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diction and an inspiration to the world, and the influence repeat itself
a thousandfold.
Faithful workers send out into the world messages of strength
and hope and courage, words that carry blessing to hearts in every
land. But as they work in loneliness and obscurity they know little of
the results. Men and women sow the seed from which, above their
graves, others reap blessed harvests. They plant trees, that others
may eat the fruit. They are content here to know that they have set
in motion agencies for good. In the hereafter the action and reaction
of all these will be seen.
Of every gift that God has bestowed, leading people to unselfish
effort, a record is kept in heaven. To trace this in its wide-spreading
lines, to meet those who by our efforts have been uplifted and enno-
bled, to see in their history the outworking of true principles—this
will be one of the studies and rewards of the heavenly school.
Joys and Pursuits in Heaven
There we shall know even as also we are known. There the
loves and sympathies that God has planted in the soul will find truest
and sweetest exercise. The pure communion with holy beings, the
harmonious social life with the blessed angels and with the faithful
ones of all ages, the sacred fellowship that binds together “the whole
family in heaven and earth”—all are among the experiences of the
hereafter.
There will be music there, and song, such music and song as,
except in the visions of God, no mortal ear has heard or mind con-
ceived.
“As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there.”
Psalm 87:7
, KJV. “They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing.”
Isaiah 24:14
.
“For the Lord will comfort Zion, He will comfort all her waste
places; He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the
garden of the Lord; joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving
and the voice of melody.”
Isaiah 51:3
.
There every power will be developed, every capability increased.
The grandest enterprises will be carried forward, the loftiest aspira-
tions will be reached, the highest ambitions realized. And still there