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ica, and sees the natives regard more a piece of glass, or an old knife, than a piece of gold, may think, surely these people never heard of the worth of gold, or else they would not exchange it for toys; so a man that looked only upon the lives of most men, and did not hear their contrary confessions, would think either these men never heard of heaven, or else they never heard of its excellency and glory. As the Indians who live among the gold mines do little regard it, but are weary of the daily toil of getting it, when other nations will compass the world, and venture their lives, and sail through storms and waves to get it; so we that live where the gospel groweth, where heaven is urged upon us at our doors, and the manna falls upon our tents, do little regard it, and wish these mines of gold were further from us, that we might not be put upon the toil of getting it, when some that want it would be glad of it upon harder terms. —Salter.

Heaven, Discoveries of. A man on the summit of a lofty mountain commands a wider landscape, and sees things that on the plains below would have been quite invisible. So many things unknown, incomprehensible to us on the plains of earth, will be all visible on the mount of heaven.