The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-08-29

celve failure IN attainment Such
collapse Of tho universe is unscientifc,
absurd, illogical, unthinkable. Such
catastrophe would contradict the logic
and science and philosophy Of all the
ages. We observe in this process that
truth is eternally triumphant, that good
is germinal and reproduces itself, that
evil is suicidal and destroys itself. The
end of such a process must in the very
nature of things be the perfection Of
good, the elimination OF evil. In other
words, the natural or inevitable end Of
this creative process must be a goal in
which that which is imperfect is done
away and that which is perfect is come.
when that which is in part is fulfilled in
perfection. =
KAULBAcH's MASTERPIECE.
Second-The lines of heaven extend
into and are part Of this earth. "When
that which is perfect Is come, that which
is in part shall be done away" That is
to say, we have part of it now. We
see heaven in part now. When the
process is completed the part shall be
made perfect. We must understand
therefore that it is at this end Of the
line that the kingdom of heaven is ex-
tended and gains its victories. Here,
not beyond the grave, RACES the battle
of the eternities. In Kaulbachs master
piece the soldiers after three days of
bloody battle lie down on the field upon
their arms and sleep, worn and weary
with their long continued strife. Whilo
they sleep the spirits of the dead war
riors rise and mount the pale horses
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spirit battalions over the heads of the
sleeping soldiers. The battle is re-en-
gagged and RACES with all the fierceness
of life. ... M
1t is here in this world that the battle
of spirit is thus waged. Those who
sleep, who rest from their labors, have
gone on beyond. They arc in the land
of the living. We arc in the land of the
dying. But it is hero amid the imper-
fections and incompleteness of things
that the battle for perfection and COM
pleteness RACES. There is joy in heaven
over what1 One sinner that repentcth.
The joys Of heaven are incident upon
the victories at this end of the line,
Following these lines we reach the per-
fected dwelling place of God. Where
God is, there is heaven.
NO HE'LL WHERE GOD IS.
A little negro boy was dying who
had professed Christianity. The preacher
thought to test his grasp of truth. He
declared that he was going to heaven TO
be with Jesus. But, says the preacher,
"suppose that Jesus should descend into
hell, would you follow him theref lie
hesitated q moment, and then there
| flashed through his untutored mind the
eternal truth. He replied, "Yes, massa;
but there can be no hell where Jesus is"
| Such is the fact. There can be no hell
where God is. Where God is, heaven
reigns.
If man desires to see heaven he can
see heaven hero now by bringing him
self in vital contact with God. In the
development of his spiritual faculties,
in the expansion of his God nature, he
will see and feel and realize the eternal
yerities of heaven here.
A MAN OF WEALTH.
A man Of wealth who was leading
member in church, and yet who had
never learned the lesson of sacrifice, had
never really learned the meaning Of the
cross, met his pastor one day and COM
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heaven. The pastor replied: "Yes,
brother, but would like for you to see
heaven. l have just come from sick
woman's house. She is in want of
bread. You have plenty. You have
not given much to the poor. You should
test this question for yourself. will
tell you how you can see heaven. Go
down town, buy load of provisions,
take them to this home of poverty and
misery. Go with them yourself, kneel
by that bedside and pray. Tell this
widow that you have been negligent of
your duty, that you will be glad to as
sist her distress, provide for her wants,
and let me know the result"
He made the experiment. The next
day the pastor saw him his face was
beaming with joy. He said that he
staid in that sickroom for two hours,
and that he was two hours in heaven in
the presence of God. He had tested its
realities for himself in the gratitude and
surprise and joy of that home of poy-
erty, and in the sacrifice which he had
made producing these results, he had
brought himself in vital touch with the
Ipirit of God and with the realities of o
divine life.
TIE NEW EARTH.
Tho coming of heaven is then to be
coterminus with the conquest of this
earth. ~ saw new heaven and new
earth"-the new earth coterminus with
the new heaven. There will be no new
heaven until tho new earth is come.
The lines of the divine are drawn here
now into this world. They are to be
taken up here and worked out. When
ever we see the divine in this earth
tlere is heaven in part. We can see the
lines of heaven as they extend in truth
and knowledge and beauty in art, in
literature, in science. Whenever the
divine touches man, man Is in contact
with heaven.
All work and ministry for the allevia-
ton of pain and of sorrow and disease,
the annihilation OF time and space, the
feeding of the hungry. the healing of
the sick, the inauguration of the new
and divine era on earth-this is work di-
vine and the expansion and develop
ment Of the lines of heaven that extend
into and are part Of this earth. Heaven,
then, is all about you.
FOR TIME AND ETERNITY.
Third-The realities of heaven are
vital and inherent, not Judicial and
forensic. A man will receive of heaven
hereafter what he has grasped of heaven
here. Earth is the childhood of spirit,
as infancy is the building ground of the
body and Of character. As the child
lives and grows and develops, SO will
manhood be. Tho humpback cannot be
Strengthened in manhood. Bent In child
hood, bent for time. Earth is the child
hood Of spirit ...
In this season are influences and forces
that are unique and that tell for time,
and eternity of which time is but q seq