The Hickman courier., 1873-06-28
The Possibilities of the Future.

IF we are sure that the other life is
life, and not a slumbering hole in the
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higher sentence there, one can ,yy;cI
bear anything in this lifs - - n
for the Joy that was set befG 80. ~
dured the cross, despising :, aif-,.&t
and the Joy that is set before us:ssSaS s4
" revealed to us, would enable ever
man, methinks, to endure the cross andJ
despise the shame. 1t is the unknown
to come that cheers and blesses the
known life that now is. For this is an
orphaned life. Here we are helpless, or
like stumblingi children, with little
strength and little experience, but we
are living toward our manhood and
every year that we leave behind us is
one station on the road over which we
have passed and every day the very
dust that annoys us, and the very Gin
ders that vex our summer eyes, are
so many witnesses of the speed with
which we are crossing that territory
which separates between us and ours;
between our seeming life and our real
life between the life that now is and
the life that is to come. Every one of us
will know each other in heaven. Every
one of us viii be nobler in heaven than
we are here. The sensibilities of this
poor, dim eartlOare no Interpretation
of the sensibilities of heaven. The
great march of men through this life is
scarcely hint of the volume, the vast
ness, the magnitude, the grandeur, of
that march in procession, of. soul with
soul, through the eternal ages. What
ever we do not know, one thing we do
know, and that is this, that we shall go
to heaven, not to shrink with age, to
find poverty, and to find distortion, but
to find riches, and symmetry. and to
develop into all the glory of everlasting
youth. All that populates our fancy
with ideal perfectness, and more, will
/ be there. The noblest conception, the
most rapt vision of the most ecstatic or
seer, will be more than outdone.
! Heaven will be larger, heaven will be
richer, heaven will be happier, and the
/ glory of God will be more transcendent
| than it has ever entered into the heart of
man to conceive. Toward it we are be-
! ing swept with an irresistible impulse.
For / believe that, besides our own life,
there is a great current of forces IN
which we are swinging upward and on
ward toward the invisible sphere. As
the traveller on earth has a double
Journey as in addition to the journey
which he is himself making, hei swept
along by the earth in its revolutions so
/ believe that the human race is being
swept in vast aerial circles toward bet
ter climes and nobler societies. What
ever NAV be done by tears, by sorrows,
by temptations, by WEAKNESS, by study,
by toll, there is something better than
! all that. The irresistible power of God
is carrying the universe upward and
onward to its final perfection and glori-
fication.-H W. Beecher.
A MAN who married widow has in
vented device to cure her of " eternal
ly" praising her former husband.
Whenever she begins to descant on his
noble qualities. this ingenious No. 2
merely says: g Poor, dear man p how /
wish he had not died and the lady i'm
mediately begins to think of something
else to talk about
WHEN Turkish wife forgets to keep
the suspender buttons sewed to her hus-
bands trousers, she is patted on the
back for half an hour with a pine board
an inch thick. An African wife is better
treated. The frown is chased from hel
lofty brow with fiat-iron-
A scHooL-MAsTER on being askeS
what was meant by the word !" fortified
tion," answered, "Two twenti iGaatiaI