{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4842", "width": "3001", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.\\ni.\\nChap. Copyright Noo_\\nShelt.\u00e2\u0080\u009e._R.4\\nUNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "4574", "width": "2875", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4574", "width": "2875", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "The Heavenly City\\nHEAVEN: THE WAY TO IT, ITS INHABITANTS,\\nEMPLOYMENTS, ENJOYMENTS, GLORIES\\nAND CHILDEEN AND RECOGNITION\\nOF FRIENDS THERE\\nEDITED BY\\nEDWIN W. RICE, D.D.\\nIThe UNION PRESS\\nPhiladelphia.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a21123 CHESTNUT STRQET*", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "TWO COPIES RECEIVED,\\nlibrary of Gcj5gp@r%^\\nOffice of tfc;^\\nKG 1 8 1899\\nRegister of Copyrlgfcfgj,\\n49902\\nif^[599^y ihe American Sunday\\nThe Li r^^y\\nOF CoNro i:ss\\nWASHINGTON\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0School Union.\\n\u00c2\u00bbSCOND COPY,", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "FOEEWOED.\\nWhen one is to move to a new country it is\\ncounted wise to find out something about it be-\\nfore he starts.\\nSo whoever expects to go to heaven will be\\nwise to learn as fully as possible beforehand\\nwhat heaven is, how to get there, who live in\\nit, what their employments and comforts are,\\nand whether he will find friends among its in-\\nhabitants.\\nInto this little volume the compiler has at-\\ntempted to gather the substance of what the\\nBible tells us about heaven, and also of what\\ndevout and holy men of the past and present\\nhave thought and said respecting that blessed\\nplace.\\nWords like these comfort the weary and sad,\\nand give peace to the mourner and to the af-\\nflicted. For through them they may look away\\nto a better country, even a heavenly, remember-\\ning what our blessed Lord has said ^^Lay up for\\nyourselves treasures in heaven, where neither\\nmoth nor rust doth consume, and where thieves\\ndo not break through nor steal:\\nFOR WHERE., THY TREASURE IS, THERE WILL THY\\nHEART BE ALSO.\\n^Matt. 6:20, 21, R.Y.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "THE HEAVENLY CITY.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nWHAT WE CAN KNOW ABOUT HEAVEN.\\n*Tor he looked for the city which hath the founda-\\ntions, whose builder and maker is God. Heb.\\n11:10, E.V.\\nWhat can we know about heaven? Mucli,\\nin many ways, if we read the Bible with atten-\\ntion. To the Jew, the Christian, and the Mo-\\nhammedan alike, Jerusalem is ^^the holy city,\\nthe city of God. So in his highest thought\\nof heaven Jew or Christian calls it the new\\nJerusalem the heavenly city of God.\\nWhen the beloved apostle John had a vision\\nof heaven he rapturously exclaimed of it: The\\\\\\ncity hath no need of the sun, neither of the\\nmoon, to shine in it; for the glory of God did\\nlighten it, and the lamb is the light thereof.\\nRev. 21:23.\\nTo the scattered and persecuted Hebrew\\nChristians in the first century the writer of the\\n(7)", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8 TEE EEAYENLT CITY,\\nHebrews sent this comforting and inspiring\\nmessage: ^^Ye are come unto Mount Zion^ and\\nunto the city of the living God, the heavenly\\nJerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,\\nto the general assembly and church of the first-\\nborn who are enrolled in heaven. Heb. 12:\\n22, 23.\\nThe New Testament often speaks of heaven\\nas a city. The ideal home of the future which\\nAbraham sought is described as ^^a city whose\\nbuilder and maker is God. As true spiritual\\nchildren of Abraham, the Hebrew Christians\\nhad here no continuing city their greatest\\ncomfort and joy was in seeking such a city to\\ncome. For they desire a better country; that\\nis, a heavenly wherefore God hath prepared\\nfor them a city. Heb. 11:10, 16, E.V.\\nThe early Christians, suffering persecutions,\\nslain with the sword, burned at the stake, de- j\\nvoured by the wild beasts, were filled with joy-\\nous hope of seeing their Saviour face to face,\\nwhere the city was of pure gold, as it were\\n/^Transparent glass, the holy city having the\\n^glory of God, the river of the water of life,\\nbright as crystal, having twelve gates. Each\\none of the several gates was of one pearl, and\\nthe foundations of the city were adorned with\\nall manner of precious stones, and the glory of\\nthe nations, and of God brightened that city,\\nand there they, the suffering Christians, shall", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "ABOUT HEAVEN. 9\\nreign for ever and ever. This was the glorious\\nhope that sustained them. This gave them cour-\\nage in facing horrible deaths by fagot, fire, fierce\\nlions, and wild beasts. This made the afilictions\\nof their life light, when compared with the un-\\nspeakable joys and glories of the life to come.\\nTHE CHRISTIAN IDEA OF IT.\\nSome suppose that we know nothing of\\nheaven. Indeed, an article in the Nineteenth\\nCentury Magazine attempts to show^ that the\\nScriptures teach us that we are in the dark on\\nthis matter, and that we cannot know anything\\nabout heaven. This agnostic writer quotes\\nPaul s letter: ^^Eye hath not seen, nor ear\\nheard, neither have entered into the heart of\\nman the things which God hath prepared for\\nthem that love him (1 Cor. 2:9), as evidence\\nof his assertion that we cannot know anything\\nof heaven.\\nBut Paul was proclaiming to the Corinthians\\nexactly the opposite view. He was trying to\\nshow them how much better and wiser those\\ncalled to be Christians were than the worldly.\\nTo prove it he quotes from Isaiah s prophecy,\\nliterally Things which eye saw not, and ear\\nheard not, and which entered not into the heart\\nof man, whatsoever things God prepared for\\nthem that love him. But unto us God revealed", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10 THE HEAYENLT CITY.\\nthem througli the Spirit is his triumphant ex-\\nclamation. See 1 Cor. 2:9, 10, E.V.\\nAny competent literary writer, reading the\\nentire passage, would say at once that it most\\npositively asserts that Christians do know these\\nthings. The language is strong in the Common\\nVersion of the Bible; it is even stronger in the\\nRevised Version.\\nThe New Testament assumes and asserts that\\nbelievers can and do know much about the\\nheavenly life; for it tells them of that life.\\nJohn closes his revelation with inspired pictures\\nof heaven, full of glorious conceptions and de-\\nscriptions of it, as lofty, and sublime as it is\\npossible to depict in any human language. Paul\\nhimself also portrays the future life, and the\\nChristian s state with Christ in heaven in similar\\nstrains in the fifteenth chapter of First Corinth-\\nians.\\nThe glories of that place do indeed so far ex-\\nceed the highest happiness on earth, and the\\nbliss of heaven is so unspeakably great, that\\nhuman language is too weak and inadequate to\\ndescribe the wonders of it. But this fact gives\\nus, in some respects, a higher and nobler concep-\\ntion of heaven, and tends to make us long more\\nearnestly to experience its unspeakable delights.\\nIt seems well worth while to gather into a\\nbrief space what the Bible tells us about heaven,", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "ABOUT HEAVEN, H\\nand how devout minds of the past and present\\nhave interpreted these teachings and the com-\\nfort they have gained from them. What has\\nthe Bible to say, what have the godly believed\\nor known about heaven?\\nTHE HEAVENLY CITY.\\n1. Heaven described as a City. In that\\nsublime vision of a ^^new heaven and a new\\nearth/^ which appeared to John, he ^^saw the\\nholy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of\\nheaven from God. It was ^^the holy city Jeru-\\nsalem, ^^having the glory of God: her light was\\nlike unto a stone most precious, as it were a jas-\\nper stone, clear as crystal: having a wall great\\nand high: having twelve gates, and at the gates\\ntwelve angels. ^^The city was pure gold, like\\nunto pure glass. The foundations of the wall of\\nthe city were adorned with all manner of pre-\\ncious stones. Then follows this remarkable list\\nof the precious stones: jasper, sapphire, chal-\\ncedony, emerald, sardonyx, sardius, chrysolite,\\nberyl, topaz, chrysoprase, jacinth, and amethyst.\\nThe twelve gates were twelve pearls; each one\\nof the several gates was of one pearl: and the\\nstreet of the city was pure gold, as it were trans-\\nparent glass. And he shewed me a river of\\nwater of life, bright as crystal, proceeding out\\nof the throne of God, and of the Lamb, in the\\nmidst of the street thereof. And on this side of", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12 THE EEAYENLT CITY,\\nthe river, and on that, was the tree of life, bear-\\ning twelve manner of fruits, yielding its fruit\\nevery month and the leaves of the tree were for\\nthe healing of the nations/ See Rev. 21 and\\n22, E.V.\\nAfter this manner does John give us a raptur-\\nous description of the holy city, the new Jeru-\\nsalem, the home of believers; that is, heaven.\\nThe writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews also\\nspeaks of heaven as ^the city of the living God,\\nthe heavenly Jerusalem, and as ^an abiding\\ncity which his brethren did not possess on\\nearth; hence we seek after one which is to\\ncome. See Heb. 12:22; 13:14.\\nThis figure of a city as the abiding place of\\nthe glory of God, and as the blissful home of his\\npeople, was hallowed in the hearts of Israel, from\\nearly time. The Psalmist delights to picture the\\nplace where Jehovah was worshipped as the ^^city\\nof God. He joyously sings of sl river, the\\nstreams whereof shall make glad the city of\\nGod; Glorious things are spoken of thee, O\\ncity of God. Pss. 46:4; 87:3. And the\\nprophet breaks forth in rapturous praise of ^^the\\ncity of the Lord; the Zion of the Holy One of\\nIsrael, ^Hhe sun shall be no more thy light by\\nday: neither for brightness shall the moon give\\nlight unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto\\nthee an everlasting light, and thy God thy\\nglory. Is. 60:14, 19.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "ABOUT HEAVEN. 13\\nHEAVEN A PALACE.\\n2. Heaven pictured as a great House, Jesus\\ncomforted his disciples with this divine promise,\\n^^In my Father s house are many mansions [lit-\\nerally ^^separate abiding-places or ^^rooms if\\nit were not so, I would have told you; I go to\\nprepare a place [a suitable one] for you. And\\nfor each of you.\\nThis great palatial house is represented as hav-\\ning a social, feasting place. ^^Many shall come\\nfrom the east and the west, and shall sit down\\n[literally ^^recline as at a feast-table] with\\nAbraham and Isaac and Jacob, in the kingdom\\nof heaven. Matt. 8:11. Compare also Luke\\n13:29.\\nPaul has a similar thought, since ^^God being\\nrich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he\\nloved us, ^^raised us up with him [Christ], and\\nmade us to sit with him in the heavenly places, in\\nChrist Jesus. Eph. 2:4, 5.\\nHEAVEN god s THRONE.\\n3. Heaven is ivliere God is. Within this\\nheavenly palace is God s throne, and Jesus Christ\\nsits on the right hand of the Father Almighty.\\n^^Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne,\\nand the earth is my foot-stool. Is. 66: 1. Jesus\\nsaid: *^^Swear not at all: neither by heaven; for\\nit is God s throne. Matt. 5 34. The martyr", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14 TEE HEAVENLY CITY,\\nStephen in his defence tried to show his accusers\\nthat Jesiis was the Messiah, and hence that the\\n^^most High dwelleth not in temples made with\\nhands/ as they supposed. Then he reminded\\nthem of the words of the great prophet, ^^Heaven\\nis by throne. Acts 7:48. Jesus Christ him-\\nself ^^is set down at the right hand of the throne\\nof God. Heb. 12:2. Compare also the de-\\nscriptions in Kev. 1:12, 18; 11:17-19; 14:2,\\n3; 21:22.\\nJesns himself foretells a renewed creation\\n^Vhen the Son of man shall sit in the throne of\\nhis glory, and ^Vhen the Son of man shall come\\nin his glory, and all the holy angels with him;\\nthen shall he sit upon the throne of his glory to\\njudge all nations. Matt. 19:28; 25:31, 32.\\nTHE PARADISE.\\nThe devout thoughts of Bishop Hall are so\\nvivid, that it almost seems as though he had\\nactual visions of the blessed world above. ^^See\\nthe place wherein they are the redeemed, he\\nexclaims, ^^the heaven of heavens, the paradise of\\nGod, infinitely delectable, such as no eye can\\nbehold and not be blessed. Shouldst thou set\\nthy tabernacle in the midst of the sun thou\\ncouldst not but be encompassed with marvelous\\nlight; yet even there it would be but as mid-\\nnight with thee, in comparison of those irradia-", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "ABOUT HEAVEN. 15\\ntions of glory wliicli shine forth above in that\\nimperial region, for thy God is the sun there.\\nEev. 21:23.\\nA GLORIOUS PLACE.\\nNot long before his death Dr. ISTevins wrote:\\n^^I have been thinking of the attractions of\\nheaven what there is in heaven to draw souls\\nto it. I thought of the place. Heaven has place.\\nChrist says to his disciples: ^I go to prepare a\\nplace for yon. It is part of the consolation with\\nwhich he comforts them, that heaven is a place,\\nand not a mere state What a place it must be\\nSelected out of all the locations of the universe\\nthe chosen spot of space. We see, even on\\nearth places of great beauty, and we can conceive\\nof spots far more delightful than any we see.\\nBut what comparison can these bear to heaven,\\nwhere everything exceeds whatever eye has seen,\\nor imagination conceived The earthly paradise\\nmust have been a charming spot. But what was\\nthat to the heavenly Oh what a place Jesus\\nwill make, has already made, in heaven\\nA BLESSED HOME.\\nHeaven is a condition, a character, as Chal-\\nmers maintains. It is also represented as a\\nspiritual kingdom, the place in the great universe\\nwhere God has made a home for his people.\\nWhile heaven is a spirit-world, it is a real one,", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16 THE HEAVENLY CITY,\\nfilled with the glory of God. It is where Christ\\nis, and where Christians will be their eternal\\nhome. It is not merely a state, it is a place also.\\n^^Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord\\nJesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every\\nspiritual blessing in the heavenly places in\\nChrist. Eph. 1:3, B.V. Said Jesus: go to\\nprepare a place for you ^Hhat where I am,\\nthere ye may be also. John 14: 2, 3. A blessed\\nheavenly home\\nHow delightful is home. Heaven is the Chris-\\ntian s eternal home\\nAN ETEENAL HOME.