All is laid up for us there -I suppose to be more fully enjoyed, but the same joy-and that is satisfying: let us work in hope. He has blessed us with all spiritual blessings, yet all is still to come: we have it now in an earthen vessel. For some time past the weather has been so bad, that the swallows have left in despair-gone in a body, not one left! But higher up it is always fine, and there our hearts have to live. 524