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 dislocation of all our interests and all our activities, as John imagined, and as many excellent but mistaken people imagine to this day. The respectable suburban citizen, who has read "Self-Help" to advantage, who has realised the inner meaning of the Parable of the Talents, has amassed an honest fortune by his successful handling of some useful product, and has been the prop and stay of some excellent Evangelical cause—a man like this will not be hurled suddenly into a world to which business methods are altogether unknown, in which the simple Gospel service of the Free Churches is replaced by complicated and mysterious rites, which seem to outvie the impious splendours of Popery. No; "Work without worry" will be, I think, the motto of the Heavenly City. Even the Romish Monk realised in his dark and contrasted fashion something of the limitations of this earthly sphere:—

Brief life is here our portion, Brief sorrow, short-lived care: