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 men, denotes that full and ripe state into which all will come in the other world when they shall have passed the ordeal of a final judgment, or when their internals shall have become fully developed. Then "the children of the kingdom" and "the children of the wicked one" can be easily distinguished; and can therefore be arranged in separate and distinct societies without harm to either. But until then, it is according to divine order that the tares and the wheat should remain together;—that the "children of the wicked one" should mingle in the same external organizations with "the children of the kingdom;" and not that the latter should be all "organized apart," or formed into separate societies—into a distinct and visible body. Hence the divine command forever is: "Let both grow together until the harvest."

And that the interiors of men, whereby alone their true character is determined, are to be laid open in the other world, is taught in that chapter of the Revelation which speaks of the opening of the books at the time of the judgment; and where it is said that "the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books [i. e., registered on the living tablet of the heart] according to their works."

Observe that the books are not opened until after death; for then, and not before, is the inter-