to pity
those who have won the palm. Do not say
Of those who are departed: Poor chile"
"Poor fatherp' "Poor motherr' They
are not poor. You are poor, you whose
homes have been shattered not they. You
do not dwell much with your families in
this world. All day long you are off to
business. Will it not be pleasant when
you can be together all the while2 If you
have had four children and one is gone,
uIlu any etoho INV many ClllluICu 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 enter
tainment, and you come forth beautifully
appareled, and the grave is only the place
where we go to dress for the glorious res
direction, and we will come out radiant,
mortality having become Immortality.
Oh, how much coincidence there is in this
thought l expect to see my kindred in
heaven-I expect to see them just as Ger
tainly as expect to go home today. Aye,
shall more certainly sec 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 an
other will come up from the sea off Cape
Hatteras, and 80 will come up from Green
wood, and shall know them better than
ever knew them here.
And your friends-they may be across
the sea, but the trumpet that sounds here
will sound there. You will come up on
just the same day Some morning you
have oversight yourself, and you open your
eyes and sec that the sun is high in the
and you say, II have oversight,
and must be up and away" So you will
open your eyes on the morning Of the res
direction in tho full blaze Of Gods light,
and you will say, II must be up and
away" Oh, yes, you will come up, and
there will DO reunion, o reconstruction
Of your family like what Halliburton Il I
think 1t was)-good old Mr.. Halliburton !
said in his last moments, II thank God
that ever lived, and that have father
In heaven, and mother in heaven, and
brothers in heaven, and sisters In heaven,
md am now going up to see them"
remark once more: Our troubles in
This world are preparative for glory. What
} transition it was for Paul-from the
slippery deck Of foundering ship to the
,alm presence Of Jesusl What transition
it was for Latimer-from the stake to o
thronel What transition 1t was for Rob
ert Hall-from insanity to glory! What q
transition it was for Richard Baxter
from the dropsy to the Saints Everlast-
ing Rest" And what transition it will {
world of joy! John Holland, when he was I
lying, said: "What means this brightness =
n the roomP Have you lighted the can :,
lles?' NO." they replied, awe have moi
lighted any candies" Then said he, G
Welcome heaven!' The light already '
'eaming upon his pillow. Oh, We who ar, q
in this world, your enemies will a
et off the track after awhile and all viii a
peak we'll of you among the thrones! Ho =
g who are sick now. No medicines t. =
axe there One breath of the eternal hill
Till thrill you with immortal vigor. And d
c who arc lonesome now. There will b. n
million spirits to welcome you into their +
Oh, ye bercft souls! a
here will be no gravedigger's spade that :,
I'LL cleave the side of that hill, and there ~
ill be no dirge wailing from that temple n
he river of God, deep as the joy of heaven, II
ill roll on between banks odorous with q
aim, and over depths bright with jewels, IL
nd under skies roseate with gladness
rgosies of light going down the stream to nv,
lie stroke Of glittering oar and the song of :"
ngels! Not one sigh in the wind; not ~
ne tear mingling with the waters. &c