mm sste ^M^h 4 4Jli Uv* teffiMBS safe J ^ !gi g V j ii ^ s ■Mm V y - 3^ J LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.) JVJ V TS^F* Imn. { J7t< | opnriglit | ; * - o. I UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. J 8a s&a&B gtfygf am vwu v msm V*" mm® sntf mv myw; j savw ^?fe^ 5SM© ws ' vv ' ^^.W .\J\JQ\J^J. effCCC38©3CCC*l A NEW THEORY. n 1/ IB^T ~ttEZST~ EID-W^.^ID SCOFIELD. t MISHAWAKA, IND : j NORMAN V. BKOWER, Printer, j - 1SG7. | B3CC^®3CCC$@3CCC$3w^3^^ A S0LAE DUMB. A NEW THEORY. B"*2" REV- :e:DW.A.:R,:0 sOOIFT'ETjTD. MTSrtAWARA. iNth NORMAN V. BROWER, Printer. 1S67. g/T$v* » Eatere4 according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, By EDWARD SCOFIELD, In the Clerk's Office of the Distiict Court of Indiana. ,v^ITR ideas in this life concerning the blessed con- %JP dition and employments of saints in heaven, lire necessarily limited and indistinct. This is owing for the most part to our present mode of existenae, and to the fact that our knowledge of these things is derived from Biblical representations taken from na- ture, art, the church, and civil government. "Now We see through a glass darkly." That the heaven of the saved of our race is a place, as well as an unending, active, holy and felicitous state, there can be no reasonable doubt. But where in the vast universe it is located, God has not dis- tinctly designated to us in our present life. Bat are there no indications of its position among the Crea- tor's works ? In some things where no direct reve- lation has been given, we are under the necessity of inferring important truth from existing data. Th^ . k SOLAR HEAVEN, heathen are under obligation to deduce irom t he- works ancl providence oi God, not only his existence, but his natural ancl some of his moral attributes/ "Because that which may he known of God is mani- fest in them ; for Gocl hath showed it unto them, For the invisible things of him from rhe creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse," Rom, 1:19,20. Are there not astronomical phen&mena, Scriptural 'illustrations, mental verities, and historical events connected with the providence of God, in respect to the ancient Jewish church, sufficiently suggestive to indicate where is situated Earth! s Heaven ? These Unnoticed indexes constitute the basis of this work. The Theory now presented, however novel, is not then purely chimerical and conjectural, hut founded upon reasons and analogies deduced from at least seeming data. Every solar system may have in a certain sense its •own heaven, or location where God reveals himself ■and his will as he does not in any other part of that system. As an illustration — Jehovah made himself known to his ancient people in Jerusalem, as he did Hot in any other place; so he may manifest himself at the center of every solar system, as he does not in the primary or secondary planets. A solar system, is a group of celestial bodies, com- A SOLAB IIE4VEX. i preli^'Uin;^ the sun, planets, satellites and comets. These stars, ijnoons and comets revolve around the huh, the center of the planetary system. Though the sun has ai) apparent motion., it is as to the system a quiescent h xly, turnii]g only on its own axis. General Mitchell, in his u Astronomy of the Bible," in treating on the vast extent of the physical universe, and its innumerable solar systems, says; "It is reck- oned that nqt less than one hundred millions of stars tire now visible within the Unfits of the Milky Way. In case we admit (as is probably true) that each of these stars is a sun, $nries of the stars which distinguish the Milky Way, where star is ranged behind star, anl\\ the stratum is five hundred deep ?" Says a writer: "If a man were to travel a million of miles a day, he would not reach the nearest tixec| ^tHV fij twenty-four hundred thousand years!*' In D A .SOLAR HEAVEN. view of such immensity, we may well exclaim in the language of God's Word, "When I consider thy heavens, the work of thy finger.-, the moon and the stars, which thou hast ordained ; what is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son* of man that thou visitest him 8 " "The heavens declare the glory .of God; and the firmament showeth his handy work." u O Lord, how manifold are thy works, in wisdom hast thou made tliem all ! H ' "The works of the Lord are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein." If our Sun is the stupendous celestial Temple of our solar system, whore God affords a nearer $nd more immediate view of his perfections to the loyal inhabitants of surrounding worlds, than lie does to them in their respective places of abode; then the . saints in their glorified state, should their present mansion be one of our planets, have for their heaven-* ]y Jerusalem our central world, where they, with an* gels, worship God and the Lamb. This Divine Solar Palace, this Holy of Holies of our system, would then be the Metropolis of Christ's heavenly kingdom ; where he now "sits on the right hand of power, having angels (of our system) subject unto him." Jf this Theory be a reality, then all that is said in ■tli£ 3ible concerning creation, holy angels, the devil find his angels — seraphim, cherubim, thrones, domin- ions; powers and principalities, ("which may refer to A SOLAR HEAVEN. 