Milford chronicle., 1903-08-28
The Attainment of PersectIon.

)u The Attainment of Perfection.
IN Now, my friends. if we wonder at Il
I'd seemingly perfect adjustment of Il
ne mundane elements, can we not Il
E" more marvel at the perfect adjustmel
1t Of the redeemed body with its heavenl
IS surroundings? Shall we not reioi,
i, over the thought that all our facultic
q" shall be enlarged and developed an
It yet keep on enlarging and deyelopin
d and never grow tired? We have rea
= that for over fifty years John Wesle
9 preached on an average sixteen ser
e mons per week, or nearly three ser
e mons per day. How vigorous mus
. have been the constitution that coult
{ perform that task. But in heaven W,
= shall all have vigorous constitutions
Oh, the rapture of that better land in
which the services we render will
never produce weariness nor the in
finite subjects that will engage our at
tention ever cause safety! Our hands
grow weary. even though they may be
busy in well doing But in that beau
tiful land we shall never be weary
! "a " NAA ARAAAs-s lltAA OttI EkuttillRu
bodies shall have a perfect eye, per
/ feet ear, perfect tongue, a perfect
foot, perfect hand clasp. Then all
our faculties shall not only have the
residence of youth, but the alertness
and perfect adjustment of Immortality.
We shall live and continue to live. be-
cause decay and corruption shall flee
away when death, the last enemy,
shall be destroyed"
Heaven is to be place of progress
i've eniOyments. If the resurrected
brain is to be alert it must have some
thing to feed upon So some writer's
have predicted that in the "heavenly
city we shall have our music halls
and libraries and museums and art
galleries, places for intellectual as well
as spiritual development l personally
take no exception to this thought.
believe the musical desire is God
given desire. Tho celestial harp or the
celestial canvas or the celestial statue
is not degradation Of the word celes-
tlal. But, though there may be many
enJOyments of heaven
believe there shall be two which will
most appeal to the denizens of the
ikies The first is in studying the
wonderful construction Of the celestial
1ty. oh answers some one, 81 know
low what is the formation of heaven. '
/ Is Il great walled town. And the I
anGth and breadth and the height of [
are all equal And the city is made C
f pure gold, and the foundations of t
he walls Of the city are a collection of a
recious stones, and the twelve gates
the city are twelve massive pearls
'hy, the book Of Revelation describes
le city to its minutest detail" II
DO you truly mean what YOU say? -
o You affirm that the streets of beav- ="
are to be literally made out of vel =
W bricks and the city to be a walled -
town with lot of precious stones
+ foundations? Why, the apostle i'm
e book of Revelation is merely talk ~
2 in tigurative langunge or in the Ian II
Iasa of earth. He is giving us a de- ",
rlpton of heaven in figures which we
II comprehend. He does not mean =.
Mt heaven is to have streets of gold "a.
y more than he literally means that W
II Is to be Il place Of fire. Fire is a u"
nbol of torture. Gold and precious "a
mes are the symbols of unlimited n'
;uries. Thus the apostle piles TO- 0''
her a great mass of diamonds and 'A'
lplires and emeralds and topazes 99'
! amethysts and says Heaven is ~
be like that. Heaven is to be like Sii'
iris, like mansions Of white Ike SCI
den bouleyards. Picture to yourself ~
brightest place you possibly can. Vi
heaven is to be mutipotently. in me-
tely, transcendently more beauti- tne
Yet when at last we reach heav- "o
all Will be so new. so strange. that 81
minds through all eternity will 'He
er tire of exploring the grandeur reJ'
snail take wings Of the morning i'u.
fly away as bird, and every place nan
eye lights upon shall offer inex- B
stible fields of Investigation. MAJ
1t infnitesimal will be the eniov- p
It of studying the physical construc- the
OF heaven compared with that Of ullC
ying the beautiful characters Of talk
e immOrtals who will everywhere ana
about us. Old Samuel johnson 7 hav'
k it was, once said: "The grandest uld'
'athedrals or the most wonderful and
in stone never impressed mo so 10
b as the sight of a human being. civil
reason am loath to leave London the
It on account of its st. Paurs and eran
abbey, but because Of the nan
'ss sea Of humanity. every human As
: of which has for me a stranga "Do
The study Of the human start
lcter is the most interesting of all As q
es. what
eaven "a Place of surprisa, hund
" the more you live with some Yes
g the more you appreciate. their Of W
and devotion and realize their trno that
D. When you were little child Cyni