The record-union., 1899-06-26

and chant our most jubilant anthems at
the mouth Of the grave. II we compre-
hended that truth in its completeness,
we would forever Danish all black and
Grape from our persons and homes
when by death our loved ones are trans
lated and promoted into the presence
of the King.
Why should Christians adopt these
pagan emblems of death? Jesus says
of his saints, They shall walk with Me
in white" Let US then refuse to drape
our persons in gloom, or hang festoons
of black on the door. Let us, rather,
open the window and let in the bright,
glad sunshine, typical of the splendor
and joy into which the dear one has
entered. Why robe ourselves In black
when they are robed in white?
They stand, those halls of Zion,
All jubilant with song,
And bright with many an angel,
And all the martyr throng.
And they who with their leader
Have conquered in the fight,
Forever and forever,
Are clad in robes of white.
Precious in the sight of the Lord is
the death of his saints. To the Chris
tan death is translation. 1t is promo
ton. Through it he enters into the
possession Of the inheritance of the
saints in light. Therefore, let us open
the windows of hope and let in the
light. Let us fill the room and cover
the coffin with flowers, to symbolic the
joy and the brightness into which our
departde loved ones have entered When
Sir Harry Vane was to be led out to
death they asked him what he would
wear. He said, Bring me my scarlet
robe, for scarlet is the symbol of vic
tory" Let us on the death of cur
loved ones wear symbols of victory. Let
us declare our faith in the better life
they have entered into by the use OF
emblems of hope and joy.
1t is true that grief must have way,
and the tears of love must fall, but let
hope triumph over grief and love over
death. Did you ever try to realize the
meaning of those words of Jesus,
Father 1 will that they whom Thou
hast given me be with me where ann
that they may behold My glory" When
a Christian dies it is an answer to that
prayer of Jesus. There is longing in
His heart to welcome His loved ones to
the heavenly home. As Jesus regards it
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not loss. 1t is gain. 1t is gain because
it brings the saved soul into the imme-
diate presence of the Savior and into
the possession of the inheritance OF the
saints in light As Jesus taught, to
die is to depart out of this world unto
the Father" To die is gain.
Jesus lives, no longer now
Can thy terrorS. Death, appall me;
Jesus lives, by this I know
From the grave he will recall me;
Brighter scenes at death commence,
This shall be my confidence.
The New Testament is radiant with
hope of the future Its language in
the presence of death is always glad
and triumphant. 1t speaks in conf
dent tones of the life to come. AS we
have borne the image of the earthly,
we shall also bear the image of the
heavenly. Beloved, now are we. the
sons of God, and it doth not yet appear
what we shall be, but we know that
when He shall appear we shall be like
Him, for we shall see Him as He is. -
LET not your heart be troubled. In
my Fathers house are many mansions;
if it were not so I would have told
you. I go to prepare a place for you
And if I go and prepare a place for
you I will come again and receive you
unto myself, that where am there We
may be also. / will not drink hence
forth of this fruit of the vine, until ]
drink it new with you in my Fathers
Kingdom" Brethren. I would not
have you to be ignorant concerning
them which. are asleep, that We sorrow
not, even as others who haven't hope
for if we believe that Jesus died and
rose again, even SO others also who
sleep in Jesus will God bring with
Him." Therefore, we are always con-
fident; we are confident, 1 say, and
willing rather to be absent from the
body and to be present with the Lord. "
He is not the God of the dead. but
of the living, for all five unto Him. y
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard
neither have entered into the heart OF
man the things which God hath pre-
pared for them that love Him. "Who
are these which are arrayed in white
robes? These are they who came out
of great tribulation, and have washed
their robes and made them white in
the blood of the Lamb. Therefore are
they before the throne of God and
serve Him day and night in His Tenn
pie; and He that stitch on the throne
shall dwell among them. They shall
hunger no more, neither thirst any
more, neither shall the sur, light on
them nor any heat. for the Lamb which
is in the midst of the throne shall feed
them, and shall lead them unto living
fountains of waters, and God shall wipe
away all tears from their eyes,
There is no literature in the world
so Astounding with hope and assurance
of the future life as the literature O!
the Bible. 1t teaches us that the
sepulcher is the gateway to a larger
fuller, completer. life. Therefore, we
will not mourn when our loved ones
go from US, for they go to be with
Christ. which is far better Jesus
taught that death was ito depart out
of this world unto the Father
The eye that shuts in dying hour.
VIII open the next in bliss;
The welcome will sound In the heavenly
= world,
Ere the farewell is hushed in this.
We pass from the clasp of mourning
friends,
To the arms of the loved and the lost.
And those smiling faces will greet us
Which on earth we valued most.
A belief in God leads logically to g
belief in immortality. This belief IL
immortality is confirmed and nourishe6
by the words of Jesus and the apps.
ties. We believe that those who have
left us still live. They all live unto
Him" We believe that life is evel
lord of death, and love can never lose
it's own. Our own are our own forever
Heaven is a state, but it is also &
place. Il CO." said Jesus ito prepare