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====21. A SWEET PROSPECT OF FUTURE BLISS.====

How soon I shall mingle with the inhabitants of the invisible world, I cannot say; but I may assure myself it cannot be long. Why then do I converse so seldom with the unseen world? 

Why do I daily strike my roots deeper into this world, like an old tree; when, like an old tree, I must soon be cut down? By kind providences, and gracious promises, I am encouraged to be heavenly-minded. 

And by afflictions I am chastened for my carnality. But could my faith get one sip of the heavenly banquet, I would long to sit down at the marriage-supper of the Lamb. 

What a rich feast is found in the kingdom of God, which entertains thousands and ten thousands of happy souls through eternity—and shall my immortal soul feed on the refuse of created vanities! I tread under foot 'earthly shadows' and rise in my ambition to the bliss of heaven, to the fruition of God. 

O what beams of glory shine on me! What treasures open in my view—the all-sufficient God enjoyed through everlasting day—by all the powers of my expanding, wondering, ravished, and enlarged mind!

[[22. THE RAVISHING EMPLOYMENT OF SAINTS IN GLORY.]]