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(6) You may stand in with the church on earth as a worthy worker, but when your works are tried by fire, you may find that you are found out. (7) God is jealous concerning the Jews, and will judge the nations that treat them unjustly. (8) The most solemn scene in all Scripture is the judgment of the Great White Throne. The hope of mankind lies in the ful fillment of the prophecies of the Bible as one has said, “Earth, thou grain of sand on the shore of the Universe of God, thou Beth- LESSON lehem, amongst ILLUSTRATIONS the princely cit- W. H. Pike ies of the heav ens; thou art, and remainest, the Loved One amongst ten thousand suns and worlds, the chosen of God! Thee will He again visit, and then thou wilt prepare a throne for Him, as thou gavest Him a manger cradle; in His radiant glory wilt thou rejoice, as thou didst once drink His blood and tears, and mourn His death! On thee has the Lord a great work to complete.” Christ Our Hope “Are you happy, my dear girl?” said a visitor to a young friend who seemed to be drawing near her latter end. “Yes,” she said, “quite happy.” Rais ing her hand she pointed to a Bible which was lying on her bedside and re peated, “I am quite happy, I have Christ there.” (Luke 24:27.) Then laying her hand on her heart she said, “And I have Christ here.” (Eph. 3:17). And again, pointing heavenward to where her faith, hopes and affections were all cen tered, she repeated, “And I have Christ up there.” (Col. 3:4.) What a source of happiness! Christ in the Word, in the heart, in the Glory, and He is com ing back again.
Surety of Heaven Albert Midlane, the author of “There’s a Friend for Little Children,” told of a little girl who wanted to take her Bible to Heaven, because if Jesus asked her why she was there, she would point to His own words, “Come unto Me.” Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman tells of a man who went to California a number of years ago to seek his fortune.. He sent back money to his family and each year the gifts increased. But at last his wife wrote him saying, “We are pleased to have your offering, but oh, my husband, we long to see you.” And I feel like saying, Oh, Thou blessed Christ of God, we have received Thy gracious gifts in abundance, but we long to see Thee. Heaven, the Yearning of Every Heart “In his telegrams home, a railroad man never failed to mention his little four-year-old son, and he usually sent this message, ‘Tell Arthur I shall sleep with him tonight.’ The little boy was always pleased with these dispatches, which his mother read and reread to him. But there came a time when the fever burned his brow; and as he lay in his sobbing' mother’s arms his last words were: ‘Don’t ky, mamma, I s’all s’eep wiv Dod ’oo know. Send a teledraf to Heaven, and tell Dod I s’all sleep wiv Him tonight’.’,’ “A little boy and his younger sister were playing at ‘trains’. He was the engine, and she was the carriage and passengers all in one. Determined to get a big enough station to start from, he shouted, ‘London!’ and went puffing away. In a little he stopped and called out ‘Edinburgh!’ and then ‘Glas gow!’ After that he came to a stop again, but his geography was exhausted, and so, unable to remember any other place, he shouted ‘Heaven!’ The little passenger thereupon spoke: ‘ ’Top, I sink I s’oud like to det out here.’ ” Told by D. L. Moody.
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