Whoever you are, with the light you have, you cannot but be sensible that your souls must be shut out of the kingdom of God if you die in your sins, and that you must have your portion with all the evil and abominable-with the dogs, sorcerers, idolaters, whoremongers, liars, and murderers. (Rev. 21: 8; 22: 15.) You will have passed the boundaries of probation, and gone from the region of hope, yet will still exist, but in a condition of being where he that is filthy, will remain so. See Rev. 22: 11. The fountain that is opened for the cleansing of our race, and now is at hand, will then be forever out of your reach you will exist experiencing the second death-a death indeed! But remember it will be a death you have chosen, the result of your preference of sin to holiness. If you finally perish, you will be sensible that it is because you were willing to retain your sinful dispositions, and had been at no pains to have them extirpated. If you lie down in endless sorrow, you will see that the fault was in yourselves, that you had had in this life the opportunity to have washed and been clean, yea, were urged to the healing fountain-urged to come to the Savior, that your spotted souls might be made white, but would not. This you will perceive, but then it will be eternally too late to seek sanctification, and escape woe. The hope is, that you will become alarmed about yourselves, in view of your awfully perilous situation, not only as guilty condemned criminals, but likewise as being diseased with sin, and do as others in like case have done,

flee to the Divine Physician, the only One who can cure, and to the healing balm, that your souls may live. Such individvals, having taken this course, have found spiritual redemption, and so may you. They know what it is to have gone to the mercy seat, and there wrestle in earnest importunity for sanctifying influences, feeling that the destiny of the soul hung suspended, and that it must endure eternal death unless it was delivered from sin. This class having the witness that a divine change has taken place within, and themselves endeavoring to overcome "the flesh," and all that is of the "evil one," have hope that they shall inherit eternal life, through the blessed Redeemer, when they shall have been made perfectly pure through his blood. Will not those I am addressing imitate such examples, and seek sanctification now while probationers. I earnestly entreat you to do it, it is for your life; neglecting it you will be forever lost.

CHAPTER IX.

FREEDOM OF THE NEW WORLD FROM THE

CURSE.

Ir, as we have observed, there are revealed few specific particulars of the constitution of the new earth, there are revelations to a glorious degree as to its general character as it is to be as respects both its negative and positive qualities. And if in its positive properties, there appear some things that have a comparison with certain characteristics of the present earth, they are those whose kind constitute the beautiful, excellent, and blessed things which are found in it; while its negative qualities consist in the absence of all that exists which is unpleasant and afflictive.Thus, while in that coming world, all the good qualities of the present earth, as we may suppose, will exist in a degree of beauty, excellence, and blessedness exceeding far their best qualities here, there will be the absence of all those evils which if they were removed from the present world, would leave it to be beautiful and good, even with this lower degree of excellence in its good things. As we proceed to consider some of the negative qualities of that coming world, and compare it with the present one, may the Christian reader have his heart drawn in its glowing affections, and

the soul moved to active zeal in the pursuit of that everlasting refuge from all evil, and that eternal fullness of all good. We will consider

SECTION I.

1.

There will be nothing evil in the natural condition and frame of that world.-Here now the whole creation is in an evil, deranged state. Sandy wastes. We look at the earth, and behold much of it to be sandy wastes and deserts, being parched and burnt up with the heat of the sun; it is tilless and useless. See the vast deserts of Asia and Africa-oceans of sand. The like of this, though in smaller compass, is to be seen in all countries; they cause the earth to appear dismal. In this the curse is seen. It must be so. We cannot for a moment suppose that there would have been any thing of the kind had not man sinned. Certainly it is on account of his guilt and crimes it is so ordered. Then in the new earth it will be different. Favored by the eternal King, it will exhibit no such scene as this. The promise is, "The desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose." This we must understand as intended to convey to our minds an idea of the happy change there will be, as regards what we name. 2. Dead, marshy land. What an abundance of this! unnumbered spots of the kind; some of them of vast extent: there are myriads upon myriads of square miles of them on the face of the globe. What a sad complexion they give to the scene! How unpleasant to the sense! They spoil the beauty of the earth, while

they lessen the number of its valuable acres, and besides this, spread poison and death by the evil miasma rising from them. Could it have been so before the fall? Are they not here as a part of the curse? And will they be to be seen after the earth shall be made over anew by the hand of its divine Architect? Surely not. He will so value it, and so want the whole of it for the happy occupancy of his numberless redeemed subjects, that he will not feel able to spare any of it, no, not even for sea, as he seems to intimate, (see Rev. 21: 1,) much less for bogs and swamps, to be hiding places for dragons and every thing else loathsome and vile. 3. Rocks and hideous mountain precipices. Only look at the world that now is, how unsightly! all broken to pieces! It seems as though the offended Creator had hurled all his thunderbolts against it, and had beaten it with all his storms, until it was well nigh reduced to a heap of ruins! What a sight have we in the rocks rising up all over the fields and plains! and what ledges and mountain-piles! How painful these to the sight, and some of them almost absolutely frightful! They mar the love. liness of the world-are in the way-are a curse, and without doubt were intended as such. our good Parent, when he framed his works so well in the beginning, and pronounced all per. fect, make the earth as it now is? Do we ima gine that the sons of light, those morning stars, saw the creation so shattered and disfigured at the time they viewed its young form, and shouted over it for joy? No, we cannot. At the deluge,

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