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Heaven Begins on Earth

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International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 16, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 27.

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Heaven Begins on Earth

HEAVEN begins on earth. We must have a foretaste of it here, to enjoy its fullness hereafter. The apostle calls it "the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession." To carry out the figure, it is a small amount of the same kind, paid in hand, to insure the full installment in due time. That soul that has been born from above, that has Christ formed in the heart the hope of glory, and that is filled with peace and joy in the Holy Ghost, has a little heaven in his soul, that, if he is faithful, will expand into the fullness of the heaven that is to come. Unless we have this beginning of heaven in our souls here, we need not expect to enjoy the heaven promised to the redeemed hereafter.—Sel.