Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-08-21 | Page 3 | Dr. Vance's Daily Article

DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE j . I N'ot where, but when is heaven " Miv : one wait for death before his clock of heavenly ecstacy can strike? 1 the rapture entirely post-mortem! Is religion merely an insurance against disaster in the world lo come? Ik it no more than a guarantee that can be claimed when we have ceased to be much that we now are? 1 want some heaven now I want its songs lo lift at uiy tird feet, and its light lo fall on my dim trail, nnd its ecstacy lo thrill rny stale spirits now If 1 cannot have a bit of heaven now when I need it most, who know? but the thinp Itself is all delusion7 The religion that cannot drag a bit of heaven down lo earth puts und?r .suspicion all ils promises of a heaven beyond earth. Jesus was a present world savior, i His kiDgdom is a present world pro-gram. pro-gram. He came to change conditions i now and here. He was Interested in 'real people, and the lives Ho touched 'with His gentle love did not have in !dio to bo happy j The people who would follow Him must have more than a graveyard attitude at-titude to life. They tuusl be Stirred, i not only by what may happen lo a l soul after death, but by w hat Is happening hap-pening to countless human belnge here in this world of sin and trouble before I death comes. The relicion th.it cannot push out into a slum and rescue it from hell and build the roof of Paradise Para-dise over Its wr.nt and woe, is C reli Ston without real assets No religion is much account that does not make this world a better j place to live in, or that is unable to build heaven into the need presen. "Now is the accepted time." Give, me some of my heaven todav. Ill will help me to believe in a bigger I heaven tomorrow.