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NO
NIGHT
IN
HEAVEN.
DISC.
vii:
And
as
there
is
no
weariness,
so
there
is
no sleeping
there.
Sleep was
not
made for
the heavenly state.
Can
the
spirits
of
the
just
ever sleep
under
the
full blaze
of
divine
glory,
under the
incessant communications
of
di-.
vine
love,
under
the
perpetual
influences
of
the grace
of
God
the Father, and
of Jesus the
Saviour,
and
amidst
.
the
inviting
confluence
of
every
spring
of
blessedness.
Another
inconvenience
of
night,
near
a-kin
to
the
former,
is,
that
business
is
interrupted
by
it,
partly for
want of
light to perform
it,
as well as
for want
of strength
and
spirits
to
pursue
it.
This
is
constantly
visible in
the
successions
of labour
and
repose here on
earth;
and the
darkness of the night
is
appointed
to
interrupt
the course
of
labour,
and the
business
of
the
day,
that
nature
may
be recruited. But
the
business
of heaven
is
never
inter-
rupted
;
there
is
everlasting
light,
and
everlasting
strength.
"
Say,
ye blessed
spirits
on high, who
join
in
the
services which
are performed
for
God, and the
Lamb
there
;
ye who
unite
all
your
powers in
the worship and
homage
that
is
paid to the Father, and
to
the
Son
;
ye
that
mingle in all
the joyful conversation
of that
divine
and
holy
assembly,
say, is
there found
any useless
hour
there?
Do your
devotions,
your duties and
your
joys,
ever
suffer
such an
entire interruption
of rest
and silence,
as
the
season
of
darkness
on
earth
necessarily creates
amongst the inhabitants
of our
world
?"
The
living
creatures*
which
are represented
by
John
the apostle
in
Rev.
iv.
6
-8.
whether they
signify
saints
or
angels,
yet
they were
full
of
eyes
that
never slumber;
they
rest not
day
nor
night, this
is
spoken in the
lan-
guage
of
mortals, to
signify
that
they
are
never
inter-
rupted
by
any change
of
seasons,
or
intervening
dark-
ness, in
the honours
they pay to
God
:
They are de-
scribed
as
ever
saying,
"
Holy,
holy,
holy,
Lord
God
almighty,
who
was,
and
is,
and
is
to
come." And
the
same
sort
of
expression
is
used concerning
the
saints in
heaven,
Rev.
vii.
14, 15.
"
They
who
came
out of great
tribulation, and
have washed
their
robes,
and made
them
white in the blood
of
the
Lamb,
they
are
before
the
*
The
word
r;wa,
which
is
translated
"beasts,"
signifies
only
"
ani-
nals,"
or"
living
creatures," and
does
not
carry
with
it
so
mean
and
so
disagreeable an
idea
as
the
word
"
beasts"
inEnglish.