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My Title To Heaven

Some time ago Dr. Charles E. Fuller, director of the Old Fashioned Revival
Hour, a worldwide broadcast, announced that he would speak the next Sunday on
"Heaven." During that week a beautiful letter was received from an old man who
was very ill, and the following is a part of that letter:

"Next Sunday you are to talk about Heaven. I am interested in that land,
because I have held a clear title to a bit of property there for over 55
years. I did not buy it. It was given to me without money and without price.
But the donor purchased it for me at tremendous sacrifice. I am not holding it
for speculation since the title is not transferable. It is not a vacant lot.

"For more than half a century I have been sending materials out of which the
greatest architect and builder of the universe has been building a home for
me, which will never need to be repaired because it will suit me perfectly,
individually, and will never grow old. Termites can never undermine its
foundations, for they rest upon the Rock of Ages. Fire cannot destroy it.
Floods cannot wash it away. No locks nor bolts will ever be placed upon its
doors, for no vicious person can ever enter that land where my dwelling
stands, now almost completed and almost ready for me to enter in and abide in
peace eternally, without fear of being ejected.

"There is a valley of deep shadows between the place where I live in
California and that to which I shall journey in a very short time. I cannot
reach my home in that City of Gold, without passing through this dark valley
of shadows. But I am not afraid, because the best Friend I ever had went
through the same valley long, long ago and drove away all its gloom. He has
stuck by me through thick and thin since we first became acquainted 55 years
ago, and I hold His promise in printed form, never to forsake me nor to leave
me alone.

"I hope to hear your sermon on Heaven next Sunday from my home in Los Angeles,
California, but I have no assurance that I shall be able to do so. My ticket
to Heaven has no date marked for the journey - no return coupon. Yes, I am all
ready to go and I may not be here while you are talking next Sunday evening,
but I shall meet you there some day."

HEAVEN - HOME - Think of stepping on shore and finding it Heaven! Of taking
hold of a hand and finding it God's hand. Of breathing a new air and finding
it celestial air. Of feeling invigorated and finding it immortality. Of pass-
ing from storm and tempest to an unknown calm. Of waking up and finding it
HOME!

Take courage, weary Christian, for Heaven is just ahead. The psalmist David
said, "In Thy presence is fulness of joy; at Thy right hand there are
pleasures for evermore" (Psalm 16:11). John the Apostle wrote concerning
Heaven: "And they shall see His face. . . . And there shall be no night there
. . . and they shall reign for ever, and ever" (Revelation 22:4, 5).

You may be one who is reading this leaflet and who never yet has tasted the
joys of sins forgiven or the assurance of a home in Heaven. There is hope for
you. Our Lord Jesus Himself said: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that
heareth My Word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and
shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life" (John
5:24). You could never enter Heaven as you are, for man must be "born again."
And it was Jesus who said: "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the
kingdom of God" (John 3:3). When asked how one may be born again, Jesus said:
"For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that
whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John
3:16).