Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1898-09-10

III his last moments he seemed to be
personally talking with Christ as friend
with friend, saying: ooh, how delight
full it isl knew you would be with me
when the time came, and | knew it
would be sweet, but did not know it
would be as sweet as it is The fact
was he had served his generation in the
gospel ministry. and by the will Of God
he fell asleep. When in Africa Maj
wara, the servant, looked into the tent
of David Livingstone and found him on
his knees, he stepped back, not wishing
to disturb him in prayer. and some time
after went i'll and found him in the
Same posture and stepped back again,
but after awhile went in and touched
him, and, 10, the great traveller had
finished his last journey, aud he had
died in the grandest and mightiest pos
ture a man ever takes-on his knees.
He had served his generation by un
rolling the scroll of a continent, and by
tho will of God fell OH sleep. In the
museum Of Greenwich. England, there
is fragment of book that was found
in the arctic regions, amid the relics of
Sir John franklin, who had persisted
amid the snow and ice, and the leaf of
that piece of a book was turned down
at the words, "When thou passest
through the waters, I will be with
thee. " Having served his generation in
the cause of science and discovery, by
the will CT Cod he fell on sleep.
Why will you keep us all SO nervous
talking about that which is only dor
mitory and pillowed slumber, cano-
pied by angels wings? Sleep Transport
ing Sleep And whata glorious awaken
ing! You and I have sometimes been
thoroughly bewildered after long and
fatiguing journey We have stopped at
friends house for the night, and after
hours of complete Inconsistencies we
have opened our eyes, the high risen
sun full in our faces, and before we
could fully collect our faculties have
said, "Where am I, whose house is
this and whose are these gardens:"
And then it has flashed upon us in glad
reality.
Blissful Awakening.
And should not wonder if after we
have served our generation and by the
will of God have fallen on sleep, the
deep sleep, the restful sleep, we should
awaken in blissful bewilderment and
for little while say: "Where am I?
What palace is this? Why, this looks
like heaven It is. 1t is. Why, there is
building grander than all the castles
of earth heaved into mountain of
splendor-that must be the palace of
Jesus. And look there at those walks
lined with foliage more beautiful than
anything I ever saw before, and see
those who are walking down those aisles
of verdure. From what have heard of
them those two arm and arm must be
Moses and Joshua, him of Mount Sinai
and him of the hating sun over Gideon,
and those two walking arm in arm
must be John and Paul, the one so
gentle and the other so mighty.
"But I must not look any longer at
those gardens of beauty, but examine
this building in which I have just
awakened. 1 look out of the window
this way and that and up and down, and
/ find it is mansion of immense size
in which I am stopping. All its win
dows of agate and its colonades of por-
phyry and alabaster. Why, I wonder if
this is not the 'house of many man.
sions, of which I used to read? tits. 1t
is. There must be many of my kindred
and friends in this very mansion. Hark !
Whose are those voices? Whose are
those bounding feet? 1 open the door
and see, and, 10, they are coming through
all the corridors and up and down all
the stairs, our long absent kindred.
Why, there is father, there is mother,
there are the children. All well again.
All young again. All of US together
again. And as we embrace each other
with the cry, Never more to part;
never moro to part, the arches, the al
coyes, the Railways echo and re-echo
the words, Never more to part; never
more to part!' Then our glorified friends
say, Come out with as and see heaven.
And some Of them bounding ahead of
us and some Of them skipping beside
us we start down the ivory stairway,
and we meet coming up one of the kings
of ancient Israel, somewhat small of
stature, but having a countenance
radiant with a thousand victories, and
as all are making obeisance to this
great one Of heaven cry out, Who is
hep and the answer comes: This is the
greatest of all the kings. 1t is David,
who, after he had served his generation
by the will of God, fell on sleep. Z"