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HE subject to which I invite your attention deeply concerns every one of us, both now and in the future; for the question is always being put, "What do the Scriptures teach concerning life in the Spiritual World?" and our lives here answer for us, day by day, what we understand their teaching to be.

Let me bespeak your thoughtful attention to the views which the Sacred Scriptures present, and to the conclusions which I have drawn therefrom respecting life in the Spiritual World. If these appear to differ from the Truth, as you apprehend it, try them in the only just way:—

"To the law and to the testimony; if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them" (Isaiah viii, 20).

The desire to obtain knowledge is universal and comprehensive:—universal, in that no human being is without it; comprehensive, in that its range of pursuit embraces things past, present, and to come, natural things and spiritual things, truths of science and of Revelation. This desire is implanted for wise ends; because every truth we learn enlightens the understanding, and gives us increased ability for usefulness to our fellow-men.

Knowing how insatiable is the thirst for knowledge, it