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TlIK TRUE DOCTRINE. 151775. AocorJiug to Cliristianity, there is no immortality for animalsbelow the grade of humanity; but according to Spiritualism, animalstliat are favourites of man in this world arc his companions in the next.Much stress is laid on the singing of birds in the account given of thespheres. There is a line of demarcation below which the privilege of anexistence after death is not enjoyed. Eespecting that boundary my informationisat present incomplete.770. In order to do justice to the excellent and learned clergyman towhom I have so often referred, I will annex the whole of those pages inwhich he conceives himself to give the ^Hrue doctrine^' respecting heaven.However unsatisfactory it may be to me, I hope it will be found interestingto those who, like the author, look only to the Bible for information respectingtheir existence beyond the grave."THE TRUE DOCTRINE"Rc!>tpcctinQ Heaven, according to the Reu. II. Ilarhaugh, Pastor of theFirst German Reformed Church, Lancaster, Penna." One gentle sigh their fetter breaks ;"We scarce can say, They're gone '!'Before the willing spirit takesHer mansion near the throne."777. " The different theories by which the souls of saints are supposedto be detained from entering heaven immediately at death, have now beenexhibited. They have led us a long and dreary chase. The groundlessnessof these theories has been, in part, shown in connection with a statementof them.They will, however, be more completely overthrown by astatement of the true doctrine, and by the arguments that may be adducedin its support. Various arguments that, in passing along, were offeredagainst these false views, will also substantiate the true doctrine ; thus thesame implements that have been used to tear down the old building maybe employed to erect the new. If, therefore, any thing should be presentedin this section, among other things, which may seem to havebeenpresented before, it must be remembered that though they are the sametools,they are now used to do a different kind of execution.778. '* We consider the true doctrine of God's word on this subject tobe this : The saints do immediately, at death, enter that place which iscalled heaven, where the body of the Saviour now is, where the divinemanifestations are most clearly and gloriously made, where angels havetheir proper home, and where all the heirs of Christ shall finally and forevermore be assembled.779. " That the saints pass immediately at death into heaven, is taught.in the symbols in some of the most pious and learned denominations ini