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Adventures in Contentment
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David Grayson
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I'd
almost
forgotten
Mr.
Purdy--and
when
I
looked
around,
his
face
wore
a
peculiar
puzzled
expression
not
unmixed
with
alarm.
He
held
up
his
little
book
eagerly
almost
in
my
face.
"If
God
had
intended
to
create
a
hell,"
he
said,
"I
assert
without
fear
of
successful
contradiction
that
when
God
was
there
in
the
Garden
of
Eden
it
was
the
time
for
Him
to
have
put
Adam
and
Eve
and
all
their
posterity
on
notice
that
there
was
a
place
of
everlasting
torment.
It
would
have
been
only
a
square
deal
for
Him
to
do
so.
But
did
He?"
I
shook
my
head.
"He
did
not.
If
He
had
mentioned
hell
on
that
occasion
I
should
not
now
dispute
its
existence.
But
He
did
not.
This
is
what
He
said
to
Adam--the
very
words:
'In
the
sweat
of
thy
face
shalt
thou
eat
bread,
till
thou
return
unto
the
ground:
for
out
of
it
thou
wast
taken:
for
dust
thou
art,
and
unto
dust
shalt
thou
return.'
You
see
He
did
not
say
'Unto
hell
shalt
thou
return.'
He
said,
'Unto
dust.'
That
isn't
hell,
is
it?"
"Well,"
I
said,
"there
are
in
my
experience
a
great
many
different
kinds
of
hells.
There
are
almost
as
many
kinds
of
hells
as
there
are
men
and
women
upon
this
earth.
Now,
your
hell
wouldn't
terrify
me
in
the
least.
My
own
makes
me
no
end
of
trouble.
Talk
about
burning
pitch
and
brimstone:
how
futile
were
the
imaginations
of
the
old
fellows
who
conjured
up
such
puerile
torments.
Why,
I
can
tell
you
of
no
end
of
hells
that
are
worse--and
not
half
try.
Once
I
remember,
when
I
was
younger----"
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