The Wilmingtonian., 1885-11-28

dition of things, we find, that on either
side of the river of the water of life is the
tree of life in the midst of the paradise of
God.', 1t follows then, that there is no such
place now in existence as paradise, as place
of departed spirits. Spirits, are not now,
nor never had been in the past, conscious
entities, natural men exist, Jesus the second
Adam, has passed the portals of the natural
mortal state, and come up on the spiritual
incorruptible side of everlasting life, aud is
waiting for the redemption of the purchased
possession, into the praise of his glory"
Eph. /, ID. HE brought the field with all
it's hidden treasure" and to do SO, for our
sakes he became poor, that we through his
poverty might be rich." He was the corn
of wheat except which it fall into the ground
and die, it abideth alone, but if it die, it
bringeth forth much fruit John, XII, "a.
He saw that by the sufferiogs of death, many
sons and daughters, were to be brought un-
to glory. He was the sample sheaf of the
coming glorious harvest. All the promises
of God in him, are yea, and amen. All the
luminous light and glory that gids the pro-
phttic vision, all the promises of God made
uutO the fathers, have been confirmed by
Jesus Christ as the minister of the crcum-
cision for the truth of God Rom. XIV, 8.
The earnest expectation of the creature
waiteth for the manifestation of the sons
of God, Rom. VIII, 10. Even we ourselves
| groan within ourselves waiting for the
adoption to aOI the redemption of the body,
Rom. VIII, 23. Aud everyone till now,
who is taught of the spirit of God" is
anxinusiy waiting tor the return o. Christ
fl ON heaven, to finish his work, ''of resttu
tion of all things, which God hath spoken ~
the mouth of all the holy rophets, since the
world began, Acts, III, 20, 21. Waiting loI
the new heavens, and the new earth, the
coming King of glory, the new creation in
h m, the adjustment OF death, and the end
of sin, and the bringing in of everlasting
righteousness, the eternal life in the glorious
'Kngdum of our God, and of his Christ
Then, this question of immortality will bt
finally and forever settled and the eterna
will lose none of its glory or blessedness tt
know that ''Gud only hath immortality" Ant
all others from Jesus down to the 'leas
down in the Kingdom of God" are all ii
possession of eternal or endless life, and il
this at least, are equal unto the angels
neither can they die any more, and are thu
children Of God, being the children of tn
lesui rection Luke, Xxx &c. In conclusion
The purpose and plau of God in the begin
ming. VIII never be completed, until Jesu
comes. 1t is only d cam, the result o
, Platontc philosophy to suppose that goo'
people go to heaven at death. Nay the.
die. as did Abraham and all the ancien
'worthles'' without receiving the thing
: promised their reward is in heaven, ant
, when Jesus comes, he brings the rewar
. with him. Let us ait patiently brethren, tn
, coming Of the Lord draweth nigh We shal
, see tile grand purpose of God in his finished
work, (which he created to make" AM
which he declared from the beginning a
/ he beheled it in its finished state, ''Ver
good"
, EDWIN A. HARRISON.