\\n^*Aye sung before the sapphire-colored throne\\nTo him that sits thereon,\\nWith saintly shout, and solemn jubilee:\\nWhere the bright Seraphim in burning row\\nTheir loud uplifted angel-trumpets blow:\\nAnd the cherubic host in thousand choirs\\nTouch their immortal harps of golden wires.\\nWith those just spirits that wear victorious palms,\\nHymns devout and holy psalms,\\nSinging everlastingly:\\nWhile all the round and archless blue\\nResound and echo ^Hallelu.\\nO may we soon again renew that song.\\nAnd keep in time with heaven, till God ere long\\nTo his celestial concert us invite,\\nTo live with him and sing in endless morn of light!\\nJohn Milton.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "ABOUT HEAVEN. 17\\nTHE CELESTIAL COUNTRY.\\n^^0, mine, my golden Sion!\\nO lovelier far than gold!\\nWith laurel-girt battalions,\\nAnd safe victorious fold:\\nO sweet and blessed country,\\nShall I ever see thy face?\\nsweet and blessed country,\\nShall I ever win thy grace?\\n1 have the hope within me.\\nTo comfort and to bless!\\nShall I ever see thy face?\\nO tell me, tell me *Yes\\n[From The Celestial Country, by Bernard of Cluny.\\nTr. by John M. Neale.]\\nA HAPPY HOME.\\nJerusalem the golden.\\nWith milk and honey blest,\\nBeneath thy contemplation\\nSink heart and voice oppressed.\\nI know not, 0, 1 know not.\\nWhat social joys are there,\\nWhat radiancy of glory,\\nWhat light beyond compare!\\nlUd.\\nJerusalem, my happy home!\\nMy soul still pants for thee;\\nThen shall my labors have an end\\nWhen I thy joys shall see!\\n[Francis Balder (priest) and W, Prid. Rewritten by\\nDavid Dickson.]", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "CHAPTEE II.\\nTHE WAY TO HEAVEN.\\nJesus says: I am the way. John 14: 16.\\nFor narrow is the gate, and straitened the way,\\nthat leadeth unto life. Matt. 7: 14, R.V.\\nThe huinan soul will follow self and the\\nworld; it will wander from God and heaven.\\nIt must turn toward God, and keep on that right\\ncourse toward heaven.\\nThere is none righteous, no, not one;\\nThere is none that understandeth,\\nThere is none that seeketh after God;\\nThey have all turned aside, they are together become\\nunprofitable\\nThere is none that doeth good, no, not so much as\\none. Rom. 3:10-12, R.V.\\nThe breath of God, blowing where it listeth,\\ntouches with its mystery of life the dead souls of\\nmen, bears them across the bridgeless gulf be-\\ntween the natural and the spiritual, between the\\nspiritually inorganic and the spiritually organic,\\nendows them with its own high qualities, and\\ndevelops within them those new and SAveet fac-\\nulties by which those who are born again are said\\nto see the Kingdom of God.^^ Drummond.\\n(18)", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "THE WAY TO HEAVEN. 19\\nREACHED BY KEPENTAI^CE.\\n^^How is the soul to escape to heaven if it has\\nneglected for a lifetime the means of escape from\\nthe world and self? And where is the capacity\\nfor heaven to come from if it be not developed\\non earth? If every Godward aspira-\\ntion of the sonl has been allowed to become ex-\\ntinct, and every outlet that was open to heaven\\nto be choked, and every talent for religious love\\nand trust to have been persistently neglected and\\nignored, where are the faculties to come from\\nthat would ever find the faintest relish in such\\nthings as God and heaven give? Drummond.\\nThe longer you live without repentance, the\\nmore you will have to repent of, and the less\\ntime to repent in. Many of you, I fear, are in\\nthe wrong road the road that leads to death.\\nTurn turn to-day into the narrow path. God\\nwill help you, and, if you seek his grace, will\\nguide you safely to that world where there is no\\nmore sin. S, G. Green.\\nBEACHED BY FAITH.\\nTo reach heaven, one must come to and be-\\nlieve on Jesus Christ. What is meant by com-\\ning to Christ? It is repenting, returning, pray-\\ning, believing, and living daily in his company.\\nYou must come to him by faith, by obedi-\\nence. Come to Christ; it will be the", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20 TEE HEAYENLT CITY.\\nbest way of begining life. Commit\\nyour way to liim. Come; it will render you\\nsafe for eternity. If Christ blesses\\nyou, you are blessed forever. But, if you do not\\nseek him, Satan will seek you, and keep you.\\nRev. Isaac Taylor.\\n^^The most intense life ever lived on this earth\\nshould naturally be a life energized by the Holy\\nGhost. In such a life the intellect may experi-\\nence a marvelous awakening. The tendency of\\nits working is to the positiveness of knowledge.\\nProbabilities grow to certainties in the convic-\\ntions of such a mind. Belief becomes assurance.\\nThe range of intellectual vision expands as the\\nsoul ascends the mount of its transfiguration.\\nProfessor Phelps.\\nBY A HOLY LIFE.\\n^^The rewards of heaven are so great and glori-\\nous, and Christ s burden so light, his yoke so\\neasy, that it is a shameless impudence to expect\\nso great glories at a less rate than so little serv-\\nice; at a lower rate than a Jioly life. It cost the\\nheart-blood of the Son of God to obtain heaven\\nfor us upon that condition; and who shall die\\nagain to get heaven for us upon easier terms?\\nJeremy Taylor.\\n^^When my soul journeys forth I know that\\nhighest kings and princes are appointed to attend\\nme; namely, the dear angels themselves, who", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "TEE WAY TO HEAVEN. gl\\nwill receive me, and guard me on my way.\\nLuther.\\nTHE HEAVENLY PILOT.\\nThe heavenly pilot guides the ship of Zion.\\nWe are passengers, happy in cheery cabins and\\nstate-rooms of the vessel, anxious only when we\\nstep out to the bow or up to the decks and try\\nto peer through the mists to the unseen shore.\\nBut One is at the helm who knows the waters\\nwell, and Avhose hand will guide the vessel\\nthrough. We doubt sometimes and fear, and\\nfind fault, and wish we were safe over the treach-\\nerous sea. But while we are trembling and\\nafraid, hark to the tone of the fog-bell sounding\\nfrom the shore ^This way V ^Come hither\\nHoldfast! Be thou faithful unto death Lo,\\nI am with you always, even to the end of the\\nworld. Alexander Clarh.\\nTHE GLORIOUS VOICE.\\nBut who is coming If you could see the\\nLord Jesus standing there, right before you, and\\nyou heard him say, Come would you say,\\nwhat does come mean? And if the room were\\ndark, so that you could only hear and not see,\\nwould it make any difference? Would you not\\nturn instantly toward the Glorious Voice\\nTo whom coming, Here is the secret of\\nadvance in the narrow way, after we have en-\\ntered by the strait gate. It is not the having", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "33 TEE HEAVENLY CITY.\\ncome once to begin with, but the coming con-\\ntinually to Jesiis.\\nYou are on the King s business in the King s\\nhighway. And ^the King s business\\nrequired haste. 1 Sam. 21:8. ^^Yet there is\\nno other business about which average Christians\\ntake it so easy. It is always pressing,\\nand may never be put oflf. Much of it has to\\ndo with souls which may be in eternity to-mor-\\nrow. We find four rules for doing the\\nKing s business. We are to do it: (1) heartily,\\n(2) diligently, (3) faithfully, (4) speedily. F.\\nB, Havergal.\\nTHE WAY OF GRACE.\\nYea, Lord this is my heart s desire. I would\\nwalk with thee day by day in perfect peace.\\nGive me grace to walk with thee in\\nlove all the way to glory. This love\\nsurpasseth knowledge. Oh help me to under-\\nstand more, give me to find more of thy cove-\\nnant love. Make my heart one with thee; lead\\nme in thy one way, that I may fear thee forever,\\nand when temptations come, such as I have been\\nin, grant that thej may bring me nearer to thee.\\nA saved sinner, delivered by mere\\ngrace from wrath and hell, entitled to all spirit-\\nual blessings in Christ Jesus, and already ad-\\nmitted to partake of thee, may sing and make\\nmelody in his heart all the way to heaven. And", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "THE WAY TO HEAVEN. 23\\nyet, alas how often art thoii, O my soul, in\\nheaviness, walking in distress, and cast down, as\\nif thy hope of rejoicing were in vain\\nRemember, O my soul, it is thy duty and thy\\nprivilege to rejoice in God. Sing unto\\nthe Lord, for he hath done excellent things; this\\nis known in all the earth. Eternal salvation will\\ndemand the tribute of eternal praise. William\\nRomaine.\\nTHE WAY OF NEW BIETH.\\nThe way to heaven is through a new or spirit-\\nual birth. Among all the preposterous notions\\nwhich a new and crude theology has poured forth\\nso profusely in our day, there is none more ab-\\nsurd than that a dead sinner can beget new life\\nin himself. The very idea of his becoming his\\nown father in the spiritual regeneration is as un-\\nreasonable as such a supposition in relation to\\nour first birth Vhich were born not of blood,\\nnor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of\\nman, but of God. ^Born of the Spirit. And\\nyou hath he [God] quickened who were dead in\\ntrespasses and sins. But who can trace the\\nwork of the Spirit in this wonderful renovation?\\nThe wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou\\nhearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell\\nwhence it cometh, and whither it goeth; so is\\neveryone that is born of the Spirit. Archibald\\nAlexander.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "34 TEE HEAVENLY CITY.\\nFIVE STEPS.\\nThere are five stages or steps in tlie way to\\nheaven:\\n1. Turning from sin to God. Hear some of\\nthe calls of God from his word: As I live, saith\\nthe Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of\\nthe wicked; but that the wicked turn from his\\nway and live; turn ye, turn ye, from your evil\\nways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?\\nEzek. 33:11.\\nAmend your ways and your doings, and obey\\nthe voice of the Lord your God. Jer. 26:13.\\nLet the wicked forsake his way, and the\\nunrighteous man his thoughts; and let him re-\\nturn unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon\\nhim; and to our God, for he will abundantly\\npardon. Isa. 55:7.\\nExcept ye turn, and become as little children,\\nye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of\\nheaven. Matt. 18:3, E.V.\\nKepent ye, therefore, and turn again, that\\nyour sins may be blotted out. Acts 3:19. To\\nerring Peter Jesus said: When once thou hast\\nturned again, stablish thy brethren. Luke 22:\\n32. John the Baptist preached repentance to\\nthe multitudes, saying: Repent ye: for the\\nkingdom of heaven is at hand. Make ye ready\\nthe way of the Lord. Matt. 3:2, 3, E.V.\\nThe prodigal when he came to himself said:", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "TEE WAY TO HEAVEN. 35\\n^^I will arise and go to my father, and will say\\nunto him Father I have sinned against heaven,\\nand in thy sight. Luke 15:18. ^^Jesus began\\nto preach and to say: Eepent ye; for the king-\\ndom of heaven is at hand. Matt. 4: 17. See also\\nMark 1:15. ^^Turn ye unto me, saith the Lord\\nof hosts, and I will turn unto you. Zech. 1 3.\\n^^Enter ye in by the narrow gate; for wide is\\nthe gate and broad is the way, that leadeth to\\ndestruction, and many be they that enter in\\nthereby. For narrow is the gate and straitened\\nthe way, that leadeth unto life. Matt. 7:13,\\n14, E.V.\\n2. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. When\\nthe jailor cried out: ^^Sirs, what must I do to be\\nsaved? Paul and Silas answered: ^^Believe on\\nthe Lord Jesus, and thou shalt be saved, thou\\nand thy house. Acts 16 31.\\nWhen the multitudes asked Jesus: ^^^What\\nmust we do, that we may work the works of\\nGod? Jesus answered and said unto them:\\n^This is the work of God, that ye believe on\\nhim whom he hath sent. John 6:29.\\nFor with the heart man believeth unto right-\\neousness. Eom. 10:10. Belief or faith in\\nJesus Christ is a saving grace, which enables the\\nsoul to rest upon him alone for salvation, as he\\nis offered to us in the Gospel. This grace is the\\ngift of God. Eph. 2:8. This belief comes to\\nall who accept Jesus Christ as a personal Saviour.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26 TEE EEAVENLT CITY.\\n^^As many as received him^ to them gave lie tlie\\nright to become children of God. This change\\nis described as a new birth. ^^Born not of blood,\\nnor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of\\nman, but of God. For Jesus said to Mcodemus:\\n^^Except a man be born of water and the Spirit,\\nhe cannot enter into the kingdom of God. John\\n1:13; 3:5.\\nSo your belief must spring from a loving\\ntrust on the finished work of Christ. The devils\\nbelieve there is one God and tremble. Jas. 2:\\n19. But they do not believe on God. ^^Whoso-\\never believeth on him shall not be ashamed.\\nRom. 10:11. Jesus says, ^^He that believeth on\\nme hath everlasting life. John 6:47.\\nThis grace, this faith, this new birth, this\\nspiritual life is a free gift which God offers you\\nfor the sake of Christ who died for sinners.\\n^^Even so through one act of righteousness the\\nfree gift came unto all men to justification of\\nlife. Eom. 5 18, R. V. ^Tor God so loved the\\nworld, that he gave his only begotten Son, that\\nwhosoever believeth on him should not perish,\\nbut have eternal life. John 3:16.\\n3. Confess Christ. That was a remarkable\\npromise which Jesus made to disciples. ^^E very-\\none, therefore, who shall confess me before men,\\nhim will I also confess before my Father which\\nis in heaven. But whosoever shall deny me be-\\nfore men, him will I also deny before my Father", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "TEE WAY TO HEAVEN. 27\\nwhich is in heaven. Matt. 10:32, 33, E.V.\\nAgain he said: ^^Every one who shall confess me\\nbefore men, him shall the Son of man also con-\\nfess before the angels of God; but he that\\ndenieth me in the presence of men shall be de-\\nnied in the presence of the angels of God.\\nLuke 12:8, 9, E.V.\\nTo have the Saviour, who is to be the\\nAlmighty Judge, deny us in the presence of\\nthe hosts of angelic beings, who could stand\\nthat?\\nThe great apostle declares: ^If thou shall con-\\nfess with thy mouth Jesus as Lord, and shall be-\\nlieve in thy heart that God raised him up from\\nthe dead, thou shall be saved. Eom. 10:9,\\nE.V.\\nThe beloved apostle writes: If we confess\\nour sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive\\nus our sins, and to cleanse us from all unright-\\neousness. Again he adds: Every spirit\\nwhich conf esseth that Jesus Christ is come in the\\nflesh, is of God. And yet, again to make it as\\nsimple and easy as possible, he says once more,\\nWhosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son\\nof God, God abideth in him, and he in God.