THE FUTURE LIFE 



is that the virtues, as well as the sins of the father, are 

 often transmitted to the children long beyond the 

 third and fourth generation. It further teaches that 

 the trials and troubles of life are not needlessly given, 

 but that they are the prompting causes and incentives 

 that lead to a higher existence. We may reasonably 

 believe that the same endeavor on our part to make 

 the Goody while in this life, still better, may fit us, if 

 it shall be in the providence of God, for a future life 

 in a better world to come. 



The physical conditions of another life might be 

 very different from those now on Earth. Here, 

 Death and Life walk hand in hand. We are animals 

 born to die. This world in time may also die, or be 

 unfit for all Life as we now only know it ; but there 

 are countless millions of other worlds. On many of 

 them, although there may be those who live as we 

 live and die as we die, yet it is also true that with 

 them a time may come when their Sun's light and 

 heat shall fade, and that of all other Sun's the stars 

 die, too. 



The form of energy on which organic life here de- 

 pends the disruption of Carbon Dioxide and its re- 

 formation would be impossible then ; but that Intel- 

 ligence that never dies might find expression in con- 

 ditions that we can conceive not of. "In my Father's 

 house are many mansions." Here we live as but for 



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