Life on the New Earth

The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 1, 1862

Life on the New Earth

Sr. P. A. Holley writes from Round Grove, Ills. : "We are striving for eternal life; and seeking a preparation that will prepare us for an inheritance on the earth when it shall be made new. Then God shall wipe away all tears, and dry up every source of sorrow. The inhabitants will have to endure no more toilsome days nor wearisome nights. The head never will ache, nor the heart ever throb with grief. We shall all be happy. There our bodies will be vigorous with immortal health, and clothed with celestial loveliness. Here the loving and the loved are separated. Here the loveliest fade like a flower. But when on the new earth they will bloom through everlasting ages in unwithering beauty. With pain and sickness, death too will cease. Then this corruption shall have put on incorruption, this mortal immortality, and death will be swallowed up in victory. Then the sublime language of our Redeemer will be accomplished : 'I will ransom them from the power of the grave; I will redeem them from death. O Death, I will be thy plagues! O Grave, I will be thy destruction!' There shall then be no more death; no more will the great enemy tempt the children of God by his approach, nor will they ever again dread his cruel power. The painful separations that death so oft occasions, will be known no more. None will be summoned to leave the friends they love, or the happy country where they dwell. A home on the new earth will be a home of perfect safety. This world is a world of danger and of frequent conflict. In all its changes temptation is found. Prosperity tempts the soul to love the world, adversity, to repine at the dealings of God. Youth and age, poverty and wealth, health and sickness, have all temptations peculiar to themselves. We are striving for eternal life, where the tempter's power will never come."