will ye die?" "The spirit and the bride say, come!" Oh, regard those solemn
admonitions which come to you from the spirit-world! With unearthly
eloquence they urge you to "lay aside every weight and the sin that doth so
easily beset you, and run the race set before you, looking unto Jesus, the
author and finisher of your faith." And oh, if you, in obedience to these
angelic persuasives to piety, yield yourself unto the Lord, all the arches
of that eternal home will reverberate with the sound of jubilee over your
salvation, until its echo from harp to harp shall be borne up to the throne
of God.

And as there is a living union of the Christian's home on earth and in
heaven, so also will there be a conscious union and recognition of the
members of the Christian home, when they enter that better land. When the
tent-home is broken up, and its members take their place and enter upon
their joys in the heavenly home, they will recognize each other, and
exchange congratulations. The bonds of natural affection which bound them
together here will bind them also there. They will possess the same
home-feeling and sympathy; they will love each other as members of the same
household; the parents will know and love their children as parents; and
the children will feel towards their parents as children. Thus in the clear
light of that blessed land we shall see and know our kindred, and shall be
recognized, and known by them. All family ties will be re-knit; all
home-relationships will be restored; all the links of affection will be
renewed. The babe that withered in your arms like a frost-stricken flower
in winter, will come forth clad in redemption robes, to embrace you there;
and one of your joys will be a conscious reunion with him:--

"We shall go home to our Father's house:
To our Father's house in the skies,
Where the hope of our souls shall have no blight,