Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1877 — Future Glory. [ARTICLE]

Future Glory.

One reason why we, as Christians, are so much concerned about our spiritual joy and peace here, is that we have no adequate views of what they will be hereafter, and are not, therefore, all absorlied in th e anticipation of and preparation for the future glory. That glory will comprehend fullness of knowledge. In Heaven we shall know as we are known. We shall know, therefore, what Christ’s grace overcame in our souls to their deliverance from sin, and this knowledge will fill us with as much wonder, and more rapture, than the perfect comprehension of all those mysteries of doctrine and revelation which here perplex our minds. It will include, also, fullness of joy. There will be no yearning of the soul left unsatisfied. A divine content will succeed and replace all those painful longings and disquietudes which we experience in the fle>h. We know not what the raptures of Heaven are like, for they have no types on earth, since not a perfectly sinless joy is vouchsafed to a soul in which sanctification is not perfected;, but the glory into which we are to be received will embrace perfect holiness, and with that the fullness of Joy in Heaven is essentially connected. Perfect holiness must be perfect happiness, and possessing these the Christian will be in the likeness of God. — Chicago Standard.