"Knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance."—(Heb. 10:34) Thank God for this plain text. Everything in this world has an end. The grass withereth, the flower fadeth away. The sturdy oak, in whose branches the fowls of the air lodge, soon decays and is no more. All nature teaches the "end of all things" pertaining to earth. Even the monuments, the pyramids, in time crumble to dust. This mortal body will soon return to mother earth. This earth will pass away. But when time has run its course, when the sun and moon no longer shine, when all things pertaining to earth, and the earth itself is no more, and is forgotten, "ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance." Yes, dear pilgrim, "in heaven," the place of God's throne, and the home of the angels. "To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, who are kept by the power of God." —(1 Pet. 1:4, 5) "For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven." (Col. 1:5) "The Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom."— (2 Tim. 4:18) "For we know . . . we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens."—(2 Cor. 5:1) "Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust cloth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through and steal." —(Matt. 6:20) "A treasure in the heavens that faileth not." —(Luke 12:33) "Thou shalt have treasure in heaven." —(Matt. 19:21) "Great is your reward in heaven."—(Luke 6:23) Surely the foregoing is sufficient to establish the fact that heaven will be our future home, as believers.

So then after this earth has passed away we look for new heaven and a new earth."— (2 Pet. 3:13) The new earth is the "heavenly country," the "better country." (Heb. 11:16) The new heaven is the "heavenly city"; "for he hath prepared for them a city."—(Heb. 11:16) "For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come." (Heb. 13:14) "Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city."—(Rev. 22 :14)

There is a land where everlasting suns shed everlasting brightness;
Where the soul drinks from the living streams which roll by God's high throne.
Myriads of glorious ones bring their accepted offerings.
Oh, how blessed to look from this dark prison to that shrine,
To inhale one breath of Paradise divine,
And enter into the eternal home of rest, which awaits the sons of God.
Brighter than the glorious sunsets, which delight this earthly clime,
an the splendor of the dawnings, breaking o'er the hills of time,
the richness of the radiance of that land beyond the sun,
Where the noble have their country, where the work of life is done."
[ The End ]