9 different orders of intelligent beings inhabiting our planets] — of human being-, of the Divine govern- ment, of Christ as a Savior, and in all his offices, of the Holy Spirit in his work in securing man's salva- tion, of the church or Redeemer's kingdom, of the final conflagration ot the heavens and the earth, of the resurrection of the dead, of a general judgment. of heaven and hell, have reference to our solar sys- tem only. The whole and parts of all scriptures should be construed according to the subject matter under consideration. Are not the revelations of the Bible, except some m respect to God in Unity, just as they would have been if they had reference only to our solar system ? According to this Theory I infer that Satan and his angels, forming perhaps an entire order of beings, inhabiting one of our planets, rebelled in the govern- ment of God, and were banished from the world they occupied; that their place of habitation was con- sumed, and may be the place prepared for their pun- ishment, and where the finally impenitent of earth shall suffer the penalty of God's violated iaw 5 and the just desert for the increased guilt of "neglecting the great salvation." "And the angels which kept not their first estate, but lett their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day." Jude 6. See, II. Pet. 2:4. "Depart from me, ye cursed, into ev- erlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels* * 10 A SfcLAiZ hE\YK$. Matt. 25:41. "Daring the last two or three centuries," says oft author, "upwards of thirteen fixed stars have disap- peared. One of them situated in the northern hem- isphere presented a peculiar brilliancy and was so fright as to be seen by the naked eye at mid-day* It seemed to be on lire, appearing at first of a daz- zling white, then of a reddish yellow, and lastly of an ashy pale color, La Place supposes that it wag burned up, as it has never since b^en seen* The coir flagration was visible about sixteen months. 55 Bu the habitation of the apostate angels may have been consumed. In presenting this Theory of a Solar Heaven I call attention to the vastness of our Solar Systtffa It contains not far from, one hundred primary and secondary planets, and not leas than one hundred comets. Frequent discoveries are made of new orbs connected with our system. So far as known to us the nearest planet to our Bun is Mercury, which is thirty-seven millions of iniles distant from it. It completes its revolution ground the Sun in about eighty-eight days, which is the length of its year. Jupiter, the largest oi the known planets, at the distance of four hundred and Ninety-five millions of miles from the Sun, accom- plishes its revolution in eleven years and three hun- tired and fifteen days. Oar distance from the Sun is luuety-five millions of miles, and hence our revolu- A SOLAR HEAVES'. M tfon around it is about eleven years less than that of Jupiter. Neptune, a vast world, and the most re- itiote planet, discovered a? late as 184:6, is distant from the Sun about three thousand millions of miles, jmd is one hundred and sixty-eight years in making its revolution around it. Says a calculator: *MIad Adam and Eve started by a railway to go from Nep- tune to the Sun, at the rate of fifty miles an hour, they would not have arrived there yet, for Neptune is more than six thousand years from the center c>f the system at that rate." I lu\va noticed particularly the earth, the nearest, largest, and most distant of our planets. What an infinite territory does our entire salar system contain, with its one hundred discovered planets and satel- lites, and as many comets; furnishing material for thousand upon thousands of ages for studying tl\a wonderful greatness, omnipotence, infinite wisdom and goodness of God, and all his perfections in this, boundless field manifested ! Still mn*e deeply may we be impressed with the apparent truthfulness of this Theory, as we consider the immensity and nature of our glorious Sex. Dr. Thomas Dick says: "The magnitude of the vast Sun is an object which overpowers the imagination. Its diameter is eight hundred and eighty thousand miies, and its circumference two million seven hundred and sixty-four thousand and six hundred miles, Were a person to travel along the surface of the Snr* 12 A SOLAR HEAVEN. so as to pass along every square mile on its surface, at the rate of ihirty miles every day, it would require more than two hundred and twenty millions of years before the survey of this vast globe could be complet- ed. It would contain within its circumference more than thirteen hundred thousand globes as large as ours; and a