iples, scattering them away, and went on with the
weaving.

May we not conclude that it will be with us even as it was with Jesus?
His resurrection was not only a pledge of what that of believers will
be, carrying within itself the seed and potency of a blessed
immortality, but it was also a sample of what ours will be. Death will
produce far less change in us than we imagine it will do. We shall go
on with living very much as if nothing had happened. Dying is an
experience we need not trouble ourselves about very much if we are
believers in Christ. There is a mystery in it; but when we have passed
through it we shall probably find that it is a very simple and natural
event--perhaps little more serious than sleeping over night and waking
in the morning. It will not hurt us in any way. It will blot no
lovely thing from our life. It will end nothing that is worth while.
Death is only a process in life, a phase of development, analogous to
that which takes place when a seed is dropped in the earth and comes up
a beautiful plant, adorned with foliage and blossoms. Life would be
incomplete without dying. The greatest misfortune that could befall
any one would be that he should not die. This would be an arresting of
development which would be death indeed.

"Death is the crown of life;
Were death denied, poor man would live in vain;
Were death denied, to live would not be life;
Were death denied, e'en fools would wish to die.
Death wounds to cure: we fall; we rise; we reign;
Spring from our fetters; hasten to the skies,
Where blooming Eden withers in our sight.
Death gives us more than was in Eden lost;
The king of terrors is the prince of peace."

There is need for a reconstruction of the prevalent thoughts and
conceptions of heaven. We have trained ourselves to think of life
beyond the grave as something altogether different from what life is in
this world. It has always been pictured thus to us. We have been
taught that heaven is a place of rest, a place of fellowship with God,
a place of ceaseless praise. The human element has been largely left
out of our usual conceptions of the blessed life. Not much is made of
the relations of believers to one another. That which is emphasized in
Christian hymns and in most books about heaven is the Godward side.
Much is made of the glory of the place as suggested by the visions of
St. John in the Apocalypse. In many of these conception