. Christian herald and signs of our times. 7), thou hastspent thy time and strength and moneyfor what is of the earth earthly ; thou hastnot one treasure laid up in heaven; it isbut the return of what thou hast laid out. And beside all this, between us andyou there is A Great Gulf fixed ; so that they which would passfrom us to you cannot; neither can theypass to us that would come from yet in that realm of disembodiedspirits, the lost and the saved could recog-nize one another! The peace of the savedwho were comforted and the anguish ofthe lost who were tormented was pal-pable to t
. Christian herald and signs of our times. 7), thou hastspent thy time and strength and moneyfor what is of the earth earthly ; thou hastnot one treasure laid up in heaven; it isbut the return of what thou hast laid out. And beside all this, between us andyou there is A Great Gulf fixed ; so that they which would passfrom us to you cannot; neither can theypass to us that would come from yet in that realm of disembodiedspirits, the lost and the saved could recog-nize one another! The peace of the savedwho were comforted and the anguish ofthe lost who were tormented was pal-pable to the others. And yet there wasno possibility of helping or being Abraham and those who were of hiscompany could bear to see and hear themisery of the lost, we cannot conceive. Rutas the knowledge of God, even in our lifeon earth, giv es a true and real color to allthings around us, and we learn to just it vhim in all his dealing with ourselves, andfind that he is righteous in all his ways,and holy in all his works (Ps. 145: 17),. (J so must it have been w ith the saved whowere in Hades. The rich man, foiled in his first petition,now urges another, I pray thee, therefore,Father, that thou wouldest send him tomy fathers house, for I have five breth-ren, that he may testify unto them, lestthey come into this place of had he treated the testimony of menof God whom he had heard during hislifetime? The gorgeous dress was moreto him than the testimony which, in hisremorse, he believed now it was too late;the luxurious dinner party, the publicmeeting, the pleasures and honors of so-ciety, all these things had been given thefirst place in his mistaken life; how thenwould his brethren listen if he had notdone so? LESSON POINTS. Suggestions and Illustrations for the Useof Sunday School Teac hers. ERREW forms ofthought andspeech werea d 0 p ted byChrist in histeaching inorder thatthe lessonshe wished toconvey mightlose none oftheir force byu n f a m i I iarimagery. Iti
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