\\nJohn 1:9; 4:2, 15.\\nTimothy was urged not to be ashamed of the\\ntestimony of our Lord. 2 Tim. 1:8. And\\nhope putteth not to shame. Eom. 5:5, E.V,", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28 THE HEAVENLT CITY.\\nASHAMED OF JESUS\\nJesus, and shall it ever be,\\nA mortal man ashamed of Thee?\\nAshamed of Thee, whom angels praise.\\nWhose glories shine through endless days?\\nAshamed of Jesus, that dear Friend,\\nOn whom my hopes of heaven depend!\\nNo; when I blush be this my shame\\nThat I no more revere his name.\\nAshamed of Jesus yes, I may.\\nWhen I ve no guilt to wash away,\\nNo tear to wipe, no good to crave,\\nNo fear to quell, no soul to save.\\nGrigg and Francis.\\n4. Follow Christ. Christ has reopened heaven\\nto man. He has gone thither before us, to lead\\nus on the way, and to prepare a place for believ-\\ners. We must follow him.\\nTo the two disciples of John who heard Jesns\\ncalled the Lamb of God, and who followed him\\nJesns turned and said, ^^What seek ye? They\\nsaid unto him, Rabbi, where dwellest thou? He\\nsaith unto them. Come, and see.\\nWhen Jesus saw Philip, he said ^Tollow me.\\nJohn 1:38, 39, 43. When Jesus found Peter\\nand Andrew on the Sea of Galilee, he said to\\nthem: ^Tollow me. And soon after by the\\nsame sea he called James and John and they\\n^^foUowed him. To another disciple who\\nwanted to turn to some worldly duties, Jesus\\nalso repeated his command: Follow me.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "TEE WAY TO EEAVEN, 29\\nMore explicitly Jesus said: ^^If any man would\\ncome after me, let him deny himself, and take\\nup his cross, and follow me/ Matt. 16:24. To\\nthe rich young man eTesus said lovingly: ^^Sell all\\nthat thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and\\nthou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come,\\nfollow me. Luke 18:22.\\nTo the Greeks who sought him, Jesus again\\ndeclared, If any man serve me, let him follow\\nme. John 12 26. Of all in the Christian fold\\nhe said, My sheep hear my voice, and I know\\nthem, and they follow me. John 10:27.\\nWhen John forbade a man from casting out\\ndemons in Jesus name because he did not liter-\\nally follow them Jesus said: Forbid him not;\\nfor he that is not against you is for you. Luke\\n9:60, R.V. Thus he explains that one who is\\ntrue and loyal to his mission in saving men\\nthrough Jesus Christ is following Jesus.\\nOf those who sang the new song on Mount\\nZion it is said: These are they which follow the\\nLamb whithersoever he goeth. Rev. 14:4.\\n5. Grow into Chris fs liheness. The Psalmist\\nsings: I will behold thy face in righteousness;\\nI shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy\\nlikeness. Ps. 17:15.\\nOne who starts to build a Christian faith is\\nbeginning a long and a great task. There is\\nmuch study, and much thinking to be done.\\nThere are many teachings of Jesus about faith", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 TEE HEAVENLY CITY.\\nand duty. (a) You must hold fast the\\ngreat starting truths. It is not enough to have\\nbelieved them once. You must keep tight hold\\nof them; every day you must take a fresh grip\\non them. Seek earnestly and hon-\\nestly for more light and truths. Every\\nnew truth that proves itself to a man makes him\\nthat much stronger and his life that much richer.\\nWork into your life the truth you find.\\nW. P. Merrill\\nTHE SPIRIT-FILLED LIEE.\\nThey were all filled with the Holy Spirit/\\nsays Luke in his account of the scene at Pente-\\ncost. See Acts 2:4, Am. R.V. Jesus had, be-\\nfore this, breathed on the apostles, and said:\\nReceive ye the Holy Spirit. John 20: 22, Am.\\nR.V. This was done to fill them with expecta-\\ntion of the gift, and that they might prepare for\\nhis coming through prayer and waiting upon\\nGod. For eTesus also charged the same disciples\\nnot to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for\\nthe promise of the Father, adding as an en-\\ncouragement to wait: ye shall receive power,\\nwhen the Holy Spirit is come upon you. Acts\\n1:4,8.\\nThis power, the Spirit-filled life, came upon\\nthem at Pentecost. Paul was riot among the dis-\\nciples at Pentecost. But before he began his\\nwork of Jesus Christ an humble disciple was", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "TEE WAY TO HEAVEN. 31\\nsent to him by the Lord, who, laying his hands\\non Paul, said: ^^Receive thy sight and be filled\\nwith the Holy Spirit/ Acts 9:17, Am. R.V.\\nHis life ever after was a Spirit-filled and Spirit-\\nled life. This can be had for the asking, and by\\ncomplying with the conditions. This is the\\nalmost indispensable condition of growth, of\\nprogress, in the heavenly way.\\nMany souls are dwarfed, stunted, and never\\nattain the fullness of stature in Christ Jesus.\\nThey do not claim what God has promised them.\\nIt is as if they had vast sums placed to their\\ncredit in the Bank of England and should never\\ndraw on it, even flatly refused to do so, fearing\\nthat their draft would not be honored.\\nSo the Christian has vast sums of spiritual\\ntreasures on deposit in God s treasury, placed\\nthere by the Lord Jesus Christ.\\n^^Some of his people have died spiritually\\npoor; some are living to-day in spiritual penury,\\na hand-to-mouth existence, with untractable\\nriches lying at call on deposit in their name.\\nWhat have we done with our deposit? John\\nMacNeil.\\nSPIRITUAL RICHES.\\nThe simple conditions of gaining these riches\\nare: 1. Cleansing the heart and life. Peter said", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "32 TEE HEAYENLT CITY.\\nof the despised Gentiles who believed: ^^God,\\nwho knoweth the heart, bare them witness, giv-\\ning them the Holy Spirit, even as he did unto\\nus; and made no distinction between us and\\nthem, cleansing their hearts by faith. Acts 15\\n8, Am. R.Y. Cleansing is to have a conscience\\nvoid of offense. It is to translate the Gospel into\\nour lives. It is to have the Lord Jesus present\\nus ^^faultless before the presence of his glory.\\nJude 24. It is Paul s prayer for the Thessa-\\nlonians filled out for us. ^^I pray God your\\nwhole spirit and soul and body be preserved\\nblameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus\\nChrist. IThess. 5:23.\\n2. Consecrating the life to Christ. This is\\nto have the heart and life set apart for a holy use.\\nIt is not only to be clean from sin, it is to go\\nfurther and devote ourselves to the service of\\nChrist. Our daily work is to be regarded as\\ndone for Christ. Our life is to be hid in Christ.\\nI beseech you, therefore,* brethren, by the\\nmercies of God, to present your bodies a living\\nsacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your\\nspiritual service. Eom. 12:1, Am. R.V.\\n3. Claim the gift of the Spirit-filled life.\\n^^Ask and it shall be given you. ^^How much\\nmore shall your heavenly Father give the Holy\\nSpirit to them that ask him? Luke 11: 13, Am.\\nE. V. See the pledge fulfilled in Acts 2 3.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "TEE WAY TO HEAVEN. 33\\nEECEIVE THE BLESSIIs^G.\\nA Christian man came to me once and said\\nexpecting a word of encouragement and ap-\\nproval ^I have been seeking that blessing for\\nover thirty years. ^Brother, it is nearly time\\nyou got it^ then was the swift rejoinder. For\\nall these years during which the man was crying,\\n^Give, give, give God was saying, ^Take, take,\\ntake Receive, receive for I do give If my\\nlittle girl of three years old were crying piteously\\nfor a piece of bread, knowing that she must be\\nvery hungry, and having the bread by me, would\\nI tell her to cry on for another hour, and then\\nI might attend to her wants But what if, in\\nspite of my offering and of her crying, she would\\nnot take the bread I offered, but still kept on\\ncrying: ^Father, O, father! Do give me bread.\\nI am so hungry You silly child\\n^^Oh how many silly children has the Father\\nin his family, crying year in and year out ^Give,\\ngive And the Father, all yearning over them\\nand saying ^Take, take, my child Let us give\\nover crying, and set to work receiving! Take\\nand thank! Receive and thank John Mac-\\nNeil\\n^^But we all, with unveiled face, beholding,\\nas in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, are trans-\\nformed into the same image from glory to\\nglory. 2 Cor. 3:18, Am. E.V.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34 TEE EEAYENLT CITY.\\nIt is througli being brouglit nigli/ tbrougli\\na walk as in the presence of God, ^^till we all\\nattain unto the unity of the faith, and of the\\nknowledge of the Son of God, unto a full-grown\\nman, unto the measure of the stature of the full-\\nness of Christ/ Eph. 4: 13, E. V.\\nWIN SOULS ON THE WAY.\\nThe spirit-filled life will ever be working for\\nChrist; winning souls to him, not simply to save\\nsouls, but also to please the Lord. In such a\\nlife of prayer and service, the soul will find the\\nhighest joy. Thus, the way to heaven will be\\nlike a journey through the land of Beulah, even\\nwhen beset by tempters. Though the meadow\\nis obstructed by stone fences, and broken by\\nditches, the grass is green, the daisies are beau-\\ntiful and cover the stone wall, and overlap the\\nditches so that the eye scarcely notes breaks\\nin the grassy plain. So the spirit-filled, working\\nsoul, is trustingly, earnestly, rejoicingly going\\non the heavenly way, borne over obstacles, temp-\\ntations, hindrances, using them even as helps\\ntoward the heavenly City. For Jesus Christ is\\nhis Redeemer, the Captain of his salvation, and\\nthe Holy Spirit, his ever present guide\\nA poor man said: there are only three steps\\nto heaven: out of self into Christ ^into glory\\nZeuxis, the famous painter, would never allow\\na work of his to be seen until he had turned it", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "TEE WAY TO HEAVEN. 35\\nover and over, this way and that, to see if he\\ncould discover any defect in it. They asked\\nhim why he did this. He replied: ^^I paint for\\neternity. So, thongh the way to heaven be\\nslow and toilsome, the end or reward is worth the\\npains.\\nThe dull of sight put on spectacles to pass\\nover a narrow bridge, so that he may see clearer,\\nand walk more securely. So those whose spirit-\\nual sight is dulled by sin should seek the aid of\\nthe Spirit, that they may escape the whirlpools\\nof sin, and be safe on the narrow way to heaven.\\nThere is a famous picture by a great artist\\nthat represents a little child, in the garb of a\\npilgrim, walking slowly along a narrow path\\nbounded on either side by overhanging rocks or\\nsome terrible, yawning precipice. The edge of\\nthe precipice is hidden from the child s view by\\na thick growth of flowers, and the overhanging\\nrocks are concealed by thick leaves and fruited\\ntrees. Behind the child is an angel with sweet\\nface of tenderness, his hands lightly touching the\\nchild s shoulders, as if to keep him in the safe\\nway. The child has closed his eyes, that he may\\nnot be tempted by the snares on either side, and\\nis walking calmly on, content not to see each\\nstep he takes, so long as he feels the guiding\\ntouch of the angel. Thus may the pilgrim on\\nthe heavenly way go forward under the guiding\\ntouch of the Holy Spirit.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "36 TEE EEAYENLT CITY.\\nuowLANjy hill s triumph.\\nRowland Hill, near the close of his life,\\npreached in Walworth for a charitable institu-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2tion. The service exhausted his feeble frame,\\nand he went into the vestry to rest. When he\\ncould summon energy to leave the church, his\\nfriend, the Rev. Mr. Clayton, offered to assist\\nhim, but he declined it, and passed down the\\naisle of the chapel. The lights were nearly all\\nout, the silence was profound. IsTothing was\\nheard but the majestic tread of one s own foot-\\nsteps, when Mr. Hill began in an undertone to\\nAnd when I m to die\\nEeceive me, I ll cry,\\nFor Jesus has loved me, I cannot tell why;\\nBut this I can find,\\nWe two are so joined\\nThat he ll not be in glory and leave me behind.\\nAnd this was repeated to him in his dying\\nhour, bringing back the light to his fast-fading\\neye, and smile to his face his lips moved in vain\\nto articulate the words. It was a triumph of life\\nin death. Belcher^ s Life of Whitefield.\\nThere is no death. ^Vhat seems so is transition.\\nThis life of mortal breath\\nIs but the suburb of the life Elysian,\\nWhose portal we call death.\\nE, W. Longfellow,", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "TEE WAY TO H EATEN, 37\\nSHUT OUT.\\nShut Out of Heaven. From the heavenly\\ncity everything foul and everything false will\\nbe excluded. Perhaps we can still trace the in-\\nveterate hostility of free will in the persons ex-\\ncluded. Not only are they in their own persons\\ntainted and hollow, but afford them scope and\\nthey still are such as defile, as work abomination,\\nas make a lie. ISTever must I picture to myself\\nlost souls as ready to repent were repentance\\nattainable, ready to be reconciled were a door\\nopened to reconciliation, as more ready to pray\\nthan God to hear.\\nWhile there was life, there was hope; and\\nonce Christ s tender hand touched and healed\\nthe leper; ^^But put forth thine hand now, and\\ntouch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse\\nthee to thy face.\\nLittle lamb, who lost tliee?\\nI myself, none other.\\nLittle lamb, who found thee?\\nJesus: Saviour, Brother.\\nAh, Lord, what I cost thee!\\nStill mine arms surround thee!\\nCanst thou still desire?\\nStill I lift thee higher.\\nDraw thee nigher.\\nChristina Rossetti.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "CHAPTEE ni.\\nTHE IINHABITAI^TS OF HEAYEN.\\nBlessed are they that wash their robes, that they\\nmay have the right to come to the tree of life, and\\nmay enter in by the gates into the city. Rev. 22 14,\\nE.V.\\nThere will be three wonders to ns in heaven:\\n^^One to find so many we did not expect to see\\nthere; another, to find that some are not there\\nwhom we expected; and, thirdly, the greatest\\nwonder of all, may be, to find ourselves there.\\nCELESTIAL BEINGS.\\n^^I desire the reader to attend me, first, into\\nthe celestial mansions, above yonder glorious\\nsun, and the stars themselves, where not only\\ncherubim and seraphim, angels and archangels,\\nbut many also of our brethren, sons of men, are\\nat this very moment enjoying the presence and\\nsinging the praises of the Most High God.\\n^^And could we but leave our bodies for awhile\\nbelow, and go up to take a turn in the new Jeru-\\nsalem that is above, we could not but be ravished\\n(38)", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "TEE INHABITANTS OF HEAVEN. 