It is well to have lived a long time in this world, for it is a good world.

But good as it is, it is but rudimentary.

It is to the human being only what the soil is to the seed--the germinating bed; the full and perfect world is beyond.

Young Christians believe this.
Aged Christians know it.

There, brighten up! And think that this marriage of yours and Arondelle's if it be as true as I feel assured it is--will be not for time only but for all eternity! Believe this and be happier than you were ever before! There now, my darling! I called you in here to make my little confession.