The Glory to be Revealed.
Dr. Arnold very strikingly remarks, "Men forget what they were in their youth, or at best only partially remember it : it is hard, even for those whose memory is strongest and most lively, to put themselves exactly into the same positions in which they stood as boys: they can scarcely fancy that there was once a time when they cared so much for pleasures and troubles which now seem so trifling. And it may be, that if we rise hereafter to angel's stature; if wisdom be ours, such as now we dream not of; if being counted worthy to know God as he is, the poorness of all created pleasures shall be revealed to us, flashing upon our glorified spirits like light—it40may be that we shall then feel it as hard to fancy how we could have cared for what we now deem most important; how twenty years, more or less, taken from this span of our earthly life; how being parted for a few years more or less, from those friends with whom we are to be for ever—how this could have seemed of importance to beings born for immortality; and it is quite reasonable to suppose that the interests of our manhood will hereafter appear to us just as insigni—I ought rather to say ten thousand times more so than the interests of our boyish years can seem to us now."