Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1900-12-15


/ this world we are not TO have great
and perilous enterprise of getting into
1 heaven. Not dangerous Franklin ex-
petition TO find the northwest passage
among icebergs. Only ferry. That ac-
counts for something you have never
| been able TO understand. You never sup
I posed that very nervous and timid Chris
/ liau people could be so unexcited and pla-
/ cid in the last hour. The fact is. they
were clear down on the bank and they
/ saw there was nothing TO be frightened
Z about. Such a short distance-ouly a
ferry. With one ear they heard the
| funeral psalm in their. memory, and with
/ the other ear they heard the song Of
( heavenly salutation The willows on
( this side the Jordan and the Lebanon
! cellars on the other almost interlocked
their branches. Only ferry.
Welcome at the Landing.
Again. my subject teaches that Wien
We cross over at the last we shall DE met
ut the landing. When David and his
! family went over in the ferryboat spoken
Of in the text. they landed amid a nation
/ chat had come out to greet them. A. they
| stepped from the deck of the boat To The
shore there We're thousands Of people Who
! gathered around them to express a salts
l. faction that was beyond description. And
so You and I viii be met at the landing.
Our arrival will not be like stepping
/ ashore ut Antwerp or Constautinoplc
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 we'll as if we had seen them.
| Aud do You not suppose that our parents
and brothers and sisters and children in
! heaven have been talking about as all
| these years, and talking TO their friends3
| so that, ! suppose, when we cross the riy-
er at the last we shall not only be me, 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 at the last TO find how they
! know about all the affairs of your life
| Why, they are only across the ferry, and
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 moment when you are
| coming across and that they know now,
| bat | do know that YOU will be met at the
| landing.
Meeting ON the Other shore.
There was romance as we'll as Chris
tan beauty in the life of DIR. Adoniram
Judson, the Baptist missionary, when he
concluded to part from his wife. she to
tn A l. III
he to go back to Burma to preach the COS
pei. They had started from Burma for
the United States together; but. getting
near st, Helena, Mrs. Judson was so
much better she said We'll. now | can
get home very easily. You go back to
Burma and preach the gospel to those
poor people. l am almost well. shall
soon be well. and then | will return TO
you" After she had made that resolu-
ton, terrific in its grief, willing to give
up her husband 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 again.
When we knelt to see our Henry die
And heard his last faint moan.
Each wiped away the others tears;
Now each must weep alone.
And who can paint our mutual joy
When, all our wandering Ger,
We both shall clasp our infants three
Ar homo on Rurrno's ebora9
But highe. 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 relapse
of her disease came on. and she died.
DR.. JudsOu says he put her away for the
resurrection on the isle Of St Helena.
They had thought to part for year or
two. Now they parted forever, so far s
this world is concerned And he says he
FASTENED on board after the funeral with
mis- little children to start for Burma. for
the vessel had already lifted her sails.
And he says, Il sat down for some time
in my cabin, my little children around
me crying Mother. MOTHER And II
abandoned myself to beartbreaking grief
But one day the thought came across
me as my faith stretched her wing that
we should meet again in heaven, and r
was comfortcd.'
Was it, my friends, all a delusion
When he died, did she meet him ut the
landing? When she died did the scores
of souls whom she had brought to Christ |
and who had preceded her to heaven |
meet her at the landing? l believe it; | |
know it. Oh, glorious consolation. that
when our poor work on earth is done and |
we cross the river we shall be met at the |
landing
But there is a thought that comes over
me like an electric shock. Do | belong |
to the Kings household? Mark you. Inc
text says, And there went over a ferry
boat to carry over the kings household"
and none but the kings household. Then
l ask, DO ] belong TO the households
Do youI' If you do not come to-day and
be adopted into that household. oh"