The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1889-01-26


ence of Rembrandt and Raphael aid
Rubens and Claude and Titan and all
over great souls of painters whose fame
we revere on earth. suppose great
wits-and the best Christians l have
ever found or met are the Christian wits
they will come into communion with
the Sidney Smiths, the Christopher
Norths, the Shakespeares, and so on,
with other men and women.
"Shakespeare, you know. in his last
will and testament, dedicated his own
soul to God through the Lord Jesus
Christ, and he was as dramatist.
WE WILL FIND OUR TRUE VOCATION.
81 could talk to you forever on the
subject of heaven, for it is one we all
are interested in. My ideas Of heaven
have greatly changed. When l first
entered the ministry had imagined a
poetic heaven now it has become to
me home circle. We can do there
whatever we please our nature is eu-
larged there we will enjoy more free
dom, higher state of existence, and
60 on improving through all eternity.
We have an imperfect nature in this
world, and here we cannot do as we
please. We are bound down our best
moods have no scope, no freedom we
are tied down in great many in
stances to uncongenial pursuits to which
we have become devoted by accident
or the force of circumstances. In
heaven all this will be changed. Loco
motion will be rapid, and, to use ma
terial idea, we shall be able to fly like
the bird-this IS, if we want to 60 any,
where the mere wish will accomplish it.
To- day you and have to walk or rlde
in the cars to the Bridge, or we pass
away hours in train on our way to a
city in the West. In heaven we would
be at our destination in the twinkle of
an eye. Space will be annihilated-
time will be as nothing.
THE BODY OF THE RESURRECTION.
"One thing more. This body of ours
is the same in outward form that it was
seven years ago, yet it is another body.
Here is scar on my finger that l got
when | was boy 1t is not the same
scar, for our bodies change every seven
years, yet it is there We lose this body
at death, and we are promised another
body at the resurrection. But that
body will be spiritual body. 1t will
be diaphanous, luminous. ethereal. The
soul will have room for expansion, there
will be no dross or corruption. This
world has existed for mankind six thou
sand years, but there were millions OF
years before the creation during which
the materials were being got together.
People call that period chaos, but God
was simply gathering the lumber to
make the world with. When all was
ready he created the world for Adam
and Eve in a single week. He waved
His hand, and the fish filled the seas,
the rivers and lakes. By the wave Of
His hand He created the fowls of the
earth and the beasts of the field, having
already created the trees, the flowers
and the fruits. So in heaven He has
created place of JOY aud content,
where our aspirations will have fuller
scope and our natures receive that su-
preme satisfaction that is denied US
here.
"My idea is that in heaven our ma
lures will be so enlarged, beautifed and
enriched that every delightful longing
OF the purified soul will be satisfied.
Our higher aspirations will be gratihed.
our sensiblities refined and soothed,
our tastes tor the beautiful, the true,
the noble have full and perfect satlstac-
lion. In short. heaven will be state,
a condition of happiness the extent and
iulness of which no human mind can
comprehend or fully understand. There
will be no material life there, as the
spirtualists believe, but an immeasura-
bly, enlarged sphere of existence, no
time, no hindrance. To wish will be to
do-a beatlfc existence the glory of
which will be equal to the glory and
goodness of God."-N Y Herald.