Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1871-04-27

we study, aud ask, aud are wiling 10
be taught by those who alone Can teach
from works beyond our comprehension,
but who do not care to teach those who
will not learn.
There are workshops in the Eternal
as here. Minds working out great
problems. Minds operating on minds
by the power of that Eternal magnetic
influence increasing there as the multi
tude increases in the spirit world or
realm of improving minds.
All these inventions Of the age are
not alone of our pMnnlngl Others Of
the unseen are working with us. As
we sit in our office in the East and d.
rect agents, friends, mediums for work
ing out our orders, miles and miles away
in The West, so do thinkers, planners,
Suggestors, inventors, teachers and
helpers of struggling humanity, ont OF
sight and circles away in advance of US,
work through us, with US, for us, as
tor themselves and for the grand labor
of Creation which was not ended,
when the world was, as Osome say,
flushed.
The world is not finished
it never will he. Aud there are mil
lions of worlds not finished, worlds like
ours, in this. There are workers there
doing something of which we may know
all in time as we progress, fit ourselves
and are fitted by teachers who have
passed the threshold before US, and who
will aid US if we will it so.
In the Eternal will be, and are, work
ers for good aud for evil. Two oppo-
site spirits-force, powers. Two oppoS-
ing principles. II we are pure, loving,
earnest workers here, careful to preserve
our manhood, and to progress in labor,
intellect, goodness, and high attributes,
we shall, Over There, be with and work
with the pure, the kind, the beautiful iu
spirit, the loving, and the ones who ben
eft those ever to be educated.
The beauty of the Eternal work will
be our Heaven. The reward there, a,
here, when we see our plans prosper,
our ideas take root and grow, our labors
adding to the happiness Of others. And
this will be Heaven.
If we are not pure, and loving. aud
true to the great God.llke principle Of
purity while on earth, at school, so to
speak, we will enter the Eternal Gardens
the same, and will have no place pre-
pared for us-no beautiful welcome
from the pure; sweet there, as welcomes
here are sweeter from the pure and the
good, more than from those who are moi.
There will come realization Of lost op
portunities in not fitting ourself by good
lives and good deeds while at school on
earth. The work on which the good
will ever be engaged will be work those
who are not good, aud pure. and earnest
and loving, and liberal, and truthful
while here taking lessons, will not be
fitted for.
Then will come TO them remorse o
conscience--regre to know and to fee
that they are in the Land Of the New
Life without capital, or credit, or Il
name, or demand for them with the
workers for the good. And this will be
their agony-their hell.
And their lives must be lived over
again under teachnrs and under re.
straints, till again shall they pass or
but far in the wake of those who are
worthy and continually called TO higher
planes aud greater teachings as far be-
yond our present comprehension a. al ge'
bra is beyond the ken of drooiug babes
or the science Of photography is beyond
the rude symbolizes of savages.
Thus belieyiug-tnus taught by those
who so ofteu come to lis with news from
those who have gone before us-thus
educated by unseen teachers who daily
give US lessons and proofs of all this O.
which We write, death has no more ter
ror for us than the sleep We shall soor
lie down 10. We have no fear Of hell
for the worst of our life is passed al
with all who are progressive. Others
may not like our faith, but it is gooC
enough for us to live by-it is all the
faith we want to die by. Death as yor
call it, has no terror for US, for lons
since have we lost the fear thereof.
Only do we ask to live to q purpose
to do good-to help make others hap
pier-to combat error-to thrust ou
pen into the darkness, like that " thin
the inkstand before us, that light ma,
follow. Only do we ask to live here fo
those who love us and whom we love
caring nothing for the speech Of thos
who do not love us-caring only to d'
our duty-to live good lfe-to he'll
others-to help on the work of Creation
10 give comfort to those in darkness
waiting for the light which will sool
come to all on earth, as will come th
rest, the dawn, the Sabbath moruin
after shall have faded out and passe
away the darkness of this another, Sat
urday Night!
AT Lawrence, Kansas, few Sun
days ago, while minister was holdin!
forth in a church, a crowd cot up