What Shall we do in Heaven

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 107, 16 March 1889, Page 3

What Shall we do in Heaven

Some people thought that the Daily Telegraph was decidedly venturesome in allowing a correspondence in its columns as to whether marriage is a failure, but the New York Herald leaves its London contemporary " standing still," for it has commenced a discussion on the question "What shall we do in Heaven?" Dr Talmage is, of course, to the fore, and he is able to teli us that " Heaven is always improving. It is altogether a "different piece from what it was 100, or 1,000 years ago." How on earth can Dr Talmage know this, and how does he reconcile this with the Scriptural assurance that " in heaven" there is no difference between a day and 1,000 years ? He also assures us that " there will be the family room, the music room, the reception room, and the throne room." Tho Rev. John R. Paxton writes : — " \Wii, I cannot understand eternal loafing aroiuid the throne. . . .

We cannot be destined to be waving palm leaves and singing all day for all eternity . . . We have not all of us the gift of music in us, and for my part, if I have to join the choir, I don't want to go there." And here is the opinion of Dr Eaton : — I do not believe that Hea.\en will be a place where we shall spend our time in waving palms and singing psalms. Neither do I look upon it as an old curiosity shop where useless and lifeless saints are kept in stock." Dr Seward declares that people will follow in Heaven the occupations which engrossed them on earth, for, in case, he asks " What would become of the undertakers?" It is indeed remarkable to find clergymen engaging in such a discussion, and I do not fancy that their congregations will be edified by the manner in which they express their views.