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Steamer Har hini?r. will leave Eizabeth City for Hertford Wednesdays and Saturdays foik Thursday and Mondays p. m S. ? HIS GLORIOUS FAITH. ! REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON RECOGNITION IN HEAVEN. He Sams Cp the Evident of the Bibl ssd Tbat of the Dyicg Christian to Prove a General Hop A Sermon of Absorb ing Interest. Mixneapous, Jan.' 24. Dr. Talmage hxs been for a fexv days preaching and lecturing in Chicago, Minneapolis and St. Paul, and his sermon is on a theme xvhich will absorbingly interest all "who read it He returns this week to Wash ington. The subject is "Heavenly Roc ognition,'" and the text, II Sam. xii, 23, "I shall go to him." There is a very Bick child in the abode of David the king. Disease, "which 'j : stalks up the dark lane of the poor and puts its smotnenng hand on lip ana nostril of the wan and wasted, also mounts the palace stairs and, bending over the pillow, blows into the face of a young prince the frosts of pain and death, Tears are wine to the king of terrors. Alas,' for David the king I He can neither sleep nor eat and lies pros trate on his face, weeping and wailing until the palace rings with the outcry of woe. I Shall Go to Him.' What are courtly attendants orvic torious armies or conquered provinces under such circumstances? What to any parent is all splendid surrounding when his child is sick? Seven days have passed on. There, in that great house, two eye lids are gently closed, two little hands folded, two little feet quiet, one heart stilL The servants come to bear the tid ings to the king, but they cannot make up their minds to tejl him, and they stand at the door whispering about the matter, and David hears them, and he looks up and says to. them, "Is the child dead?" 'Yes, he is dead. " David rouses himself up, washes him self, puts on new apparel and sits doxvn to food. iWhat power hushed that tem pest? What strength was it that lifted up that king whom grief had dethroned? Oh, it was the thought that he would come again into the possession of that darling child I No gravedigger's spade could hide him. The wintry blasts of death could not put out the bright light Thcro would bo a forgo somewhere that with silver hammer-would weld the broken links. In a city where the hoofs of tho pale horse never strike the pave ment ho would clasp his lost treasure. He wipes away the tears from his eyes and ho clears the choking grief from his throat and exclaims, 'I shall go to him 1" Was David right or wrong? If we part on earth, .will xve meet again in the next world? ."Well," says some one, "that seems to be an impossibility. Heaven is so largo a place we never could find our kindred there," . Going into some city xvithout having appointed a time and place for meeting, you might wander around for weeks and for months, and perhaps for years, and never see each other, and heaven is vaster than all earthly cities together. And how are you going to find your departed friend in that country? It is so vast a realm- John xvent up oh one mountain of in spiration, and ho looked .off upon the multitude, and he said, "Thousands of thousands." Then he came upon a greater altitude of inspiration and looked off upon it again, and he said, "Ten thousand times ( ten thousand. " And then he came on a higher mount of in spiration and looked off again and he said, "A hundred and forty and four thousand and thousands of thousands." And he came on a still greater height of inspiration, and ho looked off again and exclaimed, ' 'A great multitude that no man can number. " Now, I ask, how are you going to find your friends in such a throng as that? Is not this idea we have been entertain ing after all a falsity? Is this doctrine of future recognition of friends in heay en a guess, a myth, a whim, or is it a granitic foundation upon which the soul pierced of all ages may build a glorious hope? Intense question 1 Every heart in this audience throbs right into it There is in every soul here the tomb of at least one dead. 