"That part of space in which the omnipresent Jehovah is supposed to afford more sensible manifestations of his glory. Hence this is called habitation of God; and is represented as the residence of angels and blessed spirits."--_Webster._ Heaven is both a _place_ and a state. "I go to prepare a place for you," said Jesus; and "Where I am there shall my servant be." "I will that those whom thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory." "In my Father's house there are many mansions." _To_, and _at_, and _from_ are predicated of heaven in the Scriptures, just as they are of the sun, or the earth. The bodies of Enoch and Elijah, who were translated without dying, are somewhere. The glorified body of Jesus is somewhere. The bodies of the saints, after the general resurrection, will be somewhere. They will occupy space. The paradise in Eden and the literal Canaan were types of a _place_ as certainly as of a _state_. Heaven is the Christian's eternal _home_; his _house not made with hands_; his _better country_, _even a heavenly_. There shall be mutual recognition and intelligent converse in heaven. This is taught in the transfiguration scene, where Moses and Elias appeared in glory, and conversed with Jesus in the presence and hearing of Peter, James, and John. Heaven is a _state_; the saints are glorified, soul and body. "The sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the _glory_ which shall be _revealed in us_." "There shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying." "They shall not hunger nor thirst any more." "Then shall we know even as we are known, and see as we are seen." "Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God." There shall be no sin in heaven; "Nothing that loveth or maketh a lie." "There shall be no night there;" "that is to say," says Mr. Harbaugh, "there no dependent or secondary planet exists." There, consequently, none of the unpleasant extremes involved in day and night are found. There no dark night-sides of nature cover the lovely face of paradisean realms. No cycles in the heavenly worlds ever cause the joyous life of the saints to ebb back from the waking energies of bliss into dull stupor, under the overshadowings of darkness and gloom. That world needs no repose; for life, in right relations, is rest in its own peaceful flow of bliss. No curse. In all that land wasting disease is unknown. No malice shall be feared; for "the sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night." Heaven is a prepared _place_ for a _prepared people_. "They shall see his face." The heart feels that union is the height of joy. They shall hear his voice, saying, "Come ye blessed, enter thou into the joy of thy Lord." "His servants shall serve him." They shall receive a crown of life, and that crown shall shine through all eternity, to tell of the triumph he has achieved through the blood of the Lamb. The Christian's heavenly inheritance is an _infinite and an eternal weight of glory_.