The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-11-04

with powers oil analysis surprising Oil
chemical laboratory, with speed
swifter than telegraphy! What must
Heaven learn, with all these advant-
ages, in u millennium? The difference
between the highest university on
earth and the smallest class IN pri-
mary school can not be greater diff
ference than Heaven as IL is now and
Heaven as it once was. Do you not
suppose that when DIR. James Simp-
son went up from the hospitals Of
Edinburgh into Heaven he knew more
than ever the science Of health; and
that Joseph Henry, graduating from
the Smithsonian institution into
Heaven, awoke into higher realms of
philosophy; and that Sir William
Hamilton, lifted to loftier sphere.
understood better the construction of
the human intellect; and that John
Milton took up higher poetry in the
The actual presence Of things that on
earth he had tried to describep
Again; Heaven is vastly improved in
its society. During your memory how
many exquisite spirits have gone into
i'll If you should try to make list of
all the genial, loving, gracious, bless
ed souls that you have known, IL
would be a very long list-souls that
have gone into glory. Now, do you
not suppose they have enriched the So
ciety? Have they not improved Heav.
emp 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 acquaint-
anceship, and add to them all the gra-
cious and beautiful souls that for 500
or 900 years have gone out Of all the
cities and all the villages, and all the
ountries of this earth into glory, and
how the society of Heaven must have
been improved! Suppose Paul, the
apostle, were introduced into your so
cial circle on earth; but Heaven has
added all the apostles. Suppose Han.
nah Moore 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 MCheyne 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 a town, or
city, or a village that has so improved
in society in the last 100 years as
Heaven has improved.
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, to-day and for
ever; glorious then, and glorious 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 20 years;
for the most of you within 40 years,
within 20 years, within five years,
within one year; in other words, by
the accessions from your own house
hold. II Heaven were placed in groups
an apostolic group patriarchal
group, a 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 IL would not take you long to
choose You would say "Give me back
those whom 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 to-
gether in Heaven" Oh, is it not a
blessed thought that Heaven has been
improved by its society-this COLOMBIA.
tion from earth to Heaven?
Again: | remark that Heaven has
greatly improved in the good cheer of
announced victories. Where Heaven
reioiced over one soul, it now rejoices
over 100 or l, 900. In the olden times,
when the events of human life were
scattered over four or five centuries of
longevity, and the world moved slow
ly, 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. II
there is any truth plainly taught in
this Bible IL is said Heaven is wrapped
up in sympathy with human history,
and we look at those inventions of the
day-at telegraphy, at swift commu-
nication by steam, at all these modern
improvements which seem to give one
almost omnipresence and we see only
the secular relation; but spirits before
the throne look out and see the vast
and the eternal relation. While ma
tions rise and fall, while the earth is
shaking with revolution, 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 coming back
to its allegiance?" If ministering
spirits, according to the Bible, are
sent forth to minister TO those that
shall be heirs of Heaven, when they
come down to us to bless us, do they
not take the news backp Do the ships
of light that come out of the celestial
harbor into the earthly harbor into the
harbor, laden with cargoes of blessing,
go back unfreighted? Ministering
spirits not only, but our loved ones
leaving us, take up the tidings. Sup