Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1900-12-14

recite hymns and Mozart play. "Oh."
you say, where would ycu get the or.
ganT The Lord VIII provide the or
gan Don't you bother about the organ.
i believe l shall yet see David with n
harp. and i will ask him to sing one OF
the songs of Zion. l believe after the
resurrection l shall see MaSsillon, the
great French pulpit orator. and shall
hear from his own lips how he felt on
that day when he preached the kings
funeral sermon and flung his whole
audience into q paroxysm of grief and
solemnity. l have no patience with
your tranScendental. gelatinous. case
Gus heaven. My heaven is not a fog
bank. My eyes are unto the hills, the
everlasting hills. The Kings ferryboat,
starting from a wharf on this side, will
go TO wharf on the other side.
Friends TO Greet Us.
Again. my subject teaches that when
we cross over at the last we shall be
met at the landing. When David and
his family went over i'm the ferryboat
spoken OF I'm the text. they landed amid
nation that had come out to greet
them. AS they stepped from the deck
OF the boat to the shore there were
thousands of people who gathered
around them to express a satisfaction
that was beyond description. And so
you and | will be met at the landing.
Our arrival will not be like stepping
ashore at Antwerp or Constantinople
among crowd of strangers. 1t will be
| among friends, good friends, those who
are-warm hearted friends. and all their
friends. We know people whom we
have never seen by hearing somebody
talk about them very much. We know
them almost as well as if we had seen
them. And do you not suppose that
our parents and brothers and sisters
and children in heaven have been talk
Ing about us all these years and talk
ing to their friends? So that | sup
pose. when we cross the river at the
last we shall not only be met by all
those Christian friends whom we knew
on earth. but by all their friends They
will come down to the landing to meet
us. Your departed friends love you
now more than they ever did. You will
be surprised Mt the last to find how
they know about all the affairs Of your
life. Why. they are only across the
ferry, aud the boat is coming this way.
and the boat is going that way do
not know but they have already asked
the Lord the day, the hour, the mo-
ment, when you are coming across and
that they know now, but l do know
that you will be met at the landing.
The poet Southey said he thought he
should know Bishop Heber In heaven
by the portraits he had seen of him I'm
II
thought hc-would know William Cow.
per, the poet, In heaven from the pic
lures he had seen of him in England.
but we will know our departed kindred
by the portraits hung i'm the throne
room of our hearts.
On starlight nights you hook up-and
i suppose IL Is so with any one who has
friends In heaven-on starlight nights
you look up, and you cannot help but
think of those who have gone, and I
suppose they look down and cannot
help but think OF us. But they have
the advantage of us. We know not
just where their world of joy is. They
know where we are.
Glorious Consolation.
There was romance as well as Chris. |
tan beauty in the life of DIR. Adoniram |
Judson, the Baptist missionary, when |
he concluded to part from his wife. she |
to como to America TO restore her |
health, he to go back TO Burma TO |
preach the gospel They had started |
from Burma for the United States to-
gether; but, getting near ST. Helena,
Mrs. Judson was so much better she |
said: well, now / can get home very |
easily. You go back to Burma and
preach the gospel to those poor people. |
am almost well. shall soon be well.
and then will return to you" After /
she had made that resolution. terrific
In Its grief, willing TO give up her hus-
band for Christ's sake she sat down In
her room and with trembling hand
wrote some eight or ten verses, four of
which will now give you:
We part on this green islet, love
Thou for the eastern main;
for the setting sun. love;
oh, when TO meet agani
When VIC knelt 10 sec our Henry die
And heard his last faint moan,
Each wiped away the others tears;
Now each must weep alone.
And who paint our mutual 10y
When. all our wandering DER,
We both shall clasp infants three
AT home on Burma's shorcY
But higher shall our raptures glow
On yon celestial plain
When loved and parted here below
Meet ne'er TO part again.
She folded that manuscript A re
lapse or her disease came on, and she
died. DR.. Judson says he put her away
Tor the resurrection ON the isle of ST.
Helena. They had thought TO part for
year or two. Now they parted for
ever so far as this world Is concerned.
And he says he FASTENED on board after
the funeral with his little children to
start for Burma, for the vessel had al-
ready lifted her sails, and he saws: ct
sat down for some time in my cabin.
my little children around me CRYING.
Mother mother!' and l abandoned
myself to heart breaking grief. But
one day the thought came across me as
my faith stretched her wing that we
should meet again In heaven, and /
was comforted"
Was Ii, my friends, all a delusIon?
When he died, did she meet him Mt the
landing? When she died, did the scores
or souls whom she had brought to
Christ and who had preceded her TO
heaven meet her at the landing? | be-
heve IL. | know 1t. oh, glorious con-
ISOLATION. that when our poor work on
earth Is done and we cross the river we
shall be met at the landing.
But there is n thought that comes
over me like an electric shock. Do
belong to the Kings household? Mark
you, the text says, "And there went
over a ferryboat to carry over the {
kings household" and none but the {
kings household. Then / ask, Do be-
long to the household? Do you? If
you do. come today and be adopted Into
that household oh" says some soul .
here, Il do not know whether the King {
wants me-" He does; he does Hear
the voice from the throne, 81 VIII be a