Recognition of our friends in heaven, with extracts from distinguished authors and selections from the poets . recious atsuch a time.—Harbaugh. Melanchthon and Camerarius. When Melanchthon was near hisend, his intimate friend Camerariusvisited him for the last time. Oncemore the two friends sat togetheron the same bench standing againstthe wall, holding each other by thehands. Then Melanchthon began . My dear brother, we have beengood friends during forty years,and have loved each other, not frominterested motives, but from heart-(167) RECOGNITION OF OUR felt affection. We have both beenschool
Recognition of our friends in heaven, with extracts from distinguished authors and selections from the poets . recious atsuch a time.—Harbaugh. Melanchthon and Camerarius. When Melanchthon was near hisend, his intimate friend Camerariusvisited him for the last time. Oncemore the two friends sat togetheron the same bench standing againstthe wall, holding each other by thehands. Then Melanchthon began . My dear brother, we have beengood friends during forty years,and have loved each other, not frominterested motives, but from heart-(167) RECOGNITION OF OUR felt affection. We have both beenschoolmasters and faithful com-panions, each in his own place, andI hope to God our work has notbeen in vain, but shall have producedgreat good. If it is Gods will thatI shall die, we will continue ourfriendship unbroken in the futurelife. Then they took an affectionateleave of each other. Rev. William Jay. It has been asked, Shall we knoweach other in heaven ? Suppose youshould not; you may be assured ofthis, that nothing will be wantingto your happiness. But oh ! you say,how would the thought affect me(168). CHERUB CHOIR, SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS. FRIENDS IN HEAVEN now! There is the babe that wastorn from my bosom; how lovelythen, but a cherub now! There isthe friend, who was as mine ownsoul, with whom I took sweetcounsel, and went to the house ofGod in company. There is theminister—whose preaching turnedmy feet into the path of peace—whose words were to me a well oflife. There is the beloved mother,on whose knees I first laid my littlehands to pray, and whose lips firsttaught my tongue to pronounce thename of Jesus! And are theseremoved from us for ever? Shallwe recognize them no more ?—Cease your anxieties. Can memory(171) be annihilated? Did not Peter,James and John know Moses andElias ? Does not the Savior informus that they who have made friendsof the mammon of unrighteousnessshall be received by them into ever-lasting habitations ? Does not Paultell the Thessalonians that
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