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The Inheritance

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 31, 1870

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 35, No. 24.

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The Inheritance.

By John Matteson

The inheritance is incorruptible, 1 Pet. 1:4. The crown of immortality decks the brow of happy saints in glory. The cold embrace of death shall chill the heart no more. The ghastly form no more shall meet the eye of the bereaved mother; nor cause the bitter tears of the orphan to flow; nor tear asunder the tender cords of friendship and love. Incorruptible inheritance! Glorious crown of life! Thy heavenly splendor charms my heart.
The inheritance is undefiled. Sin can never stain the heavenly garments. Troubled soul, there is peace! The world and the devil surround you with snares. Temptations cause a continual warfare. But in the kingdom of Heaven is peace eternal and undisturbed. There the Prince of peace will lead his people as a shepherd his flock, in the rich pastures, to the ever-flowing fountains.
The heavenly inheritance can never fade. Here winter comes, so long and cold. The green groves fade, and the beautiful flowers wither and die. All the beauty of earth passes away, like a fading garment. And the gloomy night of tribulation is near. The tribulation of the last days. A greater tribulation than this, earth has ever witnessed. Like a Siberian winter will it close the long year of corruption. The night cometh, but also the morning. The eternal morn is beyond the night. It brings the never-fading inheritance. The immortal flowers of Paradise can never fade. The rustling leaves no more portend the swift approach of winter.
O world! how deceitful thou art. Depart from my soul with thy perishing beauty. Draw near, dear Saviour, with the beautiful Paradise. Fill my heart with thy heavenly treasures. Keep me by the power of God through faith unto the glorious salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.
Rays of light from the world of glory! Celestial bliss beyond all comprehension! I go to dwell in the heavenly city; to walk with Jesus in the streets of gold; to see the beautiful mansions in my Father's house. Dear reader, will you go with us to Jesus? Will you go with us to the heavenly country, to the city of our God?
JOHN MATTESON.