Heaven Our Home Volume 1; We Have No Saviour But Jesus, and No Home But Heaven (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1862 Excerpt: ... whom, and what are the names of their children, through what countries they have travelled, what they have seen, and from what place they had come previous to the time when you met them. The same facility for becoming acquainted with the past lives of those we meet exists in heaven. Knowledge is perfected there. How much more enlarged then will your acquaintanceship be with each other, when you, who are the children of God, come to meet, not for an hour at supper, but for eternity, in an abiding and unchanging home, and that in the presence of your common Father, and enjoying the freest intercourse with your blessed Redeemer, as well as with each other. By that free intercourse alone, even if no other mode existed, you will come to know those who were your bosom Qcompanions upon earth, who lived with you in the same home, who stood towards you once in the nearest and dearest relationships of life, who walked with you in the covenant of your God, with whom you took sweet counsel and went up to the house of God in company. PROOF FOURTH--ANALOGY PROVES RECOGNITION. Analogy proves that there will be the recognition of friends in heaven. Suppose the case of two brothers, who spent the morning of life together in their beloved parents' home. They wade the stream, and pull the flowers, and climb the trees, and search for nests to-' gether; they read God's Word at the family altar, and sing the same psalm in the same church. In God's providential dealings with them, these boys are separated whilst rising into manhood; the one embarks for Calcutta, the other for San Francisco. They do not meet, nor hear from each other by letter, for the long period of forty years. Suppose these two brothers were to leave respectively the land of their adopt...