HEAVEN -RECOGNITION IN

I believe that heaven is a fellowship of the saints, and that we shall know one another there. 40.302 Some have doubted whether there will be recognition in heaven; there is no room for doubt, for it is called “my Father’s house;” and shall not the family be known to each other? We are to “sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob,” and we shall therefore know these patriarchial saints; we shall not sit down with men in iron masks, and see none but great unknowns; but we shall “know even as we are known.” 887.476 I consider the doctrine of the non-recognition of our friends in heaven a marvellously absurd one; I cannot conceive how there can be any communion of saints in heaven unless there be mutual recognition. 3077.58