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we know each other in heaven?'
most unhesitatingly answer yes," "sayt
Rev. James Bradley, of the Monroe
Street Baptist Church. ssTo lose my
identity in heaven is to lose myself.
My personality, separately and dis
tinctly marked, is preserved here,
My life is my own apart from all
others; for me to enjoy it, my life, my
personality must be just as distinctly
marked in heaven. To lose my rec
objections of this life Is humiliation.
If am not to know I have ever been,
the whole of heaven is lost to me, and
am deprived of all knowledge of a
blessed Savior. Instead of the mem
ory being blotted out, my recollec-
tions of the past shall be heightened,
and, as never before, Ishall see what
a sinner was, and the grace of God
in my salvation. cannot RENE nber
the past without clear recollec ton
of my associations of the past; there
fore I shall remember all my sur
roundings.
"Moses and Elias appeared upon the
mount of TRANSPORTATION, known and
recognized, and their conversation
with the Savior clearly shows that
they recognized all connected with
his life here, and ali the future of his
glory. If it be answered that this is a
figure answer, figure of what? If
it is not a figure of a fact it is no
figure at all. If a figure of fact, the
fact, in every sense, will be more
gioriously realized than the figure. If
the righteous forget themselves so
must the wicked, and hell is only an
everlasting blank. Let no man de-
ceive himself with the idea that in the
great throng that goes to make up
heaven God will forget or overlook or
him, or that he will lose himself.
He shall personally answer to God
for his stewardshsip. 2
Rev. N. r. Pittman, of the First
Baptist Church, answers the question
as follows:
"The dying mother who entreats
her children to meet her in heaven is
certainly orthodox. Abraham and
Moses and Elijah have not lost their
identity. The destruction of the
earthly body does not obliterate ident-
ity. Centuries after the earthly de-
cease of Moses and Elijah they were
seen in conversation with Jesus by
Peter and James and John. We are
told that Lazarus was recognized in
close fellowship with Abraham in the
other world. We are frankly told that
there are bodies celestial. The de-
struction of the five senses through
which / secure relationship with the
material world does not destroy me.
I see with my eye. I see with a tel
escope. hear with my ear. I hear
with a telephone. Eye and telescope
and ear and telephone are instru-
ments whose destruction leaves unde-
stroyed the seeing and hearing being.
1 look for a perfect body which shall
be in perfect harmony with my soul
and spirit. look for uncl0uded
and unhindered knowledge. The
thought that our human relationships
will have repetition interferes with
happy contemplation of the heavenly
home; but that thought is unwarrant-
ed. The inhabitants of heaven are not
joined in marriage. There we will be
brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ.
1t will be great family of God. There
will be no confusion, mo sorrow, no sick
ness, no decrepitude, no death. Sou
and spirit and body will be forever
free from discord and partial knowl.
edge and confused feeling. We shal
know and be known. We shall know
Christ and know one another"