'_I_ WOULD GIVE MY LIFE IF IT WERE WORTH ANYTHING.' That utterance has saved you--otherwise to soar into an unexplored wilderness of spheres, weighted by your own doubts and guided solely by your own wild desires, would be a fruitless journey." I felt abashed as I met his steady, scrutinizing eyes.
"Surely it is well to wish to know the reason of things ?" I asked, with some timidity.
"The desire of knowledge is a great virtue, certainly," he replied; "it is not truly felt by one in a thousand.

Most persons are content to live and die, absorbed in their own petty commonplace affairs, without troubling themselves as to the reasons of their existence.

Yet it is almost better, like these, to wallow in blind ignorance than wantonly to doubt the Creator because He is unseen, or to put a self-opinionated construction on His mysteries because He chooses to veil them from our eyes." "I do not doubt!" I exclaimed earnestly.

"I only want to make sure, and then perhaps I may persuade others." "You can never compel faith," said Heliobas calmly.

"You are going to see wonderful things that no tongue or pen can adequately describe.
Well, when you return to earth again, do you suppose you can make people believe the story of your experiences?
Never! Be thankful if you are the possessor of a secret joy yourself, and do not attempt to impart it to others, who will only repel and mock you." "Not even to one other ?" I asked hesitatingly.
A warm, kindly smile seemed to illuminate his face as I put this question.
"Yes, to one other, the other half of yourself--you may tell all things," he said.