186 THE JEEUSALEM ABOVE. 



for a moment, whatever be the occasion. When I 

 look on the multitudes of Polypes inhabiting such a 

 structure as I have alluded to, each bearing his starry- 

 crown, and all engaged in harmony, building up, wall 

 by wall and cell by cell, an edifice whose walls are' of 

 crystalline clearness, 6f ten studded with what look 

 like gems,* and whose cells are closed \?ith pearly 

 doors ;t when I watch the building growing up iiito a 

 Oity, a commonwep,lth, of myriad individuals ; when 

 I know that, besides the separate life of each, there is 

 a common life, a bond of identity, that constitutes the 

 vast assemblage but one Being,^— One though Many — • 

 I cannot help thinking of the heavenly Oity, the 

 Jerusalem which is above. 



* As in M&iibbromipora, and Crisia, for instance, 

 f As in QeUularia. 



