The Wilmingtonian., 1882-11-11
Charges in Nea5en.
II Sermon by DR.. 1almage.
''ANp SAW a NEW HEAVEN. REV. 81 /.

You and will be in the procession; you
and will thrum string in that great or
chestra. That will be the greatest day in
Heaven since the first block of jasper was
put down for the foundation and the first
hinged pearl swung. If there is a difference
between Heaven now and Heaven as it was,
Oh. the difference between Heaven as it |
shall be and Heaven as it is now! Not
splender stuck fast, but rolling on aud roll
lug on, and rolling up and rolling up for
ever, and forever.
Now, | Preach this sermon about the
changes in Heaven, about the new improve
ments in Heaven, for three stout reasons
First, because find that some of you are
impatient to be gone. You are tired of this
world. and you want to get into that good
land about which you have been thinking,
praying, and talking so many years. Now
be patient. could see why you want to go
to an art gallery if some of the best pictures
were to be taken ay this week or next
week; butif some one tells you that there
are other beautiful picturesto come-other
Kensetts, Raphaels and Rubens; other mas
terpiecss to be added TO the gallery, you
would say, Il can afford to wait. The place
is improving all the time,
Now want you to apply the same princi-
nal in this matter of reaching Heaven and
leaving this world. Not one glory is to be
subtracted, but many glories added. Not
one angel will be gone, not one herarch
gone, not one of your glorified friends gone.
BY the long practising the music will be
better, the professions will be longer, the
rainbow brighter, the coronation grander.
Heaven with with magnificent addenda!
Why will you complain when you are only
yaiting for something better9
Another reason why preach in regard to
the changes in Heaven, and the improve
ments in Heaven, is because l think it will
be a consolation to busy and enterprising
good people, Isee very well that you have
not much taste for Heaven that was al
done and finished centuries ago. After you
have been active forty OF CITY OF skip years
itwould be shock to stop you suddenl!
and forever; but there is
A PROGRESSIVE HEAVEN,
an ever accumulutive Heaven, vast enter
prise on foot there before the throne of God
Aggressive knowledge, aggressive goodness
aggressive power, aggressive grandeur
You will not have to come and sit down o
the banks of the river of life in everlastin
inocupation. o! busy men, tell you OF
Heaven where there is something to dt
That is the meaning of the passage, 'the
rest not day or night" in the lazy sense {
resting.
preach this sermon on the changes
Heaven and the new improvements in lie
ven, also because | want to cure some
you Of the deluson that your departe
Christian friends have gone into dulness al
silence and unscionsness. They are in
stirring, picturesque, radiant, ever accnm
latve scene. When they left their bodie
they only got rid of their last hindran'
They are no more in Greenwood, or Laui
Hill, or Mount Auburn than you, in holid
attire, having seated yourself at banqu'
can be said to be in dark closet while "
have left the old apparel that was not fit
wear at the banquet. A soldier cannot u
a sword until he has unsheathed it, and t
body of your departed was only the shea
of a bright and glittering spirit which G.