Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1920-11-24

master in the future world.
The Indian warrior died, and his
wife and others of his followers were
slain that they might follow him to
the happy hunting ground. The In
dams bows and arrows were buried
with him that he might have weapons
in the other world. And his dog was
slain and buried with him that the
dog might in the happy hunting
ground, run the deer without weari-
ness.
Repulsive indeed, these incidents
and practices to our cultured minds.
Yet, robbed of their Objectionable
features, they cause us to believe
that deep down in the human soul,
even among the most heather of peo-
Piles and among the religions of pa
gans, there is something that resteth
not and is not still in its longing for
Fellowship. That proclaims the reality
of recognition in the future state.
The German believes it. The Arab
believes it. The Chinaman eating rats
in Hongkong believes it. The Eskimo,
feasting on the putrid blubber amid
the ice foes of the North believes it.
The Bushman of Africa with the
mentality that can count but two
believes it. The Turk believes it. The
cultured college professor who has
not gotten away from his mothers
religion believes it. Under every sky,
by every river, in every zone, this
belief is held. And, as Talmage says,
principal universally implanted
must be God-implanted, and if God
implanted it it must be lawful ex-
pectation.
"oh, ye weary, sad and tossed,
Droop not; faint MT, by the way;
Ye shall find the loved and just
In that land of perfect day.
Harp strings touched by angel hands
Murmured in my raptured ear;
Evermore the sweet truth stands,
we shall know each other there !"
3 Rejection of This Theory Implies
That Heaven is Contraction Rather
Than Expansion: But heaven is not
a place of contraction. It is place
of enlarged knowledge, place where
/ shall know more than / know here,
a place where I know others better
than know them here, place where
they shall know me better than they
do here.
Conceptions of heaven vary. Rob-
ert Hall said his chief conception of
heaven was-rest; Wilberforce-
love; Southey-place of intellectual
activity and enjoyment; Foster-un-
folding of all the mysteries of truth
and providence; Leighton-world of
perfect spirituality and holiness;
Payson-"where I shall be with
Christ and serve Him and enjoy Him
forever"
But unite all the conceptions and
add to them all that heart can wish
or mind cnoceive and you will see
that in them all and through them all
it the thought that cannot be hidden
of enlarged iknowledge-expansion,
not contraction.
Paul said: "Now we see through a
glass darkly, but then face to face.
Now we know in part, but when that
which is perfect is come, then that
which is in part shall be done away"
Thank God for that!
John Evans, the great Scotch
minister, was seated in his study.
His wife came in and said "My dear,
do you think we will know each other
in heaven?" He turned to her and
said: "My dear, do you think we will
be bigger fools in heaven than we
are here?" Now that is not a flip
pant answer; no, not at all. The idea
that we shall not know one another
in heaven makes it appear that we
shall know less in heaven than we
do here.
But our knowledge there will be
increased and enlarged above our
knowledge here as the oak is enlarg-
ed above the acorn, as the butterfly
is enlarged above the chrysalis, as
an ode of Milton is enlarged above
the letter z, as a steel girder above
the sinew and bone of mans arm,
as the CLEAN of star over the glow
of a glow worm. AS the steel levia-
thans of today surpass the old ba-
teau, as the incandescent light trans
cends the tallow dip, as the macadam
road excels the turtle path, as the
thinking of philosopher goes high
er and deeper than the thinking of
a child, as Niagara goes beyond the
mud puddle in glory, as the Alps
possess more majesty than the prairie
dogs burrow-so will that which is
heavenly outshine and outgrow and
out reach that which is earthly. ;.
"We shall know each other better
When the mists have rolled away"
The higher law always sets aside
the lower. Vegetable law sets aside
mineral law-and there is growth.
Animal law sets aside vegetable law
and there is nutrition. Mental law
transcends the physical law-and
the blood is consumed by thought
and emotion. The law of life, out
breaking life, transcended the law of
death. So the heavenly transcends
the earthly-and as Gods thoughts
are high above our thoughts now,