The Shasta courier., 1864-06-18
SHASTA COURIER.
Recognition after Death.

Besides the war and its monentous occur
rings, SAYS the Home Journel, we 90 NOT oe-
l.eye there is at present. SO popular toPc
ia societv-esse 50 widely and revefeh'iy uis
crSsed in chance company. ana one SO pro
fo,,dIv tbonobt ofin solitude-as the strange
l., sar;.us one. of probable recognition after
iear6 This is owing, we think, to COM
lining. partly accidental, OF various triputa-
~ canses--the increased frequency OF death
and lis consequently closer approach to our
familiar knowledge being among the more
,byiops-but to another cause more lmmedl
atcly and distinctly and OF this we have al
ready made repeated mention IN our columns
viz. the publication of a new and admlra-
bile work by Mr.. Alger, The Doctrine oil a
Future Life.
For some such prevalence of thought the
fermenting heart of our disturbed country
was doubtless. by an overriding Providence.
made ready; hut its more immediate efficacy
we are inclined to think, is owing to the al
tractive manner in which so important and
$ lemn an interest has been made fami lar to
us bv this able writer. 1t is the inevitable
but still hitherto distant destiny Of each ones
immortal spirit brought face to face with
him-heaven and its blest privileges laid open
as in prophetic vision. As Mr.. Alger says:
so The majestic theme of our immortality
allures. yet battles us. No feshy implement
of logic or cunning tact of brain can reach to
the solution. That secret lies in the tissue
less realm whereof no nerve can report be-
forehand. We must wait little. Soon we
shall grope and gGess no more, but grasp and
know
Mr.. Aiger's plans and arrangements are
systematic and clear lie has had access to
unbounded materials and these be has ex-
hausted He has carefully elaborated the
de ails. and groups them in the plainest and
most forcible manner.
We make the following extract from this
work:
After anayzing the relevant facts OF
present experience and inferring what we can
from them, and after studying the Scriptures
and finding what they say. there is YET an.
other method of considering the problem OF
recognition in the future state. That Is.
without caring for critical discussion, without
deferring to extraneous authority. we may
follow the gravitating force OF instinct, I'M
agination and moral reason. We are made
to love and depend on each other. The lon
ger. the more profoundly. we know and al
mire.the good. the more oar being becomes
intertwined with theirs, so much the more
intensely we desire to be with them always.
and so much the more awful is the agony OF
separation. This-what is it but great Ma
ture's testimony. Gods silent avonal, that
we are to meet in eternity? Can the fearful
anguish of bereavement be gratuitous? can
the yearning prophecies of the smitten heart
be all false? Belief in reunion hereafter is
spontaneously adopted by humanity We
therefore esteem it divinely ordered or true.
Without that soothing and sustaining trust,
the unrelieved, intolerable wretchedness in
MANY cases would burst through the fortress
of the mind, hurl reason from its throne, and
tear the royal affections and their attendants
in the trampled dust of madness. Many
rarely gifted soul, unknown in his nameless
privacy of life. has been SO conloinei with
worthy peer, through precious bonds of un-
utterable sympathy. that, rather than be left
behind. the undivided half of such friend
ship as had mastered time, he has prayed
that they. diving at once, might, involved to.
gather, hover across the dolorious strait to the
other shore, and
Arrive at last the blessed goal
Where He that died in Holy Land
Might reach them out the shining hand,
And take them as single soul.
Denied that inmost wish. the rest of his
widowed life below has been ole melancholy
strain Of In Memoriam.' Many faithful
and noble mourner, whose garnered love and
hope have been blighted forthis world would
tell YOU that, without meeting his lost ones
there, heaven itselfwould be no heaven to him.
In such a state of soul. we must expect to know
again in an unfading cline the cherished dead.
That beliefis of fdiyine inspiration, an arrange
ment to heal the deadly wounds of sorrow. 1t
is madness not to think it veriety. Who
1 I'LL q. .,a+ III, ,ari,t tho ,i,rA
sial airs of heaven. he could touch. in passing,
the radiant robes of his chosen friends with
out a thrill of recognition, the prelude to a
blissful and immortal community? Is there
not truth in the poets picture of the meeting
of child and parent in heaven?-
I. was not, mother, that knew thy face:
The luminous eclipse that is on il now,
Though it was fair on earth, would have made it
strange
Even to one who knew well as he loved thee;
But my heart cried out in me- Mother
Thisk of the unfathomahle yearnings. the
infinite ecstacies ot desire and faith from age
to age swelling in the very heart of the world
all set on the one hope # future union, and
who then can believe that God will coldlv
blast them all? They are inn cent, they are
holy. they are meritorlous. they are unspeak-
ably dear. We would not destroy them; and
God will not for he is kinder far than we
RAMON CARILLoS GANG OF DESPERADeEs.-
1t is said that when Ramon Garlic was kill
ell near Las Angeles on 3lst of May last.
four revolvers. a pair of derrinsers. and a
large howieknife were found on him. and a
sword under bis saddle. He lived six hours
after being shot, and was sensible to within
a short time of his DEATH The Mexican who
with hin, -,