Earthly hope is so uncertain that its larger part is often fear.
Heavenly hope is fixed and sure. It is as certain as history.
Earthly hope realised is always less blessed than we expected. How
universal the experience that there is little to choose between a
gratified and a frustrated hope! The wonders inside the caravan are
never so wonderful as the canvas pictures outside.
Heavenly hopes ever surpass the most rapturous anticipation. 'The half
hath not been told.'
Earthly hopes are necessarily short-winged. They are settled one way
or another, and sink hull down below our horizon.
Heavenly hope sets its object far off, and because a lifetime only
attains it in part, it blesses a lifetime and outlasts it.