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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 18, 1870

ALL THERE.

A whole family in Heaven! Who can picture or describe the everlasting joy? No one absent. Nor father, nor mother, nor son, nor daughter, are away. In the world below they were united by faith, and love, and peace, and joy. In the morning of the resurrection they ascend together. Before the throne they bow together in united adoration. On the banks of the river of life they walk hand in hand, and as a family, have commenced a career of glory which shall be everlasting. There is hereafter to be no separation in that family. No one is to lie down upon a bed of pain. No one to wander in the arms of death. Never in Heaven is that family to move along in slow procession, clad in the habiliments of woe, to consign one of its members to the tomb. God grant that, in his infinite mercy, every family may be thus united.—Rev. Albert Barnes.