39\\nand transported at tlie very sights; both of the\\nplaces and inhabitants every one being far\\nmore glorious than the greatest emperors of this\\nworld, with nothing else than cro^^nis of glory\\non their heads, and sceptres of righteousness in\\ntheir hands; where they think of nothing but\\nthe glory of God, discourse of nothing but prais-\\ning him, do nothing but adore and worship him.\\nWhatsoever can any way conduce to\\nmake men happy is fully, perfectly, eternally\\nenjoyed by all and every person that is in\\nheaven. Bishop Beveridge.\\nTHE SOCIETY OF HEAVET^.\\nSays ISTevins, writing of heaven near the close\\nof his life here: ^^Then I thought of the society.\\nIt is composed of the elite of the universe. The\\nvarious orders of angels, who kept their first\\nestate, as humble as they are high the excellent\\nof the earth also all the choice spirits of every\\nage and nation the first man the first martyr\\nthe translated patriarch the survivor of the\\ndeluge the friend of God and his juniors, Isaac\\nand Jacob, Moses the law-giver, and Joshua the\\nleader of the host the pious kings the proph-\\nets, the evangelists and apostles, Paul and\\nJohn the martyrs the reformers the Puri-\\ntan fathers the missionaries, Swartz, Brainerd,\\nMartyn, Carey^ Morrison. Perhaps", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "40 TEE EEAYENLY CITY,\\ntliou hast a brother or a sister there^ that should\\ndraw you toward heaven. Perhaps a mother,\\nshe whose eye wept while it watched over thee,\\nuntil at length it grew dim, and closed. Took\\nshe not in her cold hand, thine while yet her\\nheart was warm, and said she not, ^I am going\\nto Jesus. Follow me there V Perhaps one\\nnearer, dearer than child, than brother, than\\nmother the nearest, dearest is there. Shall I\\nsay whom? Has heaven no attrac-\\ntions? Heaven is gaining in attractions every\\nday! But there is our Heavenly\\nFather, and Jesus who bought us.\\nTHE GOOD or ALL AGES.\\nAmongst the good whom we hope to meet\\nin heaven there will be every variety of char-\\nacter, taste, and disposition. There is not one\\nMansion there, but many. There is not one\\n%ate to heaven, but many. There are not gates\\non the north only; but on the east three gates,\\non the west three gates, and on the south three\\ngates. From opposite quarters of the religious\\nworld, from opposite quarters of human life and\\ncharacter, through different expressions of their\\ncommon faith and hope, through different modes\\nof conversion, through different portions of the\\nHoly Scriptures, will the weary travelers enter\\nthe Heavenly City, and meet each other, ^not", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "THE INHABITANTS OF HEAVEN. 41\\nwithout surprise on the shores of the same river\\nof life. And on those shores they will find a\\ntree bearing, not the same kind of fruit always,\\nand at all times, but ^twelve manner of fruits\\nfor every turn of mind for every patient suf-\\nferer, for the active servant, for the holy and\\nhumble philosopher, for the spirits of just men\\nnow at last made perfect, and the leaves of the\\ntree shall be for the healing not of a single\\nchurch or people only, not for the Scotsman or\\nEnglishman only, but for Hhe healing of the\\nnations, the Frenchman, German, Italian, Rus-\\nsian, for all those from whom it may be, in this\\nworld, its fruit has been farthest removed but\\nwho, nevertheless, have hungered and thirsted\\nafter righteousness, and who therefore shall be\\nfilled. Dean Stanley.\\nSays Adam in Trivate Thoughts If I\\nwere to choose whether I would go immediately\\nto heaven, or remain longer here, I believe I\\nshould choose the former; but then I believe it\\nwould be rather to avoid being thought a fool,\\nand to be rid of the vexations I meet with here,\\nthan from love to Christ, and a desire of the\\ncompany and delights of heaven.\\nPaul wrote under the pressure of his great\\nwork: Having the desire to depart and be with\\nChrist, for it is very far better: yet to abide in\\nthe flesh is more needful for your sake. Phil,\\n1:23, R.Y.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "42 HEAYENLT CITY.\\nWHO ADMITTED.\\nCharles H. Spurgeon finely says none will be\\nadmitted to heaven but those who are like Jesus.\\n^^At heaven s gate there stands an angel with\\ncharge to admit none but those who in their\\ncountenance bear the same features as the Lord\\nof the place. Here comes a monarch with a\\ncrown upon his head. The angel pays him no\\nrespect, but reminds him that the diadems of\\nearth have no value in heaven. A company of\\neminent men advance dressed in robes of state,\\nand others advanced with the gowns of learning,\\nbut to these no deference is rendered, for their\\nfaces are very unlike the crucified. A maiden\\ncomes forward, fair and comely, but the celestial\\nwatcher sees not in that sparkling eye and ruddy\\ncheek the beauty for which he is looking. A\\nman of renown cometh up, heralded by fame\\nand preceded by the admiration and clamor of\\nmankind; but the angel saith: ^Such applause\\nmay please the sons of men, but thou hast no\\nright to enter here.\\n^^But free admittance is always given to those\\nwho in holiness are made like their Lord. Poor\\nthey may have been; illiterate they may have\\nbeen* but the angel as he looks at them smiles\\na welcome as he says: ^It is Christ again: a tran-\\nscript of the holy child Jesus.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "TEE INEABITANTS OF EEAYEN. 43\\nCome in: Come in:\\nEternal glory thou shalt win,\\nThou shalt sit in heaven with Christ, for thou art like\\nhim.\\nAnd now lift your thoughts into heaven!\\nAs we were crucified with him in his death,\\nand buried together with him, so we are raised\\ntogether with him to where he now is, seated in\\nheavenly places in Christ Jesus What we have\\nis eternal, the three eternals of Heb. 9, eternal\\nredemption, eternal inheritance, the eternal\\nspirit who raised him from the dead.\\nGROWTH IN HEAVEN.\\nA million years of growth would never give\\nme the absolute perfectness the place requires.\\nIt requires not growth merely, but what is essen-\\ntially, intrinsically holy. It is in the absolute\\nholiness of Christ that the sinner who believes is\\nmeet for the scene Wonderful standing\\nWonderful grace that gave it P Dedham\\nSmith,\\nFLING OPEN WIDE THE GOLDEN GATES.\\nTen thousand times ten thousand,\\nIn sparkling raiment bright,\\nThe armies of the ransomed saints.\\nThrong up the steeps of light;\\n^Tis finished, all is finished,\\nTheir fight with death and sin;\\nFling open wide the golden gates,\\nAnd let the victors in.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "44 TEE HEATEDLY CITY.\\nWliat rush of hallelujahs\\nFills all the earth and sky!\\nWhat a ringing of a thousand harps\\nBespeaks the triumph nigh!\\nOh, day, for which Creation\\nAnd all its tribes were made!\\nOh, joy for all its former woes\\nA thousandfold repaid\\nHenry Alford.\\nHEAVEN POPULOUS.\\n^^Heaven is called a kingdom, for its immense\\ngreatness; and a city, for its great beauty and\\npopulation. It is full of inhabitants of all\\nnations and conditions; where are many thou-\\nsands of angels, an infinite number of the just,\\neven as many as have died since Abel. And\\nthither also shall repair all who are to die unto\\nthe end of the world, and after judgment shall\\nthere remain forever, invested in their glorious\\nbodies. ITeither shall this populous city be in-\\nhabited with mean and base people, but with citi-\\nzens so noble, rich, and just, that all of them\\nshall be most holy and wise kings. How happy\\nshall it be to live with such persons The Queen\\nof Sheba, only to see Solomon, came from the\\nend of the earth: to behold a king issue out of\\nhis palace, all of the people flock together; what\\nshall it then be, not only to sea, but to live and\\nreign with many angels, and converse with so\\nmany eminent and holy men", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "TEE INEABITANTS OF EEAYEN, 45\\n^^If there should now descend from heaven\\none of the prophets or apostles^ with what earn-\\nestness and admiration would everyone strive to\\nsee and hear him In the other world we shall\\nhear and see them all. How admirable will it\\nbe to see thousands and thousands in all their\\nbeauty and greatness; and see many bodies of\\nsuns under all their lustre If one sun be suf-\\nficient to clear up the whole world here below,\\nwhat joy shall it be to behold those innumerable\\nsuns in that region of light Jeremy Taylor.\\nCROWDED WITH THE YOUNG.\\n^^One grand peculiarity of John s celestial city\\nis this: It is a crowded city. In it are multi-\\ntudes which have poured through its gates on\\nthe north, and on the south, and the east, and\\nthe west, and they have come from every kin-\\ndred and people and tongue and nation of the\\nearth. They have come from every degree of\\nlongitude and every line of latitude. They have\\ncome from the pole and the equator, and from\\nunder the north star and the southern cross. As\\nJohn speaks of these multitudes he piles num-\\nbers upon numbers; ^Ten thousand times ten\\nthousands and thousands of thousands, /which\\nno man can number. I always like to ring the\\nchanges upon these numbers, not simply because\\nthey are musical, but because they give me some\\nconception of the vastness of salvation. As I", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "46 TEE EEAYENLY CITY.\\nlook through the eyes of John, the apostle of\\nlove, I learn that the redeemed will constitute\\nthe largest part of the souls which God has\\nmade. And why not? There is no limit to the\\nefScacy of Christ s atoning death. It is a poor\\nestimation that the devil s kingdom will far ex-\\nceed the kingdom of our Lord. The assumption\\nis an insult to the father-heart of God. It is\\nnot true. It conflicts with this declaration of\\nthe book that Vhere sin abounds, grace doth\\nmuch more abound. It conflicts with the\\npromise which is made to Christ, who died to\\nsave men; ^he shall see of the travail of his\\nsoul, and shall be satisfied. Only a multitude\\nwhich no man can number can satisfy the soul\\nof Christ. This is John s picture of heaven: an\\nideal city with nothing gross in it, nothing un-\\nspiritual in it, nothing that repels; the home of\\nperfected humanity, the focus of the best; full of\\nsocial life, brilliant with the flash of all mingled\\nhues and glories, all the inhabitants having their\\nspheres and their appointments and their daily\\navocations. It is a city with God dwelling in\\nit, where his servants do serve him.\\n^^To begin with, those who enter the other\\nlife are endowed with a perfect personality. In\\nthe soul there will be no sin, no unbalanced\\npassion, no crippled faculty, no mental nor moral\\nnor spiritual infirmity. Heaven will\\nmake us all young. There will be no old age", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "THE INHABITANTS OF HEAVEN. 47\\nthere. The resurrection means rejuvenation.\\nIs there any Scripture for this faith? Certainly.\\nIn the Scriptures it is said that in heaven Ve\\nshall be made equal to the angels. Now if we\\nare to be made equal to the angels, we must be\\nmade young.\\n^^Listen to the fullest description of an angel\\ngiven us in the Bible. It is taken from the story\\nof Christ s resurrection: ^and entering into the\\nsepulcher they saw a young man sitting on the\\nright side, clothed in a long, white raiment.\\nThis is the fullest authentic picture of an angel\\nthat we have, and it is a picture of radiant, un-\\nchanging youth. Radiant, unchanging youth\\nthat is what we shall have when we are made\\nequal to the angels.\\n^^Again, in the book it is said that our bodies\\nshall be changed and transfigured and made like\\nunto Christ s resurrection and ascension body;\\n^We shall be like him; for we shall see him as\\nhe is. Does not that mean the loss of the marks\\nof age, and the enjoyment of perpetual youth?\\nThe ascension of Christ took place when he was\\na young man. He entered heaven at the age of\\nthirty-three; to be made like him is to be made\\nyouthful. David Gregg.\\nHEAVETs ABOUT ITS.\\nMen leave this world with differing capaci-\\nties, endowments, qualifications; and they will", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "^8 TEE HEAVENLY CITY.\\neacli find in tlie world unseen the place and oc-\\ncupation for which they are best fitted. Each\\nwill ^^go to his own place by the force of an\\nirresistible spiritual attraction. The man found\\nworthy to rule over ten cities will preside over\\nten cities, and he who is worthy to have five\\ncities will rule over five. Our Lord promised\\nhis apostles that they should sit on thrones of\\nauthority over the twelve tribes of Israel. What-\\never may be the meaning of such figurative\\nlanguage, we may be sure that it represents\\ngreat truths. And we can at least see as much\\nas this: that heaven is not what we ordinarily\\nmean by a place a given locality that can be\\ndefined and mapped out. It is much more a\\nstate of being, a moral, spiritual, and intellectual\\nrelation to an infinite series of more and more\\nrarefied atmospheres of purity and beauty, into\\nwhich admission is gained, not by traveling\\nthrough stellar spaces, but by a gradual ascent\\nin the altitude of being. As men become purer,\\nmore loving, more spiritual, organs of perception\\nwill open out within tKem, which will disclose\\nnew worlds, perhaps close to them. Alps will\\non Alps arise above them as they ascend in the\\nscale of being. Splendors never dreamed of,\\nwonders never imagined, will reveal themselves\\nin every fresh mansion which the aspiring saint\\nor angel enters. And this progress will go on\\nforever, for progress is the inalienable preroga-", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "TEE INHABITANTS OF HEAVEN. 49\\ntive of moral and intellectual being. It is so\\nhere, at least till decay of faculties begins. But\\ntliere will be no decay there.