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a conviction with respect to things not seen. And, among
all the great verities which possess. hi$ soul there is none
greater, none nobler, none surer, than his conviction with
respect to the saints’ everlasting home, All the circumstances
of his present journey, all the remembrances, all
his reasonings, all his aspirations, point’ tb a Better Land.
By faith he sings: e 1
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“There is a land of pure dc$igJt,
Where saints immortal reign,
Infinite day excludes the night, I
And pleasures bani& pain.
There everlasting spring’ abides
And never-withering flowers;
Death, like a narrow sea, divides
This heavenly land from ours.”
(3) We realize that LTS far as this present life is colz-
ceraed we are but strangers &nd sojozcrners on the earth.
We dwell in tents, as did Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; in
the tabernacles of a night-time. We are here today, and
gone tomorrow. There is nothing that we possess here
that we can really call our own. All that we shall have in
the end is a few square feet of earth in which our mortal
remains will be laid away to mingle with the dust. This
k not sentimentaity-if is plain fact. We can’t take any-
thing material with us into the next world, for the simple
reason that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom
of God. No matter how diligently we may toil and strive
to accumulate houses and lands and worldly goods, of what
value will these things be when we reach the end of the
road? We are pilgrims, nothing more, walking by faith
in the direction of the heavenly country which we expect
to reach beyond the swelling of the Jordan, the country
that will truly be, “Home, Sweet Home.” The true Chris-
tian philosophy is expressed by Phoebe Carey in these lines:
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