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Last Updated on : Saturday, October 11, 2014

 

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Chapter 11

Immortality


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GLORIOUS indeed will it be, with unlimited strength and perfect capacity for the appreciation of what is truly good, to traverse earth's delightful regions, and look with immortal eyes upon her emerald pastures, far spreading woodlands and her lichen and heather-clad hills, interspersed with vine or ivy-covered cottages, where the happy, peaceful inhabitants may sit under the shade of their own vine or willow, and none shall dare to make them afraid.

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How sweet to roam the flowery lanes in company with those who have learned to know the Lord, and can sing the new song, and to commune one with another of the goodness of our God, His wonderful condescension, tender mercies, and loving-kindnesses! In His holy presence there will be fullness of joy, and at His right hand pleasures for evermore.

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Oh! to pass through the fair fields of waving, golden corn; to see the clean, healthy cattle, the noble beasts whose ferocity has all vanished, for the little children may caress them unharmed. When the countenance of youth and age wears a look of gladness and deep satisfaction, and every one speaks in honour of the Immortal King. Think of the stern, silent grandeur of the great mountains standing out boldly against the azure sunlit skies, in contrast to the rich, peaceful vales below, in verdure clad, and ringing again with the music of bright plumaged, happy birds, while here and there we catch the glitter of clear, silvery streams, which water the valleys as they guide onward to the sea.

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Think, too, of the lovely glens and dales, and the craggy rocks over which the sparkling foaming torrent leaps and bounds. What an inexhaustible wealth of beauty lies around such regions, even at present. Can we imagine the picture when, "Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree, and the wilderness, and the solitary or parched land, shall be glad: and the desert shall rejoice and blossam as the rose"; when the eyes of the blind shall be open and the deaf made to hear, the dumb are able to sing, and the lame leap as a hart; when in the wilderness waters break out and streams in the desert, and the glowing sand becomes a pool, and the thirsty ground, springs of water.

Alice Hopkins

 

 


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