“But to return to the track and our future bodies. We shall find them vastly convenient, undoubtedly, with powers of which there is no dreaming. Perhaps they will be so one with the soul that to will will be to do,--hindrance out of the question. I, for instance, sitting here by you, and thinking that I should like to be in Kansas, would be there. There is an interesting bit of a hint in Daniel about Gabriel, who, ‘being caused to fly swiftly, touched him about the time of the evening oblation.’” “But do you not make a very material kind of heaven out of such suppositions?” “It depends upon what you mean by ‘material.’ The term does not, to my thinking, imply degradation, except so far as it is associated with sin. Dr. Chalmers has the right of it, when he talks about ‘_spiritual materialism_.’ He says in his sermon on the New Heavens and Earth,--which, by the way, you should read, and from which I wish a few more of our preachers would learn something,--that we ‘forget that on the birth of materialism, when it stood out in the freshness of those glories which the great Architect of Nature had impressed upon it, that then the “morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy.”’ I do not believe in a _gross_ heaven, but I believe in a _reasonable_ one.” 4th. We have been devoting ourselves to feminine vanities all day out in the orchard. Aunt Winifred has been making her summer bonnet, and I some linen collars. I saw, though she said nothing, that she thought the _crêpe_ a little gloomy, and I am going to wear these in the mornings to please her. She has an accumulation of work on hand, and in the afternoon I offered to tuck a little dress for Faith,--the prettiest pink _barège_ affair pale as a blush rose, and about as delicate. Faith, who had been making mud-pies in the swamp, and was spattered with black peat from curls to stockings, looked on approvingly, and wanted it to wear on a flag-root expedition to-morrow. It seemed to do me good to do something for somebody after all this lonely and--I suspect--selfish idleness. 6th. I read a little of Dr. Chalmers to-day, and went laughing to Aunt Winifred with the first sentence. “There is a limit to the revelations of the Bible about futurity, and it were a mental or spiritual trespass to go beyond it.” “Ah! but,” she said, “look a little farther down.” And I read, “But while we attempt not to be ‘wise above that which is written,’ we should attempt, and that most studiously, to be wise _up_ to that which is written.” 8th.