[Sidenote: _Social Life_] There we shall know even as also we are known. There the loves and sympathies that God has planted in the soul will find truest and sweetest exercise. The pure communion with holy beings, the harmonious social life with the blessed angels and with the faithful ones of all ages, the sacred fellowship that binds together “the whole family in heaven and earth,”—all are among the experiences of the hereafter. There will be music there, and song, such music and song as, save in the visions of God, no mortal ear has heard or mind conceived. [Sidenote: _Music and Song_] “As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there.”[428] “They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of Jehovah.”[429] “For the Lord shall comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places; and He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.”[430] There every power will be developed, every capability increased. The grandest enterprises will be carried forward, the loftiest aspirations will be reached, the highest ambitions realized. And still there will arise new heights to surmount, new wonders to admire, new truths to comprehend, fresh objects to call forth the powers of body and mind and soul. [Sidenote: _Treasures of the Universe_] All the treasures of the universe will be open to the study of God’s children. With unutterable delight we shall enter into the joy and the wisdom of unfallen beings. We shall share the treasures gained through ages upon ages spent in contemplation of God’s handiwork. And the years of eternity, as they roll, will continue to bring more glorious revelations. “Exceeding abundant above all that we ask or think”[431] will be, forever and forever, the impartation of the gifts of God. [Sidenote: _Service_] “His servants shall serve Him.”[432] The life on earth is the beginning of the life in heaven; education on earth is an initiation into the principles of heaven; the life-work here is a training for the life-work there. What we now are, in character and holy service, is the sure foreshadowing of what we shall be. “The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister.”[433] Christ’s work below is His work above, and our reward for working with Him in this world will be the greater power and wider privilege of working with Him in the world to come. “Ye are My witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God.”[434] This also we shall be in eternity. [Sidenote: _Witnessing_]