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faith in Him might stand always fol
a real venture and vote of the soul
Accordingly, too, the nature of the
life beyond. Why? That we might
walk by faith, nothing doubling
that we might venture everything ,or
our trust in Him. can trust Him fol
what He has promised and for what
He has promised through suggestion
2. Bible Assertion Concerning
Heavenly Recognition. 'Tis still true
that as Christ said we "err because
we know not the Scriptures" Let us
get now a "Thus saith the Scrip
ture." And now would we enter rev.
erently and with prayer, as into the
holy of holes, into the mind of God
Into this deep mind of God Moses
went, and brought forth law and re-
ligion; Isaiah wentLand found
prophecy and song; David went
and gave US music and empire; Amos
went, and found social ethics; Paul
went and brought US spiritual liber-
ty; Emerson and Tennyson went and
found awakening truth; Calico,
Newton and Bacon went-and found
science.
And so would we at this hour go
reverently, as into the very Holy of
Holes; worshipfully, as into the very
presence of the King himself, and
enter into the mind Of God and find
there prompting for all our perplex-
ity, calm for all our conflicts, as
surance for all our doubt, answer for
all our questioning!
"Ask not of me, Love, what is Love.
Ask what is good of God above;
Ask of the great sun what is light;
Ask what is darkness of the night;
Ask of sin what may be forgiven;
Ask what is happiness of heaven;
Ask what is folly of the crowd,
Ask what is fashion of the shroud |;
Ask what is sweetness of thy love;
Ask of thyself what beauty is
Ask of God what TRUTH is."
So now we would ask of the Bible
what about Heavenly Recognition?
There is no real reason for doubt
ing the fact of recognition unless
the Bible should distinctly state the
contrary. But the Bible NEVER con-
tradicts the fact.
1. Notice the curiously persistent
formula of the Old Testament. We
read in the first book of the Bible:
abraham died and was gathered
to his people,"
"Isaac died and was gathered to
his peoples"
"Jacob died and was gathered to
his people,
"He died in a good old age and
was gathered to his people and they
buried him."
What people? Why, their friends,
their comrades, their old companions.
Of course it means that. 1t can not
mean anything else.
Gathered unto his people" can
hardly mean burial with his people,
for the burial is mentioned after it.
1t comes between the dying and the
burial. And we note that even at
Moses burial on the lone mountain
top this phrase is solemnly used:
THE Lord said unto him Get thee
up into the mountain and die in the
mount AND BE GATHERED TO
THY PEOPLE, {"
Now, already Miriam was buried
in the distant desert. Aaron's BODY
lay on the slopes of Mt. Hor; the lit
tie mother. who made the ark of bull
rushes long ago found grave in the
brick fields of Egypt.
Do the words teach that he came
back to his people in this life all un-
seen when he was gathered to his
people?" Did the expression mean
and does it mean that he came back
to Miriam's body in the desert, to
Aaron's body asleep on Mt. Hor; to
lie, down again by the side of the
little mother in the brick fields of
Egypt? No-never. Since he was to
DIE and THEN, after dying, be
gathered to his people," it meant
that into the glory whence the little
mother had gone, whence Aaron had
gone, he was to see them and be with
them once again, and seeing them
and being with them KNOW them.
2. Notice David. There is a sick
child in the house of David the King.
Tears water David's face night and
day. He sits with the shadows deep
around him. He goes not to the table
for he is not hungry; his hunger has
been swallowed up in grief too deep
for words. He cannot Sleep Natures
great balm that "knits up the raveled
sleeve of care" has fled from his
eyes as rest from a worker tilling
over time. David lies PROSTATE on
his face, weeping and wailing until
the palace seems a house of many
dirges, house of gloom, a house on
which the SUN never rose and light
never entered. What are all these
courtly attendants when none of
them can cool the fever fires in the
body of the child. What are victori-
Gus armies when all the soldiers in
his kingdom cannot make one little
fluttering heart grow stronger? What
are conquered provinces when all the
revenue cannot buy away the grim