, any domestic tool. That feeling of gratification at
the accomplishment of his plans accompanies man to the spirit life.

All persons do not follow the same pursuits in which they were engaged on
earth, yet they adopt a kindred and congenial employment. The clergyman
thinks his work done when he leaves the earth; but in the next state,
also, he will find beings who need to have their spiritual and moral
natures instructed--men who desire to be led--who cannot think for
themselves, but lean upon the thoughts and inferences of others.

So with almost every pursuit--there is opportunity to exercise it in the
world of spirits. The painter finds nobler themes for his pencil, more
angelic faces for his canvas; and the desire to reproduce them as they
appear is as intense there as it is here. Although a spirit can impress
his form in color and raiment upon the sensitive plate in the spirit
world, and the image remains fixed and permanent (for the photographic
art is essentially spiritual in its origin), that result though definite,
is as unsatisfactory to some minds in the spirit world as it is in the
natural. And thus, while persons differ in their desires and perceptions,
there will be the same varied modes of expressing thought in the superior
life as in this.

The question is often asked, "Why should immortals walk, when they can
move with greater velocity than light?"

In return I would inquire, "Why, when men can travel by the steam-engine,
do they prefer the slow movements of the horse?"

Again, it is asked, "Why, if spirits can converse by thought-language--if
they can express with their eyes, or impress magnetically their wishes,
or the words they desire to utter--why should they employ their vocal
organs?"

But I rejoin that the deaf and dumb on earth converse by signs with great
celerity, yet would gladly express their thoughts with voice also.

Many trancendentalists and idealists fancy that the inhabitants of the
spirit world do not converse audibly; yet they would be greatly shocked
if told that in that world there reigned one vast silence; that sound was
unknown; and yet such a condition would exist, if their mode of reasoning
were correct.

No unbiased person would suppose for a moment, that song was unheard in
this land of the immortals; that the voices of the spirit maidens never
burst forth into melody; and that they could not give utterance to their
feelings and sentiments, in the warbling notes o