The Denison review., 1899-09-15

Ho ScoMou AlAc q Cul1u plCA1uK up rev
pebbles of truth here and there upon
the shore, while the great ocean of un-
discovered truth lay out before him. u
tell you that / think he was not cut off
at that point but that his faculties
were given broader scope Of liberty.
So this gift of eternal life will afford
pre-eminent intellectual enjoyment.
1t could not be true that God would
create such masterpiece as man and
give him no better opportunities than
we see him enjoying here. go. down
to see the ship builders construct q
great vessel. We may suppose that it
is the finest ship that can be built. The
builder shows me all its parts. An
equipage unsurpassed is presented for
inspection. 1t is just completed and
launched and an army of men are load
ing her. ask: what Is the cargop''
The captain answers 'sBoxes of gold
and precious treasures" ask: s'What
is to become of all this?" He tells me,
ut is to be fioated mid. ocean and sent
to the bottom and lost forever.'' What,
after being so careful in construction
and 80 careful in selection Of the lad
ing? And yet will they go on making
such vessels, and selecting such car
goes for such purpose? No, I tell
you that could not be; and yet that is
precisely what infidelity would have US
believe concerning this human form, so
s'fearfully and wonderfully made, )"
with cargo Of intellectually and
spirituality worth more than all the
gold or precious things in the universe
besides. 1t can not be. There must
be place where man will have full in
tellectual development. To presume
that there will not be better social and
intellectual environment and privileges
than we now enjoy is to suppose God
unfair, for as we see things here man
can not have full intellectual and social
privileges. Let US look at what is not
IN uncommon picture. 1t is that of q
poor woman and q rich william. 1
pass on the streets woman of 60 years
of age. She is carrying home from the
late Saturday afternoon market as
much food as she is able to buy, ami
she is going to frugal home. She has
lived pure, blameless, Christian life.
She had one son whom she reared in
goodness and love. Though she did all
possible for him he is murderer and a
convict. AS we walk along rich man
dashes By. He is worth two millions
of dollars. He made his money selling
liquor, and he sold that woman's son
the liquor that cursed his life and
crushed the mothers. He drives to a
home Of luxury and ease. On the
theory Of final mortality there is no
justice in this. The only theory of
justice is that God will give her eternal
life, and that In that life there will be
full intellectual and unhampered en-
joyment. Her mind will be forever re-
lieyed of the unfair and perplexing
matters consequent upon the unequal
adjustment of affairs as she deals with
them here. When she shall have en-
tered upon her eternal career with God
in heaven she will have such enlarged
| spiritual and intellectual horizon that
she will feel abundantly repaid for all
she was called upon to suffer in this
mortal home. So conclude then that
this eternal life must also carry with it
entire social enjoyment.
ALI who possess it must be entirely
holy before they enter heaven. What
a select company that will be. There
they must possess unmixed character
and knowledge, be benevolent, holy,
and filed with love. Will it not be
glorious to associate with such com.
pany? And from these there will lie
no separation. have often thought
of the company John saw. What a
company that was. They were the
purified and glorifled of every tribe and
nation. They were washed and made
white in the blood of the Lamb. 1t
will be glorious to associate with them.
There will be the best men and women
from every generation of the world Is
populace. There will be Abraham,
Isaac and Jacob. There will be Moses,
whose face will shine with brighter
luster than when he came down from
the mountain where he talked with
God. There will be old Paul, whose
words have burned into our hearts the
love of ourSaviour until.w have caught
glimpses of our heavenly home. There
will be Matthew. Mark, Luke and
John, as well as all the Christian
friends we ever had. There will be a
great company of this kind of people,
so great that no man can number them.
Then 1 notice that it is to be
A FREE GIFT-THE GIFT OF GOD.
1t was not wrung from him. ''God
80 loved the world that He gave His
Only Begotten Son that whosoever be-
lieveth in Him should not perish but