he heart of every sinner we seek to get converted before we
arrive. Any man who wants to do an immense business should seek a good
partner. We are workers together with God. What is being done worthy
of the copartnership?

WHEN THIS WORLD IS NOT*

*Reprinted from the _Methodist Review_.

"The day of the Lord will come . . .; in which the heavens shall pass
away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat,
the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up."

What is there after that?

To this question there are three answers:

I. There are left all of what may be called natural forces that there
were before the world was created. They are not dependent on it. The
sea is not lost when one bubble or a thousand break on the rocky shore.
The world is not the main thing in the universe. It is only a
temporary contrivance, a mere scaffolding for a special purpose. When
that purpose is fulfilled it is natural that it should pass away. The
time then comes when the voice that shook the earth should signify the
removal of "those things that are shaken, as of things that are made,
that those things which cannot be shaken may remain." We already have
a kingdom that cannot be moved. "The things which are seen are
temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal."

It should not be supposed that the space away from the world is an
empty desert. God is everywhere, and creative energy is omnipresent.
Not merely is a millionth of space occupied where the worlds are, but
all space is full of God and his manifestations of wisdom and power.
David could think of no place of hiding from that presence. The first
word of revelation is, "In the beginning God created the heaven." And
the great angel, standing on sea and land when time is to be no longer,
swears by Him who "created heaven, and the things that therein are," in
distinction from the earth and its things that are to be removed. What
God created with things that are therein is not empty. Poets, the true
seers, recognize this. When Longfellow died one of them, remembering
the heartbreaking hunt of Gabriel for Evangeline, and their passing
each other on opposite sides of an island in the Mississippi, makes him
say of his wife long since gone before:

And now I shall seek her once more,
On some Mississippi's vast tide
That flows the whole universe through,
Than earth's widest rivers more wide.

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