'lTemenaous question! it makes tho lip quiver, and the cheek flush, and the entire nature thrilL Shall we know each other there? I get letters almost every month asking me to dis cuss tnis suDiect. i get a letter in a bold, scholarly hand, on gilt edged pa per, asking mo to discuss this question, and I say, "Ah, that is a curious man, and he wants a curious question solved. ' ' But I get another letter. It is written with a trembling hand and on what seems to be a torn out leaf of a book. and there and here is the mark of a tear, and I say, "Oh, that is a broken heart, and it wants to be comforted. " From Theory to Certainty. The object of this sermon is to take this theory out of the region of surmise and speculation into the region of posi tive certainty. People say: "It would be very pleasant if that doctrine were true. I hope it may be true. Perhaps it is true. I wish it were true. '.' But I believe that I can bring an accumulation of argu ment to bear upon this matter which -will prove the doctrine of future recog nition as plainly as that there is any heaven at all, and that the kiss of re union at the celestial gate will be as certain as the dying kiss at the door of the sepulchcr.- ' Now, when you are going to build a ship you must get the right kind of tim ber. You lay the .keel and make the framework of the very best materials the keelson, stanchions, plank shear. counter timber, knees, transoms all iron or solid oak. You may build a ship of lighter material, but when the cy clone comes on it will go down. Now, we may have a great many beautiful theories about the future world built out of our own fancy, and they may do very well as long as we have smooth sailing in the world. But when the storms of sorrow come upon us, and the hurricane of death, we will be swamped, we will be foundered. We want a the ory built Out of God's eternal word. The doctrine of future recognition is not so often positively stated in the word of God as Implied, and you know, my friends, that that f is, after alL the strongest mode of affirmation. Your friend ."travels in foreign lands. Ho comes home. He d6es not begin by ar 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 asjdl up and down its chapters take it for granted. What does my text imply? "I shall go to him. " What consolation would it be to David to go to his child if he would 1 not know him? Would David have been allowed to record this antici pation 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 peo ple. Moses died and was gathered to his people. What people? Why, their friends, their comrades, their old com panions. Of course it means that It cannot mean anything else. So in the very beginning 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 con solation. 1 James, John and Peter fol lowed Christ into the mountain. A light falls from heaven on that mountain and lifts it into the gl ries of the celestial. Christ's garmeTjts, glow, and his face shines 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 recog nize these two spirits who have been for years in heaven, do you .tell me that we, with our heavenly eyesight, will not be able toecognize those who have gone out from among us only 5, 10, 20, 80 years ago? . '! Recognition. The Bible Indicates, over and over again, that the angels know each other, and then the kBible 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 Christ mean, in his conversation with Mary and Martha, when he said, "Thy brother shall rise again?" It was as much as to say: "Don't cry. Don't wear yourselves out' with this trouble. You will see him again. Thy brother shall rise again. " The Bible describes heaven as a great home circle. Well, now, that would be a yery queer home circle where the members did not know each other. The Bible describes death as a sleep., If we know each other before we go to sleep, shall .we not know each other after we wake up? Oh, yes 1 We vrM know each other a great deal better then than no 'for now," says the apostle, "we see through a glass darkly, but then face to' face. " It will be my purified, enthroned and glorified body gazing on your puri fied, enthroned and glorified body. Now, I demand, if you believe the Bible, that you take this theory, of fu ture recognition out of the realm of speculation and surmise into the region of positive certainty, and no more keep saying: "I hope it is so. I have an idea it is so. I guess it is so. ", Be able to say, 'with all" the concentrated energy of body, mind and soul "I know it is sol" There are, in addition- to these Bible arguments, other reasons why I accept this theory. In the first place, because the rejection of it implies the entire ob literation "of our memory. Can it be possible that we shall forget forever those with whose walk, look, manner, we have been so long familiar? Will, death come and with a sharp, keen blade hew away this faculty of memory? Abraham said, to Dives, "Son, remem- ber. " If the exiled and the lost remem ber, will not the enthroned remember? You know very well that our joy in any circumstance is augmented by the companionship of our friends. , We can not see a picture with less than f our eyes or hear a song with less than four ears. We want some one