thousand globes of the size of Jupiter, which is the largest planet of the system. It is more than five hundred times larger than all the planets, satellites and comets belonging to our system, vast and extensive as some of them are. Were we to con- ceive of its surface being peopled with inhabitants like ours, it would contain more than six hundred and eighty billions; which would be equal to the in- habitants of eight hundred and fifty thousand 'worlds like ours. Of a globe so vast hi its dimensions, tho human mind, with all its efforts can form no adequate conception. It is impossible fnv the mind to take in the whole range of the terraqueous globe, and to form a comprehensive idea of its amplitude and its innumerable objects; how can we ever form a conception approaching to the reality, of a body one million three Jiund red thousand times greater ? It is not improbable that the largest ideas we have yet acquired or can represent to our minds of- the im- mensity of the universe, are inferior to a full and comprehensive idea of the vast globe of the Sun in .all its connections and dimensions. It is a kind of Bui-verse in itself," A. BOLAk ITEIyEIn. lo This Theory then does not present a circumscribed view of heaven; but a capacious, vast, glorious celes- tial .Mansion. We have but little knowledge of the physical na- ture of our central luminary— conjectures respecting it have been various, and often most; fanciful. The dark spots occasionally appearing on the Sun, some ad no need of the sun, neither of the moon to shine ih it, for the irlorv of God did lighten it, and the A ftOLATi HEAVED. 15 Lamb fe the i\0Lt tTie£e&£" Tlie Divine glory man- ifested in creation, providence and grace, illuminates the universe. AYlien Christ was transfigured "his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light." He is "the brightness of the Father's glory."" He reflects the glory of God to an infinite degree. Hence he, the "Sun of Righteousness," il- luminates the celestial city. The glory of God is the element in which hoi v beings live. See Exo. 31:29 — 35. II Cor. 3:7—18. Jeremiah Evarts, Esq., Secretary of A. B„ C. F. M., who died in 1831, uttered these, his expiring words—*' WoiuTe-rful ! wonderfil 1 wonderful glo- ry ! — we tan not ecfriipreJretilt I wonderful glory J Je- .stls reigns, ivoiulsrful glory) 1 i_l rill praise him" Rev. Edward Payson, a short time before his death, Baid: a I seem to swim in a fid od of £lory winch God pMirs down upon me. itith&rto I Mve viewed (rod as a fixed Star, bright indeed — but now lie is coming nearer and nearer and spreads into a Sun, so vast and glorious, that the sight is too dazzling for fl&sh and blood to sustain. 1 see clearly that all these same glories and dazzling perfections which now serve only to kindle my affections into a flame, and to melt down my soul into the same blessed im- age, would burn and scorch me like consuming fire, if I were an Unpenitent sinner." Multitudes of dy- ing christians have had such visions ot\gldi;y. 'Se£ Acts 7:55. 16 A SoLAiJ IH.AV.LX Is there anything in the Word of God, or the na- ture of things, to prove or indicate that our glorious world, our source of light, is not the Saints' world of glory? their celestial Jerusalem \ and a worshipping, location of the ang mr Solar System I III. The Sun is the Metropolis of our Solar Sys- tem, its seat of government, and at the same time Divinely appointed ruler. AW the pianets, moons and comets in his dominion are loyal to him. Diso- bedience to their Solar King's commands would prove their certain ruin. He draws them all with his con- stant centripetal force — his mighty attracting influ- ence, or sends them out to repeat their cycles. They how around him , they are dependent upon him ior their safety, light, usefulness and beauty. Is it nat- ural to suppose that < : >uPd take his heirs, and joint heirs with his Son, at death from tins sj^stem, and not permit them to visit and enjoy its world of worlds? its most splendid oa I IV. We are beings created in this particular So- lar System. We form a part of its physical, mental and spiritual creation. Reason would lead us to con- clude that we would remain in it until we had an- swered an important purpose. Is it probable that we would accomplish the design for which we became a part of this system in so brief a period as the short existence we have in the body ? In this system will sleep the dust of our decayed nature till the morning of the resurrection. Here, so far as we can see x are A SOLAR IIEAVEX. *[*? fimple means for our highest mental and spiritual good for thousands of ages. If at death we are not removed from this Solar System, its greatest, and most glorious location is its center of attraction, its celestial Mount Zion, where we could meet to worship God and the Lamb, and from that heavenly observa- tory i with the ken of' r&deeinfctt Spirits, look out not only on the sublime works of cr'etitkm connected