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Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millenial Star, Vol. 84: July 6, 1922
Heaven is the throne of the living God and the dwelling place of the righteous, the noble, and the pure in heart, where the spirits of just men made perfect are to be found, and wherein is the heritage of the Saints. The mere knowledge of the wonderful beauty of the heavenly scenery, its music, its songs and its other attractions could of itself have never been of any great use to us unless we ourselves had become fitted for the association of the holy and the pure in heart who reside there. Mutual affinity be tween good and evil is no more possible than could be the exist ence of light and darkness together, hence it is easy to understand how those who are devoid of holiness and truth and established in unrighteousness and falsity would find the association of the just and upright a source of the greatest discomfort to them. Like can find pleasure in associating only with like (and we see this law very commonly in operation around us even in this lower life of the earth), consequently, in order to enjoy the bliss of heaven and intercourse with heavenly beings, it becomes incumbent upon all to try and form truly heavenly characters while on earth, so that by the grace of God they may be delivered from the powers of darkness and translated into the kingdom of God's dear Son. Without this, any association hereafter with the good and right eons would assuredly be so painful, even if possible, for those who are destitute of goodness and truth, that it is not difficult to understand how heaven would utterly cease to have any attrae tions for them whatever. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.