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 excellence; and all the functions of those members will be increased in their power, and rendered indefinitely more susceptible of heavenly enjoyment, from the circumstance that they will no longer be impeded in the exercise of their various perceptions, by the frail tenement of clay in which they were invested in this world. Now, such being the case, in what kind of employment will angels engage? Doubtless they must be heavenly, because they are inhabitants of heaven. To praise the Lord is a heavenly employment; as such we read of the twenty-four elders, and of the innumerable hosts of the blessed. Thanksgiving must also be a heavenly employment, and one which may find vent in every grateful soul; and in heaven all are grateful. While in this world, even the keenest perception with which man seemed endowed, saw, but as it were, through a glass darkly; but having left the natural world, and entered the eternal world, the film of nature would no more cloud the spiritual vision, but would behold the creation with eyes more bright and glorious. Such men as Newton, Locke, Boyle, Ray, Swedenborg and others of highly cultivated souls—in what shall their employment consist? Their lives were spent here in the most sublime occupations; in studying the laws of the, whole universe; in tracing out the Creator's works from cause to effect; in investigating the works of nature (so-called) in all her varied forms; and as their understandings expanded, in still acknowledging that what they knew was nothing to what they might know, and that every talent and faculty they possessed, they owed to the beneficence of God, to whom they constantly and uninterruptedly rendered the