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 doorkeeper, and the highest and lowest are bound together by the golden chain of love.

Talents are given to be employed, not to be buried in the ground. Every soul has a specific genius which constitutes its individuality. If the soul is immortal and retains its identity, it will be the same soul, intellectually and morally, that it was here. Therefore every faculty of man will come forth in the future life for its share of display, development and use. The man of science, the philosopher, the mathematician, the theologian will delight in study and reflection, and will communicate ever new and wonderful truths which they will draw from the exhaustless storehouses of the divine wisdom. Artists will gladden the eye with creations surpassing all terrestrial achievements. Poets will charm the mind with songs of perennial beauty. Musicians will ravish the soul with melodies of heaven. Death only frees, expands, elevates and glorifies all the capabilities of the good.

There are games and amusements and social parties and public gatherings in heaven as well as on earth. Everything which ever recreated and delighted the heart of man, and which can be thoroughly divested of evil and of the faintest sugges-