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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith
~The Response of History to the Revelation~
Chapter 21 – The New Jerusalem
upon the city as the Revelator evidently
designed we should look upon it, as a literal
and tangible abode, our glorious inheritance,
the beauties of which we are to look upon with
our own eyes, how is the glory of the scene
enhanced!
It is in this light, though it is not for mortal
man, of himself, to conceive of the grandeur of
those things which God has prepared for those
that love him, that men may delight to
contemplate the glories of their future abode.
We love to dwell upon those descriptions
which convey to our minds, as well as
language can do it, an idea of the loveliness
and beauty which shall characterize our
eternal home. And as we become absorbed in
the contemplation of an inheritance tangible
and sure, courage springs up anew, hope
