We are in the Father’s house in this world, though not in the best room of it, because sin has marred everything here. Still we are in the Father's house. His care is over us continually. His love pours its brightness all about us. His hand provides for our wants. Let us not think meanly of earth, for it is part of our Father's house. How near it brings heaven to us to think of it as but another room in the same house in which we were born and in which we have lived all our years! The life there is not a new life, but is simply the life we begin here continued there, with sin taken out and imperfection and all pain and suffering left for ever behind.