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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 17, 1864

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 23, No. 25.

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"Planted Together."

"MAMMA," asked a little girl, "when a mother and a little child die about the same time, are they planted together in one grave?"
The question may cause a smile, yet the child, all unconsciously, used the very words of St. Paul (see Rom. vi. 5), and this proves how very natural and beautiful the figure is, as are all the similitudes of the Bible.
This little one was evidently thinking of the time when that which is "sown in corruption," shall be raised again, and her feeling seemed to be, that it would be pleasant for a mother and her little child to rest and rise together.
"Planted together!"—yes, we should all wish it: as a good old man, of whom we read in the Bible, once said, "Let me die in mine own city, and be buried by the grave of my father and my mother!" And how many a mother is thus laid to rest, throughout this green earth—perhaps with a little form upon her arm, and other little ones "planted" around her, ready, as we trust, to rise when the trumpet shall sound, saying, Here am I, "and the children whom God hath given me!"
But this cannot always be. It often happens that but one or two of a dear family rest under the green sod, near home, while others perhaps lie far away, it may be deep beneath the wave, or upon the deserted battle ground. But what of this? St. Paul uses the expression we have quoted, not with reference to friends resting side by side, but to our being "planted together" with Christ. "So many of us," he says, "as were baptized into Christ, buried with Him in baptism, shall be also in the likeness of His resurrection."
It matters little, then, whether our poor bodies are "planted together" in the dust; so that "we be dead with Christ, we shall also live with Him." All those "that sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him." "He shall send His angels, and they shall gather together His elect"—and together they "shall ever be with the Lord."—Children's Guest.