The First Years of the Life of the Redeemed After Death; A New Unfolding in Theology and in the Christian Life and Destiny Here and Hereafter - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901. Excerpt: ... PART II. PARADISE. Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me, And may there be no moaning of the bar When I put out to sea: But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound or foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell When I embark: For though from out our bourne of time and place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face, When I have crossed the bar.--alfred Tennyson. CHAPTER I. ENTRANCE ON, AND FIRST EXPERIENCES OF, PARADISE J OR, THE NURSERY FOR HIGHEST HEAVEN. My thoughts on entrance to, and first experiences of, the life of the redeemed after death,, in Paradise, may have come to me, as it were, in dreams and visions. Still, I have found they were "not all a dream." So I have gathered confidence, remembering, too, that dreams do come true, and visions are realized, that angels have spoken to men, and God has revealed himself, in dreams and visions in the past, and that the Spirit is promised "to lead into all truth." Musing on things to come, I have seen that even " as the tree falls so it lieth," so I have concluded that as men die they begin their new life beyond--as life is dropped by them so it is taken up again above. I saw in my musings that men died with a tinge of sinfulness in action, and even in nature and feeling; but that they rise in heaven to newness of life over this, that their start there is an advance over the regeneration they had experienced on earth, yet that it was not perfect, in its results in sanctification. With the sloughing off of the body, I saw, and could not doubt, but that really and more completely all tendency to sin had been removed, but that still there w...

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