Dr. Stiggins:
taxes, I don't think we get much out of it in the end."
I comforted him, as I say, and when I reminded him of that stream which waters Paradise and makes the angels sing, suggesting that he might be placed in charge of its source, and that there would be no sighing or sorrow there, he looked more cheerful. He knew that there would be no Inspectors among the Shining Ones. Yes; earthly Trusts may be threatened; but no powers of evil will be suffered to break the everlasting "Corners" of our Heavenly Mansion.
There will be no break, no solution of continuity. Science has wiped the dimness from our eyes; we no longer look for the instantaneous scene-shifting, if I may use the expression, which seems to have characterised earlier and less enlightened views—views which seem to have regarded heaven as a transformation scene in a celestial pantomime. The trumpet will not sound; we shall not all be changed in the twinkling of an eye, for Science teaches us that the Divine Process is a
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