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Excerpt from On the Vision of Heaven Virgil says of Eneas, one feed the heart on a vain picture, the nature of the picture is here such as to improve the heart which feeds on it. Those who have never been Christians m a spir itual sense, rhaps ill understand how it com bines unsel lsmess with a sense of the commu nion of saints and union with God in Christ. A young Christian who, erhaps for the first time, receives the Lord's upper in what he sup poses to be a choice collection of saintly commu uieante from the hands Of a peculiar y saintly minister, has an inexpressible pdelight by more presence in so select an assembly. No one of them knows him; he does not desire to be known, he seeks no introductions; but he feels that everything around him is sacred. No pro fans heart mars his conscious sympathy with those whom he believes to be 1n close spiritual union with the Almighty and the thrice Holy. A thrilling sense Of joy which ma mount into transport suggests to him what wil be the bless edness of that state where all hearts are in har mony with God, and thereby With one another. To im ute as sel shness the desire that such a king om of may come, - the desire to see its realization - is surely a very7 great mistake. The desire was plainly uttered, ong before the Christian Era, 1n the Hebrew Psalms - Re member me, Q Lord, with the favor that thou bearest unto thy people: 0 visit me With thy sal vation; that I may see the felicity of the chosen ones anti rejoice' ln ythe gladness thy heritage. 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.