What Shall We Do in Heaven?

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 340, 6 February 1889, Page 3

What Shall We Do in Heaven?

Some pecple thought that the ' Daily Telegraph' was decidedly venturesome in allowing a correspondence in its columns as to whether marriage is a failure, but the ' New York Herald ' loaves its London contemporary 'standing still,' for it has commenced a discussion on the question, ' What shall we do in Heaven ?' Dr. Talmago is, of course, to the fore, and lie ib able to toll us that — * Heaven is always improving. Tt is altogether a different place from what it was 100 or 1,000 yeais ago. How on earth can Dr. Talmage know this, and how does he reconcile his theory with the Scriptural assurance that ' in heaven' there is no difference between a day and a thousand ycais? He also assuro3 us that ' there will be the family room, the music room, the reception room, and the throne room.' The Rev, John R. Paxton writes: — * Well, I cannot undoisband eternal loafingaroundthethronc . . . . We cannot be destined to be waving palmleavesandsingingalldayfor all eternity. . . . « We have not all of us the gift of music in us, and for my part if I have to join the choir, I don't want to go there.' And here is the opinion of Dr. Eaton: — 'I do not believe that heaven will bo a place where we shall spend our time waving palms and singing psalms. Neither do I look upon it as an old curiosity shop where useless and lifeless saints are kept in stock.' Dr. Seward declines to believe that people will follow in heaven the occupations which engrossed them on earth, foi% in that ca&e, he asks, ' What would become of the undertakers ?'