beside us with whom to exchange glances and sympa thies, and I suppose the joy of heaven is to be augmented by the fact that we are to have our friends with us when there rise before us the thrones of the blessed and when there surges up in our ear the jubilate of the saved. Heaven is not a contraction. It is an expansion. If I know you here, I will know you better there. Here I see you with ordy two eyes, but there : the soul shall have 1,000,000 eyes. It wild be immortality gazing on immortality, ransomed spirit in colloquy with ransomed spirit, victor beside victor. When John Evans, the Scotch minister, was seated in his study, his wife came in and said to him, "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?" - The World Expects It. Again, I accept this doctrine of future recognition because the world's expect ancy affirms it In all lands and ages this theory is received. What form of religion planted it? No form of religion, for it is received under all forms of re ligion. Then, I argue, a sentiment, a feeling, an anticipation, universally planted, must have been God implanted, and if God implanted . it is rightfully implanted. Socrates writes:; "Who would not part with a great deal to purchase a meeting with Orpheus and Homer? If it be true that this is to be the consequence of death, I could even be able to die often. " Among the Danes, when a master dies his servant sometimes slays himself that he may serve the master in the fu ture world. Cicero, living before Christ's coming, said: "Oh, glorious day when I shall retire from this low and sordid scene to associate wiia uw divine assemblage of departed spirits, and not only with the one I have just mentioned, but with my dear Cato, the best of sons and moet faj faithful or men. ii a seemea to Dear ms aeatn with fortf- tuaei w was uy no means mat l aid not most sensibly feel the loss I had bus- . ,i . - - w iacM. TKaVnc-finan Ui. tL.r.JI believes it; the Greeulander believes it: the Swiss believe it; the Turks believe it TJnder every skyi by every river, in every zone, tne tneory is adopted. And so I say a principle universally implant ed must be God implanted, and hence a right belief. The'argument is irresisti Again, I adopt thjis theory because there are features of moral temperament and features of the soiil that will distin guish us forever. How do we know each other in this world? Is it merely by the color of the eye, or the length of the hair, or the facial proportions? Oh, no! It is by the disposition as well; by nat ural affinity, using ie word in the very he bad sense. And best sense and not in if in the dust our y should perish and lie there f oreyerl and there should be ho resurrection, still the soul has enough features and ihe disposition has enough features to make us distinguish able, l can understand how in sickness a man will become so delirious that he will not know; his own friends, but will we he blasted with such : insufferable Idiocy that, standing bdside our best friends for all eterni y, we will never guess who they are? ' One Reason For Belief.' Again, I think tha one reason why we Ought to accept this doctrine is be cause we never in tpis world have an opportunity to give thanks to those to whom we are spiritually indebted. The joy of heaven, we are told, is to be in augurated by a review of life's work. These Christian menj and women who have been toiling for. Christ, have they seen the full result of their work? Oh, nOl j . , 1 j'; ; " ' In the church at Somerville, N. J. John-Vredenburgh 1 preached for a great many years. : He felt that his ministry was a failure, although he was a faith ful minister preaching the gospel all the time. .He. died, and died amid dis courafrements. and went home to God, for no one. ever doubtf! that John Vro- denburgh was a good Christian minister. A little while after; hikdeath there came a great awakening; ihj SpmervilleTand bnekSabbath 200 souls stood up at the Christian altar espousing' the .cause of Christ,, among them ihy own father and mother. And what was peculiar in re gard to nearly all of tjiose 200 souls was that they dated their religious impres sions from the ministry of John Vrer denburgh. Will thstt good CJhristian man before the throne of God never meet those souls brought to Christ throuarh his instrumentality? Oh, of course he will know them I I remember one Sabbath afternoon borne down with the sense of my sins 4 and "knowing not I took up Doddridge's .Rise and Progress. ' ' Oh, what a dark afternoon it was, and I read tte chapters, and I read the prayers, an I tried to make the ! nravers my-own Oh, I must see Philip l)oddridge f A3 