The Sabbath

Waikato Times, Volume 115, Issue 19272, 2 June 1934, Page 14 (Supplement)

The Sabbat h

DAILY TEXT.

Sunday. Fear Destroyed; Fear thou not; for I am with thee; be not dismayed; for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee, yea I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.—lsaiah 41:10. Monday. God’s Wonderful Love; For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. —John 3:16. Tuesday Our Hope: And now, Lord, what wait I for? My hope is in thee. Deliver me from all my transgressions: make me not the reproach of the foolish.— Psalm 39:7, 8. Wednesday. God Loves the Good: Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart.—Psalm 73:1. Thursday.The God of Peace: Now the God of peace, . . . make you perfect in every good work to do his will.—Hebrews 13:20, 21. • Friday. Thy Keeper: The Lord is thy keeper the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand.—Psalm 121:5. / Saturday. God Knows AH: 0 God, thou knowest my foolishness; and my sins are not hid from thee. —Psalm 69:5.

WHICH ART IN HEAVEN

by Silent Peter. If you were to write down all you honestly and sincerely believe, you would probably be able to fill volume after volume. Yet if you started to make a note of everything you actually know to be a fact, you might have difficulty in covering more than a few sheets of paper. You cannot be said to know anything, until you are able to demonstrate it. It does not satisfy your mind to “believe” there is a heaven; you want to know, in actual fact, that heaven is a reality and not a fond dream of the credulous. You know that if heaven is a Truth, then it must be subject to tho unchanging laws of Truth and be demonstrable to the mind of man. You do not, of course, expect heaven to be something that may be touched or seen per medium of the physical senses. You know that the physical body is a passing thing, discarded when no longer needed; and you are fully alive to the fact that a heaven that could be apprehended by the physical senses would be a very transitory affair. No; what you want to be assured is that heaven is just as clearly demonstrable as are other aspects of nature, which, although impossible to “handle” in any way, you know to be evidence just as surely as you are.

yourself. Now the fact of heaven is demonstrable. It is attainable by the simplest child. Heaven does exist, has always existed and will ever continue to exist; and the first steps to be taken, to prove this fact, are so simple that some of us are tempted to be scornful in regard to taking them. In whatsoever things are true; in whatsoever things are honest; in whatsoever things are just; in whatsoever things are pure; in whatsoever things are lovely; in whatsoever things are of good report, there is heaven; there is GOD. Heaven is not a place. It is a condition, eternal in duration. You cannot place any limits to heaven, in Time, or Space, or Operation. It belongs to YOU and no one can rob vou of it. When you pray to OUR FATHER, WHICH ART IN HEAVEN from the depths of your sorrow, from the deep, strange places of your suffering, from the shackles of your wrongdoing and your wrong-thinking,— GOD lifts you from your condition of sorrow, of pain, of misery, into a condition of Peace and of Truth. Take the first few steps, and you will not need to demonstrate the Truth of heaven: it will itself demonstrate its reality within you. And remember this: that in attaining heaven, yourself, you will most certainly bring it into the lives of those around you.