Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1871-01-18

Guence. If man eats anything pOis-
Onous or hurtful, the inevitable cOnse-
uuence follows, and his body is injured,
or perhaps his life sacrificed. So, too, if
man commits sin, his soul is injured,
as a spiritual consequence; and by con-
tinuing in sin, he comes to love it, and
his soul gets such an appetite for 1t that
he continues SHINING in the world OF spir-
its, and grows in Wickedness, and nnal-
II goes to hell as a spiritual consequence
of his sins, just as a drunkaTd finally
goes to a drunkard's grave, not. as a
punishment arbitrarily imposed upon
him for his offence, but as physiologi-
cal consequence of his excessive indul-
gence in strong drink. ...
Reporter-Do men go to heaven on
the same principal
HOW We GO TO HEAVEN. .
Hitchcock-Preeisely. By cultivating
during this life love to the Lord and to
the neighbor, a good men, with the
Lords help, acquires the habit of enjoy
ing the exercise of his good affections,
and in the other life the society of COM
panions of a like character. 1t is easily
seen that a community of people, all
loving and obeying the Lord, and all
loving one another and another, must
make q heaven wherever they may be.
Reporter What chance is there for do
ing good to your .neighbOrs in heaven ?
Does not the Lord give your neighbors
all they want there, without your help?
SOME BIG LICKs.
Hitehcock-He does not do it any more
there than He does here. YOumust re-
member that our happiness comes
thrOgh the right use of. the faculties
which the Lord has bestowed upon us.
To exist in heaven as a sort of spiritual
oyster or sponge, with the Lord pouring
mOlasses over us to all eternity, would
/ be altogether too sweet and stagnant to
be wholesome. The Lord works by in
strumentalities in heaven the same as
! He does here. For example. He here
uses the relation of husband and wife, Of
parent and child, Of teacher and scholar,
to bring into activity and to crafty our
| deepest and tenderest affections; and it
is only in this way-that is, the exercise
of our affections that we can get any de-
velopment.
Reporter-Do you mean to say that
there are the relations of husbands and
wives, parents and children, and teach
ers and scholars in heaven?
WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE DEAD BABIES.
Hitehcoek-I do. There are husbands
and wives in heaven as there are on the
earth; and though no children are born
! there, yet the children who die in this
world, and who all go to heaven, have
| to be brought up and.educated to adult
age. So, too, the ignorant good people
among Christians, and the good among
the heather, who all go to heaven, have
to be INSTRUCTED there. And, in fact,
what do the wisest know in comparison
with the angels who have been in heav-
en- for thousands of years? AS arrivals
these are ineessant, there is never any
cessation of the work of instruction.
Hence there is the exercise of the par
entail Office and the relation of teachers
and scholars. Did it never occur to you
to imagine what has become of 1.-The my
riads upon myriads of infants that have
died and gone into the world of spirits
Do you suppose that infants that died
five thousand years ago are kept bottled
up somewhere as infants still? Are all
the infants that have died, and that are
dying, and that will hereafter for ages
upon ages in an infantiIe state, and then
be finally judged as infants, and sent to
their doom as infants, and kept as in
fants-myT of them not an hour old
throughout eternity f? Do you suppose
there is to be any such waste of immOr-
tai material as that? Is it not more
reasonable to suppose that infants grow
iup in heaven and become intelligent
beings there? Is it not also reasonable
to suppose that the Lord, in the exercise
of His infinite love and wisdom, has
made provision for their care and COM
fort and instruction? Itwould be justly
. considered an act of
ATROCIOUs CRUELTY
to send countless babes off to some dis.
tant land without making any provision
for their welfare when they should ar
rive at their destination. And is there
any reasonable religious being on earth
who would dare to imagine that the
Lord has not made, ample provision fol
the welfare of all His little ones that 90
in their belplessness to the unseen Iandi
RepOrteT-All the mothers will be apt
to accept your doctrine as to the fate Oi
babies in the other life. It looks reas-
enable. But if Swedenborg's views are
correct, it strikes me that great many
good Christians are forever doomed tC
disappointment, and will not find the
heaven they longed for.
Hitchcock-There you are mistaken
SwedenbOrg expressly says that every
good person on his first arrival in the
world of spirits, finds exactly the heav.
, en- he believes in.
Reporter-Why is that?
TAKING THE NONSENSE OUT OF THEM
/ Hitchcock-To take the nonsence out
. of him. You know when a confection,
er takes on new apprentice, he alway:
tells him that he may eat just as much
! candy and confectionery as he likes
The apprentice, of course, gives full
swing to his appetite, and in few day.
becomes so disgusted with candy anC
: confectionery, that they are after intOl
erable to his palate and stomach. JUS
} so, when people imagine that heavenly
happiness consists in endless worship, O.
singing, or sitting on beds, of flowers
or roaming in paradisiacal gardens, O
feasting with the patriaches, or merely
! getting into place called heaven, the!
: are allowed to try it on, till they become
? so disgusted that they want to
! BREAK JAIL
D and escape to some place where the!
!, can find something useful to do. The!
e are then instructed that heaven in per
s forming uses-dOing useful things-il
e the name of the Lord; and right glat
are they to learn that lesson. The es
e sence of heavenly delight is the dOinI
e of good to others, and not the selfisl
Q qualification of Oneis own desire. SWe
/ denborg says that the angels not ONLY
Q love the neighbor as themselves, bu
r better than themselves, and find ineff
i able delight in ministering to thei
e neighbors. That is in accordance will
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= But he that is greatest among you shall
y y . OCCUPATION IN HEAVEN. --
# Reporter-But what do the angels finC
= to do in heaven.
HitchcOek-Everythin that good mel
and women would find to do in per
feet state of society on earth, with, 0
g course, such eXceptiOnsa a grow out of tn
i difference between the material and tht
e spiritual worlds. Some are teachers o
= religiOusltruth TO new cOmers from thi
S world. Some, particularly women, TAX
= careEof infants and children. Immensu
i numbers are engaged in watching owe
us, who still live here in this world, ant
It as many if not more, in ameliOratinI
It the miseries of the inmates of hell.
d is there as it would be here in a cOmmU
l. nifty of good and benevolent people; eacl
one does what he is best qualified for t
promote the general welfare and happi
ness.
q WE SHALL KNOW EACH OTHER.
e Reporter-Win people know each 9th
rs er there? .... .#
I'll Hitchcock-Yes: but if that know
Ii edge is only of the outward seeming, 6