REMOVAL by H. A. St. John

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 27, 1876

REMOVAL

By H. A. St. John

It is not very agreeable to move away from a pleasant home; to pack up one's effects, and leave tried friends, dear relatives, and warm-hearted brethren and sisters; but duty sometimes makes this necessary in this world of sin and sorrow. An experience of this character, recently had by the writer, has had a tendency to give an increased longing for the coming of the blessed Redeemer, and the gathering together into one vast host all the good of every age.

I think of that removal only a little in the future, when all the righteous shall remove from this world of sorrow, sin, death, disappointments, and separation, to a home that is free from all sources of sorrow or tears, where sin and death cannot enter, and which is the perfection of beauty. And what a heavenly train will come to receive us! We shall not ride over rough and dangerous roads, with selfish, designing men at every turn, but we shall be attended by unselfish, lovely angels that excel in strength, an innumerable company, with the adorable Redeemer at their head, on a living chariot of surpassing glory.

And then an exorbitant price will not be charged for a passage to the new home, but we shall have a free ride, and an abundant entrance into the eternal city, the Holy Zion, “the perfection of beauty.” Nor will it be necessary to box up our household goods to take with us; for however nice we may have thought them here, they would greatly mar the beauty of our heavenly home. The richest of these would not shine in the courts of glory. Nor will they be at all needed there; for our blessed Jesus has gone to prepare a place for his people. The heavenly mansions will be all furnished and all ready for their reception. Glorious day, soon to dawn! Reader, are you preparing for that removal? H. A. St. John.