The holders of different opinions on religion are often hot in their arguments. Coming here with the same beliefs they had on earth, and being able to visualise their ideals and actually to experience the things they are expecting, two men who hold opposite creeds forcibly are each more intolerant than ever before. Each is certain that he is right and that the other is wrong. This stubbornness of belief is strongest with those who have been here only a short time. After a while they fall into a larger tolerance, living their own lives more and more, and enjoying the world of proofs and realisations which each soul builds for itself. But I want to give you an illustration of the sort of questions on which I am asked to pass judgment. There are two women here who in life were both married to one man, though not at the same time. The first woman died, then the man married again, and soon--not more than a year or two after--the man and his second wife both came out. The first wife considers herself the man’s only wife, and she follows him about everywhere. She says that he promised to meet her in heaven. He is more inclined to the second wife, though he still feels affection for Wife No. 1. He is rather impatient at what he calls her unreasonableness. He told me one day that he would gladly give them both up, if he could be left in peace to carry out certain studies in which he is interested. These were among the people I met soon after I began to be strong myself here--it was not so very long ago; and the man has sought my society so much that the women, in order to be near him, have come along too. One day they all three came to me and propounded their question--or, rather, Wife No. 1 propounded it. She said: “This man is my husband. Should not, therefore, this other woman go far away and leave him altogether to me?” I asked Wife No. 2 what she had to say. Her answer was that she would be all alone here but for her husband, and that as she had had him last, he now belonged more to her than to the other. In a flash the memory came to me of those Sadducees who propounded a similar question to Christ, and I quoted His answer as nearly as I could remember it: that “when they shall rise from the dead, they neither marry, nor are given in marriage; but are as the angels which are in heaven.” My answer was as much a staggerer for them as their question had been for me, and they went away to think about it.