What matter where the region of the dead may be?
Nowhere but here are they called the dead.

When, of all paths, that to God is alone always open, and alone can lead the wayfarer to the end of his journey, why should I stop to peer through the fence either side of that path?
If he does not care to reveal, is it well I should make haste to know?
I shall know one day, why should I be eager to know now ?" "But why might not something show itself once--just for once, if only to give one a start in the right direction ?" said Cosmo.
"I will tell you one reason," returned Mr.Simon, "-- the same why everything is as it is, and neither this nor that other way--namely, that it is best for us it should be as it is.

But I think I can see a little way into it.

Suppose you saw something strange--a sign or a wonder--one of two things, it seems tome likely, would follow:--you would either doubt it the moment it had vanished, or it would grow to you as one of the common things of your daily life--which are indeed in themselves equally wonderful.
Evidently, if visions would make us sure, God does not care about the kind of sureness they can give, or for our being made sure in that way.

A thing that gained in one way, might be of less than no value to us, gained in another, might, as a vital part of the process, be invaluable.