with our system, but far out in the vast ocean of solar sys- tems ! V. Minds are so made as to be gradually devel- oped. The child progresses from one step ot knowl- edge to another, and as age advances with proper ap- plication the mental powers are augmented. The christian from spiritual infancy, grows in grace and Divine knowledge. It will ever be true in all parts of the universe, that created mind will obtain knowl- edge by a gradual progress. As we leave at death this locality, as then our mode of existence will be changed, and we shall no longer see spiritual beings and things eternal (at present to us invisible) "through a glass darkly, but face to face ;" if we are in a prop- er moral state, "holy as God is holy," we shall be prepared to enter upon advanced studies. Where could we under more favorable circumstances pursue them than in some mansion in our system ? Where could we take lessons suited to our capacities better than at its splendid Metropolis ? Perhaps at times we would visit our planets and their inhabitants. IS A fe'OLAE IIKAVKk. When -in eternity we should become well acquainted with all things neces&arj for us to know in this sys- tem, we no doubt would be advanced to another higher in the scale of creation, and so on eternally from one system to another. This Theory seems much more plausible than the idea that heaven is at the center of the universe, a world as large as all the worlds in it combined, and around which all revolve. Of what particular ad- vantage can a mere abstract idea of the immensity ot God's works be to a finite mind ( I regard each solar system as a Vast volume of' the Creator's works, aiUl £very orb belonging to it as a chapter in that vol- ume. It looks reasonable 'that we in taking lessons irt. respect to the maai testation of God's attributes, as Made known in his works, should become well ac- quainted with one Volume before commencing the study of another. VI. The Word of God describes heaven as thd u Xew\Jerusalem." Jerusalem was the capital of the Jewish nation. The people living in cities, towns^ and in the country, were commanded to meet in th£ Metropolis at specified times, and on special occa- sions ; to bring their offerings and do business of H designated kind. So our Solar capital may be the gathering place where the inhabitants of our planets present their spiritual offerings, and do such things as God requires. Said Paul to the Hebrews: "But v ye are come unto Mount Zion, and unto the city of A SOLAR. BEATS?. 13 the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels, and to the general assembly and church of the first born, which are writ- ^en in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect, and to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Aheh" Heaven is the place for the general con- vocation of ail the orders of holy beings, revealed to us as existing in ou? system. — Is it not evident that our central world h that location ? VII. Heaven is spoken <4 \$ tU£ Bib'lo &s $ tem-_ pie. "Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple." In the Jewish temple, for years, was the Shekinah, the visi- ble manifestation of Jehovah. There h : $ i&ftde *»o\Y$ his will ; there was the high priest \ there were the attending priests ;• thera sacrifi^^s were offered pre- figuring the slaying of the Lamb of God for the sins ot mankind ; there were different kinds of worship not permitted in any other place; there was beauti- ful architecture ; there were costly vessels of silver and gold ; there were imposing ceremonies — all things in that sacred place were in keeping with its holy design. So in the Sanctum Sanctorum of &ur system may angels and saints ever worship before the throne of God, and serve him as he manifests his ce- lestial Shekinah, and makes known his will. Here woi\ld be Jesus cnir King and High Priest ; here sey- 20 A SOLAR HEATED. vice and worship different from that required in the planets ; here the most beautiful architecture, as the "builder and maker is God ; " here singing of saints and angels ; and here delightful ceremonies, beauty and sublimity surpassing our conception. Every- thing in this world of glory and blessedness would be in keeping with Christ in his glorified state ; with holy angels and the saints in their exalted, s&ved. condition. A SOL All HEAVEN. 21 INFERENCES. 