MORAL HISTORY OF OTHER WORLDS. 



with some degree of probability, suppose, that 

 every distinct order of holy intelligences, after 

 having resided for a certain number of ages, in 

 one region of the universe, may be conveyed to 

 a.&quot;.ther province of creation, to investigate the 

 ne v scenes of wisdom and omnipotence there 

 unfolded, and so on, in a continued series of 

 transportations, throughout the ages of eternity. 

 We know that man is destined to undergo such 

 a change of locality ; and although sin has mado 

 he passage from one world to another, assume a 

 gloomy and alarming aspe.it, it may nevertheless 

 be an example, (though in a different manner) 

 of those removals whi&amp;lt;jh take place with respect 

 o other beings, from one province of creation to 

 another. Nor have we any reason to believe, 

 that the locality in which we sHll be placed, 

 after the general resurrection, will form our per 

 manent and everlasting abode ; otherwise, we 

 should be eternally chained down, aJ ve are at 

 present to a small corner of creation. 



In regard to the redeemed inhabitants of our 

 world, there is every reason to believe, that the 

 Redeemer himself, he, &quot; in whom dwell all the 

 treasures of wisdom and knowledge,&quot; will be 

 one grand medium through which information 

 will be communicated respecting the distant glo 

 ries of Jehovah s empire. This seems to be 

 directly intimated, though in metaphorical lan 

 guage, in the following passage from the book of 

 Revelation : &quot; The Lamb who is in the midst of 

 the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them 

 to fountains of living water.&quot; Knowledge is 

 the food of the mind ; and in this sense the term 

 is frequently applied in the Scriptures : &quot; I will 

 give them pastors (saith God) after mine own 

 heart, who shall feed them with knowledge and 

 understanding.&quot; &quot; Feed the church of God,&quot; 

 says the apostle Peter ; that is, instruct them in 

 the knowledge of the truths of religion. There 

 fore, by imparting to his saints a knowledge of 

 the plans and operations of God, and informa 

 tion respecting the magnificence of his works in 

 the regions around, &quot; the Lamb in the midst of 

 the throne will feed them&quot; by gratifying their in 

 tellectual powers, and their desires after know 

 ledge ; and the noble and transporting trains of 

 thought which such discoveries will inspire, (and 

 which may be aptly compared to the effect pro 

 duced by &quot; fountains of living water&quot; on a parch 

 ed traveller,) will arrest all the faculties of their 

 souls, and fill them &quot; with joy unspeakable and 

 full of glory.&quot; 



Perhaps, it may not be beyond the bounds of 

 probability to suppose, that, at certain seasons, 

 during a grand convocation of the redeemed with 

 Jesus their exalted head president among them 

 that glorious personage may impart to them 

 knowledge of the most exalted kind, direct their 

 views to some bright manifestations of Deity, and 

 deliver most interesting lectures on the works and 

 the ways of God. This would be quite accord 



ant with his office as the &quot; Mediator between 

 God and man,&quot; and to his character as the 

 &quot; Messenger of Jehovah,&quot; and the &quot; Revealer&quot; 

 of the divine dispensations. 



Pointing to some distant world, (which, even 

 to the acute visual organs of heavenly beings, 

 may appear only as a small lucid speck in their 

 sky,) we may suppose him giving such a descant 

 as the following : &quot; That world presents a very 

 differen* aspect from what yours once did, owing, 

 chiefly to the moral purity and perfection of its 

 inhabitants. There, the most grand and varie 

 gated objects adorn their celestial canopy ; and 

 the scenes around their habitations are inter 

 mingled with every thing that is beautiful to the 

 eye, and gratifying to the senses and the imagi 

 nation. Neither scorching heats, nor piercing 

 colds, nor raging storms, ever disturb the tran 

 quillity of those happy mansions. The fine 

 etherial fluid which they breathe produces a per 

 petual flow of pleasing emotions, and sharpens 

 and invigorates their intellectual powers for 

 every investigation. The peculiar refractive and 

 reflective powers possessed by the atmospheric 

 fluid which surrounds them, produce a variety of 

 grand and beautiful effects, sometimes exhibiting 

 aerial landscapes, and scenes emblematical of 

 moral harmony and perfection, sometimes a 

 magnificent display of the riches and most va 

 riegated colouring, and sometimes reflecting the 

 images of the celestial orbs in various aspects 

 and degrees of magnitude. Their vegetable 

 kingdom is enriched with a variety of produc 

 tions unknown in your former world, diversified 

 with thousands of different forms, shades, co 

 lours, and perfumes, which shed a delicious fra 

 grance all around. The inferior sentient beings 

 are likewise different, and exhibit such ingeni 

 ous, mild, and affectionate dispositions, as con 

 tribute, in no inconsiderable degree, to the 

 pleasure and entertainment of the more intelli 

 gent order of the inhabitants. The organs of 

 vision of these intelligences are so acute, that 

 they are enabled to perceive, as through a trans 

 parent medium, the various chymical and mecha 

 nical processes that are incessantly going on in 

 the numberless ramifications of the vegetable 

 tribes, and in the more curious and complicated 

 structure of animal bodies ; for the Creator has or 

 dained, as one part of their mental enjoyments, 

 that they shall be furnished with the means of 

 tracing the mode of his operations, and the de 

 signs they are intended to accomplish in the dif 

 ferent departments of nature. 



&quot; They are likewise extensively acquainted 

 with moral science with the moral relations of 

 intelligent beings to their Creator, and to one 

 another, and with the outlines of the history of 

 several other worlds ; for the leading facts in the 

 history of your world, respecting the fall of man, 

 its dismal consequences, and your subsequent 

 redemption and renovation, have been coramy 



