In your earth-home,
you and she were united in faith and love and hope; and in the morning of
the resurrection you shall ascend together from the family grave-yard; and
together bow in grateful adoration before the throne of God.
And oh, what a glorious meeting in heaven that will be, when all the
members of the Christian household shall unitedly surround the marriage
supper of the Lamb! It will be joyful beyond conception. There they "shall
meet at Jesus' feet,--shall meet to part no more!" No one is absent. Bright
faces will meet there; bounding hearts will meet there; and on the banks of
the river of life they will walk hand in hand, as they did unitedly in this
vale of tears. "There is hereafter to be no separation in that family. No
one is to lie down on a bed of pain. No one to wander away into temptation.
No one to sink into the arms of death. Never in heaven is that family to
move along the slow procession, clad in the habiliments of woe, to consign
one of its members to the tomb!"--REV. A. BARNES.
If heaven is our better home, where the members of Christian families meet
to part no more; if dreams cannot picture a world so fair; and if eye has
not seen, nor ear heard, nor human heart conceived, the felicity of its
peaceful inhabitants, then we should greatly rejoice that our pious kindred
have been taken there, and that we are blessed with the hope of reunion
with them in that heavenly home:--
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