, and can do best; and when He has
ascertained it, He suits our mansion accordingly.

When a gardener is about to receive some rare exotic, he prepares a
place where it will flower and fruit to the best advantage. The
naturalist who is notified of the shipment of some new specimen,
prepares a habitat as suited as possible to its peculiarities. The
mother, whose son is returning from sea, prepares a room in which his
favorite books and pictures are carefully placed, and all else that her
pondering heart can devise to give him pleasure. So our Lord is
anxious to give what is best in us its most suitable nourishment and
training. And He will keep our place against our coming. It will not
suit another, and will not be given to another.

That all this will be so, is witnessed by the instincts of our hearts,
and if it had not been so, He would have told us. That little clause
is inimitably beautiful; it seems to teach that where He permits His
children to cherish some natural presentiment of the blessed
future--its solemn troops and sweet societies; its friendships,
recognitions, and fellowships; its holy service, and special
opportunities--that He really assents to our deepest and most cherished
thoughts. If it had not been so, He would have told us.

_The charm of Heaven will be the Lord's presence._--"Where I am, ye
shall be also." We shall see His face, and be forever with Him. What
would not men give, if some old manuscripts might turn up with new
stories of His wondrous life, new parables as charming as those of the
Good Shepherd and the Prodigal Son; new beatitudes; new discourses like
that on the Vine. God might have permitted this. But what would it be
in comparison with all that lies before! The past has lost much; but
the future holds infinitely more. We shall see new Gospels enacted
before our eyes, behold Christ as a real visible person in the glory of
Divine manhood, hear Him speak to us as His friends, and shall know
what He meant when He promised to gird Himself, and come forth to serve
His servants.

If you are in doubt as to what Heaven is like, is it not enough to know
that it will be in accord with the nature and presence and choice of
Jesus Christ?

After His resurrection, He spent forty days among His disciples, that
men might see what the risen life was like. As He was, and is, so
shall we be. His body is the pattern in accordance to which this shall
be fashioned. What He was to Hi