1. This Solar Heaven Theory, to a superlative de- gree, magnifies God in his creation of worlds, sys- tems and orders of intelligent beings. If our vast system is a perfect whole in itself, and yet in an eter- nal and generic purpose is but one .among millions upon millions of similar systems, which all must ad- mit; if all the innumerable systems are inhabited with loyal and happy subjects in God's government, and they worship him in their Solar Heaven, which no one can disprove, who can comprehend to what extent they in the aggregate glorify Him? What an infinitude of dazzling, commingling splendor ! "Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come." 2. In view of this Theory we would naturally in- fer that God in Unity, in his essence, does not dwell in any Solar Heaven ; but from his eternal, immut- able and glorious dwelling place, above all creation, in a manner unknown to us, clearly and gloriously manifests himself, his will, his complacent smiles, and his natural and moral attributes to all holy beings in the universe m their respective localities, and partic- ularly to them in their Solar Temple. He being in- finite in all his periections, can do this at the same time in all the innumerable solar systems in his boundless dominion. This idea is in accordance with 22 A SOLAR ilEAYfrX. a proper exegesis of those passages of scripture which speak of saints seeing* God, and Ids face in heaven. There is no evidence that God in Unity ever chang- es his locality, as created finite beings pass from one ■p.laC'O to another, or, that he dwells literally in any part of his creation. '"-Thus saitli the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place." Isa. 57:15. '•Look down from heaven and behold from the habi- tation of thy holiness and ot thy glory." Jsa. 03:15. Gad, by the efficiency of his attributes is in every place in the universe. In some places, as in heaven, lie is present in a special sense. Christ, "The brightness of the Father's glory, and express image of his per- son," with his glorilied body is seen, loved and adored by saints and angels in heaven, where he gloriously manifests the Divine perfections. See John 1:1S. 3. If our solar system, is perfect in itself, though a part of an infinite whole, then we see why holy an- gels (in our system) are represented as feeling so much interest in and as having so much to do with our race in this world. Hence their toy when sin- ners repent, their encampments around christians, and "ministering for those who shall be heirs of sal- vation/' conveying their souls at death to heaven ; being present and active at the resurrection of the just and unjust; and we see the reason why they are lellow worshippers with the redeemed in heaven* It is evident why they are subject to Christ;, and wor- A SOLAR II LA VEX ^3 Btiip him ; why they announced his advent; protect- ed him in his in fiii icy ; ministered to him when he was on earth; were employed at his resurrect ion, and will come with him when he returns to earth in his own, and his Father's glory. We see also why tiio devil and his angels, when banished from their limitation, were permitted t or sent to dwell in this world and system rather than m any other; Why they are to bo judged at the time God has appointed to judge the inhabitants of our world, and why the filially impenitent of mankind will penally suffer in the place prepared for the punishment of the rebel angels. As different nations on earth constitute one race, so the various orders of angels in our system may be Giie family in a Unity of Divine purpose ; and the hu- man and angelic beings in our system may in this generic sense oe one. 4. We see in the light of this Thfeoty why God is revealed to us in Trinity. In a world of solar sys- tem where moral evil never entered, or where a re* medial system was never introduced, what advantage could be a revealed Trinity i The office work of the Son of God as a Savior, and of the Holy Spirit in securing salvation, could not with them be realized, or personally enjoyed. The inhabitants of such a world or system would worship and serve God in Unity; they could not sing a song of praise for their salvation to God and the Lamb. Should God make 2i A qoLAr heaviest. known to holy beings in any part of Lis universe tli0 plan of our salvation, they would praise and glorify him, as it would manifest Ills wisdom, love, mercy, and all his attributes connected with it. No intelli- gent created being can have knowledge of God great- er than he can obtain from the manifestation of the Divine perfections. To the extent a holy being be- comes acquainted with the manifested nature of God, lie will laud, love and adore him. So far as We can see, a remedial system makes known most of the Di- vine moral attributes, as they are not seen under a system of law. A revealed Trinity of persons in the Godhead, connected witli a system of grace, is & sine qua non of our salvation. God may to intelligent beings in other systems, manifest himself in various ways, and to an extent entirely unknown to us. h\ The conflagration of our earth will not affect our solar system as such. We have no evidence from as- tronomical discoveries that the Creator, ever created or destroyed an entire Solar System at once. Our system may have existed ages before God expended the six days work upon the chaotic mass from which he made the earth. In the Scriptures things are oft- en spoken of as they appear, and not as they really are. As matter is not annihilated by being consum- ed, but only changed in its form, our world after it is burned up may be remade, and be a beautiful abode for intelligent beings. It still being in our system A SOLAR HEAVEN". 