"We’re bound for yonder land, Where Jesus reigns supreme; We leave the shore at His command, Forsaking all for Him. "’T were easy, did we choose, Again to reach the shore-- But that is what our souls refuse, We’ll never touch it more." But surely it is one thing to be the advocate of Christianity, and another to be the disciple of it. And though it may sound strange at first, far easier is it to _teach_ its lessons than to _learn_ them. But so our souls know full well. We have, however, still to look at the _destiny_ and _endowments_ of these saints, as we have already looked at their _faith_, their _virtues_, and their _religion_. The translation of Enoch was the first formal testimony of the great divine secret, that _man was to have a place and inheritance in the heavens_. By creation he was formed for the earth. The garden was his habitation, Eden his demesne, and all the earth his estate. But now is brought forth the deeper purpose, that God has an election from among men, destined, in the everlasting counsels of abounding grace, for heaven. In the course of ages and dispensations after this, this high purpose of God was only dimly and occasionally, slowly and gradually, manifested. But in the person of Enoch it is made to shine out at once. The heavenly calling at this early moment, and in the bosom of his elect and favoured household, declares itself in its full lustre. This great fact among the antediluvian patriarchs anticipates in spirit the hour of Mount Tabor, the vision of the martyred Stephen, and the taking up of the saints in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Such was the high destiny of the elect people.