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 such thing as place, other than such as is derived from and corresponds to, the mind's state. But what is his state of mind? for that must determine his place and final condition. Has he heaven within him? has he the "kingdom of God" within him? That will be the test whether he can dwell in heaven and in the kingdom of God. What is the kingdom of God within the soul? It is a kingdom of love! a society of good affections, lovely dispositions, pure desires! It is love to the Lord and love to the neighbor, with their innumerable joys, filling the heart. It is the knowledge of God, thoughts of heaven, spiritual principles and beliefs, and numberless lofty and elevating truths thence derived, occupying and irradiating the mind, and filling it with various and charming lights, like the golden skies of morning. These constitute the essential heaven within the mind; and he who possesses this inner heaven, will, after death, soon perceive an outward heaven forming around him. The spiritual truths in his mind will presently be seen putting themselves forth in bright and beautiful forms,—those mental flowers, those heavenly plants, that spring up in the soil of a regenerated Spirit: the good affections of his heart will set themselves forth, and become visible in the gentle forms of the lamb and the dove,—and soon he will behold a lovely and inhabited paradise gathered about him. Thus will the heaven within create a heaven without.

But what, now, is the state of that man's mind—the man of the world whom we have described? Is it not a kingdom of darkness rather than of light? a kingdom of Evil rather than of God? There, in the centre, sits enthroned, as it were, the master-passion,, selfishness. Around it are gathered