All is sweet and peaceful.
It is the long rest cure after the nerve strain of life, and
before new experiences in the future. The circumstances are
homely and familiar. Happy circles live in pleasant homesteads
with every amenity of beauty and of music. Beautiful gardens,
lovely flowers, green woods, pleasant lakes, domestic pets--all
of these things are fully described in the messages of the
pioneer travellers who have at last got news back to those who
loiter in the old dingy home. There are no poor and no rich.
The craftsman may still pursue his craft, but he does it for the
joy of his work. Each serves the community as best he can, while
from above come higher ministers of grace, the "Angels" of holy
writ, to direct and help. Above all, shedding down His
atmosphere upon all, broods that great Christ spirit, the
very soul of reason, of justice, and of sympathetic
understanding, who has the earth sphere, with all its circles,
under His very special care. It is a place of joy and laughter.
There are games and sports of all sorts, though none which cause
pain to lower life. Food and drink in the grosser sense do not
exist, but there seem to be pleasures of taste, and this
distinction causes some confusion in the messages upon the point.
But above all, brain, energy, character, driving power, if
exerted for good, makes a man a leader there as here, while
unselfishness, patience and spirituality there, as here, qualify
the soul for the higher places, which have often been won by
those very tribulations down here which seem so purposeless and
so cruel, and are in truth our chances of spiritual quickening
and promotion, without which life would have been barren and
without profit.
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