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Is that all? Where is he who used to lisp "father, mother," thy child? Passing out of your hands, passed he not into those of Jesus? Yes, you suffered him. If any other than Jesus had said, Suffer them to come to me," you would have said, No. Death does not quench those recently struck sparks of intelligence. Jesus is not going to lose one of those little brilliants. All shall be in his crown.

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Perhaps thou hast a brother, or a sister there; that should draw you towards heaven. Perhaps a mother-she whose eye wept while it watched over thee, until at length it grew dim, and closed. Took she not in her cold hand, thine, while yet her heart was warm, and said she not, "I am going to Jesus. Follow me there ?" Perhaps one nearer, dearer than child, than brother, than mother-the nearest, dearest is there. Shall I say who? Christian female, thy husband. Christian father, the young mother of thy babes. He is not. She is not; for God took them. Has heaven no attractions?

Heaven is gaining in attractions every day. True, the principal attractions continue the same. But the lesser ones multiply. Some have attractions there now, which they had not but a few months ago. Earth is losing. How fast it has been losing of late! But earth's losses are heaven's gains. They who have left so many dwelling places of earth desolate, have gone to their Father's house in heaven. What if they shall not return to us? We shall go to them. That is better.

But the principal attractions I have not yet mentioned. There is our Father-our heavenly Father, whom we have so often addressed as such in prayer. He that nourished and brought us up, and has borne us on he that has watched over us with an eye that never sleeps, and provided for us with a hand that never tires; and who can pity too. We have never seen our heavenly Father. But there he reveals himself. There he smiles; and the nations of the saved walk in the light of his countenance.

And there is he, to depart and be with whom Paul desired, as being "far better" than to live. There is his glorified humanity. If not having seen, we love him; and in him, though now we see him not, yet believing, we rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory, what will be the love and the joy when "we shall see him as he is?" There is he.

Heaven has attractions-many, and strong-and yet who would think it? How few feel and obey the heavenly attraction! How much more powerfully earth acts upon us! How unwilling we are to leave it even for heaven!

46. The Heavenly Recognition.

The question is often asked, "Do you think we shall know each other in heaven?" Some are very

curious to be informed on this subject. It is a point they seem more anxious to know than some other more important points. I am afraid we shall not all know each other in heaven. I am afraid we shall not all be there to know and be known. Let us first try to get to heaven. It is more important that we should be there, than that we should know what other persons are there. Let us repent with a broken heart; and believe in Christ for a title to heaven; and "let us follow holiness" that we may be furnished with a fitness for heaven; and being ourselves "accepted in the Beloved," and sanctified through the Spirit, let us try to get as many others to heaven as we can; and let us leave the subject of mutual recognition in heaven for subsequent consideration. By the time we have done what I recommend, we shall be close upon the celestial confinesperhaps within heaven's limits

[The article is unfinished. The beloved author here laid down his pen; and instead of resuming it, was called, who can question, to realise the scenes he had been describing.]

THE END.

ON

POPERY,

To the law and to the testimony.-ISAIAH S. 20.

BY REV. WILLIAM NEVINS, D. D..

LATE PASTOR OF A CHURCH IN BALTIMORE,

PUBLISHED BY TILE

AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY 150 NASSAU-STREET, NEW YORK.

Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1836, by RUFUS L. NEVINS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York.

Right of publishing transferred to American Tract Society

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