Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-01-05

Christian people eoul;. be 60 0nsxcited
aud p.scid ia the last hour. The fact
Il. they were clear down on the banx.
and <fsy saw there was nothing TO be
frightened about Such short dis
tance--oniy ferry. With one ear they
heard the funeral psalm in their mem
DRY. aad with the other ear they heard
The song Of Heavenly salutation. The
willows On this side the Jordan ard
the Lebanon csdars on the other almost
interiocked their branches. Only a
ferry.
Ny subject also suggests the fact that
when we cross over at the last we shall
find solid landing. The fsrryboas as
spoken Of in my tex; means place to
start from and place TO land. David
and his people did not find the eastern
shore OF the Jordan any more solid than
the western shore where he landed. and
yet TO great many Heaven is not
real place. To YOU Heaven Is n fog
bank In the distance. Now. my Heaven
Is a solid Heaven. After the reSurrcc-
ton has come you viii have a resur-
rected foot and something 20 tread on
and a resurrected eye and colors 70
see with IL and a resOrrected ear and
music to rsgale IL. Smart men in this
day are making a great deal OF fun
about St. Johns matsriaiiStic descrip-
tionS of Heaven. Well. now. my friends.
II you will tell rue what will be the use
OF = resurrected BODY in Heaven with
nothing 10 tread on and nothing 10
hear and nothing TO handle and moth
ing 20 taste then will laugh. too. Are
you going 20 float about in ether for
ever. swinging about your hands and
feet through the air indiscriminateiy
one moment sweltering in the center OF
the sun and the next moment shiveriug
in the mountains Of the noon That is
not nv Heaven Dissatisfied with
Johns materiaiiStic Heaven. thsolog-
icsl thinkers are trying TO patch mp
Heaven that VIII do Tor them a; last.
7 never heard Of a Heaven I want 20
60 70 except St. Johns Heaven. I be.
iirve I shall hear AIR. Toplady sing We;
and Isaac Watts recire hymns and No
zsrt play. "ch." YOU say. where would
you set the orran?~ The Lord viii
provide the organ. Don't you bother
about th- organ. believe I shall yet
see David with a harp. and ] will ask
him 10 sing one Of she songs Of Zion.
believe after the resurrection I shall
&c -NN~>4AANii. AIc great fAttit
orator. and I shall hear from his own
lips how he felt on tha; day when he
preached the kings funeral sermon
and flung his whole audience into
paroxysm OF grief and solemnity. I
hove no patience with your transcend
entail. gelstinous. gaseous Heaven. Ny
Heaven is not fog bank. Mv eyes are
unto the hills. The everlasting hills.
The Kings ferryboat. starting from a
wharf on this side. will 90 10 a wharf
on tho other side.
Again. m4 subject teaches That when
we cross over at tho last we shall be met
az the landing. When David and his
family went over ira the ferry boat
spoken OF in the text. they landed amid
nation that had come out 10 greet
them. A. they stepped from the deck
/ OF the boat 10 the shore there were
thousands Of people who gathered
around them TO express satisfaction
/ that was beyond svription- And 80
Won and I viii be met al the landing.
| Our arrival will be like stepping ashore
at Antwerp OF Constantinople among
q crowd OF strangers. n VIII be among
I 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 i0uch; we know
them almost as well as IL we had seen
them. And do you suppose that ou-
i parents and brothers and sisters and
! children In Heaven have been talking
about Us all these years, and talking
20 their friends? So that, I suppose
when We cross the river al the last
we shall not only be met by al those
/ Christian friends whom We knew on
earth. but by al their friends. They
will come down TO the landing 10 meet
us Your departed friends love you
now more than they ever did. You will
be surprised at the last 10 Fl nd 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 tho
Lord the day. the hour, the nome Z
when you are coming across and that
they know now. but do know that yor
wiz be met at the landing. The poet
Soushey said he thought he should
know Bishop Heber in Heaven by tbs
portraits be had seen OF him in London
and DR.. Randolph said he thought h,
would know William Cowper. the poet
in Heaven, from the pictures he had
seen OF him in England; but we vii
know our departed lCnsred by the por
traits hung in the throneroom OF ouS
| hearts.
But there Is a thought that come,
over rs like an electric shock. Do
belong 20 the Kings household2 MARI
you. the text says: And there wen