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NIGHT
IN HEAVEN.
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The
sun,
in
the natural
world,
is
a bright
emblem
of
divinity, or
the ,godhead; for
it
is
the spring
of
all
light
and heat and
life
to the
creatioh.
It
is by
the influences
of
the
sun,
that
herbs,
plants and
animals
are produeed
in
their
proper
seasons, and
in all
their various'
beauties,
and
they
are
all
refreshed
and.
supported
by
it.
Now
if
we
should
suppose
-this
vast
globe
of
fire,
which
wwe
call
the
sun,' to be
inclosed
in
a
huge hollow sphere
Of
chrys-
tal, which should attem
-per
its
rays like
a-
transparent
veil,
and
give
milder and
gentler
influences to the
burn
ing
beams
of
it,
-and
"yet
transmit
every
desirable
and
useful
portion of
light or heat, this would
be ,a
happy
em
blèm
of
the plan
"'Christ
Jesus, in
whom
dwells all
the
fulness
of
the
godhead
bodily,"
Col. ii.
9.-
It
,is
the
Lamb
of God,
who,
in
a
mild
and gracious manner,
conveys
the
,blessings
originally derived
from''God;
his
Father,
to all the saints.
We partake of
them in
our
measures
in
this
lower world,
among
his churches-
here
on
earth;
but it
is
with
a
nobler
influence,
and
in
a
more
sublime degree,
the blessings
of
:
paradise are
diffused,
through
all
the mansions
of
glory,
by
this
illustrious nie-
dium
of
conveyance, Jesus;
the.
Son
of
God;
and
there
can
be
no night
nor
coldness,
death nor
darkness,
in
this
happy state of separate
souls.
When the
bodies
of
the saints
shall be
raised
again,
and
re- united
to
their proper
spirits, when
they
shall
ts-,-
cend
to the place
of their
final heaven,
and
supreme
happiness,
we
know
not
what
manner of
bodies
they
shall be,
what sort
of
senses
they
shall be
furnished
with,
nor
how many powers
of
conversing with the
corporeal
world
shall be bestowed
upon
them.
,
Whether
they
shall
have
such
organs
of
sensation
as eyes
and ears,
and stand
in
need
of
such light
as
we
derive from
the
sun or
moon,
is
not
absolutely certain.
Thé scripture
tells
us,
it
shall
not
be
a
body
of
flesh
and
blood
:
These are
not materials
refined
enough for the heavenly
state;
"
that
which
is
corruptible cannot inherit incorruption,"
1
C'or.
xv.
50.
But, this
we May
be
assured
of,
that
whatsoever inlets
óf
knowledge,
whatever
avenues
of
pleasure, whatever
de-
lightful sensations
are necessary
o
make the
inhabitants
of that
world happy, they shall be all
united
in
that
spi-
ritual
body, which
God
will
prepare
for
the
new-
raised
saints.
If
eyes and
ears
shall belong to
that
glorified
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