“As I have told you some things the Bible says about death and hell, I must tell you a few things it says about life and heaven.  Jesus says:  ’I am the resurrection, and the life:  he that believeth in me, though he were dead’ (as to his body), ’yet shall he live:  and whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.’  O, can this be true?  Yes, it is true, because Jesus never said what is not true.  He is life and truth, and when we have him in our hearts we have the witness in ourselves that what he says is true.  We then ’know of the doctrine that it is of God.’  Our bodies will all die, but the real man is more than the natural body.  Paul tells us about a spiritual body that will never see death.  This is what Jesus says ‘shall never die.’  This is the body that will rise and live forever.

“Our Lord said to his disciples:  ‘I go to prepare a place for you.’  The place which the Lord prepares is heaven.  In his prayer he said:  ’Father, I will that they also, whom thou hast given me, be with me where I am; that they may behold my glory.’  Where is the Lord’s glory, and where is he in his glory?  We read that he ascended to heaven.  He is in heaven, the heaven of glory and bliss to which he ascended.  He is there preparing a place for you and for me, if we live faithful to him by our obedience to his commands.  Let us be faithful to him, that we may be accounted worthy to enter in through the gates into the city.”

After dinner we all go to Isaac Shobe’s, where we have night meeting and stay all night.

SUNDAY, October 19.  We have meeting at Brother Jacob High’s.  Acts 3 is read.  Also night meeting at Parks’s where we stay.

MONDAY, October 20.  Meeting at Solomon Michael’s, where we stay all night.

TUESDAY, October 21.  Meeting at Joseph Arnold’s, on Patterson’s Creek, in Hampshire County, Virginia.  I spoke to-day on 2 Timothy 1:13.  Text:  “Hold fast the form of sound words.”

This passage of Scripture is a part of the fatherly instruction Paul gave his spiritual son Timothy.  God’s works and man’s works in the conversion and regeneration of man are so blended, so connected and identified one with the other that Paul sometimes speaks of doing what none but God himself can do.  Thus to the Corinthians he said:  “For I have begotten you through the gospel.”  And to Philemon he said:  “I beseech thee for my son Onesimus, whom I have begotten in my bonds.”  These passages show how clearly the true child of God stands connected with the Holy Spirit, in his blessed work of regenerating man and qualifying him for heaven.  The conjunction of effort may be compared with what we see and know to exist in husband and wife.  When the twain are really one flesh, one heart, one mind, what is done by the one is regarded as done by the other.  It must be in a sense somewhat like this that Paul calls Timothy his son.  The aged John also says:  “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.”  He here means spiritual children.  He calls them his children from the love he has for them, and the fatherly care he has over them, and the fatherly instruction he gives them.  They are near to him, as children are to their own parents, and when he sees or hears that they receive the truth and walk in it, it gives him joy.