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such a sensible picture as this, and all it needs is a 

 spiritual eye to perceive it, and a spiritual understanding 

 to receive it. 



When we arrive at such a reasonable conclusion as 

 this, the eternal world is brought wondrously near to us, 

 and every part of our mortal nature becomes irradiated 

 with it, while it lifts up and adorns every sphere in which 

 we live, and, as an eloquent author adds, some of whose 

 thoughts I have been interweaving with my own, " what- 

 ever our place, if we are doing our work well, earth 

 becomes the ante-room of heaven, and we are breathing 

 in hallowed air." 



There is no greater boon which God bestows upon us 

 than these sunbright illustrations and convictions, which 

 make the present and future life meet and blend together. 

 He who possesses it cannot live without lifting up, every day, 

 a hymn of praise for that existence whose line stretches, 

 unbroken, through the endless avenues and towards the 

 mellowing radiance of the city of God ; and he cannot lie 

 down to the last agony without feeling the strength that 

 gives him wings to rise above it, as with the last motions 

 of his lips he says to the world in which he has lived, 

 "Goodnight."* " 



No better object than this shall we find that will 

 illustrate our subject "a story of the invisible world;" 

 and no other instrument than the microscope, which is to 

 the mind what faith is to the soul, would enable us to 

 see it. 



Now, be pleased to look at the final state of our friend. 

 Here is a beautiful specimen of what you see marked as 

 " The Culex pipiens " the piping gnat, that is the name. 

 Such a creature would have come from such as you have 

 just been looking on. 



* Abridged from " Foreglcams of Immortality." 



