Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1898-10-31

lation mightier than all human mathe-
MATES, with powers of analysis sur
passing all chemical laboratory, with
speed swifter than telegraphy What
must heaven learn, with all these advan-
tages, in month, in a year, in CEN
fury, in millennium? The difference
between the highest university on earth
and the smallest class in primary
school cannot be greater difference
than heaven as it now is and heaven as
it once was. Do you not suppose that
when DR.. James Simpson went up from
the hospitals of Edinburgh into heaven
he knew more than ever the SCIENCE of
health, and that Joseph Henry, grad
uating from the Smithsonian institution
into heaven, awoke into higher realms
of philosophy, and that Sir William
Hamilton, lifted to loftier sphere, un-
derstood better the construction of the
human intellect, and that John Milton
took up higher poetry in the actual
presence of things that on earth he had
tried to describe? When the first saints
entered heaven, they must have studied
only the A B @ of the full 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
it? If you should try to make list of
all the genial, loving, gracious, blessed
souls that you have known, it would be
a very long list-souls that have gone
into glory. Now, do you not suppose
no fvS
they not improved heaven? You tell of
what heaven did for them. Have they
done nothing for heaven? Take all the
gracious souls that have gone out of
your mountaineering and add to them
all the gracious and beautiful souls that
for 500 or 1000 years have gone out of
all the cities and all the villages and
all the countries of this earth into
glory, and how the society of heaven
must have been improved Suppose
Paul, the apostle, were introduced 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
w
Robert MacCheyne and John Summer
field should be added to your earthly
circle-but heaven has gathered up all
the faithful and earnest ministry of the
past. There is not town, Or city, or
a village that has SO improved in society
in the last 100 years as heaven has i'm
proved.
Always Perfect.
But you say, Hasn't heaven always
been perfect?' Oh, yes, but not In the
sense that it cannot be augmented! It
has been rolling on in grandeur. Christ
has been there, and he never changes
the same yesterday, today and for
ever; glorious then and glorious now
and glorious forever But [ speak now
of attractions outside of this, and I have
to tell you that no place on earth has
improved in society as heaven has with
in the last 70 years, for the most Of you
within 40 years, within 20 years, with
in five years, within one year-in other
words, by the accessions from your own
household. If heaven were placed in
groups-an apostolic group, a patri-
archal group, prophetic group, group
Of martyrs, group of angels, and then
a group of your own glorified kindred
which group would you choose? You
might look around and make compari-
son, but it would not take you long to
choose. You would say: "Give me back
those whom l loved on EARTH let me
enter into their society-my parents,
my children, my brothers, my sisters.
We lived together on earth, let us live
together in heaven" Oh, is it not a
blessed thought that heaven has been
by its society-this colonial
ton from earth to heaven?
Again, l remark that heaven has
greatly improved in the good cheer of
announced victories. Where heaven re-
joiced over one soul it now rejoices over
a hundred Or thousand. In the olden
times, when the events of human life
were scattered over four or five CEN
turtles 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,
it is that heaven is wrapped up in sym
pathy with human history, and we look
at those inventions of the day-at teleg
raphy, at swift communication by
steam, at all these modern improve
ments which seem to give one almost
and we see only the Sec
1lar relation, but spirits before the
throne look out and see the vast and the
eternal relation. While nations rise and
fall, while the earth is shaking with
revolution do you not suppose there is
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 coming back to its
If ministering spirits, &C
cording to the Bible, are sent forth to