A MAP OF LIFE place to which it leads, and for which it was made. At this stage no more will be said of heaven than is necessary for the mapping of the road. A slightly fuller treatment of heaven, in its own right and not simply as something which makes this hfe on earth comprehensible, must be reserved for the final chapter. Outside the Catholic Church, the idea of heaven has suffered because the only section of Protestants who talk very much about it — Protestants of the Nonconformist type — having no theology on the subject, have been forced more and more to use the imagery of Scripture. For centuries they have talked, preached and sung of heaven as a place of harps, hymns, crowns of gold, streets of jasper. These, of course, are symbols intended to convey a vivid impression of endless happiness. In themselves they give no notion of the life of heaven any more than pictures of men with wings give a notion of the being of angels. As symbols they are made only as ornaments to a great body of teaching, in which the life of heaven is expressed in its true relation to the nature of God and the nature of man. Lacking this true teaching — owing to its suspicion of “theology”— Protestantism has for centuries had no food for its mind save the symbols ; and symbols, while an admirable stimulus to the imagination, are not food for the intellect. The result is that for the average 30