Improvement Era, 1919 by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Religion

Rest in the Paradise of God.

Yes, that sweet rest that we sing about has come to him. No more earthly struggles and sorrows, no more earthly disappointments, no more pain of body or anguish of mind, no more fightings against the influence of the world, the flesh and the devil; but rest, sweet rest, with the just and the true and the good behind the veil, whose bodies sleep in the dust, but whose spiritual personality and existence continue, and they enjoy that which is to be enjoyed in that sweet place of rest commonly called "the Paradise of God." It has a sweet sound to me. I have long believed in Paradise. I believe that there is a rest prepared for the people of God, where their earthly sorrows and pains shall have fled forever, and where they shall enjoy the society of the good and the true without the intrusion of the wicked, the corrupt and the abominable, and where Satan has no power. It is the place where the light of the Lord shines, and where the best and noblest of earth, after passing away, congregate and associate and perform such works as are assigned unto them. Not that they will be resting in laziness, without anything to do. That would not be very much paradise or heaven to John A. Knight. He was accustomed to hard labor for many years, and he had to meet with a great many rebuffs and disappointments, struggles for existence and continuance. Now he will be at rest from these things, but that strong spirit in that stalwart body which commanded our admiration here on the earth, lives still. That is one of the thoughts that gives me comfort and joy, made so plain to us in the revelations of God, particularly in our latter days; that when the individual spirit leaves the body, he or she is the same person that dwelt in the body, only minus the earthly covering that was formed out of the earthly elements. The body goes back to the earthly elements, but the individual continues and is the same person.

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