Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1898-11-10

'eiescope, with power of calculation
"isntier than all human mathematics,
win powers of analysis surprising all
chemical laboratory, with speed swift
CT nan telegraphy. What must heav-
gu iearn, with all these advantages. In
: month, In a year, in, a century, in a
miiienntum? The difference between
.hs highest university on earth and
.ne snaiiest class in a primary school
annot De a greater difference than
nea'en as 1t now is and heaven as it
ohce was. Do you not uppos that
"nen Dr. James Simpson went up from
ne hospitals Of Edinburgh into heav-
Gu ne knew more than ever the science
VI neaith; and that Joseph Henry,grad-
uating from the Smithsonian Institu-
ZION into heaven. awoke into higher
realms of philosophy; and that Sir
"iiliam Hamilton, lifted to loftier
sphere, understood better the construc-
tion OF the human intellect; and that
donn Milton took up higher poetry in
the actual presence Of things that on
earth ne had tried TO describe? When
the nrst saints entered heaven they
must have studied only the A B c Of
the null literature of wisdom with
which they are now acquainted.
again. heaven is vastly improved In
Its society. During your memory how
many exquisite spirits have gone into
II! III you should try to make a list
OF all the genial, loving, gracious,
blessed souls that you have known. it
would be a very long list-souls that
nave gone into that glory. Now, do
o suppose they have enriched the
society? Have they not improved
heaven? You tell of what heaven did
Tor them. Have they done nothing for
v Take ali the gracious souls
'nat nave gone out OF your acquaint-
anceship, and add to them all the gra-
cious n beautiful souls that for i've
hundred or a thousand years have
zone out of all the cities and all the
villages, and all the countries OF this
earth into glory, and how the society
Oh heaven must have been improved!
suppose Paul, the Apostle, were intro
duced into your social circle on earth;
but heaven has added all the apostles.
Suppose Hannah More and Charlotte
Elizabeth were introduced into your
social circle on earth; but heaven has
added all the blessed and the gracious
and the holy women Of the past ages.
Suppose that Robert M'Cheyne and
John Summerield should be added TO
your earthly circle: but heaven has
gathered up all the faithful and earn
est ministry of the past. There is not
a town, or a city, or a village that
has SO improved in society in the
last hundred years as heaven has inn
proved.
But you say, Hasn't heaven always
been perfect?" Oh. yes; but not in
the sense that IL cannot be augmented.
1t has been rolling on in grandeur.
Christ has been there, and he never
changes-the same yesterday, today,
and forever; glorious then. and glor-
ious now, and glorious forever. But
| speak now OF attractions outside OF
this. and ! have to tell you that no
place on earth has improved in society
as heaven has within the last seventy
years: for the most OF you within for
ty years. within twenty years, within
five years. within one year: In other
words. by the accessions from your
own household. IL heaven were
placed in groups-an apostolic group,
a patriarchal group, a prophetic group.
group of martyrs, group Of angels.
and then a group Of your own glorified
kindred-which group would you
choose2 You might look around and
make comparison, but it would not
take o long TO choose.
Again, I remark that heaven has
greatly improved in the good cheer OF
announced victories. Where heaven
rejoiced oyer one soul. il now ~rejoices
over a hundred or a thousand. In the
olden times, when the events of hui
man life were scattered over -four or
FIVE centuries Of longevity. and the
world moved slowly, there were not so
many stirring events to be reported in
heaven: but now. ! suppose, all the
great events of earth are reported in
heaven. If there is any truth plainly
taught in this Bible IL is that heaven
Is wrapped up in sympathy with hui
man history, and we look at those in
yentions OF the day-at ~telegraphy. at
swift communication By steam, at all
these modern improvements which
seem 10 give one almost omnipresence
and we see only the secular relation;
hut spirits before the throne look out
and see the vast and the eternal reia-
ton. While nations rise and fall.
while the earth is shaking with revo-
lutic., do you not suppose there is
arousing intelligence going up to the
throne of God, and that the question
is often asked before the throne,
What Is the news from that world
that world that rebelled. but Is COM
ing back to its allegiance" III minis
tering spirits, according to the Bible.
are sent forth 10 minister to those that
shall be heirs OF heaven, when they
come down 10 us to bless us, do they
not take the news back? Do the ships
OF light hat come out OF the celestial
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