for of no Purgatory does the Bible know anything; not to any dark and cheerless underworld, to sleep away the time between dissolution and resurrection, for no such sleep of the soul is recognised in Scripture; still less into utter annihilation. He goes "to be with Christ, which is far better" surely, into Paradise, at once into his heavenly home. True, his bliss there will be shorn of its completeness until the resurrection. Not till that clanging archangel's trump wakes his sleeping body and restores it to him spiritualized, and "made meet for the inheritance of the saints in light," shall he be again the complete man that he was on earth. But, withal, he will be in glory, in His Father's house, in His heavenly home, from the very first. CHAPTER XI. HOW TO GET THERE. OUR UR discussions of the subject of heaven would be incomplete if they came to a close without giving some indication as to how the better land may be reached. We have inquired into its situation, we have seen its inhabitants, we have investigated its glories, and the question ought to rise to many a heart and be anxiously pondered-Can I get there? If so, how? Let us conclude our inquiries by trying calmly and dispassionately and carefully, remembering what interests are at stake, to give an answer to such questions. You are anxious then, let me suppose, to gain a place in heaven at last. But you are painfully conscious that you are not fit for its holy society. You read of its purity and its |