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TUESDAY

DECEMBER 23RD 192E

And we may expect to and there activity and repose and a true progress in doing things which is often missing The following sermon on Beaven was in this life. And just because this world preathed in St. John's Cathedral on would be intolerable without variety So in the next sphere there will be far Sunday, being the 4th Sunday in Admare variety theadless hymn singing.— this There is not vent, by the Rev. T. B. Powell, Assistaut much variety in

even with our intest improvements and Chaplain :-

so this phase of heavenly existence rust Took not he exaggerated. But we may loo for the counterpart in Heaven of those The things which Christ, loved on earth. wild flowers, the birds, the children play- ing, the friends around the board, the fellowship of labour and love, the quiet hour on the mountain sido at

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Our citizenship is in Heaven."--Puш

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During this Holy Season of Advent which is both a preparation for Christ mins and the second coming of Chat, we have tonsidered the subjects of Death, Judgment and Hell; and this morning I want to turn your thoughts to

WORK IN HEAVEN. the final subject of Heaven. It may be

Moreover, the heavenly life is usually helpful at the outset to have in our minds some elementary yet comprehensive de- depicted as the life of a society-we iar finition of Heaven, and so we may say mediately think of the New Jerusalem, the Kingdon God, the Communion of that Heaven is every place and condition

We cagine gesture and where God is found, and His will is done. Sajuts.

Now when we were, children and we speech supplemented or superseded in There thought of Christmas, there was always that innd, and sympathy had insight one centhil figure of great importance made greater and more acute. and wonderful charm, whom we called will be plenty of work to do, with differ

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we should meet him, that there would come a time when we would dely sleep may be likened to the designing of paper and actually see him, as he paid us a boats. Whilst in Heaven it will be

And construction of Atlantic liners. Each will abode.. visit from his distant

well Assume that although we did not know much about do the work he can do best, for the good bim we felt that he must reside in some of others, and we may distant heaven of childhood where there the work of rescue will continue in Hea- was a never ending supply of all those ven. When we think of St. Paul, or John things which made us happy on earth. Wesley or Newman, or Florence Nightin our childish imagination, was gale we cannot imagine that they will be someone who dwelt at a distance, who satisfied with endless. Hallelujahs. And did things for us, who gave us things in those whom we have known and loved on earth and who have helped us by answer to our desires..

And when that never, to be forgotten their counsel, example and advice, these day came when someone told us that may be helping those backward owes who You will remember Whittier's beautiful Santa Claas as our father we felt at never expected to get into Heaven at all. first as if we bad lost something infinitely

poer of the old mook who had spent his precious as if all the romance and my whole life in hard and menial work for tery of Christmas time were but dust and the rescue and help of others. And when ashes. But later we became, reconciled

is over Thou shalt sit down and have to the new truth, and gradually life he he is dying his confession tells him work cane bearable again-with perhaps the added consolation that in future Santa endless prayers, and wear a golden Ah he says "I'm stupid old man' Claus could not make mistakes about the crown for ever and ever in Heaven." toys we really did want for Christmas Now the ideas underlying these fancies' dull at prayers; I can't keep awake. of childhood that someone mysterious But i love my fellow men. I could he and distant does things for us and gives good to the worst of them. I would not us things are found in all early religions ear to sit amongst the lazy saints and turn a'deaf ear to the sore complaints of When men of old thought about God they those that suffer. I don't want your idle God dwelt in Heaven. I want still to work for others." used similar, expressions. Heaven, a place far removed. God was The confessor in anger left him, and in more or les inaccessible. So Jehovah

the night came the voice of the Lord- in the Old Testament makes his presence Tender and most compassionate "Never known by lightnings and thunderings and so on he is distant and removed and has to use such means to make bis com- ing realised.

UNREAL PICTURES OF HEAVEN.

lest

For Heaven is love, as God Himself is

love:

Thy work below shall be thy work

ihove."

And so in that Heavenly, country there' will be work without weariness, the par- suit of Beauty, Truth, and Goodness; and most blessed of all the clear vision and knowledge of God. Fer here we sec through a glass darkly, but there face to lace.

CHRISTMAS AND BLIVEN.