\\n^Tlie laws of matter, remember, do not exist\\nfor spiritual beings. For them there is no such\\nthing as distance or nearness. They do not go\\nfrom place to place by locomotion. They do\\nnot, travel at all in our sense of the word. Within\\nthe sphere of their finite conditions they are in-\\nstantaneously wherever they Vv^ish to be. Space\\nand time no more impede them than they im-\\npede your thoughts, which reaches any part of\\nthe globe in a moment. In short, the researches\\nof scientific men have now proved that there are\\ninnumerable sights and sounds, colors, and\\nvoices, in this world which we inhabit, of which\\nJ we are not cognizant merely because we have\\nno organs fine enough to apprehend them. A\\ndistinguished professor of natural science says:\\n^When we reflect that there are waves of light\\nand soimd of which our dull senses take no cog-\\nnizance; tliat there is a great difference even\\nin human perceptivity, and that some men, more\\ngifted than their fellows, can see colors and hear\\nsounds which are invisible or inaudible to the\\ngreat bulk of mankind; you will appreciate how\\npossible it is that there may be a world of spirit-\\nual existence around us, inhabiting this globe,\\nenjoying the same nature; in fact, the wonders\\nof iSTew Jerusalem may be in our midst, and the", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "50 TEE EEAYENLY CITY.\\nsongs of tlie angelic host filling tlie air with\\ntheir celestial harmonies, although nnseen and\\nunheard by ns/ Another distlngalshed man of\\nscience, who was president of the British asso-\\nciation some years ago, and who happens to be\\nalso a distinguished lawyer, uses these words\\nin a treatise on the ^^Correlation of Physical\\nForces ^Myriads of organized beings may ex-\\nist, imperceptibly to onr vision, even if we were\\namong them.\\nIs not that an awfnl thought? We are never\\nalone. The air around ns is resonant with voices\\nwhich we do not hear, tremnloiis with the vibra-\\ntion of shapes moving to and fro, which we\\ndo not see. How cautions, how reverent, the\\nthought should make us. Malcolm MacColly\\nM.A.\\nNO SECT IN HEAVET^.\\nThe messenger of Pyrrhus was asked, on his\\nreturn from Rome, what he thought of the place.\\nHe answered that it seems to be a state of none\\nbut great men, and a commonwealth of kings.\\nSuch is heaven. Every faithful soul there is a\\nking and co-heir with Christ, wearing a purple\\nrobe of honor, holding a scepter of power, is on\\na throne of majesty, and wears a crown of glory.\\nA young Christian dreamed that he was\\ntranslated to heaven. He imagined that Jesus\\nChrist asked each one of his church relations on", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "THE INHABITANTS OF HEAVEN. 51\\nthe earth. One was an Episcopalian, another a\\nBaptist, another a Methodist, and another a\\nPresbyterian, and so on. Places were given to\\neach according to his denomination. Finally in\\ncame a poor Christian Indian knowing nothing\\nof these differences, and trembling, lest there\\nwas no place for him. When asked what he was\\nhe answered, ^^I am a Christian, and love the\\nLord Jesns with all my heart. ^^Then, replied\\nthe Saviour, ^^yon may walk all about heaven\\nhither and thither, just as you please.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER lY.\\nTHE EMPLOYIVIENTS AND ENJOYMENTS OF HEAVEN.\\nAnd his servants shall serve him. Rev. 22 3.\\nOur ideas of heaven are often deeply colored\\nby our condition on the earth. Robert Hall suf-\\nfered always from bodily pain. Richard Baxter\\nhad one prolonged fight with disease. Their\\nidea of heaven was perfect and everlasting rest.\\nWilliam Wilberf orce had a life of amiability and\\nenjoyment. His idea of heaven was ^^perfect\\nlove. John Howe was majestic in his thought;\\nhis conceptions of ^^the blessedness of the right-\\neous are like his life, elevated and majestic.\\neTohn Owen was devout, stately, and joyous; his\\nmeditations ^^On the Glory of Christ/ as one has\\nsaid, ^^seem to echo the praises of the heavenly\\nworshippers. Bunyan had a dream transport-\\ning him near the heavenly city, so that he gained\\na clearer view of it. His sublime description of\\nthe city, the heavenly host, the shining ones, the\\ncelestial trumpeters in white and shining rai-\\nment, making the heavens to echo with the\\nsound of melodious harmonies, the thronging\\n(52)", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "EMPLOYMENTS AXD ENJOYMENTS, 53\\ncompanv of bright oneSj tlie streets of gold, the\\njoyous thoughts which no mortal pen nor tongue\\ncan express, stirs the soul with raptures above\\nall the scenes witnessed or imagined on the earth.\\nFELLOWSHIPS OF HEAVEX.\\nHeaven, in Southey s \\\\dew, was the home of\\ngenius, where all the gifted spirits of our race\\nhold exalted fellowship. He longed to see and\\nconverse with Shakespeare, Dante, and Chaucer.\\nJohn Foster felt that the great secrets of the\\nuniverse were hid from him; that death would\\nbreak through this barrier and give his spirit\\nfree scope to plunge into the mysteries of the\\nworld beyond. He longed to soar away, like the\\neagle, beyond the clouds.\\nLeighton longed for purity, love, perfection\\nin Christ with God. His death-day he coimted\\nthe birthday of his eternity.\\n^^O, the blessed tranquillity of that region,\\nexclaims Richard Baxter, ^Vhere there is noth-\\ning but sweet, continued peace O, healthful\\nplace, where none are sick! O, fortunate land,\\nwhere all are kines O, holy assembly, where\\nall are priests How free a state, where none\\nare servants, but to their supreme Monarch\\nThe poor man shall be no more tired with\\nhis labors; no more hunger, or thirst, cold or\\nnakedness; no pinching frosts or scorching\\nheats. Our faces shall no more be pale or sad;", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "54 TEE HEAYENLT CITY,\\nno more breaches in friendships nor parting of\\nfriends asunder; no more trouble accompanying\\nour relations, nor voice or lamentation heard in\\nour dwellings. ^God shall wipe away all tears\\nfrom our eyes.\\nNO NIGHT THERE.\\n^And there shall be no night there I glory\\nin the predicted absence of night. We are ac-\\ncustomed to take night as the image of igno-\\nrancCj perplexity, and sorrow. The absence of\\nnight from the heavenly state may justly be re-\\ngarded as affirming the absence of all which\\ndarkness is used to represent.\\n^^There shall be no night there The ways of\\nProvidence shall be made clear. The mysteries\\nof grace shall be unfolded. The things hard to\\nbe understood shall be explained. We shall dis-\\ncover order in what has seemed intricate, wisdom\\nin what we have thought unaccountable, and\\ngood where we have seen only injury.\\n^There shall be no night there Children of\\naffliction, hear ye this Pain cannot exist in the\\natmosphere of heaven No tears are shed there,\\nno graves opened, no friends removed, and never\\nfor a lonely moment does even a flitting cloud\\nshadow the deep rapture of tranquillity.\\nThere shall be no night there Children of\\ncalamity, hear ye this. No baffled plans there,\\nno frustrated hopes, no sudden disappointments", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "EMPLOYMENTS AND ENJOYMENTS. 55\\nbut one rich tide of happiness shall roll through\\neternity and deepen as it rolls/ Henry Melville.\\nLOVING SEKVICE.\\nOf employments in heaven Dr. David Gregg,\\nin ^^The Heaven-Life/ says: ^^Work up there\\nis a matter of self -relief as well as a matter of\\nobedience to the ruling will of God. It is work\\naccording to one s taste, delight, and ability. If\\ntastes vary there, if abilities vary there, then oc-\\ncupations will vary there. There will certainly\\nbe no fewer occupations there than there are\\nhere. Heaven is, in every way, broader than\\nearth, not narrower. For example, God s gov-\\nernment is there. The administration of gov-\\nernment means active agencies. The jasper\\nthrone calls for work on thousands of lines.\\nHeaven were no heaven, if its dear light could fade,\\nIf its fair glory could hereafter wane,\\nIf its sweet skies could suffer stain or shade,\\nOr its soft breezes waft one note of pain.\\nO heaven of heavens, how true thy life must be!\\nO home of God, how excellent thy light!\\nO long, long summer of eternity.\\nBright noon of angels, ever clear and bright!\\nHoratius Bonar,\\nMid the chorus of the skies,\\nMid the angelic lyres above.\\nHark, their songs melodious rise.\\nSongs of praise to Jesus love.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "56 THE HEAVENLY CITY.\\nHappy spirits, ye are fled,\\nWhere no grief can entrance find;\\nLulled to rest the aching head;\\nSoothed, the sorrows of the mind.\\nThomas Raffles,\\nBEAUTIES OF HEAVEN.\\nOne day in thy courts is better than a thou-\\nsand. And if those joys of heaven were short\\nand those of earth eternal, yet we ought to for-\\nsake these for those. What shall it be to possess\\nthem for eternity, when the joy of them shall\\nbe equivalent to many years If the beauties\\nof all creatures, heaven, earth, flowers, pearls,\\nand all other things that could give any light,\\nwere all comprised in one thing; if every one\\nof the stars yielded as much light as the sun, and\\nthe sun shone as bright as of all them together:\\nall these so united would be, in respect of the\\nbeauty of God Almighty, as a dark night in re-\\nspect of the clearest day.\\nO life of lives, surpassing all life O ever-\\nlasting life O, life blessed forevermore, where\\nthere is joy without sorrow O, the inanity and\\nemptiness of temporal goods What proportion\\ndo they hold with this greatness since they are\\nso poor, it makes them odious, and not to be\\nendured. Who could continue a whole month\\nwithout any diversion, in hearing the choicest\\nmusic ISTay, who could pass a day free from", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "EMPLOYMENTS AND ENJOYMENTS. 57\\nweariness, without some thought of pleasures?\\nBut such is the greatness of those joys which\\nGod has prepared for those who love him and\\nfear him, that we shall still desire them afresh\\nand they will not cloy us in a whole eternity.\\n^^O, what fools then are they who, for one\\npoint of earth, lose so many leagues of heaven\\nWho for one short pleasure, lose things so im-\\nmense and durable/ Jeremy Taylor.\\nTHE COISTDITIONS.\\nOf the end and employments of the heavenly\\nstate Andrew Fuller says: ^^Tou read that the\\nLord will be our everlasting light, and our God\\nour glory; that our life is hid in Christ with\\nGod; that when he shall appear, we shall ap-\\npear with him in glory; and that we shall then\\nbe like him; for we shall see him as he is.\\nHence a full enjoyment of God and conformity\\nto him are the sum of heaven.\\n^^Tou read, further, that the bliss in reserve\\nfor Christians is a far more exceeding and eternal\\nweight of glory; that now we are the sons of\\nGod, but it does not yet appear what we shall\\nbe. Hence you naturally conclude that the\\nheavenly city will abundantly surpass all our\\npresent conceptions of it.\\n^^Again, you read that those who shall be\\nfound worthy to obtain that world and the resur-\\nrection of the dead neither marry nor are given", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "58 TEE HEAVENLY CITY.\\nin marriage, but are like the angels of God.\\nHence we conclude that the employments and\\nenjoyments of that city are altogether spiritual\\nand holy.\\n^^You read of our knowledge here being in\\npart, but that there we shall know even as we\\nare known. You read concerning those who\\nshall obtain that world and the resurrection, that\\nthey cannot die any more, that they shall go\\nno more out; that the inheritance to which they\\nare reserved is incorruptible and fadeth not\\naway, and that the weight of glory which we\\nlook for is eternal. Hence that the immortality\\npromised to Christians is certain and absolute.\\nIt would be impossible for us to conceive,\\nmuch more to recount, all the varied employ-\\nments of heaven. Surely with the powers such\\nas the soul will have in that world we could not\\nexpect less varied employments than in the\\nworld below. Some of the employments in that\\nworld are described or alluded to in the Bible.\\n1. One employment will certainly be the com-\\npleting of the imperfect knowledge of earth.\\nJesus said to Peter ^^What I do thou knowest\\nnot now; but thou shalt understand hereafter.\\nJohn 13 :Y, R.V. Paul says: ^Tor we know in\\npart, and we prophesy in part; but, when that\\nwhich is perfect is come, that which is in part", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "EMPLOYMENTS AND ENJOYMENTS. 59\\nsliall be done away/ ^Tor now we see in a\\nmirror^ darkly; but then face to face. N ow\\nI know in part; but then shall I know even as\\nalso I have been known/ 1 Cor. 13:9, 10, 12,\\nE.Y.\\n2. Converse with holy men will be another\\nemployment of heaven. Jesus said in Caper-\\nnaum to the centurion: ^^Many shall come from\\nthe east and the west, and shall sit down with\\nAbraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom\\nof heaven. Matt. 8 11, E. V. This word ^^sif\\nmeans literally to recline at the table. So they\\nare to have social converse with the patriarchs\\nas well as with each other.\\n3. Singing and praising God and the Lord\\nJesus Christ for redemption will be another em-\\nployment of heaven.\\n^^After these things I saw, and behold, a gTeat\\nmultitude, which no man could number, out of\\nevery nation, and of all tribes and peoples and\\ntongues, standing before the throne and before\\nthe Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in\\ntheir hands; and they cry with a great voice,\\nsaying: ^Salvation unto our God, which sitteth\\non the throne, and unto the Lamb. And all\\nthe angels were standing roimd about the throne,\\nand about the elders and the four living creat-\\nures; and they fell before the throne on their\\nfaces, and worshipped God, saying: ^Amen:\\nBlessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanks-", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "60 TEE EEAVENLT CITY.\\ngiving, and honor, and power, and might, be\\nTinto our God for ever and ever. Amen.\\nAnd one of the elders answered, saying nnto\\nme: ^These which are arrayed in the white robes,\\nwho are they, and whence came they? And I\\nsay unto him: ^My Lord, thou knowest. And\\nhe said to me: These are they which come out\\nof the great tribulation, and they washed their\\nrobes, and made them white in the blood of the\\nLamb. Therefore are they before the throne of\\nGod; and they serve him day and night in his\\ntemple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall\\nspread his tabernacle over them. They shall\\nhunger no more, neither thirst any more neither\\nshall the sun strike upon them, nor any heat:\\nfor the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne\\nshall be their shepherd, and shall guide them\\nunto fountains of waters of life and God shall\\nwipe away every tear from their eyes. Rev.\\n7:9-17, R.Y.\\n^^And I heard a voice from heaven, as\\nthe voice of harpers harping with their harps;\\nand they sing, as it were, a new song before the\\nthrone, and before the four living creatures and\\nthe elders; and no man could learn the song\\nsave the hundred forty and four thousand, even\\nthey that had been purchased out of the earth.