Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-02-17

hearts beat as. if they were boys again
The fifer strlck up a familiar ma
tional air; more familiar then than
now; and the old drummer stopped
drumming and looked at his compan
ion and said: John, you have played
that tune before You played it when
we charged the British att Lundy's
Lane, anu drummed it by your side.
land he said: John, where have you
lbeen all these years. Then those
1.-TWO old soldiers Rugged each other
and vept together.
Nov, J. do not know how we are
going to recognize each other when
we get into that land where there is
no sorrow or pain, or fear, or funeral
professions, or such scenes as this,
but we are going to recognize each
other. The bible makes it very plain
to me that it is our privilege not only
to go to that land Of light, but that it
is our privilege to recognize each
other there.
''ln the bible we read that Abraham
and Moses joined their fathers. Some
say that means that they went to a
common grave. ! do not believe a
word of it. Abraham is buried in an
isolated grave, and as for Moses, no
one knows his grave. God buried him
on top of Nebo. No, it does not mean
that they were going into the grave,
but that they joined the innumerable
company of Saints, who have gone to
the Great Beyond.
"You remember the Mount of Trans
Gguration, when the three favorite
disciples, Peter, James and John,
heard Moses and Elijah talk with
Christ; you will remember than one
Of them had been dead 400 ears and
the other 900 years, and, yet, in spite
of the lapse Of years, these three
disciples knew these men of God, who
had come out of the invisible into the
visible. And so we see that there is
a land not only of no sickness and no
pain, death, or graveyards, but land
of mutual recognition.
Will Know Him.
DO you suppose III not know Fred
Brewster in the other world? | think
! shall Every power will be quick
ened there. 1 think l shall grasp his
hand on the bank of the river, and
have the privilege Of communing with
him, and talk over the months OF
sickness and the privilege | had OF
visiting him. / have no doubt about
that. 1t is our privilege to meet the
friends that have gone before. In
this moment, it is not necessary Tor
me to say very much. You knew him
better than did. You were acquaint-
ed with him longer than | was. | met
him a year ago last winter. but dld
not know his name. ! was struck
with his face, and upon inquiring who
he was, was told he was Fred Brew
ster. The next time I heard OF him,
four weeks later, he was sick.
Glad He Came Into His Life.
Erred Brewster was not an intidel;
he was not an unbeliever; he was a
believer in Jesus Christ. We talked
many times during his illness about
his souls salvation and our relations
with God: He gave me satisfactory
evidence that he was trusting in the
Lord Jesus Christ | am glad That
Fred Brewster came into my life. |
believe am better man because OF
what ! saw of him. He was true
friend; he was never known to go
back on a friend; he would fight for
his friends, and with them to the last
| inch, and be found dead in the ditch
beside them. He was no gutter, no
| piker, you know that, and this state
has lost valuable servant in the
death of our departed brother.
THE question may be asked why
man as good as he was called upon
to suffer. For year he was great
sufferer l leave that until the time
when James A. Garfield will under
stand the way of his assassin's bullet;
| to the time Abraham Lincoln will 'un-
| derstand the assassin's act in Wash
ington, and why William Mckinley
went to an untimely grave, humanlv
| speaking, but sometime when the
mists have all cleared away, we shall
| understand why Fred Brewster suffer
| ed so much. Not because he was
bad man; l don't believe he was.
"Whom the Lord loveth, he chasten-
eth and scourgeth every son whom he
receiveth." Why should he be cut
down in the midst of his career. He
was so useful, who initiated so many
| things. who was member of so
MANY boards, man so bfOtherly.
Why? ] leave that also to the time
when the mists will clear away. Why.
his wife and widow should be left to
fight her battles alone, when her
strong, good husband is laid In the
tomb and his spirit goes marching on;
the time will explain to us, why?
| IN VALLEY CITY.