The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1882-08-31
Heaven.
DR.. Tucker in Christian Mdcr.

DR.. Tucker in Christian Hdcg.
The buffetings Of this sorrow smittel
and sinbeset world are hard to bear
| Oftentimes we feel as if we should sinl
IN sea OF troubles-yea, sometimes W.
feel that tie have suiikk. and that we ca,
say with the Psalmist "All thy wave
aid thy billows are gone over me-" Blu
it is delightful to think that "out of th
depths we can cry unto the Lord, an,
that he will hear our prayer. 1t j
delightful, too, to be assured that though
| He may aillict US, He will never forsak,
us, and that there is good time coming
| when we shall rest from our labors, whel
| all tears shall be wiped from our eyes
and when, having experienced our las
pang, and bid adicu to sorrow, we shall
sit down in the paradise of God. Th,
hope of heaven is our stay. What more
do we need? What more is possible
Life is short. 1t will soon be overall
over. The moment it ceases we ar,
ushercd into The realms of inconccivablt
and never.ending joy. We scarcely
or sorrow-perhaps they are both
when we sing,
Jerusalem, my glorious home,
Name ever dear to me,
When shall my labors have an end,
In joy AMI peace and thee?
There is rapture even in the antci
patton. Tho very hope of j, strengthens
us tOr our burden here, aud fortifies us
against temptation. Who can sin when
he realizes that sin blocks his way to the
pearly gates? Tho very conception OF
tho holy place is elevating and purifying.
10 mediate upon IT prepares us to enter
il! We often bitterly learn in this life
that the anticipation Of pleasure exceeds
the reality. But we are happy to know
that cur most slorious ant:cipH:ions Of
heaven are meagre and vapid, compared
with heaven itself. The home of the
angels The dwelling plucc of God A
world of rest and peace, aud joy and
love! a world where all is pure, and
where all is holy. i world where we
shall have free and eternal access to all
that God has laid up for them, for whom
the blood Of the everlasting covenant
was shed A world where infinite
goodness has poured out all its treasures !
But we can neither express nor conceive
what lies beyond the river. The reality
overspreads all human capacity. We
are 80 overwhelmed with the glory that
we see none of it.
We use tho worlds which represent
though they do not express the blessed
ness Of the eternal world, and we some.
times imagine that tho glorious ideals
have been actually present to our minds.
But these things have never entered the
heart of man. We are like one born and
reared in dungeon, whero in dim twi-
light, he never saw earth, nor sky, nor
tree, nor leaf, nor human face, and who
on seeing picture Of the sun, imagines
that he has seen the sun itself. But his
notions of tho splendor of that glorious
orb would be correct and vivid, and
abundantly up to the original, compared
to the vague and wretched conceptions
that we have of tho glories of heaven
Language, even when inspired, presents
rldcr picture than Egyptian hicroglyph
The joys of the spirit world arc all un.
translatablc into the dialect of mortaIs
But oven the vague symbols used by the
spirit Of God to represent these upper
glories, used because they are adapted to
our capacities, tuiling as they do to con.
vey to our minds that which they are
incapable Of containing, are awe in
spring and sublime.
The Seer Oh Patmos beheld the city Of
God, and he tcs.ifes that each massive
gate was one resplcndcnt pearl; that the
very street Of the city was pure gold AZ
it were transparent glass. and, says he,
.! saw no temple therein, for the Lord!
God Almighty and the Lamb are the
temple vi ii. Aud the city had no need
of tho sun, neither Of the moon, TO shine
in it, and the Lamb is the light thereof"
-ltev. xxi, % %. 1t il as if he had
said, Gas sparks from the flint cannot be
seen in sunlight, so the sun itself, if
blazing In heaven, would fade aud cease
to be visible amid the superior glories of
Gods own abode" The rapt seer awak-
ems wonder, if he does not convey a
conception, when he tells US that the
most splendid object our eyes ever be-
held pales and dwindles to nothing in
the light of that upper world. Thus,
too, he impresses us with an awful sense
of its holiness. II saw no temple there"
The temple-the most sacred and holy
thing known to men-finds no place in
heaven. There is no room there and no
need then for what we call sacred and
holy. All our conceptions are superce-
ded by this, that "the Lord God Almigh-
u and the Lamb are the taInp!s cc It."
Aud is it possible that this is in re-
serve for us2 How patiently should we
wait for it. How short the time that In.
tervenes: the brief span of human life,
nothing more. How light our Affections,
If they work for us this far more exceed.
ing and eternal weight of glory. Let ua
endure 70 tue end. Let us serve faith.
fully him who has purchased this inheri
lance for US with the price of his blood
Let US never forget that we are indebted
for these happy and glorious hopes tc
the life and suffering and death of Jesus
Christ our Lord. Let us obey his pre-
cepts, initiate his example, and if it be
that we suffer with him, thank God we
shall also be gloriGcd together.
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