The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1894-02-09

see our glorified friends?" Yes, saw
them, and they are well in the Lane
across which no pneumonias or palsie
or dropsies or typhoids ever sweep. TIL,
aroma blows over from orchards will
trees bearing 10 manner of fruits, an(
gardens compared with which Chats
worth is desert. The climate is {
mingling of an earthly June and Octo
berthe balm of the one and the tonic
of the other. The social life in that
realm where they are is superb and per
feet. No controversies or jealousies OF
hates, but love, universal love, ever.
lasting love. And they told me to tell
you not to weep for them, for their hap
piness knows no bound, and it is only q
question of time when you shall reign
with them In the same palace and join
with them in the same exploration of
planets and the same tour of worlds.
But yonder In this assembly is an up
turned face that seems to ask how about
the ages of those in heaven. "Do my
departed children remain children, or
have they lost their childish vivacity?
Do my departed parents remain aged,
or have they lost the venerable out of
their nature2" Well, from what l saw
! think childhood has advanced to full
maturity of faculty, retaining all the
residence of childhood, and that the
aged had retreated to midlife, freed
from all decadence, but still retaining
the charm of the venerable. In other
words, it was fully developed and com
plete life of all souls, whether young or
old.
CHANGED CONDITIONS.
Some one says, Twill you tell us
what most impressed you in -heavenT' L
will. was most impressed with the re-
versal of earthly conditions. l knew, OF
course, that there would be differences
of attire and residence in heaven, for
Paul had declared long ago that souls
would then differ as one star differed
from another" as Mars from Mercury,
as Saturn from Jupiter. But at every
step in my dream in heaven | was amazed
to see that some who were expected to be
high in heaven were low down, and
some who were expected to be low down
were high up. You thought, for in
stance, that those born of pious parent
age, and of naturally good disposition,
and of brilliant faculties, and of all
styles of attractiveness will move in the
highest range of celestial splendor and
pomp No, no. I found the highest
thrones, the brightest coronets, the rich
est mansions, were occupied by those
who had reprobate father or bad mother,
and who inherited the twisted natures Of
10 generations of miscIeants, and who
had compressed in their body all de-
PRAYED appetltes and all evil pro-
pensities, but they laid hold of Gods
arm, they cried for especial mercy, they |
seven devils within and sew
,nty devils without and were washed in
he blood of the Lamb, and by so much |
is their contest was terrific and awful |
md prolix their victory was consum-
nate and respondent, and they have
aiken places UNNECESSARILY higher than
hose of good parentage, who could hard
y help being good, because they had 10
of preceding piety to aid
hem. The steps by which many have I
nounted to the highest places in heaven
we're made out of the cradles of a COR
upt parentage. When l saw that, !
aid to my attending angel: THAT is
air; that is right. The harder the
truggle the more glorious the reward. Z"
Then I pointed to one of the most col
nnaded and grandly domed residences
4 all the city and said, "Who lives
here" and the answer was, "The widow
Tho gave two mites" "And who lives
here" and the answer was, "The peni
emit thief to whom Christ said, This day
halt thou be with me in paradise"
And who lives there?' | said, and the
nswer was, THE blind beggar who
rayed, Lord, that my eyes may be
pened.'"
NAMES NOT IN THE DIRECTORY.
Some of those professors of religion
tho We're famous on earth asked about,
ut no one could tell me anything CON
erning them. Their names were not Z
yen in the city directory of the New
erusalem. The fact is that | suspected
'me of them had not got there at all.
ANY who had ten talents were living
the back streets of heaven, while
any with one talent had residences
onting on lie Kings park, and back
wn slopll5 to the river clear as crys-
i, and the highest nobility of heaven
ere guests at their table, aud often the
hlte horse of him who hath the moon
lder ris feeC' champed its bit at their
'orwdy. Infinite capsize of earthly I
ndltons! All social life in heaven
AIDED according to earthly struggle and
etulness as proportional to talents I
ven! a
As walked through those streets APP f
eciated for the first time what Paul f
III to Timothy, "If we suffer, we shall L
50 reign with him." 1t surprised me
yond description that all the great of
aven were great sufferers. mot ALP Il
IS, all. Moses, him of the Red sea. a f
eat sufferer. David. him of Absalom's T.
tilial behavior, and Ahithophel's be-
lyal, and a nations dethronement. q o
eat sufferer Ezekiel him of tba ,a,, I