Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob have long been enjoying happiness and shall enjoy it throughout eternity. He [God] would not have spoken as he did if the visible were all and there were no future to counterbalance the tribulations of this mortal life. God is not the God of the short lived, who are so speedily dead, but he is the living God of an immortal race, whose present is but a dark passage into a bright future which can never end. ALCORN • Spurgeon’s happiness about Heaven—his joyful anticipation