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and communions are ready to draw and act together, 

 and to regard the differences that divide them, not 

 as hindrances to loving intercourse, but as helps to the 

 widening of each other's spiritual vision, and to the 

 rendering of a fuller manifestation of the mind of God 

 to the world. Bringing all the tithes of what they have 

 gained by their separate training and discipline into one 

 common storehouse, they will prove the Lord there- 

 with until He pour down a blessing so great that there 

 will not be room to receive it ; and through this unity 

 and community the world will believe at length that 

 Christ came forth from God. 



But the Church on earth is only part of God's great 

 Church. The author of the Epistle to the Hebrews 

 speaks of the outer division of the tabernacle as the type 

 of the Church on earth, and of the inner part of the 

 sanctuary as a type of heaven, where the true High Priest 

 is now pleading with His own blood for us. Between 

 the Church below and the Church above, the veil of 

 death seems to intervene; and there seems to be no 

 connection between those who worship in the earthly 

 sanctuary, and those who serve God day and night in 

 His heavenly temple. But this veil has been rent in 

 twain by the death, resurrection, and ascension of our 

 Lord ; and the two divisions of God's house have been 

 thrown into one. The powers of the world to come have 

 entered into and transfigured the vain show of this pass- 

 ing and perishing world. The life which we live on 

 earth is part of the life which the angels and spirits of 

 just men made perfect live before the throne. Our 



