The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1870-10-01

its weakness, is purified to strength
and by love protected. A home
on earth we can go to, or come to,
and one who will listen to us and
lift us up, as He who is so good
and so beautiful in His attributes
Over There will listen to US, and
forgive, aud throw about our spir-
its the golden light OF pure life
thoughts, till We shall, by our own
earnest efforts and His protecting
direction, grow away and from
that part of our nature which un
checked and uncontrolled, holds
US to the earth and to misery.
AS our home Over There will be
beautiful, so is our home here, and
our work, and our resting. AS
this Saturday Night has come, SO
will others, and then we shall rest
in happiness. We know it. For
it has been told US. And the
same one who has SO helped US
here--so encouraged and reward
ed Us by kind words and gentle
care--will go home with us--or
before us--to wait our coming, or
come soon after US, and then will
we be united, never 10 part, with
no more mortal experiments, but
heart and soul perfected, and thus,
one in one, each in each, Over
There. Living, basking, resting
rewarded for our earnest working
and continued constancy here by
never-ending life and accountive
labor without WEAKNESS in that
Land of the Leal whose Alpha and
Omega will be Love and Power
Eternal
All this for those who make
perfect life-pictures here. Who
dare follow the great light hung
high in the heavens for all who
dare look up aud follow, no mat
ter what the crowd may say. All
this for those who dare stand erect
before man, bowling only before
the Coming Presence-who dare
live lives to reach, and walk in
paths by higher powers directed,
caring nothing for the criticism of
those whose work or pictures are
no more perfect than our own.
If we live for the speech Of men
here, we do not live for the Great
Reward there. for the criticism of
Time has no weight IN Eternity,
except through the certainty that
good deeds will follow us as flow-
ers bloom over graves to mark
where rests the face after the smile
has left. and where molds the
heart after we have goae home.
ALL 10 good time Let US all
learn to labor earnestly. The re-
ward will come. The riyulet
reaches the ocean after its race be
run; not before. It sings on its
way and gives joy. 1t gives life
to what it touches, and home to
the beauties which live in its wa
ters. All in good time it mixes
with the waters Of the deep. and
the whispered inquiry of the rivu-
let in its own praise is lost in the
great prayer to God from the
depths of its united life.
And all in good time with Us
all. To fret; to scold; to worry
ourselves and worry others, Will
not add beauty to the picture, the
reward will come in due time;
stopping work at noon will not
bring the sunset and the proper
hour for rest. Annoying others
will not make Us happier. Harsh
words will not tighten our own
hearts There is more of life than
all this. If this person does this,
or that person does that. all this is
nothing to our eternal effecing,
for We are judged and given work
to do Over There, not for our
meddling, our fault finding. our
interfering with that which does
not concern US, but for ability
and willingness, govern ourselves
and work on our own pictures.
And if our work be well done
if we shall strive to make only
beautiful pictures. happy will we
be in enjoying the beautiful rest
which will be for all who we'll and
truly work and wait for the final
Saturday Night-"BRIcK PoMs-
ROY.