serves the Divine Purpose, and adds to the sum-total of the world's happiness.
Heaven is within. They will look for it in vain who look elsewhere. In no outward place will the soul find Heaven until it finds it within itself; for wherever the soul goes its thoughts and desires go with it; and however beautiful may be its outward dwelling-place, if there is sin within, there will be darkness and gloom without; for sin casts a dark shadow over the pathway of the soul—the shadow of sorrow.
The world is beautiful, transcendently and wonderfully beautiful. Its beauties and inspiring wonders cannot be numbered; yet, to the sin-sodden mind, it appears as a dark and joyless place. Where passion and self are, there is hell, and there are all the pains of hell; where Holiness and Love are, there is Heaven, and there are all the joys of Heaven.
Heaven is here. It is also everywhere. It is wherever there is a pure heart. The whole universe is abounding with joy, but
