How different the cloud appears as seen from this side and from
that. And we may well believe that it is just so with death. Death does
appear to us a very dark and heavy cloud; but it is so only when seen
from this side. Wait until we get above the cloud, and then what was
gloomy will be radiant. Death has two sides; the dark side that is
turned to earth; and the bright side that is seen from heaven.
In many of the glorious scenes depicted in Scripture, especially in the
Book of the Revelation, it is not easy for us to say how much is
figurative and how much is literal. Sometimes in grand mountain scenery,
when the clouds settle upon the lofty peaks, we cannot say what is
mountain and what is cloud. If we were near the mountain top we might
distinguish; but we cannot do so down here in the valley.
So we have in the Scripture a glorious cloud of symbolism hovering, upon
the peaks of the eternal mountains; but we are too far down in this
valley to discern between what is mountain and what is cloud. We may
hope to get higher by and by, and then what is hazy and undefined will
be seen in its true form and outline. "Now we know in part; but when
that which is perfect is come then that which is in part shall be
done away."
On a certain evening, as night was coming on, I stood on the shore of a
romantic watering place.
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