The Red Cloud chief., 1894-02-16

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them, and tGpy are well in the land
across which no pnoumOnias or palsios
or dropsies or typhoids ever swcop. The
aroma blows over from orchards with
trees bearing IL manner of fruits. and
gardens compared with which Chats
worth Ia q desert. The climate is n
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 or
hates. but love, universal love, ever
lasting love. And they told inc 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 naturep" Well, from what l saw
| think childhood has advanced to full
maturity of faculty, retaining all the
residence Of childhood, and that tho
aged had retreated to midlife, freed
from all decadence, but still retaining
the charm of the venerable. In other
words, 1t was fully developed and COM
plete life of all souls, whether young or
old.
CHANGED CONDITIONS.
Some n says, Twill you tell us
what most impressed you in h~eaven2" l
will. wa most impressed with the re-
versal Of earthly conditions. I 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 las one star differed
from another" as Mars from Mercury,
as Saturn from Jupiter. But at every
stepin 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 DO 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 tho
highest range of celestial splendor and
pomp. No, no. l 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 miscreants, and who
had compressed in their body all de-
PRAYED appetites and all evil pro-
pensities, but they laid hold Of Gods
arm, they cried for especial mercy, they
conquered seven devils within and sew
enty devils without and we're washed in
the blood Of the Lamb, and by 80 much
as their contest was terrific and awful
and prolix their victory was consum-
mate and Respondent, and they have
taken places UNNECESSARILY higher than
those Of good parentage, who could hard
ly help being good, because they had 10
generations OF preceding piety to aid
them. The steps by which many have
mounted to the highest places In heaven
were made out Of the cradles of a cor
rupt parentage. When l saw that, !
said to my attending angel: THAT il
fair; that is right. The harder the
struggle the more glorious the reward"
Then I pointed to one Of the most col
onnaded and grandly domed residences
in all the city and said, 'Who lives
there?" and the answer was, "The widow
who gave two mites" "And who lives
thereT and the answer was, "The peni
tent thief to whom Christ said, This day
shalt thou be with me in paradise"
"And who lives therel" l said, and the
answer was, "The blind beggar who
prayed, Lord, that my eyes may be
opened"
NAMES o IN II DIRECTORY.
Some of those professors of religion
who were famous on earth l asked about,
but NJ one could tell me anything CON
corning them. Their names were not
in the city directory Of the New
Jerusalem. The fact is that l suspected
Of them had not got there at all.
Many who had ten talents were living
on the back streets Of heaven, while
many with one talent had residences
fronting on the Kings park, and a back
lawn sloping to the river clear a crys-
tai, and the highest nobility of heaven
were guests at their table, and often the
white horse of him who ''hath the moon
under his feet" champed its bit at their
doorway. Infinite capsize Of earthly
conditions! All social life in heaven
graded according to earthly struggle and
usefulness as proportional to talents
As l walked through those streets / ap-
preciated for the first time what Paul
said to Timothy, "If we suffer, we shall
also reign with him." 1t surprised me
beyond description that all the great Of
heaven were great sufferers. "Not alp
Yes, all. Moses, him of the Red sea, a
great sufferer. David, him of Absalom's
unflial behavior, and Ahithophel's be-
trayal, and a nations dethronement, a
great sufferer. Ezekiel, him of the cap
who had the dream on the banks
Of the Chebar, a great sufferer. Paul,
him of the diseased eyes, and the Medi-
~terranean shipwreck, and the Mars Hill
IL viu;np opA tho Nappat;pa anI,nnan.