ain't any harm in letting everybody get up there and cure himself
as soon as he comes.

"Now you just remember this--heaven is as blissful and lovely as it
can be; but it's just the busiest place you ever heard of. There
ain't any idle people here after the first day. Singing hymns and
waving palm branches through all eternity is pretty when you hear
about it in the pulpit, but it's as poor a way to put in valuable
time as a body could contrive. It would just make a heaven of
warbling ignoramuses, don't you see? Eternal Rest sounds
comforting in the pulpit, too. Well, you try it once, and see how
heavy time will hang on your hands. Why, Stormfield, a man like
you, that had been active and stirring all his life, would go mad
in six months in a heaven where he hadn't anything to do. Heaven
is the very last place to come to REST in,--and don't you be afraid
to bet on that!"

Says I--

"Sam, I'm as glad to hear it as I thought I'd be sorry. I'm glad I
come, now."

Says he--

"Cap'n, ain't you pretty physically tired?"

Says I--

"Sam, it ain't any name for it! I'm dog-tired."