\\nAnd they sing the song of Moses the servant\\nof God, and the song of the Lamb, saying:\\n^^Great and marvelous are thy works, O Lord", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "EMPLOYMENTS AND ENJOYMENTS. Gl\\nGod^ the Almiglity; rigliteous and true are thy\\nways, thou King of the ages. Eev. 14:2, 3;\\n15:3, E.V.\\nIMMORTAL BEI]N^G.\\n^^In the manifested presence of the Sovereign\\nHappiness it can no more be conceived of as\\npossible, that created and dependent spirits\\nshould make to themselves, or find room to ad-\\nmit, any happiness which does not emanate from\\nthat of the Supreme Being, than it is possible,\\nin the very face of the summer s sun, to kindle\\na blaze which can repel or surpass that of noon.\\nThe very structure of the mind implies that the\\ngreatest and most vivid cause of excitement\\nshould prevail over the lesser.\\nIt will, indeed, be alleged, and perhaps justly,\\nthat the same reasons which now demand an\\nafter-life will go forward with undiminished\\nforce to another, and, again, to another epoch\\nof existence so as, in fact, to establish the claim\\nof man to absolute immortality. It may be so;\\nand yet the vastness of such a belief, if we con-\\nceive of what the terms convey, must throw us\\nback upon the clearest and most irrefragable\\nproof. What is it we are speaking of? Infin-\\nity and infinity attached to a finite being Does\\nit not seem as if for a creature to challenge to\\nitself, in any sense, a boundless attribute, were\\nto trench upon the prerogative of the Divine", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "63 TEE HEAVENLY CITY.\\nIfature? Or if Revelation had not set this mat-\\nter on another footing (as we shall see) might\\nit not seem a surrender of the first principles of\\ntheology to admit that beings^ derived^ depend-\\nent, limited, might participate with the un-\\ncreated and unlimited nature in the attribute of\\nindestructible existence? Can it be true that\\nmen, or any other creatures, shall go on in com-\\npany with the Self-existent Being, through such\\ntracts of duration as shall almost bring oblivion\\nupon the point of commencement and generate\\na consciousness as if he and they were alike\\neternal? We talk lightly of immortality; but\\nit is because the greatness of the idea prevents\\nour considering what it is we affirm. More\\nthoughtfulness would impel us to look more\\nnarrowly to the grounds of our belief.\\n^^But has it not been demonstrated that mind,\\nbecause it is a simple and indestructible sub-\\nstance, must live for ever? Whoever accepts\\nthis demonstration is free to do so; and even\\nthose who decline to receive it as absolutely con-\\nclusive will gladly listen to an argument on this\\nground after they have, by another process, con-\\nvinced themselves that, indeed, the human mind\\nis destined to perpetuity. Meanwhile both par-\\nties will gratefully turn to the inspired writings,\\nto derive thence the best sort of evidence the\\ndoctrine can admit. And this evidence will be\\nfound to possess a force, by implication of prin-", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "EMPLOYMENTS AND ENJOYMENTS. 63\\nciples, which far surpasses any imaginable value\\nthat ought to be attached to the etymological im-\\nport of single words. Isaac Taylor.\\nPROGRESS.\\nConscious life involves progress. There is\\nnothing in death to break the law of continuity\\nand to involve the cessation by the soul of all\\nactive and energetic life. It is the separation\\nfrom the man of his outer equipment: the tak-\\ning away ^^the garments by the soul laid by,\\nand folding them for interment on the shelves\\nof the tomb; but it is nothing more. Up to\\nthe moment of separation the man has been a\\nwilling, thinking, loving being; after that mo-\\nment, with more perfect equipment, he con-\\ntinues the same active and energetic play of\\nhuman faculties. We can love, and think, and\\nwill; undergo hope, expectation, and joy, as\\neasily for an eternity as for a brief three score\\nyears and ten.\\nIf ever there has come to us the longing, in\\nthe midst of fiery temptations, to stand scathless\\nand untouched, like Christ in the wilderness; if\\never the desire to move undismayed to our\\nchosen purpose of truth, like Christ before\\nPilate; if ever the wish to submit wholly and\\nunreservedly to the better will of God, like\\nChrist in Gethsemane; if ever the prayer for\\nthe patience and courage to be undisturbed amid", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "64 THE HEAVENLY CITY,\\ntlie storms of calumny and injustice, like Clirist\\nbefore the Sanlieclrin; if ever the wish pos-\\nsesses us for the perfect trust that can stand\\nhopefully before death, like Christ upon the\\ncross if ever the aspiration for that perfect con-\\nsecration that passes through the scenes of life\\nwithout evil in thought or deed, like Christ in\\nhis entire life on earth; we are told, we are\\nassuredly promised, that these longings shall be\\ngratified in Paradise, and we, in very truth,\\n^^shall be like him. Charles H. Strong, A.M.\\nHEALTH.\\nFrame a notion of the pleasure of health and\\nsoundness, when both all the parts and members\\nof the body are in their proper places and pro-\\nportions, and a lively, active vigor, a sprightly\\nstrength possesses every part and actuates the\\nwhole how pleasant is this temper If we were\\nall body, there could be no greater felicity than\\nthis. But by how much the more noble any\\ncreature is, so is it capable of more exquisite\\npains or pleasures. Sin is the sickness and dis-\\nease of the soul enfeebles all its powers, ex-\\nhausts its vigor, wastes its strength. You know\\nthe restless tossings, the weary rollings to and\\nfro, of a diseased, languishing body; such is\\nthe case of a sinful soul. Let it but seriously\\nbethink itself, and then speak its own sense,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nbut here is the malignity of the disease, it can-", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "EMPLOYMENTS AND ENJOYMENTS. 65\\nnot be serious, it always raves, what will it be?\\n^^Oh, I can take no rest P The way of wicked-\\nness is called ^^a way of pain; sinners wonld\\nfind it so if the violence of the disease had not\\nbereft them of sense. ^^JSTothing savors with\\nme; I can take comfort in nothing. ^^The\\nwicked is as a troubled sea/ as their name im-\\nports, ^that cannot rest, whose waters, etc.\\nThe image of God renewed in holiness and\\nrighteousness is health restored after such a con-\\nsuming sickness; which, when we awake, when\\nall the drowsiness that attends our disease is\\nshaken off, we find to be perfect.\\nThe nearest approaches, therefore, of the soul\\nto God, its most intimate union with him and\\nentire subjection to him in its glorified state,\\nmakes its liberty consummate. ISlow is its deliv-\\nerance complete, its bands are fallen off; it is\\nperfectly disentangled from all the snares of\\ndeath, in which it was formerly held; it is un-\\nder no restraints, oppressed by no weights, held\\ndown by no clogs. It hath free exercise of all\\nits powers; hath every faculty and affection at\\ncommand. How inconceivable a pleasure is\\nthis With what delight doth the poor prisoner\\nentertain himself when his manacles and fetters\\nare knocked off; when he is enlarged from his\\nloathsome dungeon and the house of his bond-\\nage; breathes in a free air; can dispose of him-\\nself and walk at will The bird escaped from", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "66 TEE EEAYENLT CITY.\\nhis cage, or freed from his line and stone that\\nresisted its vain and too feeble stragglings be-\\nfore; how pleasantly doth it range, with what\\njoy doth it clap its wings and take its flight A\\nfaint emblem of the joy wherewith that pleasant\\ncheerful note shall one day be sung and chanted\\nforth: ^^Our soul is escaped, as a bird out of the\\nsnare of the fowler; the snare is broken, and we\\nare escaped/ There is now no place for such\\na complaint: ^^I would, but I cannot; I would\\nturn my thoughts to glorious objects, but I can-\\nnot/ The blessed soul feels itself free from all\\nconfinement; nothing resists its will, as its will\\ndoth never resist the will of God. John Howe.\\nSAFETY.\\nAugustine was about to write on Thou shalt\\nmake them drink of the river of thy pleasures.\\nPs. 36:8. He became so filled with thoughts of\\nthe heavenly joys that he heard some one call\\nout his name, and ask who he was. Then he\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2spoke of his doubts on earth, and asked: Art\\nthou able to put the whole earth and the waters\\nof the sea into a little cup? Canst thou measure\\nthe waters in thy fist? And mete the heavens\\nwith thy span? Or weigh the mountains in a\\nbalance or the hills in scales? If not, no more\\nis it possible that thy understanding should com-\\nprehend the least of these joys.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "EMPLOYMENTS AND ENJOYMENTS. 67\\nWhen a Roman cardinal threatened Luther\\nthat there would not be a place in all the great\\nempire where he would be free from danger,\\nLuther replied with a smile: ^^If earth cannot\\nkeep me safe, heaven will/\\nA lady at the house of a minister saw his two\\nlittle boys amusing themselves with some pretty\\ntoys. She courteously said to them, ^^So these\\nare your treasures No, ma m, they an-\\nswered, these are not our treasures, they are\\nour playthings. Our treasures are in heaven.\\nHeavenly knowledge. An infant standing\\non the top of a mountain may see much farther\\nthan a giant at its base. So a lisping babe, whom\\nJesus has taken from the mother s bosom to his\\nown, excels in knowledge the profoundest of\\nphilosophers and the greatest of divines. Dr.\\nGuthrie.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "CHAPTEE V.\\nTHE GLORIES OF HEAVEN.\\nHaving the glory of God. For the glory of God\\ndid lighten it. Rev. 21; 11, 23.\\nIn the Apocalypse we have a door opened\\ninto the future. The Apocalypse is the climax\\nof revelation, just as God puts heaven at the\\nend of every grand life. It is a book which\\ncarries us from present conditions to permanent\\nissues. It crowns the story of redemptive agen-\\ncies with a vision of redemptive achievements.\\nIt is the book of finishing touches and of final\\nresults. It takes up the broken threads of his-\\ntory and weaves them into the fabric of eternity.\\nIt advances our thoughts from the Christ of\\nearth to the Christ of heaven: It carries us\\nover the Jordan of death into the New Jeru-\\nsalem of the Promised Land above. What can\\nbe grander than the things after death, as these\\nare symbolized in this book, by white throne,\\ngolden harp, spotless robes, and the resplendent\\ncity of God with its tree of life, river of life, and\\ngtreets of gold? What can be grander? Walk-\\n(68)", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "THE GLORIES OF HEAVEN, 69\\ning by faith amid these things, we inhale the\\nserenity of God, and are filled with the joy of\\nof God. David Gregg.\\nFREE FROM EVIL.\\n^^To spend age after age, cycle after cycle\\nyea, eternity itself without being obliged to\\nreject a single enticement to evil, this passes our\\ncomprehension. It seems a reach of blessedness\\nalmost too exalted even for a people redeemed\\nby the blood of the Lamb. Yet it belongs essen-\\ntially to the Scriptural conception of the glory\\nthat shall be revealed in the saints.\\n^The earnest expectation of the creature\\nwaiteth for the manifestation of the sons of\\nGod. And still more significantly in the verse\\npreceding this: ^heirs of God, and joint-heirs\\nwith Christ.\\nThese expressions baffle us. We cannot take\\nthem in. But this we know; they savor of a\\nglory which passeth knowledge. They point to\\nthe glory of the uncreated One. In\\nthis glory the ransomed are to share, for they too\\nare sons of God and joint-heirs with Christ.\\nThis glory is to be put upon them. Here is\\nwhat is meant by the manifestation of the sons\\nof God: their being arrayed in the glory of\\ntheir Lord and Saviour, in the presence of the\\nuniverse. Henry A, Boardman.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "70 TEE HEAVENLY CITY,\\n^^Eaise your eyes to the New Jerusalem.\\nGold paves its streets, and around its secure and\\nblissful homes rise walls of jasper. Earth holds\\nno such city; the depths of ocean no such pearls\\nas form its gates. No storm sweeps its glassy\\nsea; no \\\\vinter strips its trees no thunders shake\\nits serene and cloudless sky. Day there never\\ndarkens into night. Harps and palms are in\\nthe hands, while crowns of glory flash and blaz:e\\nupon the heads of its sinless inhabitants. From\\nthis distant stormy orb, as the dove eyed the ark,\\nfaith gazes on the glorious vision, and weary of\\nthe strife, longing to be gone, cries: ^O that I\\nhad wings like a dove for then would I fly\\naway and be at rest. Dr. Guthrie.\\nHEAVENLY SONGS.\\nThe most glorious bursts of harmony that\\never thrilled and quivered through the brain of\\nHandel, the pealing triumphs of ^Hallelujah\\nChorus, the glowing snatches of Mozart, the\\ngorgeous sonatas of Beethoven, the almost speak-\\ning melodies of Mendelssohn, and all the ex-\\nquisite conceptions of the most gifted masters,\\nmay be only faint and far-oflP echoes of the\\ngrander melodies above yet as echoes they bring\\ndown something of heavenly music to the hearts\\nof men on earth, and make us yearn and bend\\nbefore the thought. ^If these be echoes, what\\nmust the realities be", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "THE GLORIES OF HEAVEN. 71\\nMrs. Eowe, in her meditations, exclaims: ^^O\\nblessed eternity With what cheerful splendor\\ndost thou dawn on my soul I am just\\nupon the shores of those happy realms where\\nuninterrupted day and eternal spring reside.\\nYonder are the delectable hills and harmonious\\nvales which continue to echo the songs of angels.\\nThere the blissful fields extend their verdure\\nand there the immortal groves ascend.\\n^^But how dazzling is thy prospect, O, City\\nof God, of whom such glorious things are\\nspoken? In thee there shall be no more night,\\nnor need of the sun, or of the moon, for the\\nthrone of God and of the Lamb is in the midst\\nof thee; and the nations that are saved shall\\nwalk in thy light, and the kings of the earth\\nshall bring their glory and honors unto thee.\\nI shall behold the beatific glory, with-\\nout one interrupting cloud, to eternity, when I\\nshall drink my fill at the fountains of joy, and\\nin those rivers of pleasure that flow from his\\nright hand for evermore\\nSUBLIME BEAUTY.