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me good. They have burned out much dross. I am every day entering into new fields of thought, & making new discoveries in old ones. Our general views are right & the world will some day see it. The Soul is progressive & immortal, entering the next life as it leaves this. That life is superior to this, grander, happier, fuller, but analigous to this in all that pertains to the souls progress & happiness. Crowns must be wrought out there as well as here. Reward is the price of labor anywhere. The soul must work out its destiny as well as fortune. It is free, ground in its powers, and glorious in its destiny. All things are under God doing his will, either freely & voluntarily at once by obedience, or forcibly in the end through his penalties which look to a free obedience as their end. Punishment in the end compels voluntary obedience. All is free in earth & heaven & yet all subject to law, to rewards & penalties. To be good in this life is best for time & eternity. The best is heaven, the worst is hell. Heaven & hell are both competitive. They relate to each other. What is my heaven would be an angel's hell and what is my hell would be a devil's heaven. You & I enjoy the rapt visions of Christ & Paul. Others enjoy only lower things. They stand on one of the steps that lead to the gardens of heaven. The earthly is first; the spiritual after,--the worm & then the butterfly--the man, the spirit & then the angel. God is above and all powerful in attraction. The universe is moving towards him. He loves me as well as an angel. for he knows I shall be an angel; He sees the end from the beginning". He loves Judas as well as me for Judas shall be an angel. His love is universal & equal; but men & spirits receive it according to ability. The sun shines upon all plants alike, but all plants do not absorb his light alike. God is generous & impartial as the sun. All then will be saved; that is will absorb God's light & love. Christ is the Medium, the dispensary. The sick must come to him. Dear brother, let us go on to perfection, growing wiser, more useful & happy. I wish I could tell you what is sometimes within you. My soul is often harmonious like a glow worm and my heart always warm like a true woman's. I hope for an intense & glorious happiness yet. God withholds it from me for a little only that I shall be prepared to enjoy it the better. He is good. My life of labor is the offering I will lay upon his altar: and my life of happiness will be his reward. I know he will make me happy & Sarah is his handmaiden to enjoy it with me. Something good is in store for us & for you my dear brother. "Labor & wait" Your school! How I long to hear that it is full. Oh, I am sorry the good old church at Marietta has no more to interest you. How much I have hoped that you & Sarah would find a congenial spirit in Br. B. How sorry I am. "But one star differeth from another in glory." Dis? not one because it is not another. Be a sieve to catch the kernel, & let pass the chess & chaff. Some are of soul, & some of Apollos. I minister to one class, he to another, Raymond to another. One cannot minister to all. Your affectionate brother Geo.