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 But do all the angels live in one and the same society? This seems highly improbable. It would not be in accordance with the Divine order and arrangements as revealed in this lower world. Here, all things are distributed into series or societies. They are beautifully grouped; yet the groups exist and work together in admirable harmony.

There are groups of suns and systems in the immensity of space; and groups of planets in the several systems. And on the earth trees and flowers are usually grouped, one variety flourishing in one locality, and a different one in another. So, too, birds, animals, insects and fishes are commonly found in groups. And every muscle in our bodies consists of a group of similar fibres, and every crystal in the bosom of the earth, of a group of lesser crystals.

It is evidently God's plan, therefore, to arrange things of a similar nature into groups or societies. And we may reasonably conclude that man, for whose behoof all other things were created, would not form an exception to this general plan. We should expect that heaven would be typified by the things of earth that are in order; and that the angels would be distributed into many different but concordant societies.

But a still stronger argument may be drawn from the known diversity in human character. This diversity depends not merely upon a difference in education, habits, and outward circumstances, but equally upon a difference in the native constitution of men's minds. No two minds are ever constituted precisely alike. No two things in the universe are exactly alike—no two pebbles on the