hat we may assume with certainty. We know that Heaven would
scarce be Heaven at all if we were to be but solitary isolated spirits
amongst a crowd of others whom we did not know or love. We know that
the next world and this world come from the same God who is the same
always. We know that in this world He has bound us up in groups,
knowing and loving and sympathizing with each other. Unless His method
utterly changes He must do the same hereafter. And we have seen what a
prophecy of recognition lies deep in the very fibres of that nature
which God has implanted in us. If we shall not know one another, why
is there this undying memory of departed ones, the aching void that is
never filled on earth? The lower animals lose their young and in a few
days forget them. But the poor, human mother never forgets. When her
head is bowed with age, when she has forgotten nearly all else on
earth, you can bring the tears into her eyes by mentioning the child
that died in her arms forty years ago. Did God implant that divine
love in her only to disappoint it? God forbid! A thousand times, no.
In that world the mother shall meet her child, and the lonely widow
shall meet her husband, and they shall learn fully the love of God in
that rapturous meeting with Christ's benediction resting on them.

I know there are further questions rising in our hearts. Will our dear
ones remember us? Will they, in all the years of progress, have grown
too good and great for fellowship with us? There is no specific answer
save what we can infer from the boundless goodness and kindness of God.
Since He does not forget us we may be sure they will not forget us.
Since His superior greatness and holiness does not put Him beyond our
reach, we may be sure that theirs will not--their growth will be mainly
a growth of love which will only bring them closer to us for ever and
ever.

V. HOW DO MEN ENTER HEAVEN?

We have asked, What is meant by Heaven? What can be known of the
details of life in Heaven? And now I close this book with the solemn
question for us all: How shall we enter Heaven? If you have followed
me thus far the answer is easy. Though there is a special place which
shall be Heaven, yet, if Heaven means a state of mind rather than a
place of residence, if Heaven means to be something rather than to go
somewhere, though it means to go somewhere, too, then the answer is
easy. We enter Heaven by a spiritual, not by a natural ac