Heaven -- Christianity; Near-death experiences -- Religious aspects; Private revelations
This thought, to me, answers in a measure the questions asked in regard
to dual marriages. My own belief, of this mortal life, is, that no two
friends can occupy the same place in our hearts. Each heart is filled
with chambers stately and old, and to each beloved guest is assigned a
chamber exclusively for himself. That room is always his. If death,
or distance, or even disgrace, separates him from us, still the room is
his and his only forever. No other person can ever occupy it. Others
may have rooms equally choice, but when a guest has once departed from
the room he has held in another heart, the door of that room is barred
forever; it is held inviolate--sacred to the departed guest. And so,
in heaven, each guest has his separate room or home. "In my Father's
house are many mansions. I go to prepare a place (room) for you."
I am no advocate of second marriages. The thought of two lives alone
as one, is beautiful to me; but I do not, all the same, believe that a
man sins against the memory of a wife beloved and lost, when he places
by her side (not in her place) a good woman to cheer and brighten his
home. She cannot, if she would, take the place left vacant in his home
and heart; it is inviolate. I speak, of course, of true marriages,
where not only hands are joined, but hearts and souls are knit together
as one forever.
"What are the duties of heaven?" So many and varied, I should judge,
as to make the question unanswerable. Much in "Intra Muros" shows the
trend of daily life.
"Rest?" One of the duties as well as the pleasures of heaven. Rest
does not of necessity mean inactivity. How often in this life does
laying aside of one duty and taking up another bring rest to both mind
and body! Still, as I found it, there was at times absolute "rest" for
both mind and body in that blissful repose that only heaven can give.
In but one instance of the manifold letters received was any feeling
produced in their perusal except that of pleasure and gratitude that
I--with so little physical strength of my own--could bring comfort and
pleasure into the lives of others. I thank our gracious Father that he
has so kindly permitted it. The one letter to which I refer contains
so many almost puerile inquiries, that I simply laid it aside with a
quotation from St. Paul, "Of the earth earthy," and asked the Father to
lift the heart of the writer into a purer light.
In conclusion I can only reiterate that I am no prophet, I am no seer;
but, in my inmost soul, I honestly believe that if the joys of heaven
are greater, if the glories "Within the Walls" are more radiant than I
in my vision beheld them, I cannot understand how even the immortal
spirit can bear to look upon them.
R. R. S.
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