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I has reached the goal. In that far future comes the glad finale of human history, the realization of the eternal thought in the mind of God from the beginning. As the unwritten play of a great dramatist lies in his mind before it is uttered or acted, with every problem solved and every contingency provided for--so we believe the whole extended drama lay in the Eternal Mind--the path of struggle and pain--the cross-currents of human will--the glorious conclusion of it all. Nothing was an after-thought. Now at last Christ
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Aye--satisfied. It was worth the cost. Worth the Incarnation of the Eternal Son--worth the sorrow and the pain--worth being misunderstood and shamed and mocked and scourged and spitted on and crucified--this final satisfaction of His tender love.
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Eye hath not seen nor ear heard nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive the things that God hath prepared. They shall hunger no more nor thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them nor any burning heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of the Throne shall shepherd them and lead them to eternal fountains of waters, and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes. There shall be no more death--no mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things--the old bad things--have passed away. That is the end of God's purpose for men. Surely it will be the wondering cry of the angels for ever,
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Behold how He loved them!
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I who lived here in an earthly body and in the Near Hereafter lived a spirit life
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--shall in that Far Hereafter have a spiritual body analogous we suppose to the body
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I had on earth. Not the poor body, certainly, which rotted in the grave,
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but a
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and yet it would seem having some strange mysterious connection with the earthly body. As the oak is the resurrection body of the acorn, and the lily of the ugly little bulb that decayed in the ground,
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I, the same conscious self through the whole life of Earth. and Hades and Heaven, and therefore the _real life, the inner life_ can still be understood. So when we enquire what can be known about the meaning of Heaven--at the very start I strike the key-note of the thoughts that follow, in the words of Christ Himself,
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The Kingdom of God is within you.