The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-04-12
THE BEAUTY OF HEAVEN


I The baptist church on The subject,
The Joys and Beauty ~ Heaven
/ Rev Neylus based his remarks upon
. portion Of lhc tsonty-fifHt and
( twenty second chapters OF R.yeia-
I ,ions. the text being a portion OF the
fourth verse of the twenty second
chapter as the conclusion OF what he
said The sermon was in part as fol-
~laws
AS We look through the New Tes-
lament we have given us several
names FOR heaven In one place il Is
called The Fathers house How
/ many bereayed souls have been COM
+ forted in this passage In another
place heaven is called The heavenly
+ land We find IT Is also called "a rest
! In this world we find toll, labor aud
pain. but heaven is rest Another
/ beautiful word is used, referring to
heaven as paradise. This calls back
: that scene In the beginning. when
man was pure before God. want to
nigh, to bring heaven very close to
each one of us. | wish we could catch
some OF the beauty. the bliss and JOY
of that abode. When we talk about !
/ the beauty of hea on, we bankrupt |
our language. God has taken the most |
precious things to describe this |
abode silver, gold and the most pre-
cious stones. These are probably fig
urs OF speech but God has used this |
method to give us some conception |
of the beauty of heaven.
THE best We can do to describe /,
heaven is in negative terms; earth |
has very little like heaven. Many say |
earth is heaven, if We mould make |
ii SO. but not SO There is a curse rest |
ing upon the world. Paul referred to |
this when he said For we know that |
the whole creation grieveth and tray- |
aileth in pain together until now.
Again we learn from the word, there
will be no curse in heaven. There we
shall be In the paradise Of God. shall
see and talk with him face to face. as
! our first parents aid in Eden. There
shall be no night there. We naturally
shrink from the darkness. O. the
blessed thought. We are told God
himself is the light OF heaven; the
glory of God will make the place
beautiful. Yonder upon the mountain
of TRANSPORTATION, there was some
thing OF that glory, and Peter SAID,
Lord, it is good for us to be here: II
thou wilt let us make here three tab
ernacles In heaven there will be no
need of the sun or moon, but the
glory of God shall light heaven. 1t
means something to catch a glimpse
! of this glory. We must also describe
the heavenly JOY in negative terms.
/ There will be JOY in that there Will
be no sickness and no sin in heaven.
Some men and women think they can
live Just as they please and III some
way slip through the gates into the
city with all of their sins and pollution.
They forget that heaven is place
of purity. As we look out upon TINS
world how sick grows our hearts as
We think of the sins OF the world!
This was "A great weight that lay
upon the hearts of men and now
many like Paul have cried out Who
shall deliver me from this body or
death, Who here has not felt the
power of sin as it has laid its heavy
hand upon him. In heaven there VIII
be no sin. This world is the battle
ground between heaven and hell ana
here We have the Iruan of conflict,
tho dcspairng cry Of men and WON
. en- going down TO hell. Earth Is q
battle ground, but in heaven the bat
tie has been fought and now. God
? reiens, and there shall enter no sin.
Here We have our prisons. our places
of shame and dogyedation, but tn
heaven not SO in that land there VIII
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