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E NTERING INTO G OD ’ S S ABBATH R EST

could exhaust. At our command and disposal were placed raw materials from which we could develop every kind of wonderful invention and facility. To a great extent, our unlimited advancement was interrupted by the entrance of sin. Even so, humanity has come a long way since Eden in its understanding and application of technology and science, but this is nothing compared to the treasures of knowl edge which will open for study when the original creation is re stored, and the earth made new (compare 1 Corinthians 13:12). The descriptions in the word of God of our future life, in the world made new, show that even in eternity to come we will not live a life of idleness but will have our part to play in coopera tion with the heavenly world. “Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The for mer things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. ... They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat. For as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people; my chosen ones will long enjoy the works of their hands.” Isaiah 65:17, 21, 22. An inspiring window into the new world is revealed in the fol lowing paragraphs. “There, immortal minds will contemplate with never-failing delight the wonders of creative power, the mysteries of redeem ing love. There will be no cruel, deceiving foe to tempt to for getfulness of God. Every faculty will be developed, every capac ity increased. The acquirement of knowledge will not weary the mind or exhaust the energies. There the grandest enter prises may be carried forward, the loftiest aspirations 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 mind and soul and body. “All the treasures of the universe will be open to the study of God’s redeemed. Unfettered by mortality, they wing their tire less flight to worlds afar—worlds that thrilled with sorrow at the spectacle of human woe and rang with songs of gladness at the tidings of a ransomed soul. With unutterable delight the children of earth enter into the joy and the wisdom of unfallen