The Fruitage of Spiritual Gifts

Chapter 27 — Beautiful Visions of Glories Unseen

SOME OF THE SWEETEST, most inspiring, and most uplifting parts of the writings of Mrs. White are her descriptions of the life to come and the beauties awaiting the redeemed. The glories of heaven, the loveliness of the new earth, and the realities of the life beyond are told and retold as they can only be related by one who has herself seen them. To most people the personality of God, the life in the great beyond, or the help and service of angels are like a hazy dream. In modern thought the unseen values of a future are dim and intangible. Many do not think the saved will have bodies or live actual lives. The idea that heaven is a material creation or that God has a form as a real being they consider as crude ideas of a former, less intelligent age. They almost think of the life to come as an existence without time and a location without space. This vague conception of the unseen, so utterly different from the graphic revelations of Holy Writ, is one of the greatest weaknesses in modern religious thinking. FSG 420.1