We often hear the expression, "I want to see how it looks," or "I mean to see how it looks, inside of the city." Laudable desire! Heaven-born purpose! Who would not wish to behold the glories, and share in the bliss of that celestial abode? But do we think when we make these expressions that we are talking of unsurpassed glories which Inspiration has never essayed to express in human language, nor any pen ever attempted to discribe? The views which the Bible gives us of the glorious city, the new Jerusalem, singular as it may appear, are rather external than internal views. Its descriptions are such as would be given by a spectator beholding it from a distance. Its glorious foundation stones are set before us; we are told that its wall is of jasper, its gates of pearl, and the street of gold. We are permitted to look upon the tree of life, and the river that sparkles in the glory of God beneath; but further than this, mortal minds may not attempt to picture. It is reserved to the overcomers when clothed in their immortal garbs of heavenly light, to behold the scenes, and fathom the glories that lie beyond. But in that which is revealed there is more than we can comprehend. The external beauty and grandeur of that heavenly city is such as eye has not seen, nor the heart of man conceived. Then what must the inside be? May we not suppose the same rule to hold there which is universally observed in the cities of earth? While in entering these cities we see much that is noble and grand, and many things to adorn and please, in its external arrangements, where, after all, do we look for the exhibition of its treasures of magnificence and wealth. It is inside of its lordly mansions, in the inner court of its palaces and temples. It is there that we behold all the gorgeous magnificence that gold can procure or art devise. What then must the inside of the heavenly city be! More than ever, we want to see how it looks there. More than ever, then, let us resolve that we will reach it and behold its glories; and then, oh thought almost too great, too glorious, for mortals to hope to realize, we shall soon know what it is to be there.