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NO
NIGHT
IN
HEAVEN.
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throne
of God, and
serve
him day
and night
in his
tem-
ple
:"
that
is,
they
constantly
serve
or worship
him in his
holy temple in
heaven.
Perhaps,
the different
orders
and
ranks of them,
in
a continual
succession,
are ever
doing
some
honours
to
God.
As
there
is
no
night
there,
so
there
is
no
cessation
of
their
services,
their
worship,
-and
their
holy exercises,
in
one
forai or another,
through-
out
the
duration
of
their
being.
Our
pleasures here
on
earth
are
short-
lived
:
If
they
are
intense,
nature cannot bear them
long, any
more
than constant
business
and
labour
:
And
if
our
labours
and our pleasures should happily
join, and
mingle
here
on earth,
which
is
not
always
the
case,
yet night compels
us to
break
off
the pleasing
labour,
and
we
must
rest
from the most delightful
business.
Happy
is
that
region
on
high,
where
business
and pleasure are for ever
the
same
among all the
inhabitants of
it,
and
there
is
no
pause, or entire
cessation
of
the
one
or the other..
"
Tell
me,
ye
warm
and
lively
christians, when
your hearts
are
sweetly
and
joyfully engaged
in
the worship
of God,
ii
holy
conversation, or
in
any
pious
services
here
on
earth,
how often you have
been forced
to
break
off these
celes-
tial entertainments
by
the
returning
night.
But
in
the
heavenly state there
is
everlasting active
service
with
everlasting delight and satisfaction."
In that
blessed world
there
can
be no idleness,
no
in-
activity, no
trifling
intervals
to pass away time, no
vacant
or
empty spaces in
eternal
life.
Who
can be
idle
under
the immediate
eye
of
God?
Who
can
trifle in
the
pre-
sence
of
Christ? Who
can
neglect the
pleasurable work
of
heaven
under
the
sweet influences
of
the
present Deity,
and
under the
smiles
of
his
countenance,
who
approves
all their
work
and
worship.
3.
As in
our present
world,
the hours
of
night are
in
active,
if
we
sleep,
so
they seem
long
and
tedious, when
our
eyes
are
wakeful,
and
sleep
flies
from
us.
Perhaps
we
hear
the clock strike one
hour after another, with
wearisome
longings
for
the next succeeding
hour:
We
wish
the
dark season
at
an end,
and
we
long for the
ap-
proach of
morning,
we grow
impatient
for the dawning
of
the day.
But
in
heaven,
"
ye
spirits
who
have dwelt
longest there,
can
ye
remember one tiresome or
tedioyrs
hour, through
all
the
years
of your
residence in
that
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