The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-16

plete and dazzling and all-vind1catory,
is with Christianity. All the slow
processes of history are gradually con-
verging upon final and overwhelming
victory for the kingdom of heaven.
Because the Christian thinks in terms
of two worlds, he alone has adequate
reason for philosophy of optimism
The faith that sets the hearts of the
saints to singing at the end of the first
Christian century. is still the faith
steadfast disciples. Blessed is the
man who. amid the smoke and fog
and clamor of our turbulent time, has
the eyes to see the new heaven and
the new earth
How Tomorrow Serves Today.
Here needs the hereafter. Heaven
is the mainstay of earth. Hope for
tomorrow Is strength for today. There
is nothing like a great expectation to
fortify the heart and nerve and mus
cles and lengthen the patience. A di-
vine understanding of human nature
lies back of Revelations purpose to
encourage Christians in dark day by
picturing to them the brightness of
better day to come.
True, it is the fashion in some very
modern quarters to pooh-pooh the
idea of heaven as a factor in today's
work. l observe that this self-suffi-
Gent idea is held mostly by heady
young people, in the pride of their own
strength, who have yet to learn that
their book-taught sociology does not
hold the last word concerning life.
l go to my friend who has walked
a solitary way for more than a gen.
Grafton, and he tells me that he is just
waiting and working for the day when
he will keep his tryst with the one
who has gone before into the realm of
perfect love.
asked yonder young mother, whose
arms are empty, how she could write
a hymn of faith by the bier of her
beautiful baby boy, and she tells me,
with glistening eyes. that he is as
much hers as ever, and that she will
one day go to him.
1 find on every hand a hit of per
sons, known to me by name, to whom
heaven is more real than earth, for
ell their desire and expectation is
there and they wait in glad faith for
death, the great uniter. Because it
expresses a universal sentiment the
cid Scotch song, 1.-The Land O. the
.Leal," makes its appeal to the whole
English-speaking race: y
I'm wearing AVA Jean.
Like shaw when it's thaw, Jean;
m wearing ava
To the Land O. the Leal.
There's nae sorrow there, Jean,
The day is aye fair
In the Land o. the Leal.
Then dry that tearfu' e'e, Jean,
My soul langs to be free, Jean,
And angels wait on Inc,
To the Land o. the Leal-
Now fare We weel. my ain Jean.
This warld's care is vain. Jean,
Well meet and aye be fain,
In the Land O. the Leal
We find ourselves in an Unstable
world of disappointed souls. whose ex-
pectation lies in the City That Hath
Foundations. Victims of injustice and
misfortune, who can never be recon-
pensed on earth, know that they will
share the rewards of the martyrs in
the home of God whose other names
are Justice and Love. A countless
company whose hopes are unfulfilled
and whose dearest desires have been
denied them, march bravely onward
in the sure consciousness that the
prizes of life await them at the hands
of the Bestower of crowns. All we
have hoped to be, all that we aspired
to do, all that Ike yearned for of love
and perfect fellowship and undimmed
loyalty is yet to be ours in the inef-
fable land which perfect knowledge
and fadeless love have prepared for
US. In that faith we live and labor,
enduring as seeing the invisible.
which for one ecstatic experience
JvIln glimpsed.
A few passages from the great vi
sion itself, which the Sunday schools
beatific Tomorrow which is the bur-
den of the Apocalypse. I quote from
the Weymouth translation:
Gods dwelling place is among
And He will dwell among them
and they shall be His peoples.
81 saw no Sanctuary in the CITY. for
the Lord God, the Ruler of all, is it's
Sanctuary, and so is the Lamb Nor
has the City any need of the sun or
of the moon, to give it light, for the
/ glory of God has shone upon it and
| its lamp is the Lamb. The nations
will live their lives by its light; and
/ the kings of the earth are to brin
their glory into it. And in the day
| time flor there will be no night there)
the gates will never be closed; and the
glory and honor of the nations shall
be brought into it. And no uncleai.
| thing shall ever enter it, nor any one
who is guilty of base conduct or tells
lies, but only those whose names stand
recorded in the Lambs Book of Life -
In future there will be no curse
! he said, but the throne of God and
Of the Lamb will be in that City. And
His servants will render Him holy
service and will see His face, and His
name will be on their foreheads And
there will be no night there; and they
have no need of lamplight or sunlIgn n.
for the Lord God will shine urc1
them, and they will be kings unti. thu
1 Ages of the Ages -
The Glory of Gloryland.
! Nine out of ten Christians, thruout
the centuries. would make answer, if
asked what they desire most in heav-
| en-, THE risen Lord Himself" Whom
have we in heaven but Thee?" The
sufficiency of heaven, as John saw it,
was the slain Lamb who is in the
midst of the throne, and who is the
| light of the realm that knows no
/ darkness. Christ is all in all to the
Christian, in heaven as on earth.
1.-The bride eyes not her garments.
But her dear brfdegroom's face;
| We shall not gaze on glory,
But on the King of grace
Not on the crown He gifteth
| But on His pierced Hand,
The Lamb is all the glory,