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And besides such a revelation being unreasonable, we believe it would be
impossible. There are probably millions of worlds, as well as our own.
Each one of these has likely a moral history. Now it is easily
conceivable that the services rendered in heaven may have a close
relation to some of these worlds. Thus we could not have a revelation of
our future service without being let more or less into the moral history
of those worlds. But it will be seen at once that this would be utterly
beyond us, as well as useless to us at present. In fact it would only
perplex and confuse us, and divert our attention from the practical
duties of life.

It is remarkable also that we have almost no revelation of the present
active service of the better world. To give us such a revelation might
involve other revelations which in the meantime are too high and too
complicated for us to understand. Everything is beautiful in its season.
Just as now we do not try to initiate children into the problems of life
that will come with mature age, so we, real children in understanding,
are not burdened with the knowledge, and all that such knowledge would
involve, that will come in a future life.

Besides; such premature knowledge would probably detach our interest and
attention from the duties that press upon us now. We are here with
certain duties and interests; and when these are duly apprehended they
are quite sufficient to engage our time and thought, without being
concerned with the duties that will come with a future state.

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