The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1871-01-28
WAxNE COUNTY. IND. JAN.

the most.
We mourn with you, for you are
alone. or beerft Of IN object of
love. But you should not mourn.
There is more than this of life. In
the coming years, il you love the
memory of that little one, as it
grows and is schooled in the Eter-
mum it will come again to you
not flesh and blood, but il good
thoughts, suggestions, good ideas,
and all these, until you will be
touched by the light Of progress,
and long to leave this education
by the fireside to become q teach
er and suggester, as are millions
Over There, whose minds are op-
Grating on matter and improving
US as people, as the sunlight ri
pens fruit for our delectation.
While you are weeping, the low.
ed one is not lost, but already at
work. 1t is like bird: trying it's
pinions in the Golden Garden
You loved it here, a. God loves
US all. AS the Greater loves His
own creation. And it is we'll you
did-for this is the proof that we
are all more or less Of Him, or
Godlike in our nature as we love
truly, without baseness of passion
or life of lust.
Look not upon the little house
where your darling lived. The
loved one is not there! It has en-
tered upon work, as we sill shall
in time. We are taught beauti-
full lesson by death. We are
taught that this life is nothing but
a dressing-room. A room where
the creations Of man, Gods agent,
are sorted and tried and fitted for
that work we shall have to do in
exact proportion as we are able, or
fitted by that nature and those ex-
perienced which fit or unfit US as
we allow them to.
While you are moving, the one
who died, or rather began its n ew
life, is not idle. It is not to live
in idleness Over There. None of
US will! The improvements which
mark the earth will tell us that
those who died are still at work.
They work through us-as comes
red to the rose-from the infuen-
ces we cannot explain or account
for but which, nevertheless, do ex-
AS children who grope in the
night, when wrongly taught by
bad nurses, fear ghosts and strange
creatures of fancy in the dark, SO
do we who are taught by bigoted
men more than Q liberal God wan
; der in the dark, fearing evils and
penalties which exist only in the
imagination.
1t is not ordained that infants
nor adults shall roast in a liquid
mass of birthstone, or on living
embers, but it is ordained that
i. mind shall work upon matter-tha1
we shall have work to do after we
; we have passed away, as we have
; now, and that we shall be happy
. in our next life in proportion al
, we are pure-minded, liberal, and
therefore growing, aud therefore
y OF use in furtherins the great plal
, of progression which will 60 Oh
I and, on, and on tor ages, till w
. shall have lost the memory Of ou
present life as now We have M
u knowledge of any one before this
II We shall be selected for worl
6 Over There as We are here. A
we build now with our hands, her
u SO shall we build when there. Al
u we employ others now, 80 shall "
e employ others then. Personally
/. we do not expect that we shall di
r rect others to build railroads, and t.
g invent new machinery to hastel
}. progress, but we shall have
.e wo1.- to do. We shall have i
IS given US to operate upon the mind
of others as our own mind is q
times operated upon-as all ou
is minds are, more. or lees, by un
II seen, but none the less existin
IN influences. We may, perhaps, b
i employed in suggesting ideas an
lie words, or manner Of speech, t
le those who shall live here after "
,e are gone. We shall. as We hop
e. and believe, write many line an
N chapter through other minds
At hands, and pens-telling of tn
is Eternal, as men can bear it an
at will study-as now We print an
l. scatter by means Of the invention
l. Of the age and enterprises of mar
re We shall never be idle. It will
a. be our part to suggest goo
se thoughts to those who will wal
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