“My child, do not be troubled about that. It is not probable, it is sure. If I could find no proof for it, I should none the less believe it, as long as I believe in God. He gave you Roy, and the capacity to love him. He has taught you to sanctify that love through love to Him. Would it be _like_ Him to create such beautiful and unselfish loves,--most like the love of heaven of any type we know,--just for our threescore years and ten of earth? Would it be like Him to suffer two souls to grow together here, so that the separation of a day is pain, and then wrench them apart for all eternity? It would be what Madame de Gasparin calls, ‘fearful irony on the part of God.’” “But there are lost loves. There are lost souls.” “‘How often would I have gathered you, and ye would not!’ That is not his work. He would have saved both soul and love. They had their own way. We were speaking of His redeemed. The object of having this world at all, you know, is to fit us for another. Of what use will it have been, if on passing out of it we must throw by forever its gifts, its lessons, its memories? God links things together better than that. Be sure, as you are sure of Him, that we shall be _ourselves_ in heaven. Would you be yourself not to recognize Roy?--consequently, not to love Roy, for to love and to be separated is misery, and heaven is joy.” “I understand. But you said you had other proof.” “So I have; plenty of it. If ‘many shall come from the East and from the West, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,’ will they not be likely to know that they are with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob? or will they think it is Shadrach, Meshech, and Abednego? “What is meant by such expressions as ‘risen _together_,’ ‘sitting _together_ at the right hand of God,’ ‘sitting _together_ in heavenly places’? If they mean anything, they mean recognitions, friendships, enjoyments. “Did not Peter and the others know Moses when they saw him?--know Elias when they saw him? Yet these men were dead hundreds of years before the favored fishermen were born. “How was it with those ‘saints which slept and arose’ when Christ hung dead there in the dark? Were they not seen of many?” “But that was a miracle.”