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Adventures in Contentment
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David Grayson
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He
looked
at
me
intently:
I
went
on
before
he
could
answer:
"Why,
I've
seen
men
in
my
time
living
from
day
to
day
in
the
very
atmosphere
of
perpetual
torment,
and
actually
arguing
that
there
was
no
hell.
It
is
a
strange
sight,
I
assure
you,
and
one
that
will
trouble
you
afterwards.
From
what
I
know
of
hell,
it
is
a
place
of
very
loose
boundaries.
Sometimes
I've
thought
we
couldn't
be
quite
sure
when
we
were
in
it
and
when
we
were
not."
I
did
not
tell
my
friend,
but
I
was
thinking
of
the
remark
of
old
Swedenborg:
"The
trouble
with
hell
is
we
shall
not
know
it
when
we
arrive."
At
this
point
Mr.
Purdy
burst
out
again,
having
opened
his
little
book
at
another
page.
"When
Adam
and
Eve
had
sinned,"
he
said,
"and
the
God
of
Heaven
walked
in
the
garden
in
the
cool
of
the
evening
and
called
for
them
and
they
had
hidden
themselves
on
account
of
their
disobedience,
did
God
say
to
them:
Unless
you
repent
of
your
sins
and
get
forgiveness
I
will
shut
you
up
in
yon
dark
and
dismal
hell
and
torment
you
(or
have
the
devil
do
it)
for
ever
and
ever?
Was
there
such
a
word?"
I
shook
my
head.
"No,
sir,"
he
said
vehemently,
"there
was
not."
"But
does
it
say,"
I
asked,
"that
Adam
and
Eve
had
not
themselves
been
using
their
best
wits
in
creating
a
hell?
That
point
has
occurred
to
me.
In
my
experience
I've
known
both
Adams
and
Eves
who
were
most
adroit
in
their
capacity
for
making
places
of
torment--and
afterwards
of
getting
into
them.
Just
watch
yourself
some
day
after
you've
sown
a
crop
of
desires
and
you'll
see
promising
little
hells
starting
up
within
you
like
pigweeds
and
pusley
after
a
warm
rain
in
your
garden.
And
our
heavens,
too,
for
that
matter--they
grow
to
our
own
planting:
and
how
sensitive
they
are
too!
How
soon
the
hot
wind
of
a
passion
withers
them
away!
How
surely
the
fires
of
selfishness
blacken
their
perfection!"
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