\\nA thousand things, speculative and poetical,\\nhave been written in regard to the Christian s\\nfuture home. The Bible says just enough to\\nrouse our curiosity and to stimulate speculation,\\nbut not enough to spoil the sublime mystery\\nwhich overhangs it like a cloud of glory. A", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "^2 TEE EEAVENL7 CITY.\\nfew things seem to my own mind at least to be\\nwell established. Heaven is a place; it is not a\\nmere state or condition of blissful holiness. A\\ndistinctly bounded place of abode it must be,\\nor else John s view of it from Patmos was an\\nidle phantasm. God s word speaks of it as a\\n^city/ and as filled with ^many mansions. The\\nlight of it proceeds from a central throne; for\\nthe Lamb in the midst of the throne is the light\\nthereof. Its pellucid pavements are like unto\\nfine gold. The music of its praises fell upon the\\napostle s ear with such a sublime roar of melo-\\ndies that, likening them to the Mediterranean s\\nsurf dashing upon the rocks of Patmos, he calls\\nthem the ^sound of many waters. Surrounding\\nthis vast scene of splendor he saw something\\nwhich he describes as walls of precious stones,\\nand these walls were pierced with gates of\\npearl. Theodore L, Ciiyler.\\nA. king from heaven hath sent for you; by\\nfaith he showeth you the new Jerusalem, and\\ntaketh you along in the Spirit, through all its\\nease-rooms and dwelling-houses in heaven, and\\nsaith: ^These are mine; this palace is for thee\\nand Christ. And ye only had been the chosen\\nof God, Christ would have built that one house\\nfor you and for himself; now it is for you and\\nmany others. Samuel ButJierford.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "TEE GLORIES OF HEAVEN, 73\\nGLORIOUS TRAISTSFORMATIOl^S.\\nWe are too much tempted to regard this\\nworld as if it were the real world^ and the world\\nto come as if it were unreal, shadowy, vague, un-\\nsubstantial, distant, somewhere beyond the fixed\\nstars. But, in matter of fact, it is this world\\nwhich is unreal, phenomenal, unstable, never\\ncontinuing in one stay. And how short our\\ntenure of it is Even if it were eternal, we are\\nnot eternally in it. We cannot tell how soon we\\nmay be summoned out of it; but we know the\\nlongest life has but a short time to remain here.\\nOn the other hand, the next world is eternal,\\nstable, not distant, not beyond the stars em-\\nbraces this world, penetrates it through and\\nthrough, is quite close to us, holding our treas-\\nures -those who are lost and gone from us, and\\nwhom we may hope to meet again, and even now\\nare near us, though we have no organs to see and\\nhear them.\\nAt present we are deaf and blind to its reali-\\nties. Yet it is not far away beyond the plan-\\netary spaces and the fixed stars. It is close to\\nus. It incloses and interpenetrates this visible\\nworld. Shapes move to and fro about us, and\\nvoices agitate the air, though they make no im-\\npression on our dull organs. How little does\\nthe caterpillar know of the powers which lie\\nhidden within it, or of the world in whose sun-", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "74 TEE HEAVENLY CITY.\\nshine it will flit joyously from flower to flower\\nYet the butterfly is not a different creature from\\nthe caterpillar: it is but the caterpillar trans-\\nformed. N^or is the world of the butterfly dif-\\nferent from the world of the caterpillar: it is\\nthe same world, seen with other eyes. The\\nchange is in the caterpillar, not in the world.\\nMalcolm MacColl, M.A.\\nOh, what spring-time is there Even the\\nsmelling of the odors of that great and eternally-\\nblooming Rose of Sharon for ever and ever\\nWhat a singing life is there There is not a\\ndumb bird in all that field; but all sing and.\\nbreathe out heaven, joy, glory, dominion to the\\nhigh Prince of that new-found land. And verily\\nthat land is the sweeter that Jesus Christ paid\\nso dear a rent for it. And he is the glory of that\\nland. Samuel Rutherford.\\nA lovely city in a lovely 1 nd,\\nWhose citizens are lovely, and whose king\\nIs very Love: to whom til angels sing;\\nTo whom all saints sing, crowned, their sacred band\\nSaluting Love with palm-branch in their hand;\\nA bower of roses is not half so sweet,\\nA cave of diamonds doth not glitter so,\\nNor Lebanon is fruitful set thereby;\\nAnd thither thou, beloved, and thither I\\nMay set our heart, and set our face, and go,\\nFaint, yet pressing home on tireless feet.\\nChristina G, Rossetti.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "CHAPTEE YI.\\nCHILDREN IN HEAVEN.\\nEven so it is not the will of your Father which is\\nin heaven that one of these little ones should perish.\\nMatt. 18:14.\\nThe Bible tells us all we certainly know upon\\nthis subject. Let us bear wbat it says. Read\\nattentively wbat Jesus said unto bis disciples:\\n^^In tbat bour came tbe disciples unto Jesus,\\nsaying: Wbo tben is greatest in tbe kingdom of\\nheaven?\\n^^And he called to him a little child, and set\\nhim in the midst of them, and said: Verily I\\nsay unto you, except ye turn, and become as\\nlittle children, ye shall in no wise enter into the\\nkingdom of heaven.\\n^^Whosoever therefore shall humble himself\\nas this little child, the same is greatest in the\\nkingdom of heaven.\\n^^See tbat ye despise not one of these little\\nones; for I say unto you, that in heaven their\\nangels do always behold the face of my Father,\\nwhich is in heaven.\\n(75)", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "76 TEE EEAVENLY CITY,\\n^^And he took a little cliild^ and set liim in the\\nmidst of them; and taking him in his arms, he\\nsaid unto them: ^Whosoever shall receive one of\\nsuch little children in my name^ receiveth me;\\nand whosoever receiveth me receiveth not me,\\nbut him that sent me. Matt. 18:1-4, 10;\\nMark 9:36, 37, E.V.\\nNotice carefully Matt. 18:10: In heaven\\ntheir angels do always behold the face of my\\nFather. Some may say that language is figura-\\ntion. Be it so; but the figure stands for some\\nserious fact. What is that fact? It was some-\\nthing that would be a warning against the\\nthoughtless in their treatment of the little\\nones. What can it mean but that these little\\none are lovingly regarded by the Father, and\\nare under his protecting care? That guardian\\nangels are assigned to watch over them? And to\\nbring them safe to heaven, in case of early re-\\nmoval from earth?\\nBut read attentively another teaching of our\\nLord.\\nAnd they brought unto him little children,\\nthat he should touch them; and the disciples re-\\nbuked them.\\nBut when Jesus saw it, he was moved with\\nindignation, and said unto them: Suffer the\\nlittle children to come unto. me; forbid them\\nnot; for of such is the kingdom of God.\\nVerily I say unto you, whosoever shall not", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "CHILDREN IN HEAVEN. 77\\nreceive the Kingdom of God as a little child, lie\\nshall in no wise enter therein. And he took\\nthem up in his arms, and blessed them, laying\\nhis hands upon them. Mark 10:13-19.\\nIt has been frequently pointed out that the\\nwords ^^of such in verse 14 in the Greek is the\\ngenitive of possession. That is, the kingdom of\\nGod is the possession of such little children; it\\nbelongs to them.\\n]^o statement could well be made stronger on\\nthis subject. This glorious truth comes to us\\nfrom the Master and Lord himself. It comes,\\ntoo, when some of his chosen apostles would keep\\nthe loving mothers from bringing their little\\nones to Jesus. So there have been in the past\\nsome theologians who would deny many little\\nchildren a place in heaven, although the children\\ndied before coming to an age of reasonable ac-\\ncountability.\\nBut Jesus teaches that not a soul will ever\\nenter heaven unless he comes in the spirit of a\\nlittle child.\\nIn view of Christ s teaching, how beautiful\\nbecomes the glorious prediction of the prophet\\nZecheriah. Speaking of the restoration of the\\nholy city, he says: ^^And the streets of the city\\nshall be full of boys and girls playing in the\\nstreets thereof. Zech. 8 5.\\n^^Do you remember Raphael s picture the", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "78 THE HEAYENLT CITY,\\nSistme Madonna? The cloud against whicli the\\nholy child Jesus and his mother are revealed\\nseems at first sight to be only a celestial vapor;\\nbut as you look more closely you see that it is\\ncomposed of beautiful shining infant faces. It\\nis no poet s dream; it is a reality. The very air\\nof heaven is populous and radiant with happy\\nchildhood. Henry Van Dylce.\\nNOT HERE BUT THERE!\\nI cannot make him dead!\\nWhen passing by the bed\\nSo long watched over with parental care,\\nMy spirit and my eye seek him inquiringly,\\nBefore the thought comes that he is not there\\nNot there Where, then, is he\\nThe form I used to see\\nWash out the raiment that he used to wear.\\nThe grave that now doth press\\nUpon that cast-off dress\\nIs but his wardrobe locket he is not there!\\nHe lives In all the r\u00c2\u00bb- st\\nHe lives: nor, to the last,\\nOf seeing him will I despair.\\nIn dreams I see him now.\\nAnd on his angel brow,\\nI see it written: Thou shalt see me there!\\nJohn Pierpont,\\nIINTANTS IN HEAVEN.\\nThat infant children may be saved, by the\\ngrace of God in Christ Jesus, is very widely held", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "CHILDREN IN HEAVEN. 79\\nnow to be the clear and distinct teaching of\\nScripture. The theory of the Roman Catholic\\nChurch, that they must be lost unless baptized\\ninto that church/ and the inferences from the\\nteachings of creeds and of theologians, not en-\\ntirely free from the dark shadows of the middle\\nages, cannot be maintained in the light of Script-\\nure.\\nThat the Bible teaches us to believe in the\\nsalvation of children who have not reached the\\nage of reasonable accountability is the view\\nstrongly held by Ulrich Zwingli, the noble Swiss\\nreformer. It was also firmly held by Isaac Bar-\\nrow the great English mathematician and theo-\\nlogian, by Augustus Toplady author of the great-\\nest hymn in the English language: Eock of\\nAges, Cleft for Me. It was stoutly maintained\\nby Lyman Beecher and equally forcibly main-\\ntained by Charles Hodge. He declared that it\\nhad become the common doctrine of evangelical\\nProtestants that all who die in infancy are saved.\\nARE THE CHILDREN HOME?\\nAlone in the dear old homestead\\nThat once was full of life,\\nRinging with girlish laughter,\\nEchoing boyish strife,\\nWe two are waiting together,\\nAnd oft, as the shadows come,\\nWith tremulous voice he calls me,\\nT!t is night are the children home?*", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "80 TEE EEAYENL7 CITY.\\n*^es, love! I answer him gently,\\nThey re all home long ago;\\nAnd I sing in my quivering treble\\nA song so soft and low,\\nThat the old man drops to slumber\\nWith his head upon his hand;\\nAnd I tell to myself the number\\nHome in the better land.\\nSometimes, in the dusk of evening,\\nI only shut my eyes,\\nAnd the children are all about me,\\nA vision from the skies;\\nThe babes whose dimpled lingers\\nDid lose the way to my breast.\\nAnd the beautiful ones, the angels,\\nPassed to the world of the blest.\\nAnd still as the summer sunset\\nFadeth aw^ay in the west,\\nAnd the wee ones, tired of playing,\\nGo trooping home to rest.\\nMy husband calls from his corner,\\nSay, love, have the children come?\\nAnd I answer, with eyes uplifted,\\nYes, dear, they are all at Home.\\nAnonymous,\\nCHILDREN ABOVE.\\nJerusalem, the joyful,\\nI love to think of thee.\\nWithin the many mansions\\nIs endless jubilee;\\nAnd, blending with the worship\\nOf saints who sing for aye.\\nIs heard the blithe, street-music\\nOf boys and girls at play.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "CHILDREN IN HEAVEN. gl\\nThey play, those holy children,\\nAnd nought can soil or tear\\nIn all their pretty gambols\\nThe robes of white they wear.\\nThey run about in safety,\\nFor naught can hurt them now;\\nThe seal of their salvation\\nGod s name is on each brow.\\nAh should we grudge their going,\\nThough early called away!\\nOr grieve, when Christ says: Suffer\\nThe little ones to play.\\nHe listens to their laughter,\\nAs to the saints who sing\\nAnd in their joy is joyful,\\nAs they are in their king.\\nBev. A, G, Alexander,\\nTHE CHILD IN BLISS.\\nI have a son, a third sweet son; his age I cannot tell,\\nFor they reckon not by years and months where he has\\ngone to dwell.\\nTo us, for fourteen anxious months, his infant smiles were\\ngiven;\\nAnd then he bade farewell to earth, and went to live in\\nHeaven.\\nI cannot tell what form is his, what looks he weareth now;\\nNor guess how bright a glory crowns his shining seraph\\nbrow.\\nThe thoughts that fill his sinless soul, the bliss which he\\ndoth feel.\\nAre numbered with the secret things which God will not\\nreveal.\\nBut I know (for God hath told me this) that he is now\\nat rest.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "82 TEE HEAVENLY CITY.\\nWhere other blessed infants be: on their Saviour s loving\\nbreast.\\nI know his spirit feels no more this weary load of flesh,\\nBut his sleep is blessed with endless dreams of joy forever\\nfresh.\\nI know the angels fold him close beneath their glittering\\nwings,\\nAnd soothe him with a song that breaths of Heaven s\\ndivinest things.\\nI know that we shall meet our babe (his mother dear\\nand I)\\nWhere God for aye shall wipe all tears from every eye.\\nWhatever befalls his brethren twain, his bliss can never\\ncease;\\nTheir lot may here be grief and fear, but his is perfect\\npeace.\\nIt may be that the tempter s wiles their souls from bliss\\nmay sever;\\nBut, if our own poor faith fail not, he must be ours forever.\\nWhen we think of what our darling is, and what we still\\nmust be\\nWhen we muse on that world s perfect bliss, and this\\nworld s misery\\nWhen we groan beneath this load of sin, and feel this griel\\nand pain\\nOh, we d rather lose our other two^ than have him here\\nagain!\\nJohn Moultrie,\\nTHE CHILD ANGEL.\\nHow changed, dear friends, are thy part and thy child s!\\nHe bends above thy cradle now, or holds\\nHis warning finger out to be thy guide\\nThou art the nursling now: He watches thee\\nSlow learning, one by one, the secret things\\nWhich are to him used sights of every day;", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "CHILDREN IN HEAVEN. 83\\nHe smiles to see thy wondering glances con\\nThe grass and pebbles of the spirit-world,\\nTo thee miraculous; and he will teach\\nThy knees their due observances of prayer.\\nChildren are God s apostles, day by day\\nSent forth to preach of love, and hope, and peace;\\nNor hath thy babe his mission left undone.