6 THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 4, 1897. "HEAVEN OUR HOME. Loved Ones Waiting for Frionds to Arrive. Their That is the Glorious Consolation of the Dy- Ing Christian, and it Is Fully Borne Out By the Bible We Wil Know Each Other There, Dr. Talmage in his latest sermon comforted his hearers by assuring them, on the evidence of the Serip- tures, that in Heaven their broken family circles would be reunited and happiness would be theirs for all eternity. His text was II. Sam. 12: 28: “I shall go to him.” There is a very sick abode of David the Disease, which stalks up the dark lane of the poor and puts its smothering hand on lip and nostril of the wan and wasted, i mounts the bending over the pillow, blows into the face of a young prince the of pain and death. king of terrors king. He and lies prostrate on his face, and wailing until the palace rings with the outcry of woe. What are courtly attendants, or torious armies, or conquered provinces under What to any parent is all splendid surrounding when k icl have passed house, tw two little hands f quiet, come child in the king. palace stairs, and frosts wine to the David the eep ears Alas! neither are for can nor eat, weeping ViK such circumstances? his child is Seven days that great are gently closed, ded, two little feet one still. The servant to bear the tidings to the king, but they cannot make up their minds to tell him, they stand at the door whispering about the matter and David hears the: ] to them he is « washe and s hushed on There, in 0 ©) heart and th nen ele TT LE LB a Oo build a nd of MaKe nn plank- ransoms, build ut when down beaut world WLmany future An « Bnd they mas } ver we A long as we have mooth =: the but vhen | ort of Come world; ROTTOW pon and the hurricane of death, we will be foundered bes We ctornal wie we will theory The future recognition is not 80 often positively stated in the word of God as implied, and you know, my friends, that that ufter all, the strongest mode of affirmation. Your friend travels in foreign lands. He comes home. He does not begin by are guing with you to prove that there are such places as London and Stockholm and Paris and Dresden and Berlin, but his conversation implies it And so this Bible does not so positively state this theory as, all up and down iis chapters, take it for granted, What does my text fmply? “I shall go to him.” What consolation would it to David to go to his child if he would not know him? Would David have been wamped want a built out of God's wd doctrine o iS, i1llowed to record this anticipation for the inspection of all ages if it were a groundless anticipation? We read in the first book of the Bible Abraham died and was gathered to his people, Jacob died and was gathered to his peopie, Moses died and was gathered to his peo- ple. What people? Why, their friends, their comrades, their old companions, Of course it means that, It cannot mean of the Bible four times that is taken for granted. The whole New Testament is an arbor over which this doctrine creeps like a luxuriant vine full of the purple clusters of consolation. James John, and Peter followed Christ into the mountain. A light falls from Heaven on that mountain and lifts it into the glories of the celestial. Christ's garments glow and His face | like the sun. The door of Heaven swings open. Two spirits come down and alight on that mountain, The dis | ciples look at them and recognize them as Moses and Elias, Now, if those dis- ciples standing on the earth could rec- shines ognize these two spirits who had been for in that we, with our heavenly eyesi; years Heaven, do you tell me will not be able to recognize the we who have gone out from among us only five ten, twenty, thirty years ago? The Bible and over again, that other; and then the Bible says that we are to be higher than the angels, and if the angels have the power of recognition, shall not we, who are to be higher than they in the next realm, have as good eyesight and as good capacity? What did mean, in his conversation with Mary and Martha, when he said “Thy brother shall rise again?” It was Don't indicates, over angels know each Christ as much as to say, “Don’t ery. wear yourselves out with this tro You will see him again. Thy brother shall rise again.” The Bi e describes Heaven as home cire l Wel be a very members did The Bible deseril If we speculation and surmise into the regi of positive certainty, and no more } saying, “1 hope it is so; I have an id 30," Be able t at 1 unw I have voice from wir yvite A ne : that bend And th ertopping all the res as vo did it to did then the seraphs will the the iat one throne ov say, “Inasmuch the least of these, vou And harps from the side of “What Christ, bending over 1 song sha t And shall ory. harpers av. "It shall be the Harvest Home!™ () : more reason wns to necept this doctrine of that earth [ am disposed ne future re cor last this sons who tition is 80 many in their confirmed of delirious in their our on have theory I speak not per inst they died . have been moe knew not what of and but ment about, persons who in calmness and placidity, and who were | Often the | not naturally superstitions, glories of Heaven have struck the dy- ing pillow, and the departing man has | gi said he saw and heard those who had gone away from him. in the dying moments parents sce their departed children and children see their departed parents, 1 eame down to the banks of the Mohawk river. It was evening, and I wanted to go over the river, and so I waved my hat and shouted, and after awhile 1 saw some one waving on the opposite bark, and I heard him shoud, and the boat came ncrons, and I got in and was trans. ported. And so 1 suppose it will be in the evening of our life, We will come down to the river of death and give a signal to our friends on the other shore, and they will give & signal back to us, and the boat comes, and our departed —— afl a | of | weaker every day, was taken into the anything else, Soin the very