The Joys of Heaven by Mary L. Williams

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · May 12, 1874

The Joys of Heaven.

By Mary L. Williams

We have joys even in this life; but here there is much to detract from our peace, where we see the laws of our Heavenly Father violated, and loved ones exposed to eternal death. Christ does not free us from the common ills of life. He makes no promise to us that our names shall never be cast out as evil. He gives no assurance that we shall never endure the sorrows of poverty, nor does he free us from man's liability to physical suffering. But he does assure us that in his Father's house are many mansions, and he has gone to prepare a place for us, and will soon come again and receive us into his kingdom.

The inhabitants of that clime never say they are sick, and the tongue of the slanderer never robs the child of God of his good name. There the Christian's battles are ended, and he has entered a state where sorrow, pain, and death, are strangers. Are not these joys worth contending for? How worthless in comparison to them are all the trifles of this earth! What is earth's fleeting wealth in comparison to an inheritance that fadeth not away? Reader, will you make every sacrifice for this world's goods, and none for the cause of Him who provided Heaven for you if you will only come? And he says, “Come unto me, all you that are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.”

MARY L. WILLIAMS.