25 the redeemed may visit it. 6. This Theory makes heaven appear to Le a more definite and a nearer location than the common ideas concerning it. Mr. Normand Smith, who died in Hartford, Conn., a few years ago, when dying cried out. — "Home! home! I see ike New Jerusalem! th ey pva ise Him ! ill ey pra ise Him ! " Senator Foot, of Vermont, who died in Washing- ton, D. C, March, 1886, when expiring exclaimed, ' % I see the gates wide open! beautiful! beautiful! I see it ! Thee it! the gates wide open ! beautiful! beautiful!" Many departing christians have had a glorious view of the celestial city, as if it were near, and not an immense distance from our Solar System. 7. To the inhabitants of our earth a PREPARATION for heaven is of far greater importance than a knowledge of its exact locality. "Without holiness no man shall see the Lord." "xind there shall in no wise enter into it /the heavenly city) anything that defileth, or worketh abomin- ation, or maketh a lie ; but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life." To be prepared for that blessed abode we must love Jesus and keep his commands, be prayerful, humble, watchful and faithful christians. Be holy as God is holy. Christian friends, we shall find our celestial mansion a location of ineffable beauty and glory, where we ghall ex- pand our minds as God manifests to us his natural and mor- al attributes, as we study his works, the principles of his moral government, and worship him and the Lamb ? in thp 2*3 A SOLAK HEAVi:*. sublimity, felicity and beauty of perfect holirfpss. Let qg be faithful unto death, and we shall triumph over it, and ])V angels be carried from earth to ''the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem/-' where we shall receive frowns of glory. ^\s the student graduates he may feel a little sad as he leaves his college, the chapel, recitation room, his own room, his president, teachers and companions: but he re- joices in the knowledge lie has gained, and that In; is pre- pared to enter upon rqore advanced studies, or engage in the active duties and business of life. So the christian at death may feel a momentary regret as he graduates in the Seminary of Grace; as he leaves this world, his college, where he has learned ail he knows of tlfmgs physical, mental and spiritual j a/} he departs from his room, las body, where lie has learnecj all his lessons of grace ; as }ie leaves the church, his chapel, where he has joyfully and profitably worshipped God in fi'huty ; as he leaves Jus school companions, his dear christian friends s and as he leaves his teachers, his minister and religious instruct- ors — but he rejoices exceedingly that he has learned of Jesus, and has been taught of God, and is prepared by grace to enter upon the advanced studies of the heavenly world ; and the blessed and most profitable business of the e.elestial city. Earth's side of the dark door of death may be, abstract- ly, and according to a natural love of life, an unpleasant eight even to a child of Cod, but in the hour of his depart- ure this repulsive view is exchanged for j<>y unspeakable and full of glory ; as heaven's side of death's door is most ejitei|ng resplendence. The wider it opens the less its so$; K SOLAK HEAVEK, 2 I ber appearance is seen, and the more ot the effulgence of that world which is illuminated with the glory of God and the Lamb. How blessed are the emotions and bright 'the prospect? of the expiring christian, as he launches out upon the vast ocean of the Glory of God — exchanging the twilight and imperfection of faith and hope*for % the une- clipsed sight and perfect enjoyment of things spiritual, heavenly and eternal. It is not so with the ungenerate man ; his moral nature being unilluminated by grace, with fearful apprehension, he is ushered into a world of "blackness of darkness. As he "is driven away in his wickedness, " the weighty burden of his guilt settles down upon his neglected soul, and as the last ray of hope expires, he passes out from a misspent probationary state, and a day of salvation, into a condition of righteous retribution. "The sting of death is Bin." "The wages of sin is death." A few more days, my christian friends, and we, "clothed with white robes," shall walk heaven's golden streets with the redeemed of all ages, and behold with ecstatic joy our dear Redeemer, "face to face." May we all so live that after death we may know by felicitous experience, "WHERE and WHAT IS the heaven of the saints in glory. "Fair distant land ! could mortal eyes But half its charms explore, IIow would our spirits long to rise, And dwell on earth no more," 2S X BOhAE HEATENJ "JERUSALEM !— my happy borne ! Name ever dear to me,- — When shall my labors have'an end, In joy, and peace, and thee ? 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