Recognition of our friends in heaven, with extracts from distinguished authors and selections from the poets . nd Sera-phim. We shall become personallyacquainted with them and conversewith them. They can relate to usthe story of the creation of theheavens and the earth, when themorning stars sang together and allthe sons of God shouted for joy. And there we shall also meet the patriarchs, prophets, apostles, martyrs and reformers. There I expect to meet Adam and Eve, and they can 6 (93) give us a description of Paradise, be-fore it was entered and cursed by sin;there I expect to meet Noah andc
Recognition of our friends in heaven, with extracts from distinguished authors and selections from the poets . nd Sera-phim. We shall become personallyacquainted with them and conversewith them. They can relate to usthe story of the creation of theheavens and the earth, when themorning stars sang together and allthe sons of God shouted for joy. And there we shall also meet the patriarchs, prophets, apostles, martyrs and reformers. There I expect to meet Adam and Eve, and they can 6 (93) give us a description of Paradise, be-fore it was entered and cursed by sin;there I expect to meet Noah andconverse with him; the surging- ofthe flood is still fresh in his memory ;there I expect to meet Abraham, thatman of mighty faith ; and Joseph andMoses and Joshua and Samuel andDavid, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel ; andthen I shall meet the worthies of theNew Testament, Peter and Jamesand John and Matthew and Andrewand Stephen, the first martyr, Pauland Barnabas and Timothy and themartyrs and reformers. Time wouldfail me to mention by name athousandth part of them. These arethe nobles of whom the world was (94). not worthy. What will be ourwonder, surprise and joy when weshall meet those whose names wehave often read in the Bible, andwhose character and noble deeds wehave so often admired ! But therewill also be a countless host of theredeemed whose names we neverheard on earth, the humble poor,whose deeds have never been writtenon the scroll of human fame, but whohad a record in heaven, and wereenrolled in the book of life. Weshall meet them and converse withthem also, and hear the story of theirconversion and salvation throughthe blood of the Lamb. Yes, we shallthere be permitted to associate with (95) that great multitude, which no mancan number, of all nations and kin-dreds and peoples and tongues, whostand before the throne and beforethe Lamb, clothed with white robes,who came out of great tribula-tion, and have washed their robesand made them white in the blood ofthe Lamb. And
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