May 20

What will heaven be? What will be the substance on which they shall stand who worship God and praise Him in the ages of eternity? I find manifold fitness in the answer that tells us that it shall be a "sea of glass mingled with fire." Heaven will not be pure stagnation, not idleness, not any more luxurious dreaming over the spiritual repose that has been safely and forever won; but active, tireless, earnest work; fresh,

live enthusiasm for the high labors which eternity will offer. These vivid inspirations will play through our deep repose, and make it more mighty in the service of God than any feverish and unsatisfied toil of earth has ever been. The sea of glass will be mingled with fire. Here too we have the type and standard of that heavenliness of character which ought to be ripening in all of us now, as we are getting ready for that spiritual life.