be pending in a future age, but the crisis that shall close the present age. Otherwise it would not have been charged upon this age to keep it in view. He that is unjust, filthy, or righteous and holy, let him be so still, is directly connected with, 'Behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with me to give to every man [both saint and sinner] according as his work shall be.' The coincidence of the coming of Christ and the general judgment is utterly fatal to the millennial theory. And now we have proved that at the time of his revelation from heaven with power and great glory, the earth will be burned up, and pass away, leaving no possible place for the millennial dream to be enacted. Are you ready for that great day? If not, 'to-day, if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts.' 'Behold, now is the day of salvation,' 'and after this the judgment.' Amen.”

Since man will have an eternal existence, and as we see, this earth shall pass away and be no more, it can not be his eternal home. "The things which are not seen are eternal." Our eternal home is some

Where then is it located?

thing we can not now see. The Word plainly answers: "For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." 2 Cor. 5:1.

When time has run its course, when the sun and moon no longer shine, when all things pertaining to earth, and the earth itself is no more, and is forgotten in the dim past; when our earthly, mortal

house shall be dissolved, and we are clothed with an immortal and glorified body, we shall dwell in a building of God, a house not made with hands "eternal in the heavens."

O my soul, press forward! Pleasures forevermore await thee, an eternal weight of glory. O world to come, in exchange for the present! O eternity, for a moment! A blessed eternal communion in the holy, blessed eternal life of God, in exchange for the sacrifices and sufferings of a few short years of earth. For the joy set before me I willingly endure hardness as a good soldier for Christ Jesus. Yes, gladly will I forsake home and loved ones to preach thy gospel, and in exchange receive a home eternal in the heavens.

Since this earth will have an end, what a consoling thought to know in yourselves that "ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance." Heb. 10:34. "Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall: for so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." 2 Pet. 1: 10, 11.

We here enter the kingdom of grace, which prepares us for an abundant entrance into the future everlasting kingdom of glory. This is not a literal something upon earth as many blind zealots imagine, but it is "an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven

for you, who are kept by the power of God." 1 Pet. 1:4, 5. "And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen." 2 Tim. 4:18.

Oh, blessed hope, "which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast." My soul rests upon the promises of his Word, awaiting "the hope which is laid up for you in heaven." Col. 1:5.

"But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal.” Mat. 6:20. "Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approachet. neither moth corrupteth." Luke 12:33. "Jesus said unto him, If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come and follow me." Mat. 19:21.

If this earth were our eternal portion, then our treasures should be laid up here. But since it is temporal, we are commanded to lay up our treasures in heaven. Though we may be poor in this world's goods, yet if we serve God we "shall have treasures in heaven." Instead of getting our reward in this earth as some teach, Jesus said we shall be rewarded in heaven. "Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so presecuted they the prophets which were before you." Mat. 5:

12. "Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets." Luke 6:23.

where I am, there ye In the Scriptures we "the Father's house,'

Surely these multiplied texts are sufficient to establish the fact that heaven will be the future and eternal home of the church. Jesus, speaking of that future state, said: "In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that may be also." John 14: 2, 3. have "Christ's house" and Christ's kingdom of grace here and the Father's kingdom of glory above. The one applies to the earth; the other, to heaven. In the above Christ speaks of our future hope. By the "Father's house' he means heaven, for that is the Father's dwellingplace. Christ's house is the church here upon earth. By entering the latter we have access to the former. By "mansions" he desired them to know that heaven, the Father's domain, was large and spacious. He did not wish, as sectarians believe, to convey the idea that everybody would have a separate house up there; but he resorted to language that they could understand. He spoke from the standpoint of a literal building so they could comprehend his meaning. Since the Father's house is so spacious, contains many mansions, "I go to prepare a place for

you." Christ went into heaven. Luke 24:51. So in heaven he is preparing our eternal home.

It may be objected that it has been prepared from the foundation of the world. Mat. 25:34. Yes, the kingdom of heaven, or heaven itself, was prepared from the foundation of the world; but in that kingdom, Christ went to prepare a place for us. Again, Christ was a Lamb "slain from the foundation of the world." Yet in reality it was fulfilled when he came. So with the place prepared for us. Christ in reality went to prepare it for us; and the promise is that he will come again, not to remain here upon earth with us, but to receive us to himself, that where he is there we may be also. That is, he will come back and take his church home to glory, to the world he went to prepare.

When will all this be fulfilled? "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." 1 Thes. 4:16, 17.

Oh, the beauty of heavenly truth! The church came out of heaven, and at last will all be caught up to heaven, and be ever with the Lord. But did not Jesus teach that the meek "shall inherit the earth”? Mat. 5:5. The Psalmist adds: "But the meek shall inherit the earth." Psa. 37:11. How harmonize