But in the fulness of time God in the person of Jesus Christ came to dwell antong ser. He moved among the Jews whose minds were saturated with the Old Testament primitive ideas of Heaven And our Lord, when He spoke about Heaven, had to use terms such as his, bearers would readily understand, But

fa conclusion, we are but a few days phrases like Abrahams Bosom" and

Paradise

are not authentic glimpses from Christmas. What has that day to within the veil. They are the scenery of teach us about Heaven Sarely this is the next world gined by the Jews, the essential lesson, that on the first and so Jesus Chr though he trans-Christamas day, by the coming of Christ formed and enlarged them, simply made to earth, earth and beaver were clamped use of ancient beliefs and employed the and fettered together once and for all current language of his day. And un-in ties af human flesh. For the Christian fortunately for us, we have been brought then, earth is that part of Heaven where his present home is or rather earth can up to take these terms too literally, and to miss the truths which they enshrined. and should be to us the sacrament of Heaven. Heaven is not only a far away Many of our popular hymns picture heaven which the plain man does not place to which we hope to go, it is the believe to exist and to which he does presence of Ged in which we ought to not want to go. Crowns, streets paved live. We enter Heaven by a spiritual, with gold, precious stones, luxurious and not by a natural aut. We begin Heaven never ending idleness suggest the splen- here on earth, not by taking a journey from this world up through the air, but dours of Eastern Imperial courts.

Painters and poets starting from St by taking a journey from a bad state of mind to a good state of mind. Heaven The begin- John's vision of the adoration of the Lamb or of High Mass in some Cathe- has to begin in ourselves. dral have tried to depict a heaven of ning of Heaven is not at that hour when these things. But while Heaven must the eye grows dim and the sound of include all these things, there is in this friendly voices becomes silent in death, type of popular imagination too much of, but at that hour when God draws near Soleman in all his glory and too little of and the eyes of the spiritual understand- the beauty of the lilies of the fielding are opened, and the soul sees how Heaven is not a place of mere unadulter beautiful Christ is, how hateful sin is ated pious idleness, or an eternity as someone has remarked of Hypns. Ancient and Modern, por a place where the four and twenty elders are continually casting down their crowns beside the glassy sea. This may be impressive and well dis ciplined ritual, but is really myth, he- cause it shows us men emptied of char. acter. and each rer like his neighbour. with more or less nothing to do. Heaven is a real place then it must con- tain real people who are doing real things

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LIMITATIONS OF OZ KNOWLEDGE Can we then know anything about the actual life in Heaven 1

the hour when self will is crucified, and God will is born in the resolution of a the Heaven that shall continue after our new heart." Then Heaves has begun, death.

For Heaven is where Christ is and where his will is done. Les us realise this when we come to our Christmas Communion."

Though Christ in Bethlehem's thousand

times be born

If He be not born in thee, thy heart is

all forlora.

O would thy heart but be a manger

for His birth!

God would once more become a child'

earth."

OD

JAPAN. AND FRANCE. EFFORTS FOR AN ENTENTE,

Let us realise that we can know but little. The Bible is given to help us to Live rightly in this world, not to satisfy our curiosity about the next. And it is significant that our Lord said very little

The Tokyo correspondest of a London about the after life, and never dwelt much on the blessed state of the departed. paper writes:---

But we can I think assume something M. Claudel, the French Ambassador, about the life in Heaven. Jesus Christ is leaving in January on furlough. He came to reveal to us.certain things. He will be accompanied as far is Indo- did not teach us that streets of gold, or China" by an Envoy Extraordinary in harp playing wore the best things in the return for the recent visit of the Gover universe, but He did tell us to strive nor-Gereral, M. Merlin, and he will res unselfishness, cour main some time there to await the return after love, kindness, use these tre, the of the Director of Customs, M. Kircher, Fago. and purity

things which we may expect to find in who is now in Paris discussing coenomic that blessed region, and in the exercise relations with Japan.

of them will the heavenly citizens be em, Since the lapse of the Anglo-Japanese ployed. What Blake the poet says of Dis Alliance Japan has been making great ideal city: we roay transfer to Heaven.efforts for an entente with France, just ne abe has, been looking to Bouth Asasrics

The atones are Pity and the bricks well since the page in Washington of, the Bill to exclude Japanese immigrants wrought Affections. Enamelled by Love and Kindness, and from the United Staten

the tiles engraven gold,

Labour of merciful hands. The beams

and rafters are Forgiveness.

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The mortar and cement of the work, tears

the nails. of Honesty And the screws and the iron braces well

wrought Blandishments, And well contrived words, firm fixing

never forgotten.

Always comforting the remembrance: the

cors Humility: The ceilings Devotion, the hearths

Thangsgiving.

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