Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-01-18

lis body is injured, or perhaps his life
So, too, il nan commits
lin, his soul i injured, - splTitual
and by continuing IN
sin, he comes TO love il, and his soul
gets such an appetite fer it that ne
continues SHINING in the world or spir-
is, and grows in wickedness, and
finally goes to he'll as a spiritual con-
Of his sins, Just IS a drunk
ard finally goes TO a drunkard's grave,
not as a punishment arbitrarily i'm
posed upon him for his offence, but
rs n physiological consequence OF his
excessive indulgence in strong drink.
RepOrter-Do men go to heaven on
The same principle?
HOW WE GO To HEAVEN.
Mr.. Hitchcock-Precisely. BY cul-
fivating during this life love to the
Lord and TO the neighbCr, good man, |
with the Lords help, acquires the
habit Of enjoying the exercise OF ms I
good affections, and in the other lie
seeks the society of companions OF
a like character. It is easily seen that
4 community of people, all loving and
chewing the Lord. and all loving one
another and trying to do the greatest
possible good TO one another, must
make a heaven wherever they may be.
Reporter-Whatc chance is there for
doing good to your neighborsin heav-
en-? Does not the Lord give your
all they want there, With
ont your help?
SOME BIG LICKs.
Mr.. Hitchcoek-He does not do it
any more there that He does here.
You must remember that our happi-
ness comes through the right use OF
the faculties which the Lord has be
slowed upon rs, 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 whole
some. The Lord works by instru-
mentalities 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 af-
fections; and it is only in this way
that is, by the exercise Of our alice
tions-that we can set any develop
meut.
Reporter-Do you mean to say that
there are the relations of husband
and wives, parents and children, and
teachers and scholars in heaven?
WHAT HAS BECOME OF THE DEAD
BABIES.
Mr.. Hitchcock do. There are
husbands and wives in heaven Ss
there are on this 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 edueated to adult age
s., too, the ignorant good people
among Christians, and the good
among the heather, who will all go to
heaven, have to be instructed there.
And, in fact, what do the wisest Of us
| know in comparison With the angels
who have been in heaven for thOus-
ands Of years As arrivals there are
1 ineessant. there is never any cessation
of the work of instruction. Hence
! there is the exercise Of the parental
/ Office, and the relation Of teachers ant
| scholars. Did 1t never occur to yoT
to imagine what has become OF the
myriads upon myriads of infants tina
that have died and gone into thu
world of spirits? Do you suppos'
that infants that died five thousanC
years ago are kept bottled up some
where as infants still? Are all thi
infants that have died, and that ar
dying, and that will Hereafter Ole, &
I be kept for ages upon ages in an IN ID
y fdntiie StateY-nt- -a-siInSa-=h hhhtt.
Judged as infants, and sent to thei
doom as infants, and Kept as infant
l-myriads Of them not an hour old
Lthroughout eternity? Do you sup
/ pose there is to be any such waste G
immortal material as that? Is it no
/ more reasonable to suppose that in
fants grow up in heaven and becom
! intelligent beings there? Is 1t no
also reasonable to suppose that th
Lord, in the exercise of His innnlt
love and wisdom, has made proyisiol
| for their care and comfort and intruC
ton? It would be justly cOnsidere
an act of atrOciOus cruelty TO sen
countless babes off to some distan
land without making any prOyisio
for their welfare when they shoul
arrive at their destination. And
there any reasonable religious bein
on earth who would dare to imagin
that the Lord has not made ampl
provision for the welfare of all ID
little ones that 60 in theirhelplessne:
to the unseen land?
RepOrter-AlI the mothers will t
r apt to accept your doctrine as to I'll
fate Of babies in the other life.
looks reasonable. But If Sweder
, borg's views are correct, it strikes N
that a great many good Christians al
foredOOmed TO disappointment, an
: will not find the heaven they long 70
Mr.. HitchcOck-There you are mi
taken. SwedenbOrg expressly say
that every good person on his hr
arrival in the world OF spirits, fine
! exactly the heaven he believes in.
i RepOrter-Why is that?
I TAKING THE NONSENSE OUT OF THE'
2 Mr.. Hitchcoek-To take the mol
= sense out of him. You know when
e confectioner takes on a new apprel
/ tice, he always tells him he may e
e lust as much candy and confeotiol
g ery as he likes. The apprentice,
/ Of course, gives full swing to his a
f; petite, and in a few days becomes
e disguised with candy and cOnfectiol
ery, that they are forever after into
: cradle to his palate and stomae
c Just so, when people imagine u
q heavenly happiness consists in endle
worship, or singing, or sitting on be-
Z Of flowers, or roaming in paradisiac
e gardens, or feasting with the pat
J, archs, or merely getting into pla
i called heaven, they are allowed 10 {
= It on, till they become so disgust
# that they want to break jail and
o cape to some place where they g
e find something useful to do. Tn
5 are then instructed that heaven co
Il sists in performing uses-doing Us
[ fuI things-in the name of the Lor
d and right glad are they to learn IN
b lesson. The essence Of heavenly {
e light is the doing Of good to othe
e and not the selfish qualification
e oueIs own desires. SwedenbOrg 50
?, that the angels not only love [
n neighbOr as themselves. but bett
IS than themselves, and find inetiat
e delight in ministering to their neig
if bOrs, That is in accordance with I
d teaching Of the Lord while on cart
IS ssBut he that is greatest among y
?, shall be your servant" Matt. xxi
o H.
s. OCCUPATIONS IN HEAVEN.
= Reporter-But what do the ang
n find to do in heaven? -?
- Mr.. HitchcOck-EYerything u
, GOOD men and women would ma
= DO in a perfect state of society
aortb ,,-itb nf course, such exc,