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108 spiritual world, it is all coming and no going; there is nowhere else to go to; there are but two worlds, the material and the spiritual, and when men leave this world, they enter into that, and there they remain. How full, then, must that world be, when each month and day is thus pouring its thousands into it,—perpetual addition and no subtraction! And if so full and populous, how much richer and more delightful must life be, in that world than in this! for when there is congeniality, numbers, we know, add to enjoyment, and greatly enhance it. The common proverb, "the more, the merrier," expresses this truth. Dr. Johnson, we may remember, declared, in his warm manner, that he could not live out of London,—that it was the only place in the world fit to live in: (as the Frenchman, also, says of Paris.) The reason was, that there he was in the midst of a large circle of literary men, men of congenial tastes, with whom he found exquisite enjoyment: and such a circle was not to be met with in a small town. But in the spiritual world, in how much greater a degree must these advantages exist! How much grander must be the circle of lofty intellects there collected! so that when Johnson departed from this world—which he seemed so unwilling to leave,—in the midst of how much nobler a company of congenial spirits may we trust he found himself! There was Newton, and Milton, and Addison (who on his death bed, had sent for the young Earl of Warwick, that he might "see how a Christian could die")!—there was ShakspeareShakespeare [sic], and Spencer, and Chaucer,—there were all the great lights of other lands and other ages: these scattered rays all collected, as it were, into one focus of intellect—what a brilliant society must it be! What