St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-06-18

he in it: and his servants shall serve
Him. And they shall see His face;
and His name shall he in their fore
heads. And there shall he no night
there"
This, then. points ts a grand and glo
ri8us day still in the future when the
curse shall he entirely removed, when
men will not be busted aS they now are
in attempts to batle sin, when the con-
stant study will not he how to alleviate
and make tOlerable the condition in
which sin has placed man, when the
| fight will he done; and the victory over
the last enemy, Death, shall have been
achieved. This shall be the happy
state of those who have submitted to
God on earth. have waged valiant war
fare with the enemy while they were in
the flesh and have come..ptf conquer
orS through the grace given them in
Jesus Christ
Let us contemplate for Il few mo-
ments more the condition of man in his
glorited state, "when there is no more
curse" and where there is no night
| love to rise Oh the wings of faith and
look over beyond the confines of time
away over the horizon hills of earth and
view the scene when they have come
from the north and from the south
and from the east and the west. and
have set down with Abraham and
Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of Cod"
Our best ideas of heaven are doubtless
but very imperfect; for "eye hath not
seen nor ear heard" the realities of it &;
but by the light of the Gospel we may
have a glimpse of the within, AS the
gates stand aiar.
One great thought has rackcd the
brain of sage and philosopher from the
time of Pythagor:ls, Plato aud Socrates
to the present and that was concern
ing the future. Nor has any one come
back However many prctcusous there
may hc that there has to tell us with
human lip and language OF the realities
of the future yet we are permitted
scope for our Imagination and reasonable
conjecture as We look into the word OF
God. Let me Illustrate the thought
by means of the prism ray of the sun
may hr divided into the seven basal
From observation, comparison. and eX-
/ pertinent with these seven colorS. sci
entitic men have been able To determine
some of the materials of which the sun
is composed, 81 10y the use of il simple
| prlmative verse of scripture through
which divine truth is allowed to slime.
or the spectr">cope of the divine word,
some of the circumstances attending the
| Beyond may lie aSaccuIatelN determined
as If we We're there. And one of them
is that the curse shall he removed and
that there shall he no night there.
Blessed thought, No curse , No night
The old = IiloSophcrS of the past. sit .
ting away back in the early centuries
before Christ never had such sublime
thoughts I> these. Socrates and Plato
believed i'll the tran>miGration of the
soul and thus thought to escape the ills
of life; but where OF how the living
line should end they doubtless never
thought. The ancient Greeks described
the heaven which they wished tu gain
a> u ''happl land where there is neither
SNOW. nor rain, aud Is always famed by
the delightful breczcs OF Zeplcrus'
illthcr they thought the famed heroes
passed without dying aud live in hap
pincs> forever. The Indian too had his
theory of heaven and the poet. Pope,
words his expectation thus:
His soul proud Science taught /" stray,
Far as the s'lar walk. milky way:
Yet simple nature t" his hope has given
ichind the cloud -t"pt hill a humber heaven;
some safer world i'll depth Of w"od embraced
Some happier island i'll the watrry waste
Where slaves more their native land behold
y" f-nd- torment. II" Christians thirst for gold.
T" he, contents his natural desire;
liz, asks no angels wing seraph'S fire;
But thiuEs admitted to that equal sky.
His faithful dog shall bear him company.
Thus all have had their theories. from
the ancient hearhen philosophers times
only one of any value.
Let us look away over into the Be
yond 10y the aid oi the light given us il
the text 1t shows us Il land wher,
there is no blighting curse and wher,
, there is no sunset. What is there il
that happy land There shall be ne
more curse And there shall h,
no night there"
. Let lis contemplate. then, further for {;
, few moments the thoughts contained il
. the last clause of the text-''there shal
he no night there"-and from this per
lIaps we may get as vivid an idea o.
| ''1he curse remOred' as from any Other
line of thought. We are accustomed t,
, associate danger, cruelty, death and ev.
cry thing that is harmful with the dark
; ness of night. II is thus used smboli
cally in scripture. The idea of the
/ text is that if the darkness of night cal
, he removed such would lie symbol OF
the removal of the curse.
. With the curse removed the night OF
; ignorance shall be gone. How little dc
we know here, We sometimes see ol
read of men whom we consider prodi-
ges of learning. But how little do they
really know Isaac Newton, one OF