THE

HEAVENLY HOME;

OB,

THE EMPLOYMENTS AND ENJOYMENTS

OF

The Saints in Beaven.

BY

REV. H. HARBAUGH, A. M.,

AUTHOR OF

"HEAVEN; OR, THE SAINTED DEAD," AND "THE HEAVENLY RECOGNITION."

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1853, by

REV. H. HARBAUGH,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

TO

JAMES F. LINN, ESQ.,

THE DISINTERESTED FRIEND OF MY YOUTHFUL MINISTRY;

WHO, AMID THE DUTIES OF

AN HONORABLE EARTHLY PROFESSION,

MAINTAINS, THEOLOGICALLY AND PRACTICALLY,

A DEEP INTEREST IN

THE HIGHER AND MORE PEACEFUL THEMES

WHICH PERTAIN TO

THE LIFE EVERLASTING,

THIS VOLUME IS

Gratefully Dedicated.

PREFACE.

THIS Volume, though separately complete, is nevertheless part of a general plan which the Author has pursued in treating on the Future Life. Two volumes the first entitled "Heaven; or an Earnest and Scriptural Inquiry into the Abode of the Sainted Dead," and the second, "The Heavenly Recognition; or an Earnest and Scriptural Discussion of the Question, Will we Know our Friends in Heaven?"-have already been published. The Heavenly Home here follows in order, and concludes what the author has designed to contribute to this interesting department of pious inquiry — the fruits of seven years' attention to this subject.

These themes have not been treated without a special and definite aim, even beyond the general desire of promoting the interests of individual piety and comfort. While this has been kept steadily in view, it has always been in connection with what we consider the wider and deeper wants of the age. We believe that there is, in the piety of our age, a momentous tendency to mere naturalism. The 'powers of the world to come" do not enter into

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