Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1881 — On the Road to Heaven. [ARTICLE]

On the Road to Heaven.

My friend overheard two little fellows, brothers, and but a few y.ears apart in their ages, talking over Sunday-school matters after they had gone to bed, just before Christmas. It seems that Jimmy, the elder, had somehow just been placed in rather an advanced class, which he of his own option saw fit to name the Bible class, and Tommy, the younger, had only come up from the infant school-roem, and had rather different and more-simple lessons, although in the same room with his advanced brother. Says Tommy : “ I’m up to you now, Jim, for I’m in the upper school, anyhow. ” “No,” says the profound Jim, “you are like people when they die— they are only in paradise ; they are not in heaven quite, but they ar e on the road to heaven, you know, Tommy,” apparently wanting to give Tom all the comfort he could with the let-down of his ambition. And the fact was, their two classes were actually side by side in their seats. “On the road to heaven ” is encouraging, and ought to remind the rector that his teaching is not all in vain.—Harper's Magazine.