glorious old book Via wfpl Tt. is out of fashion now. , There is a mother fbef ore the throne of God. . You sav her Hoy k fulL Is it? You say there can j be! no augmentation of it. Cannot there be? Her son was a wanderer and j a vagabond on the earth when that good mother died. He broke her old heart. She died, leaving him in the wilderness of sin. j She is before the throne of God now. Years pass, and that son repents of hi$ crimes and gives his heart to God and becomes a- useful Christian and dies; anA enters the gates oi heaven, xou teu ine tnat mai mum er's joy cannot be augmented. Let them confront each other, the son and the mother. "Oh,f she says to the angels of God, ''rejoice with met! The dead is alive a train, and the lost . ia found. . Hallelu iah, I never expected fto see this lost one come back. " The Bible says nations are to be born iri a day. When China comes to God, will it not know Dr. Abeel? When India comes; will it not know Dr. John Scudder?! When! the Indians come the Indians come to God, will they Brainerd? I not know David I see a soul entering heaven at last with covered face fat the idea that it has done so little ! for Christ and feeling borne down with unjyorthiness, and it Kara to itself. 'iI nave no rieht to be here." A voice from a .i throne says: "Oh, you forget 1 thft Sunday school class vou invited to Christ! I was one of ' them." And t another voice says: "You forget that; poor man to whom you heaven another to whom you gave inedicine for the body And the souL I was Ithat one," And then Christ, from a throne overtopping all the rest, will say, j" Inasmuch as ye did it to one of I the least of these, you did it to me." And j then the seraphs will take their hams irom the side of , tha throne and crv. ' fWhat song ' shall it be?" And Christ, bending over the harners. shall say, 1'It shall be the 'Harvest Home" Theory Confirmed by the Drlna;. ! One more reason why I am disposed to accept this doctrineof future recogni tion ia that so many in their last hour on .rth have confirmed this theory. I sneak not of persons who have been de lirious in their last moment and knew not what they were kbout, but of per sons who died in calmness and placidity, and ?who were ; not liaturally supersti tious. Often the glories of heaven have gtmcic tne aying piuuw, auu. uw ucmu ino- man has said he! saw and heard those who had i gone away from him. How often it is in the1 dying ' moments norotitu bvi tTip'r lMmrted children and children see their derjkrted parents I I came down to the banks of the Mohawk river. It was evening! and I wanted to j co over tne river, ana bo a watu nxj . 4 . T J mm It ,oV. arA ehrmteA. and after awhile I saw I some one waving on t&e opposite bank, I and i heard rum snout, ana tne rott i came across, and I got in and was trans- rmrtAd. And so 1 suwbose It will be in W(.nino- of nr life! f We will oozoe down to the river of death and give. - Ttoi nnr fViArrd9 nri the other Ehcra. gave a loaf of bread and told ol the greet tnemana in me .tuun uit; ick wjtted ly bread. Iwa4 that man." And oroice, ana you iuuhu yuu tbe valiant says: ','YOu forget that sics: one amiaroom r m lu"iUk ! Wft and thej will give a signal back to us. and the boat comes. an,l tmr -nrrrA hrtnrfrnl am rh i t - - uv9 v u un, nave you never sat dv sucn a I i..iit. i. ,. a. v " .. . nartina soul cry: "Hark! Look! Yon hearkened, and you looked. A little child pining away because of the death - of its mother, getting weaker and xveak er every day, was taken into the room where hung the picture of her mother. She seemed to enjoy looking at it and then she was taken away, and I after awhile died. In the last moment that wan and wasted little one lifted her hands, while her. face lighted np with the glory of the next world and cried out, "Mother 1" Do you tell me sho did not see her mother? She did. So in my first settlement at Belleville a plain man said to me: "What do you think I heard last night? Iwas in the room where one of my neighbors was dying. 