Have just been re-reading "A Little Pilgrim." To tell you the plain
truth, the ideas are beautiful, but I do not like prying into the
next world. No one really knows anything concerning it. I am
willing to rest where Jesus left us. He told us little of it, but
enough for the "health of our souls." "In our Father's house are
many mansions. I go to prepare a place for you;" and I believe when
our friends leave us they go to another division of God's kingdom
and "prepare a place for us," in that through their deaths we are
naturally drawn heavenward, and our lives are different from ever
before. I am not so much interested as to what the future world is.
It is enough to me, to know that it is, and that I am doing the
best I can while I am living here. The future world will be made
plain to me when my time comes to go there; and if I have only
lived rightly here, there will be nothing to fear.
I can trust in God. Still such books seem to be necessary to some
persons, but I do not consider them healthy reading. When you have
finished such a book the query comes, "Is it fact?" Who can say it
is? I feel that my friends are in the hands of a loving Father as
they were while on earth, and that he will still do for them what
is best, and their spirit and affection remain with us to comfort
and guide us. I never lose them. They are only "gone before."
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_Miss Ellis to Rev. A. A. Livermore._