| Show heavens i attainments of this life fit tor life activities beyond by REV J WESLEY HILL D D brooklyn EAVEN is an eternity of acan aties not of repose han it comes to the question of which ve know so little christ had little to say this is in striking contrast to the theologians of the present da the latter tell us almont everything they have achieved a system laid bare the qualities of divine life established boundary lines and solved the profound of life in their mind heaven is merely a home to be won and once reached all stress of spiritual effort is at an end but in the thought of christ heaven is no such place the goal is not iv on only set beyond and to me this is clearly outlined in the words I 1 have quoted heaven is to be a world of activities and this parable teaches absolute continuity of life and absolute identity of character it is a great lev elation of the future and alters the entire aspect of things with one stroke calinst sweeps away ideas and substitutes an eternity of effort not repose he docs away with the talk about golden streets pearly gates etc the great practical thinking world does not consist of visionary theorists to most of us life is real we are conscious of thrilling joy in the exercise of our faculties the reaping of the hanast of toil and struggle the last state that a wise man would be wished to be placed in would be where there was no call on his energies the theory that all this eart lily struggle after knowledge and ability is wasted when death calls is a monstrous proposition working out of any human capacity cannot be developed only to throw away no man who has stood by the grave of a truly cicat man can believe that all the greatness genius and knowledge that man had achieved during life had gone out was extinct with death such a ruinous waste of knowledge and power would invalidate the of the universe capacity survives death and that is what chesl tells us in our text |
