be the gathering together of all that lived and loved and rejoiced together and where all should meet in glory that should never end. In the present economy, there was not such a thing as a satisfied man on earth, but in the millennial rest "God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." in the present state he appeared to have degenerated in regard to the length of days. . . he believed that the life of man was shorter than it ought to be. The last allotted period was 120 years. It was true that the Psalmist had spoken of "three score and ten", but that was uttered as a complaint that it should be so. A French physiologist had published a work in which he stated that all animals lived precisely five times the period it took to perfect their tissues. Man took 25 years to bring to perfection the tissues of his body, and consequently according to that law, he ought to live five times twenty five years. It was not work but worry that shortened life. He worked himself as hard as most men, yet he was never ill; and the secret was he put off anxiety till he could grapple with it. The greater intemperence of the day was not alcoholic but cerebral - over-application of the brain, thus producing constant anxiety. Death was unnatural; he had never been reconciled to it, and he looked upon it as the most abnormal, most monstrous of things; he could receive it only as a foe, and he could welcome it only as a messenger from his maker.
But in the new heaven and the new earth, there would be no more death, nor pain, nor sorrow. There would be no more broken hearts, no more oppressed spirits, no wounded souls; there would be no parents weeping for their children, because they were not, there would be no failure in wine at that festive season; there would be no Martha and Mary weeping over their brother and joining the long sisterhood of sorrow. Tears would be dried up, deaths would end, love would be ceaseless and the joy of all be festive. He believed totally in the physical and material, as well was the moral and spiritual happiness of all the people of God in that age. And oh, what a happy reunion would that be? What shall we see there? Whom shall we meet there? He believed that all that science gave the mere twilight of now, would be seen in its fullness and glory; he believed that all creation would be open to the inspection and study of those who are amongst the world in Christ. They would meet there Adam, who would recite the story of the fall; Eve who would tell of her sore temptation. They would meet there, perhaps, Abel, the first martyr among the Christians, who could tell them how he sealed the testimony with his blood; they might meet Noah, who would say what was the appearance of the world, which was swept away by the flood. They might see Abraham, who looked for that city, which in (illegible text) foundations; David, whose double-dyed sins were twice forgiven him; Peter, who denied his master, and then so bitterly repented, and Paul who found there was forgiveness for the chiefest of sinners. There they would find, too, Christians of the early and middle ages; in the church of Rome there they would find -
