ords us so much happiness, what
must our home on the eternal throne of God be? There your intercourse with
the loved ones of earth will not be clogged by pain and infirmities. Your
society there will be the most endearing, and with "a great multitude which
no man could number, of all nations, and kindred, and people, and tongues,
standing before the throne, clothed with white robes, and palms in their
hands." You shall there hold fellowship with the fathers of a thousand
generations, with the patriarchs, and prophets, and apostles, and martyrs,
and reformers, and the "innumerable company of angels." With these you
shall engage in the most delightful avocation. There will be no indolence
there, as we often find in earthly homes; but all will be continually
engaged. "They serve Him day and night in His temple." There will be one
unbroken worship, which will afford you rapturous delight. You shall be
presented, before God's glory, with exceeding joy; for "in His presence is
fullness of joy, and at His right hand are pleasures for evermore." These
joys will be eternal,--forever and ever. That better home will never be
dissolved, cannot be shaken, and your crown of glory there is a crown which
fadeth not away.

But this happiness and glory of heaven are not only eternal but
progressive,--ever increasing. There is nothing stationary there with the
saints; but their powers will ever expand and their glory increase. New
songs will be ever bursting in new strains from the celestial choir; new
discoveries and fresh exclamations of praise and gratitude will he
continually made. Here on earth they were "by nature the children of wrath,
even as others;" they had their tribulations and often murmured at God's
dealings with them. But there in that heavenly home they will understand
the reason for all this. The deep mysteries of the Christian life are now
revealed, and they see that a father's chastisements are the work of a
father's love, and worketh out for them that are exercised thereby, an
"exceeding and eternal weight of glory." They now see that while in their
tent-home they lived in the center of a grand system of natural,
providential and spiritual things, all of which were working in beautiful
harmony together for "the good of them that loved God and were the called
according to His purpose;" and with rapturous gratitude they cry out,
"Marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are all thy
ways, O thou King of S