Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-07-20
PAGE FIvH

heaven. Well, why should there not
be materialism there2 Is there any
reason against it, We are literally
stepped in materialism in the TWEEN
tieth century. In science, in eco
Monies, in business and everywhere
else. This age is overwhelmingly
Eaterialistic. Then why should we
be so sensitive of a real literal
heaven, such as is described in the
Bible? TRANSPORTED and glorified
in the hereafter-nOw | am not talk
ing about a gross mateIialism such
as we know here in North Carolina,
but something infinitely rarer and
finer. Some people say heaven is a
state or condition. | don't believe
tit might be possibly better to be
in a heavenly state than in heav-
emily place. 1t might be better to be
in hell in a heavenly state than in
heaven in hellish state. If the
Bible is worth the paper that it is
printed on, heaven is place just
as much as this tent is a place, or
that North Carolina is a place, we
are not to be dlsembodied spirits in
the world to come. But redeemed
spirits in redeemed bodies, in a re-
deemed society, and thank God, in
a redecmt d universe. Heaven is a
place where there is going to be
some high class folks, old EnoCh
that lived way back yonder when
the world was young is going to be
there. You remember he walked
with God without a single break
for three hundred long years and
one day he walked up so near to
heaven that God said, 'Enoch, come
up and spend the day with me-,
and he accepted the invitation and
there's no night there and so he has
just been spending the day ever
since.
abraham will be there, who stag
gcred not at the promises of God;
but believed God because God was
God, and Gods saying so made it
50. Moses will be there, who refus-
cd TO hobnob with the high-bTOWs
of Egypt, choosing rather to suffer
affliction with the people of God,
than to enjoy the pleasure of sin
for a season. Joseph will be there,
the man that stood pat for his Vir-
tue, and refused to submit to the in
trigueS of a sinful woman. Old Job
will be there, the man that gave
T., he devil high blood pressure, try
ing to get him to side step God.
Old Elijah will be there, the one
that defied old Ahab and JebeZel,
and pulled fire out of heaven i'll
three minutes and used only sixty
three words in doing so. Yes, and
all the purest, noblest, most unset
fish the world has known, all those
who are spirit-filled and blood
washed, and fire-baptized will be
there, and the great omnipitent,
omni-present God, that has lived
way back in the dateless days, in
the beginning where ages We're but
! drifts of foam on the mighty sea of
time, away beyond the gates of the
morning, and Jesus Christ the one
that left heaven and clothed himself
in the flesh of humanity, will be
there. The world never saw Christ
except in disguise, disguise of hui
man flesh, disguise of seamless
robe, disguise of sandals, disguise
of voice, from mangcr to Joseph's
tomb, a perfect disguise, but when
we see Him in His glory, there will
be no hiding of luster, no sheathing
of strength, no suppression of gran
deur, no wrapping out of sight of
God-head, but we will see Him in
that world of light as He is. The
Holy Ghost will be there. the third
person of the Trinity, the one that
has been here from the beginning,
and has always been interested in
; all the work and works of God. The
one who has been interested in the
worlds generation, and who has
been interested in humanity's re-
generation. The one that took up
the reigns of government on the day
of PentecoSt, and who has been
making the truth effective and con-