\\nTo me, at least, his going hence hath given\\nSerener thoughts and nearer to the skies;\\nAnd opened a new fountain in my heart\\nFor thee, my friend, and all and oh, if Death\\nMore near approaches, meditates, and clasps\\nEven now some dearer, more reluctant hand.\\nGod, strengthen thou my faith that I may see\\nThat tis thine angel, who, with loving haste,\\nUnto the service of the inner shrine\\nDoth waken thy beloved with a kiss.\\nJames Russell Lowell,\\n^Some day I am sure I shall find her,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBut the road is so lonesome between,\\nMy spirit grows sick and impatient\\nFor a glimpse of the pastures so green:\\nTill then, I shall sit in the doorway,\\nIn the hour that my heart loves best,\\nAnd think, when the children pass homeward,\\nMy child will come with the rest.\\nMay Riley Smith.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "CHAPTEE YII.\\nEEOOGlSTTIOISr OF FRIENDS IN HEAVEN.\\nThey shall see his face. Rev. 22: 4.\\nThen face to face! now I know in part: but then\\nshall I know even as also I have been known.\\n1 Cor. 13:12, R.V.\\nThe reunion and recognition of friends in\\nheaven is a truth which is assumed in Scripture,\\nrather than formally stated, proved, or directly\\nillustrated.\\nYet this mode of presenting the doctrine in\\nconnection with other truths, taking that truth\\nfor granted, is, in some aspects, more convinc-\\ning and assuring than would be one or two single\\npassages directly stating it.\\nSOCIAL RECOGNITION.\\nThe existence of God is nowhere directly as-\\nserted in Scripture, but it is everywhere assumed.\\nYet no one doubts that the Bible teaches the\\nexistence of God. Study the account of the\\ntransfiguration; the apostles appear to have\\nrecognized Moses and Elijah. Matt. 17, Mark\\n(84)", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "RECOGNITION IN HEAVEN. 85\\n9, Luke 9:28 ff. Notice the social feasts in tlie\\nkingdom: ^^sit down/ literally ^^recline/ Matt.\\n8:11, Luke 13:29. They see Abraham, etc.,\\nand many like passages.\\nWhen Dr. Willett was on his death-bed, his\\nwife asked him whether he thought saints would\\nknow one another in glory. He answered in the\\nwords of Luther, that when Adam, in innocency,\\nfirst saw Eve he did not ask whence she came,\\nbut at once said, This is bone of my bone, and\\nflesh of my flesh. So saints of God in heaven,\\nilluminated beyond Adam in his first innocency,\\nshall know, not only those they knew on earth,\\nbut will recognize those they never saw before.\\nThus the three on the Mount of Transfiguration\\nknew Moses and Elijah, though they had never\\nseen them before.\\nRECOGNITION.\\n^1 felt that, however long to me\\nThe slumber of the grave might be,\\nI should know him again mid the countless throng\\nWho shall hear their past in the Seraphim s song.\\nL. E, Landon,\\nAs then we shall perfectly love God, and his\\nsaints as him, so shall we know both him and\\nthem and though it be a sufficient motive of our\\nlove in heaven, yet we know them to be saints,\\nyet it seems to be no small addition *to our hap-\\npiness that those saints were once ours. And if", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "86 TEE HEAYENLT CITY.\\nit be a just joy to a parent here on earth to see\\nhis child gracious, how much more accession shall\\nit be to his joy above, to see the fruit of his\\nloins glorious, when both his love is more pure,\\nand their improvement absolute Bishop Hall\\n(1574-1656).\\n^That our heavenly home will satisfy our\\nfullest social lovings we cannot doubt. No one\\nneed complain of the lack of good society there.\\n^^Old Dr. Emmons is not the only Christian\\nwho has fed his hopes of a good talk with the\\napostle Paul. Dr. Guthrie is not the only\\nparent who has felt assured that ^his little\\nJohnnie would meet him inside the gate. Many\\na pastor expects to find his converted flock as a\\n^crown of rejoicing to him in that day.\\n^^The recognition of friends then cannot pos-\\nsibly be a question of doubt. No barriers of caste\\ncan separate those who are children of the one\\nFather and dwelling in the same household/\\nTheodore L. Cuyler,\\nNO PARTING THEEE.\\n**There is a world above\\nWhere parting is unknown:\\nA whole eternity of love,\\nFormed for the good alone;\\nAnd faith beholds the dying here\\nTranslated to that happier sphere.\\nJames Montgomery,", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "RECOGNITION IN HEAVEN. 87\\nThen crowned again, their golden harps they took\\nHarps, ever tuned, that, glittering by their side,\\nLike quivers hung, and with preamble sweet\\nOf charming symphony, they introduce\\nTheir sacred song, and waken raptures high;\\nNo voice exempt, no voice but well could join\\nMelodious part such concord is in heaven.\\nJohn Milton,\\nThe devout Thomas breaks forth: Oh, most\\nblessed mansions of the heavenly Jerusalem!\\nOh most effulgent day of eternity, which night\\nobscnreth not, but the snpreme truth continu-\\nally enlighteneth It shineth now in the full\\nsplendor of perpetual light to the blessed, but to\\nthe poor pilgrims on earth it appeareth only at\\na great distance and through a glass, darkly.\\nThomas a Kempis.\\nTHE GATHEEED FAMTLY.\\n**Thus heaven is gathering, one by one, in its capacious\\nbreast,\\nAll that is pure and permanent, and beautiful and blest;\\nThe family is scattered yet, though of one home and\\nheart.\\nPart militant in earthly gloom, in heavenly glory part.\\nBut who can speak the rapture, when the circle is\\ncomplete,\\nAnd all the children sundered, now around one Father\\nmeet?\\nOne fold, one Shepherd, one employ, one everlasting\\nhome;", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "88 TEE HEAVENLY CITY.\\n*Lo! I come quickly! *Even so^ Amen: Lord Jesus,\\ncome/\\nEdward Henry Bickersteth,\\nTHE WELCOME.\\n^^We must think of heaven as an existing\\nreality. Will there be those who shall\\nbe ready to welcome ns? Shall there be those\\nwhom we ourselves can remember? That is not\\na barren speculation; it is that which has surely\\nengaged every thinking mind, and every sus-\\nceptible heart. The first Christian\\nteachers always rested their labors upon a re-\\nward; they did not deny that they contemplated\\na reward which consisted in the conversion, in\\nthe salvation, and in the glory of those spirits\\nwhom they had instrumentally rescued and\\nsaved. For what is our hope, or joy, or crown\\nof glorying? Are not even ye before our Lord\\nJesus Christ at his coming? For ye are our\\nglory and our joy. That I may have\\nwhereof to glory in the day of Christ, that I did\\nnot run in vain, neither labor in vain.\\nThat we may present every man perfect in\\nChrist. 1 Thess. 2:19, 20. Phil. 2:16. Col.\\n1:28.\\nITow all this surely is confirmation strong\\nthe confirmation of Holy Writ\u00e2\u0080\u0094 that the apos-\\ntles anticipated a reward, and that that reward\\ncannot for a moment b\u00c2\u00a9 separated from their", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "RECOGNITION IN HEAVEN. 89\\nrecognition of those who were the fruits of their\\nministry and the seal of their zeal (on the\\nearth). Dr. James Hamilton.\\nJOYFUL EECOGNITION.\\nWhen Paul speaks of his converts as his\\ncrown of rejoicing/ did he not believe that he\\nshould know them in heaven? Paul says: then\\nshall I know even as also I am known/ or as\\nthe Revised Version more strongly reads Even\\nas also I have been known/ as if to intimate that\\nin heaven his knowledge of others would be\\nequal to the accumulation and sum of all the\\nknowledge that had been gained concerning him\\nin the ages past What a loving and beautiful\\nfriendship does this suggest to the heart yearn-\\ning for love\\nAgain, in that harvest-home of heaven the\\nsower and the reaper are to rejoice together. So\\nthe words of Jesus lead us to believe. But how\\ncan they so rejoice unless they are able to recog-\\nnize each other in the heavenly world? See\\nJohn 4:36, and compare Gal. 6:7, 8.\\nIt is scarcely credible that our Lord did not\\nintend to represent Lazarus as knowing Abra-\\nham in whose bosom he was. See Luke 16:19-\\n31.\\nJesus said to the sisters at Bethany to comfort\\nthem: Thy brother shall rise again. The\\ncomfort would be largely taken away from these", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "90 TEE EEAYENLY CITY.\\nwords if that brother was to wander about among\\nthe hosts of spirits unknown and unrecognized\\nby the loving sisters.\\nWe cannot imagine how it could be possible\\nfor us in a world of perfection and glory, when\\nall our spiritual powers and perceptions are to\\nbe intensely quickened and magnified^ for us to\\nbe less acquainted with the spiritual beings about\\nus than we are with our associates and friends\\nin this imperfect life on the earth.\\nTHEY BECKON ME.\\n^ver the river they beckon to me,\\nLoved ones who ve crossed to the further side.\\nThe gleam of their snowy robes I see,\\nBut their voices are lost in the dashing tide.\\nThere s one with ringlets of sunny gold,\\nAnd eyes the reflection of heaven s own blue,\\nHe crossed in the twilight gray and cold.\\nAnd the hale mist hid him from mortal view;\\nWe saw not the angels who met him there,\\nThe gates of the city we could not see.\\nOver the river, over the river,\\nMy brother stands waiting to welcome me.\\nNancy A. W. Priest,\\nKNOWN BY JOYS.\\nIlow shall we know them who passed away\\nIn all the freshness of early day:\\nThose whom we cherished in later years,\\nFrom whom we parted in bitter tears?\\nNot by the beauty that marked them then.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "RECOGNITION IN HEAVEN, 91\\nOr, were it such, it must fade again;\\nBut by a gladness which round them plays,\\nLike a joy revived from our olden days;\\nBy the holy joys our spirits knew,\\nWhich a better world shall again renew.\\nAnonymous.\\nTHE CENTEE OF DIVINE COMMUNICATIONS.\\n^^Heaven is the place in whicli are seen all the\\nfinishings of divine workmanship, and in which\\nthe beauty and greatness of the Infinite Mind,\\nand the endless diversities of omniscient skill,\\nappear in all their most exquisite forms, and in\\nthe last degrees of refinement and perfection. It\\nis the center of all divine communications, the\\ncity in which all paths of Providence terminate,\\nthe ocean from which all streams of infinite\\nwisdom and goodness proceed, and into which\\nthey return to flow again and forever/ Presi-\\ndent Dwiglit, Sr.\\nTo Zion s peaceful courts above\\nIn faith triumphant may we soar,\\nEmbracing in the arms of love\\nThe friends, not lost, but gone before.\\nAnonymous,\\nLONGING FOR FEIENDS.\\nI feel the unutterable longing,\\nThe hunger of the heart is mine,\\nI reach and grasp for hands in darkness,\\nMy ear grows sharp for voice or sign.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "92 TEE EEAYENLT CITY.\\nfriend, no proof beyond this yearning,\\nThis outstretch of our hearts we need;\\nGod will not mock the hope he giveth,\\nNo love he prompts shall vainly plead.\\nThen let us stretch our hands in darkness.\\nAnd call our loved ones o er and o er;\\nSome day their arms shall close about us,\\nAnd the old voices speak once more.\\nJoJm Greenleaf WMttier.\\nThine eyes shall see the king in his beauty. Isa.\\n33:17.\\nI will that, where I am, they also may be with me,\\nthat they may behold riy glory. John 17 24.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nAdams, quoted, 41.\\nAlexander, Rev. A.C., poem, 80.\\nAlexander, Archibald, quoted,\\n23.\\nAlford, Dean, quoted, 43.\\nAshamed of Jesus, poem, 28.\\nBaxter, Richard, quoted, 53.\\nBeings, celestial, 38.\\nBeveridge, Bishop, quoted, 38.\\nBickersteth, Edward Henry,87.\\nBoardman, Henry A., 69.\\nBonar, Horatius, quoted, 55,\\nCelestial country, poem, 17.\\nChild angel, the, 82.\\nChild in bliss, the, poem, 81.\\nChildren above, poem, 80.\\nChildren, are the home?,\\npoem, 79.\\nClark, Alexander, quoted, 21.\\nCuyler, Theodore L., 71, 85.\\nDrummond, quoted, 18, 19.\\nFuller, Andrew, quoted, 57.\\nGathered family, the, 87.\\nGlorious voice, 21.\\nGood of all ages, the, 40.\\nGregg, David, quoted, 45-47,\\n55, 68.\\nGrowth in heaven, 43.\\nGuthrie, Dr., quoted, 67, 70.\\nHall, Bishop, quoted, 14.\\nHamilton, Dr. James, 89.\\nHavergal, F. R., quoted, 21,\\n22.\\nHealth, 64.\\nHeaven about us, 47-50.\\nbeauties of, 56.\\na blessed home, 15.\\ncenter of divine communi-\\ncations, 91.\\nchildren in, 75.\\nChristian idea of, 9.\\na city, 11.\\nconditions of, 57.\\nemployments and enjoy-\\nments in, 52.\\nfellowships of, 53.\\nfive steps to, 24.\\nglories of, 68.\\nGod s throne, 13.\\ngrowth in, 43.\\ninfants in, 78.\\ninhabitants of, 38.\\nno night there, 54.\\nno parting there, poem, 86.\\nno sect in, 50.\\npalace, 13.\\npopulous, 44, 45.\\nreached by faith, 19.\\nreached by holy life, 20.\\nreached by repentance, 19.\\nsociety of, 39.\\nstudy, society, singing in,\\n58, 70.\\nsublime beauty, 71.\\nthree steps to, 34.\\nway to, 18.\\nHeavenly pilot, the, 21.\\nHeavenly songs, 70.\\n(93)", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "94\\nINDEX.\\nHill s, Rowland, triumph, 36.\\nHowe, John, quoted, 64.\\nImmortal being, 61.\\nInfants in heaven, 78.\\nJerusalem the golden, 17.\\nJoyful recognition, 89.\\nKempis, Thomas a 87.\\nKnown by joys, 90.\\nLandon, L. E., 85.\\nLonging for friends, 91.\\nLoving service, 55.\\nLowell, James Russell, poem,\\n83.\\nLuther, quoted, 21.\\nMacColl, Canon, quoted, 47-50,\\n73.\\nMacNeil, John, quoted, 31,\\n33.\\nMelville, Henry, quoted, 54.\\nMilton, John, quoted, 16, 87.\\nMontgomery, James, quoted,\\nse.\\nMoultrie, John, poem, 81.\\nNevins, quoted, 15, 39.\\nPhelps, Prof., quoted, 20.\\nPierpont, John, quoted, 78.\\nPriest, Nancy A. W., poem,\\n90.\\nProgress, 63.\\nRaffles, Thomas, quoted, 66.\\nReceive the blessing, 33.\\nRepentance needed, 19.\\nRomaine, William, quoted, 23.\\nRossetti, Christina G., quoted,\\n37, 74.\\nRowe, Mrs., 71.\\nRutherford, Samuel, quoted, 72,\\n74.\\nShut out, 37.\\nSmith, J. Dedham, quoted, 43.\\nSocial recognition, 85.\\nSpirit-filled life, 30.\\nSpiritual riches, 32.\\nSpurgeon, Chas, H., quoted,\\n42.\\nStanley, Dean, quoted, 41.\\nStrong, Chas. H., 63.\\nTaylor, Isaac, quoted, 20, 61.\\nTaylor, Jeremy, quoted, 20, 44,\\n45, 56,\\nThey beckon me, poem, 90.\\nTransformations, glorious, 73.\\nVan Dyke, Henry, quoted, 78.\\nWay of grace, the, 21.\\nWay of new birth, 23.\\nWelcome, the, 89.\\nWhittier, J, G., quoted, 91.\\nWillett, Dr., quoted, 85.\\nWin souls on the way, 34.\\nZeuxis, quoted, 34.", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "-co 18 1899", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "fb\\nrH", "height": "4498", "width": "2799", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "", "height": "4832", "width": "3009", "jp2-path": "heavenlycityheav00rice_0104.jp2"}}