Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-11-10


Heaven mount. angelhood and saint
hood, not after studying for 40 or SO
wears, but for thousands of years
STUDYING God and the soul and immor-
tality and the universe, How the in
tsl!igence of that world must sweep
on and on, with eyesight farther
reaching than telescope, with power
of calculation mightier than all hui
man mathematics, with powers of
analysis surprising all chemical labor
atory, with speed Swifter than teleg-
raphy! What must Heaven learn,
with all these advantages. in mil
lenium? The difference between the
highest university on earth and the
smallest class in primary school can
not be Il greater difference than
Heaven as it is now 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, graduating from the Smith
sonian institution into Heaven, awole
into higher realms OF philosophy;
and that Sir William Hamilton, lifted
TO lofticr sphere, understood better
the construction of the human intel
lee; and that John Milton took up
higher poetry in the actual presence
of things that ON earth he had tried to
describe?
Again: HeavCu is vastly improved
in its society. uuring your memory
how many exquisite spirits have gone
into it! If yea ~hould try to make n
list of all the genial, loving gracious,
blessed souls that you have known, it
would be very long list-souls that
lave gone into glory. Now, do you
not suppose they have enriched the
society? Have they not improved
Heaven? on tell of what Heaven did
for thcm. They have 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 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
nGded all the apostles. Suppose Ham
nah More and Charlotte Elizabeth
were introduced into your social cir
Gle on earth: but Heaven has added all
the blessed and the gracious and the
holy women of the past ages. Sup
pose that Robert MChrNuc and John
Summertirld should be added to your
earthly circle! but Heaven has gath
cred up all the faithful and earnest
ministry of the past. There is not n
town, or a city, on a village that has
SO improved in society in the last hun
dred years as Heaven has improved
But you say: Hasn't Heaven al
ways been perfect" Oh, yes! but not
in the sense that it can not be aug
mentcd. 1t has been rolling on in
grandeur. Christ has been there, and
He never changcS~.the same ycstcr-
day. to-day and forever. But | speak
now of attractions outside of this.
and ! have to tell you that no place on
earth has improved in society as
it"aNcu has within the last 10 years;
for most OF You within 40 Years.
within 20 years, within five years,
within one year; in other words, by
the acccssions from your own house
hold. II Heaven were placed in
groupS-an apostolic group, patri-
archal group, prophetic group, group
Of martyrs, group of angels and then
group of your own gloriIicd kindred
which group would you choose?
You might look around and make COM
parison, 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 socictN-my
parents, my children my brothers, my
sisters. We lived together on earth,
let us live together III Heaven" Oh,
is ii not a blessed thought that Heaven
has been improved 10y it's society this
colonization 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 reioices
over n hundred or a thousand. In the
oidcn times, when the events of hui
man life were scattered over four or
tive centuries Of longevity, and the
world moved slowly, there were not 50
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 plain
" taught in this Bible it is that Hcav-
en- is wrapped up in sympathy with
human history, and we look at those
inventions of the day-at telegraphy,
at swift communication by steam. at
all these modern improvements which
seem to give one almost omnipresencc
and we see only the secular relation:
bnt spirits before the throne look out
and see the vast and the eternal rca-
ton. While nations rise and fall,
while the earth is shaking with revo-
luton. do you not suppose there is
arousilg intelligence going up 10 the
throne OF God. and that the question