Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1879-02-25
Per The News.
Endless Variety aud EXpeCta-
sion.
suSrtsrrp From Las, WIZ.

And though sometimes, In the
natural world. as 10 forms aud cuIors
differences approximate so hear t.
each other in resemblance 40 to rem
der il impossible to draw the line OF
distinction. and yet differences eS'
sentially exist. So in the spiritusI
world there are endless pecuIari.ies
Of moral and intellectual character,
which will be more easily Distinguish
ed in the heavenly state than pecu>
liartcs of matter ure in the present
state; because there the power Of
discrimination will be unimpeded by
the pcculiarites and appendaees Of
intervening gross matter, aud the
debility Of intellectual constitution.
The substantial nature IL the hu-
man mind is universally the same
but there will be an endless pcculiari-
ty Of an intellectual moral, aud SO
cial nature, there can be no doubt,
because the circumstances or history
Of no two persons ia time cannot be
precisely the same and so the de-
yelopment of the substantial nature
Of no two persons in time cannot be
precisely the same. Endless differ
ences will consequently be percepti-
bic. Every one in heaven will con-
seqneitly have his-owu history, his
character, and his own reward. The
plain illusions in Scripture to dill.
ference Of reward in heaven support,
this conclusion. Every saint in heav'
en- bears with him portion of hi'
being. The saints of the patriarch
nj, prophetical, apoStoical, and sub.
sequent ages, all have respectively
some pecaliarities by which one pa
tIiarch is distinguished from another
and one prophet from another, anG
one apostle tron another. aud one
martyr from another. and one preach
er Of tie gospel from another, and
one saint IN one age from another
snint in another age, aud ore mem
Der Of one family from one Of the
same family. An infant will be di,-
tinSulShed from patriarch, or au
apostle; and so distinction will mn
through all graiatiOnS from the iu-
Gnt to tie patriarch.
Certain it is that the law Of works
aud all its a"companyh 6 circum'
stances, which entered into the prim'
itiye state Of Adam and Eve, cannot
enter into the history Of any of their
posterity and hence the fact Of their
first estate must distinguish them
from any of their posterlty; and no
one con nationally suppose there will
he no difference between the saints
who lived in the dim light of the pa
triarchal diSpensatlon aud the saints
who lived in the days of Christ and
his apostles, or the sninls who shall
live in the meridian light CT til,
millennium.
And every nge Of time ii distin-
guished by certain prominent lead
log characters whose names are bu'
the embodiments Ct the nature oI
the times IN which they lived, aud S,
every ogc in fact, but the totalt,
Of every individual character in it.
certain IL is that prominent and inie-
rior characters, from the most eSalt
cd 10 the most obscure, must exist
each with its own pctuliarities, in III,
future state. We have not the limei
nor the miracles of Moses, nor IL,
times and miracles Of Christ nnd hi,
apostles. nor the times of Luther, Of
OF Wesley, or Of other relormtr'; ant
hence the characters Of our times
must have their own distinctive Pc
culiaritics. Aud MS man is progress
sivc, aud every individual IN Gael
nge contributes something to the gen'
eral results, 1t Is uncomfortable thu
whatever share each individual has II
lUtH HtutINl ltNNlh NnNhN NHN'l llNV " v
very being and constitute his person
al aud distinct idcnly, Our ngc, ouI
neighborhood, our family, our indi-
vidual self, ALI are taken up in tn,
progress OF things, and nre assigned
their relation, their distlnctneSs
their separaiencss In the revolutions
Of the worlds history. The person
al identy Of the humblest aud mos
obscure being of the human rocc can.
not be destroyed without making
chosm In tho history of man, an'
70 far anuu''ing the history OF mai
TINT every allotment of divine provi
dcncc must have i,a representative
every man must give M account o
his stewardship; every man must III
swer for his deeds; every man vii
have his own peculiar character
i. II.