Recognition of our friends in heaven, with extracts from distinguished authors and selections from the poets . CHAPTER VIII. OCCUPATION IN HEAVEN. How shall we spend eternity?What will be our occupation inheaven ? And I heard a voice fromheaven saying unto me, Write,Blessed are the dead which die in theLord from henceforth : Yea, saith theSpirit, that they may rest from theirlabors; and their works do followthem. Rev. xiv. 13. When a good man dies, we say, He has gone to rest. Yes, he isat rest in that he shall not be wearyany more, he shall not hunger orthirst any more, neither shall he be (9
Recognition of our friends in heaven, with extracts from distinguished authors and selections from the poets . CHAPTER VIII. OCCUPATION IN HEAVEN. How shall we spend eternity?What will be our occupation inheaven ? And I heard a voice fromheaven saying unto me, Write,Blessed are the dead which die in theLord from henceforth : Yea, saith theSpirit, that they may rest from theirlabors; and their works do followthem. Rev. xiv. 13. When a good man dies, we say, He has gone to rest. Yes, he isat rest in that he shall not be wearyany more, he shall not hunger orthirst any more, neither shall he be (98). A MINISTERING SPIRIT. J. K. THOMSON. sick or suffer any more pain, and heshall never die again. Yes, he shallrest from his labors on earth. Buthis rest does not consist in idlenessor inactivity. We must not thinkthat he shall do nothing in heavenbut sing psalms; yes, he shall joinin singing the new song of Mosesand the Lamb, but his most delightfulwork has only now really Savior says, In heaven the saintsshall be like unto the angels, andthe angels are declared to be min-istering spirits sent to them that areheirs of salvation ; and as they shallbe like unto the angels, they shallalso be employed like the governs the material universe (lOl) RECOGNITION OF OUR by fixed laws of nature, but the spirit-ual world he governs by the instru-mentality of intelligent agents ;namely, men and angels. No, weshall not spend eternity in indolence ! Has David hung up his harp, now i unstrung and broken, like the dustyarmor in Westminster Abbey ? Has i Paul ceased to itinerate the
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