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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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Our Heavenly Home.

By L. E. Miller

In my Father's house are many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you. What pen can portray the joys of our heavenly home? How transporting the thought that we are nearing that blessed home of perfect rest. The long, dark night of sorrow is almost over. The morning soon will dawn. That blessed day when Christ, our adorable Redeemer, will come to take his weary children home to those bright mansions, in our Father's house, is at hand.
When by faith we survey the beautiful city, how our hearts swell with rapture at the thought that we are almost there. As we near the golden city, its heavenly breezes refresh our weary souls, and we drink of the waters of life now freely flowing.
How sweet the thought that there our joys are everlasting. Forever with the Lord! Crowns of unfading glory shall be ours, and we shall be kings and priests unto God. Delightful employment! Our songs of redeeming grace and Jesus' dying love will never end.
As we obtain a glimpse of those glorious mansions, how this poor world recedes from our sight. How vain each earthly treasure. All, all, are passing away. But we have a house not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens. Then let us look up; for our redemption draweth nigh. The gates of the celestial city will soon be opened for the righteous nation who have kept the truth to enter in.
“Where beauty smiles eternally, And pleasure never dies.”
L. E. MILLER.
Council Bluffs, Iowa.