5 He Was a good man, and he said he heard the an gels of God singing before the throne. I haven't much poetry about me, but I lis-; tened, and I heard them too. ' ' Said I, ' ' I have no doubt of i t " !Why, we are to be taken up to heaven at last by min istering spirits. Who are- they to be? Souls that went up from Madras or An- tioch or Jerusalem? Oh, no, Our glori- fled kindod are going to troop around us. Heaven is hot a stately, formal place, as I sometimes- hear it described, a very frigidity of splendor, where people stand on cold formalities and go roundabout with heavy crowns of gold on -their heads. No, that is not my idea of heav en. My idea of heaven is more like this You are seated in the evehingtide by the fireplace, your whole family there, or nearly all of them there. While your are seated, talking and enjoying the even ing hour, there is" a knock at the door, and the door opens, and there comes in a brother j that has been long absent He has been absent, for years you have not seen him. and no sooner do you make up your mind that it is certainly he than vou lean ud. and tne Question is who shall give him the first embrace. That is my idea of heaven a great home circle where they aie, waiting for us Oh, will you not know; your moth 1 er's voice there? She who always called you by your first name long after others had given you the formal "Mister? You were never' anything but James or John or George or Thomas or ; Mary or Florence to her. . Will you not know your child's voiced she of thp bright eye and the ruddy cheek and the quiet step, who came in from play and flung her self into your lap, a very shower of mirth and beauty? Why, the picture is graven in: your souL It cannot ; wear out. If that little one should stand on the other side of some heavenly hill and call to vou. -yon 'would- hear her' voice above the -burst of heaven's great or chestra. Know it 7 You cohld not help but know it. ' ; Consolation. Now I bring you this glorious com solation of future recognition. If you could get this theory into your heart, it would lift a great many shadows that are stretching across it. When I was a lad. I used to go out to the railroad track and put my ear down on the track, and I could hear the express train rum bling miles away and coming on, and today, my friends,; if we only had faith enough, we could put our1 ear down to the grave of our dead and listen and hear in the distance the rumbling on of the chariots of resurrection victory, Oh, heaven sweet heaven! You do not spell heaven' as you used to spell it h-e-a-v-e-n heaven. But now when you want to spell that word you place side by.side the faces of tke loved ones who are gone, and in that irradiation of light and love and beauty and joy you spell it out as never before in songs and halleluiahs. O ve whose hearts are down under the sod of the cemetery, cheer up at the thought of this reunion I Oh. how much you will have to tell them when once you meet theml How much you have been through since you 'saw them last! On the shiny shore you will talk it all over. The heartaches, the loneliness, the sleepless nights, the weeping, until you had no more; power to weep because the heart was withered and dried up. Story of vacant chair and empty cradle and lit tle shde only half worn out, never to be worn again, just the shape of the foot that once pressed it And dreams wnen you thought that the departed had come back again, and the room seemed bright with their faces, and you started up to Talking it all over, and then, hand In hand, walking up and down in the light Noi sorrtiw, no tears, her death Oh, heaven, beautiful heaven! Heaven where our friends ur'; ljeaven where we expect tb be. In t:. east they take a cage of birds, and br.'v.T it to the tomb of the dead, and then ii.cy open the door of the cage, and the birds flying out,. sing. , And I would : c'dsy bring a cage of Christian consolu .on to the grave of your loved ones, and I would open the door and let them fill all tne air with the music of their voices. . . . : , From Earth to .Heaven. Oh, how they bound ,in, these spirits j before the throne I Some shout wltn gladness. Some break forth into uncon trollable weeping for joy. Some stand speechless in their shock', of delight They sing. . ;They quiver with excessive gladnesaj They gaze on the temples, on the palaces,, on the waters, on each other. They weave their joy into. gar lands, they spring it into triumphal it into tnuinpnai i arches, tiiey strike on timbrels, and then I all the loved ones gather in a great cir- I fcle around the throne of; God fathers. mothers, brothers, sisters, ; sons and daughters, lovers and mends, hand to nana aiuuuu wu mc uuuur, ,iv, J J A. iriM a hand to hand, iov to ioy. jubilee to ju- bilee, vittory to victory, "until the day-. Dreajc ana tue Bnaww-ixt awajs. xluu. my beloved, and be like a roe or ayoung hart upon the-mountains 01 netner. Oh. how different it Is on earth from the way it Is in neaven when a c,nrw - tian dies! We sav. ''Close his eyes." In I ... I i j . I 1 i - . a. .1 n I Gi-rohi-n a palm,!' On earth we ' say, the ground." In "Let him down in . crounu heaven they, say, i. uti . ia v !. nwwuw, nvwwuo, aimaj.M a Christian aoul coming down to river of death, and ha steps Into th the th river,. and the water comes up to ankle. Ha sayv"Lort Jesus, i this death?" 