The Certainty of Hope

We have been speaking of the object of the Christian hope. We tried to answer the question: What is it that the Christian in this world hopes for? Scripture exhorts us that we shall always be ready "to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you." I Pet. 3:15. And to this answer belongs, no doubt, that we shall be able to give some account of that for which we hope. We expect that our death shall be a translation into immediate glory, a passing out of our...