The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1898-05-28

be etner Oh, what Il reunion! DO you
believe that? Yes, you say. Oh, you
do not You do not believe it as you be-
lieve other things. If you do, and with the
same emphasis, why it would take nine
tenths of your trouble off your heart. The
fact is heaven to many of us is great fog.
1t is away off somew here filled with an
uncer- lrl indefinite population. That
is + -. Of heaven that many of us
drca 4 but it is the most tremen-
dOuS Il Ii this univcrSc-thiS heaven
OF ii &C Our departed friends are
no ~ residence in which you
live is ! as the residence in which
they St are afoat-yOu who do
not KIN, morning what will hap
pen bcfo 1T. They are housed and
safe foreS 20 not therefore pity your
departed who have died in Christ.
They do n any of your pity. You
might as w. ID Il letter of coincidence
to Queen V ia on her obscurity or to
the Rot llsChi on their poverty as to pity
those who ha, won the palm. Do not say
Oh those who are departed: ''Poor child!'
Poor fatherl' 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 while? If you
have had four children and one is gore,
and anybody asks how many children you
have, do not be SO intidel 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
tanment 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! I expect to see my kindred in
heavcn-1 expect to see them just as GER
tainly as expect to go home today. Aye,
/ shall more certainly see them. Eight
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
l 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 see that the sun is high in the
heavens, and you say, Il have oversight,
and must be up and away" So you viii!
open your eyes on the morning of the res
direction In the full blaze Of Gods light,
and you will say, Il must be up and
away" Oh, yes, you will come up, and
there will be II reunion, n reconstruction
Of your family! like what Halliburton q
think it was)--good old Mr.. Halliburton
said in his last moments, Il thank God
that ever lived and that have n 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 moro: Our troubles in
this world are preparative for glory. What
a transition it was for Paul-from the
slippery deck of laundering ship to the
cain presence of Jesusl What a transition
it was for Latimer-from the stake to a
thronci What n transition it was for Rob
e Hall--from insanity to glory! What u
nsition it was for Richard Baxter
the dropsy to the Saints Everlast-
in. oest!'' And what a transition it will
be for you--from a world of sorrow to q
world of joy! John Holland, when he was
dying, said: ''What means this brightness
in the room? Have you lighted the can
dles?" no" they replied, eve have not