beginning { mother, | and after awhile died. { ment that wan and | tian dies were How often it is | kindred are the oarsmen, the fires of the setting day tinging the tops of the paddles, Oh, have you never sat by deathbed? such a In that hour you hear the | departing soul ery: “Hark! look!” You hearkened and you looked, A little child piving away because of the death its mother, getting weaker and room where hung tha pleture of her She seemed to enjoy looking at it, and then she was taken away, In the last mo- wasted little one lifted her hands, while her face lighted up with the glory of the next aud cried out, “Mother!” Do you tell me that she did not her mother? Bhe did. Bo in my first settlement at Belleville a plain man said to “What do you think I heard night? I was in the where of my neighbors was dying. He was a food man, and he said he heard the angels of God singing before the throne. I haven't much poetry about me, but 1 listened and I heard them, Said I, “I have no doubt of it.” Why, we are to be taken up to Heaven at last by ministering spirits. Who are they to be? Souls that went up from Madras, or Antioch, or Jerusalem? Oh, to troop around us Heaven is not a stately as I sometimes hear it very frigidity of splendor, where people stand on cold formalities and go around about with heavy crowns of gold on their heads. No, that is not my idea of Heaven. My idea of Heaven is more like this: You are seated in ing-tide by the fireplace, your family there of them there. While you are seated talking and enjoying the evening hour, th world, CO me last room one too." no! our glorified kindred are going s formal place, described, a the evens whole or nearly all ere ock at the door and id there comes in uch tl saw them You HAV JAR again, just the ONee presse | 4 It honght that back ight ad up to again with th rreet ther midnig ve and then, hand in hand in the light No sorrow Oh, Heaven Heaven where : up and down no tears, no death ’ beau tifnl Heaven! our expect of the I door of flying out, bring a cage the friends are. Heaven where we to be birds and bring it to and then they the mild today In the east they take a cage the open tomb of dead, the the and birds sng And | w of Christian conso of your love onge, ations to and | fill all ic of their voloes grave dd ones wonld open the door and let them the with the Oh, how different it the way it air mus is on earth from an Chris “Close his eyes.” In “Give him a palm.” On earth we say, “Let him down in the ground.” In Heaven they say, “Hoist him on a throne.” And so | see a Chris tian soul coming down to the river of death, and he steps into the river, and the water comes up to the ankle. He says, ‘Lord nh this death? *‘No," says Christ, “this is not death.” And he wades still deeper down into the waters until the flood comes to the knee, and he says: “Lord Jesus, tell me is this death?” and Christ says: ''No, no, this is not death.” And he wades still fur- ther down until the wave comes to the girdle, and the soul says: “Lord Jesus, is this death?” is in Heaven when We say, Heaven they say, | the double of the amount that had been “No,” says Christ, | “this is not.” And deeper in wades the | soul till the billow strikes the lip, and the departing one eries: ‘Lord Jesus, in this death?” “No,” says Christ, ‘this lsnol" But when Christ hos lifted this soul on a throne of glory, and all the pomp and joy of Heaven came surgin to its feet, then Christ sald: “Th 6 transported soul! this is death!” | that at the end of two weeks the bicycle | and suit will have cost something over | LOVE IN THE CIRCUS. TWO HOMANCES WHICH TERMINATED ON THE TRAPEZE. How Sam Meyers Proposed and Was Ac. cepted by His Annle— The Tragedy Which Grew Out of the Love of the Howland Brothers For Jennle Dunbar, “Ah!" “Oh!” All the spectators of the giant leap for life in the tent held their breaths with terror while the lithe acro- bat plunged forward, released his hold and shot through , to be segurely caught in the firm grasp of his partner, who hang from his toes from another treacherous trapeze Twelve thousand hundred and ninety -cight persons caught their breaths again the feat was accomplished The two remaining persons of the 13 circus Epace nine ns 000-—u big circus tent always holds 000 persons, you kn ~witehed proceedings with an al chalance, as if a swing more 18 electric car. Well might they Ix wero retired circus performers, perils of the tents were them, and then, they began exchanging reminisce BOTIOUS Imi r than signal calm, old st ries as the show went whil he listening ning Journal man f In the sam ing rider was Jennie the r jumped throt Faw cleverest little woman wl igh a hoop, and both the boys fell in love with her was really fond of both « but when they Will and told be a sister him ashe f then FTOpOsed whe | Fred that she could only When Fred pr } in Canada, DOsexd, f 1 were performing up and the proposal was made just before the afternoon performances. When the boys came up for their turn, we that Fred was pale Will was just the went we all noticed nervous, while Their same as usual, and Jump, whis the most daring of all. Fred hung by and Will made the tent. We er Fred was so nervous and rovers act on ust the ie 114 y 4 + } HOLLY came the last Nn Was his toes, Ewing clear aeToss the never knew how it happened, whet that he lost his grip or whether he did it deliberately, but just as Will fiving through the air Fred trembled and dropped from his hold down into the net, while Will shot through the air and fell in the ring clear beyond the edge of the net. When they ran to him, ho was dead. Jennie Came was almost crazy with grief, and Fred had an attack of brain fever, from which he did not 1 cover for months “No one could tell whether he delib erately dropped to get rid of his rival or whether ho was so sick that he could not hold himself longer. At any rate, as soon as he got well he proposed to Jennie again and was accepted. 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