ely higher things in God's plan for His redeemed than
selfish happiness and content. There is the blessedness that comes of
sympathy with Him in the pain which is the underside of the Eternal
Love.

Section 3

No sin in Heaven. No sorrow in Heaven. What else do we certainly
know? _That the essence of the Heaven life will be love_. The giving
of oneself for the service of others. The going out of oneself in
sympathy with others. There at last will be realized St. Paul's
glorious ideal. There it can be said of every man, He suffereth long
and is kind; envieth not; vaunteth not himself; is not puffed up;
seeketh not his own; behaveth not uncourteously. He is like the
eternal God Himself, who beareth all things, hopeth all things,
endureth all things (1 Cor. xiii. 4-7).

Section 4

We may well believe _that there will be no dead level of attainment_,
no dead level of perfection and joy. That would seem to us very
uninteresting. If we may judge from God's dealings here and from the
many texts of Scripture, there will be an infinite variety of
attainment, of positions, of character. "In the Father's house there
are many mansions." Our Lord assumes that we would expect that from
our experience here. "If it were not so, I would have told you." I
suppose there will be little ones there needing to be taught and weak
ones needing to be helped; strong leaders sitting at His right hand in
His Kingdom, and poor backward ones who never expected to get into it
at all.

And so surely we may believe, too, will there be _varieties of
character and temperament_. We shall not lose our identity and our
peculiar characteristics by going to Heaven, by being lifted to a
higher spiritual condition. Just as a careless man does not lose his
identity by conversion, by rising to a higher spiritual state on earth,
so we may well believe when we die and pass into the life of the
waiting souls, and again when at Christ's coming we pass into the
higher Heaven we shall remain the same men and women as we were before
and yet become very different men and women. Our lives will not be
broken in two, but transfigured. We shall not lose our identity; we
shall still be ourselves; we shall preserve the traits of character
that individualize us; but all these personal traits and
characteristics will be suffused and glorified by the lifting up of our
motive and aim. As far as we can judge, there will be a delightful,
infinite varie