'No,; says Christ, "this is, not death." And he wades ttiU deeper down into the waters until the flood conies to the knee, and he says, ! Lord Jesus, tell me, tell me, Is this death? ' And Christ says, "No, no, this' is not death." And he wades still fart bet down until the wave comes to ,th gir dle, and the soul says, "Lord Jesus, is this death?" "No," s CThrist, ''this is not ' ' And deeper In wades the soul : till the billow strikes the lip, and tha departing one cries. VLord Jesus,- is this death?" "No, says Christ, "this is not ' Bit when Christ had lifted this soul on a throne of , glory and all the pomp and Joy of heaven came surg ing to its feet then Christ said, f 'This, O transported soul this is death!'? ISLAND PYGMIES. A Familiar Talk A boat Sosas Very Little .. Animals. - i " It is curious that almost all of the animal pygmies, whether of the present age or of the past, wem to come from! islands, usually tha islands of the south ern seas, although the Shetland and the Orkney .isles, where the dwarf ponies scramble over the rugged rocks, are ex ceptions. In the island of Ceylon, with its giant spiders, with their nets spun with yellow silk twisted as thick as a rope In comparison .with our filmy, goaummer threads, and giant butterflies with emer ald wings, are also wonderful pygmy creatures. . There are little bulls, the Brahman, or sacred oxen, not mora than SO inches in beifbt at their largest growth, and ' generally only II. They are very pretty, with . their silky hides and their legs like those of the deer, though they have deep dewlaps and humped necks,. like the sebu breed. ; These bulls are" swift, keeping np m long, swinging trot or run, and they go for great distances without food or wa ter, if necessary. Reins are fastened to a ring in the cartilage of the nose, and most of the freight of the island ia car ried by these little creatures in their small two wheeled carts.! 1 Another pretty pygmy found in the Ceylon forests is the graceful musk deer, not more than 10 Inches in height and 12 or 14 inches in length. It Is exqui sitely formed, like the antelope, and Is gray, dappled with white spots. In the' Sunday islands Is another species - of deer, not muoh larger than a cat 1" - , The pygmy marmoset does hot come' from an island, but from Brazil, whoae groat river, however gives Its bordering forests many of the conditions of island ; life. These dwarf monkeys are - only 4 inches tall when standing up, and Mra Olive Thome Miller tells of two . that could wrestle and tumble in a la dy's open palm, sit on the edge of a tea-' . k " T a a a. a' a a ' a ' cup, Hide in ail icinds ox small places and perch j together on a lead venciLv They are fnll of fun and mischief and are incessantly sooldmff, chattering and leaping, from one tall object to another. Their color is a pretty gray, and they, have very long tails, ringed with black . and gray, also, funny little dark tufts of hair, like whiskers, on each side of the face, f , One of. the oddest dwarfs is a dwarf elephant Several are in this coun try. They are wonderfully sagacious and quick of intelligence. In the Island of Malta the fossil remains are found of., a race of pygmy elephants! no bigger , than a sheep, and the babies of this spe cies might no doubt have been easily. held on the palm of a man's hand. An . other fossil pygmy is that of a horse, said to be no larger than a fox. We rarely hear of ooean pygmies, but a a ai .a M 'mi lit a pygmy wnaie, penectiy lormea, wna all the characteristics of Its Immense . kindred, the sperm whales, the largest living . animals known, has reoently been discovered. The large whale Is 80 feet in length, while "the pygmy one ir, only 8. ' " A. ' ; The human pygmies at. least, the pygmy races, such as the little folk of the banana forests in Africa and the undersized Rock Veddalls of Ceylon are.not at all intelligent and seem like children arrested In tbeir earliest stages, but individual dwarfs have been very and of a fiery spirit, like. little Geoffrey "Hudsou' who knighted by King Charlea Ljj i P. Mosby in Philadelphia Ti . ' VE PAY POSTAGE. Fxee of all cbarers. we will mall to . anyone our advance illustrated catalogue for 1897 (inst iBsaed). It contains illustrations of Furniture, Carpets, Lai Curtains, Bedding; Stoves,' Lamps, Re frigerators. 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The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
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Jan. 29, 1897, edition 1
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