promise be more satisfactory and reassuring than 

 that in our Father's house are many mansions 

 and that we shall occupy one of them? And can 

 any trust, gratitude, and love be greater than that 

 which we feel as children for the supreme wis- 

 dom, power, tenderness, and benevolence of a 

 Father? 



Oh, the poetry of it all is too exquisite ! And 

 truly such a state of mind with its beneficent in- 

 fluence must be worth striving for as the acme 

 of all that is desirable, even, perhaps, at the ex- 

 pense of strictly demonstrated truth. If we can 

 instil these exalted conceptions and bring about 

 their acceptance as truth, refining in life and com- 

 forting in death, should we not reverence and 

 support the great organizations which have un- 

 dertaken the performance of so excellent a task? 

 And if we can abstract our minds from the ameni- 

 ties and troubles of life into a higher atmosphere 

 of delectable, soothing poetry, as many of us can 

 do by careful and persevering training, is it not 

 worth doing in order to attain a continuation of 

 the happy frame of mind of the child who dwells 

 in an entrancing fairy world? 

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