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Show Beccher's Transient Heaven. I think we may . safely say that the sphere of the future must be left to the imagination with this limitation, that the pictures which our imagination may invent and fashion must be confined With in the limits of the highest aiiections, the noblest occupations known to good men. No oriental luxury must come in there; no sensuous enjoyment. We must frame a picture of the purest love, of the noblest aspirations, of the most blessed enjoyments and occupations, and of the charming relations one with another. And so you may paint your : picture just ' as often, just as diversely as yon please. You have in this spiritual art work the right to ydur own palette, your own brush, and you may frame for yourself such a conception ot-heaven as will bring the : highest ideal and the most perfect joy to you. The mother 'may take her little children in her imagination, and : by the side of the ever-flowing stream or in the shade of -the heavenly trees, discourse with them of the remembered life. Make your coronet to suit your intellectual tendencies, ten-dencies, maintaining the element of pure, high, intellectual love. According to his own genius every man may constitute a transient heaven that may be like the exhalations ex-halations of the night, blown away by the morning wind, but sure to come again. |