And our minds will dazzle with brightness,
As our thoughts forever aspire,
For a mantle of perfect whiteness,
Shall cover the youth and the sire;
Then we know that none will be jealous,
And no one will envy our lot.
For against the one who is zealous,
Not a soul will contrive or plot.
And our actions will chime in pleasure,
All refined from malice and sting.
We shall all reach the perfect measure,
In the reign of this conquering King.
We will have everything we can use,
In those beautiful realms of light;
There the people will do as they choose,
For each one will choose to do right.
We will sail through the seas of beauty,
And return to the shores we please;
Far away from the callings of duty,
In the shade of undying trees.
All the riches of Christ will be ours,
'Tis a wealth without guilt or pain.
There will be no 'Contention of Powers',
Nor the marks of official stain.
As I look from this earthly station,
I exclaim again and again--
O what an eternal vacation!
Come quickly, Lord Jesus, Amen.
CHAPTER XIII.
A World of High Medical Knowledge.
I spent a long and profitable season in the vicinity of the Great
Dipper, witnessing the almost infinite variations of human life as found
from world to world, and looking upon the wild wastes of the many
planets that are not inhabited.
Finally I again spread my swift wings, reached the beautiful star
Arcturus and noticed among the worlds that revolve around it a few that
are sinless. I was tempted to pause at one or another of these
exceptional stations, but I knew that I could not tarry until I had
reached the far distant constellation of Scorpio.
In this wide flight I traveled a distance so great that I will not weary
the mind with mentioning the trillions of miles. Now I was in the direct
path of the Milky Way and my imagination staggered as I saw the
endlessness of stars and solar systems, as far out beyond me as my
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