The three circles: the home, the church, and the heavenly circle, or the home, the church, and the immortal life . hereafter. There the toil is luxury,and the labor recreation; and nothing but jubilees ofpraise and holidays of higher service are wanted to di-versify the long and industrious Sabbath of the skies. Songs in Heaven. 1. If music be so very sweet, While here we plod must it be when onr tired feetShall tread the Shore of Song % 2. If Christian fellowship can bind Our hearts in bonds of love,What may it not be when we findOurselves at home, above ? 140 THE THREE CIRCLES. 3
The three circles: the home, the church, and the heavenly circle, or the home, the church, and the immortal life . hereafter. There the toil is luxury,and the labor recreation; and nothing but jubilees ofpraise and holidays of higher service are wanted to di-versify the long and industrious Sabbath of the skies. Songs in Heaven. 1. If music be so very sweet, While here we plod must it be when onr tired feetShall tread the Shore of Song % 2. If Christian fellowship can bind Our hearts in bonds of love,What may it not be when we findOurselves at home, above ? 140 THE THREE CIRCLES. 3. If here we take delight in prayer, And love Gods throne of grace,Then may we long, without a fear,To meet Him face to face. 4. Tis said, perhaps it may be true, Prayer ends with earthly days ;Or, rather, that it flows intoOne ceaseless song of praise. 5. When we shall tread the shore of song. Where music ever rings ;When we shall join the radiant throngAnd see the King of kings. 6. Then shallfthe worth of prayer be shown, The soul of song be sweetest fellowship be knownTo all whore safe in THIS MAN RECEIVING SOMETHINGMORE AND BETTER THAN HE EX-PECTED. THE THREE CIRCLES. 141 The Heavenly Circle. OR THE IMMORTAL I. Text: Job 4: 14—If a man die shall he liveagain? UNIVERSAL BELIEF IN THE IMMORTALITY OF THESOUL. From all we can learn in the annals and rec-ords of ancient nations and peoples it is evidentthat the idea and belief in the immortality of thesoul — that the end of this physical and earthlyexistence is not the end of mans real and soul ex-istence — was an inherent one and was one ofthe strongest and most potent beliefs in thehuman mind, stirring it to actions, inquiry andinvestigation in this important problem of therace. The great heart cry and question of Job, Ifa man die shall he live again ? was simply therefrain of the inquiring song of the centuries,that had been sweeping along its burden of hu-manity with its load of passions
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