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  INHERITANCE OF THE SAINTS
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the importance of patient strivings and
daily acts in achieving the beatitudes of the saints and inheriting a
heavenly reward.

Topics: "Saints And Sainthood", "Divine Nature"
Scripture References: Psalm 37:37, Matthew 5:8, Colossians 1:12, 1 John 3:2

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Mary Wilder Tileston, through the words of John Campbell Shairp and
Richard Chenevix Trench, reflects on the lives of the saints who have
passed on, emphasizing their deep connection with God and the lasting
impact of their pure and divine existence. The beatitude of the Saints
is portrayed as the culmination of a lifetime of unnoticed but faithful
daily acts, leading to the ultimate reward of beholding God and becoming
one with His divine nature.

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Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers
of the inheritance of the saints in light.

COLOSSIANS 1:12

NOT their own, ah! not from earth was flowing

That high strain to which their souls were tuned;

Year by year we saw them inly growing

Liker Him with whom their hearts communed.

Then to Him they passed; but still unbroken,

Age to age, lasts on that goodly line,

Whose pure lives are, more than all words spoken,

Earth's best witness to the life divine.

JOHN CAMPBELL SHAIRP

ONLY to remember that such have been, that we walked for a season with
them, is a chastening, a purifying, yea, and however much we may miss
and mourn them, a gladdening thought.

RICHARD CHENEVIX TRENCH

The beatitude of the Saints is the matured result of the long course of
patient strivings, which may have passed wholly unobserved because of
their minuteness. One step has followed another in the mysterious
progress of daily, hourly acts, each seeming to pass away, as footprints
on the sand are obliterated by the advancing tide; but the end is the
Vision of God, and the recompense is the perfection of a nature made one
with the Mind of God.

T. T. CARTER

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/inheritance-of-the-saints/
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