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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Dec 24, 1903

L. A. S

By L. A. S.

It is time now to feel that we are indeed strangers and pilgrims on this earth,—this realm of sin and woe, ruled by the spirit of strife,—but that we have a home, and that we are homeward bound. It is time to make this truth a reality in our experience, a truth that shows itself in our words and deportment. Let it be a prospect which will lift us above the obstacles and trials of this earthly way. “Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.”

“The things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.” And eternal things, the unseen things, are the truly real things. Spiritual things are real; those things which are seen only with the eye of faith are more real than the things visible to the natural eye. We can see nothing with the natural eye that is permanent, nothing that is not soon to pass away and be seen no more forever. God, the fountain head of all reality, is a spirit, and invisible. The Word of God is real, and though we can not seize it with our hands, when we lay hold on it by faith, our connection with it is a reality, and no mere theory or figure of speech. We need to realize more that the spiritual, unseen things are more real than the things of time and sense.