Do They Hunt The Caribou In Heaven?

The Jesuit Fathers tried to move a sick Huron by the misery of life, the joys of heaven, and the pains of hell. He said, “I wish to go where my ancestors have gone.” One asked him, “Do they hunt the caribou in heaven?” “Qh, no,” replied the missionary.

‘Then I will not go there. Idleness is bad everywhere,” responded the Indian. The fear of starvation in the regions of the blessed, was a great obstacle to their conversion, and the fathers had to assure them that the stock of game was there unlimited. Others feared that there would not bea supply of tobacco in heaven, and felt that they could not be happy there without it.

9455. HEAVEN Inconceivable. The joys of heaven are without example, above exper ience, and beyond imagination; for which the whole creation wants a comparison; we, a2 apprehension; and even the word of God,a revelation. Norris.

9456. HEAVEN Indescribable, It is not for any mortal creature to make a map of that Canaan which lies above; it is, to all of us who live here on the hither side of death, an unknown country and an undiscovered land. It may be that some heavenly, pilgrim, who, with his holy thoughts and ie y desires, is continually traveling thitherward, arrives sometimes near the borders of the promised land and the suburbs of the new Jerusalem and gets upon the top of Pisgah, and there HHAVEN., has the perfect prospect of a fair coun which lies a far way off; but he cannot ta how to describe it.

Bp. Rust