The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-23
When I Get To HedueI1
Hy DR, FRANK CRANE

The first thing I shall do will be to read up for a thousand years or so =. . Nothing so impresses me with the brevity of life as to enter lbrary-cppresses.l would better say.
 much as acquainted with literature, when Niagara of books, not to mention magazines and papers, roars from the jaws of the press in an amending stream? ,,
 In Heaven, time being no matter. stall learn all the languages earth ever nad (Heayen has but One-multae terricoiis Hn- euae. coelestibus lha) clear back to the gut teraI clicks of the stone-age man, and the rlug.glug of the lake dwellers; and get all local colors. and hence know all life.
 Celestial beings move with the rapidity of thought. Distance makes no difference Wish you were on Anatares, and behold! you are there. }f s's-
 ,Now. the science -story-tellers say that we see ,the light of certain stars that may have been extinguished centuries ago. Rapidly as light travels. it takes ages for it to cross the universe, if it ever gets across at all. Hence, travelling with thought-rapidity, can over take light anywhere along it's road. Conse- quently all I need to do, in order to witness with my own eyes anything that ever hap pened on earth, is to wish myself at such a distance as shall bring me to where the light of that event is fresh
 Placing myself at so many million miles am present at the death of Caesar at so many more miles I walk with Pericles the ways of Athens; so many more I see Moses coming down from Saini. So in Heaven shall be able to be "among those present. at any thing that ever took place. Interesting. What?
 In Heaven also shall have time to develop all my latent capacities. The only reason I have never written like Shakespeare is that haven't had time. That would take mo several hundred years tt
 So if you meet me a million years from now some satellite of Sigma Boots you will find me to- be a combined Beethoven, So- crates. Raphael, Newton. Agassiz. Pade- rewski and J. Caesar. You will see that I can do anything anybody ever did better than he did it; can lay brick better than the best of terrestial masons, also out-Caruso Caruao in singing, and teach your Miltons the art of poetry.
 As mere duration, Heaven is rather a dull prospect; but as infinite development it's an amazing idea. For. as John Fiske says, "The essential feature of man is his un- limited possibilities of development"
 And not only shall I increase in skill and all kinds of efficiency. but my other powers, what may they not become when they are stamped with immortality.
 My memory-it will be stored fuller than the British Museum or the. vatican.
 My wilt will be strong enough to move a train of cars speak soberly. Who knows that the human will may not be harnessed some day, as we'll as electricity?
 My taste--through infinite crudities it will live and become divine.
 And my character-what power. gentle ness. goodness, nobleness and majesty it might acquire in cons of experience!
 This is what is meant by that striking word "the power of an endless life.'
 And that high word of Paul that we shall be changed from glory to glory
 And John: Ut doth not yet appear what we shall be but we shall be-like Him.