The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-21

II Ii. On the other hand, Humanity UNIVERSALLY,
DESIRES FUTURE life. They hunger for 1t. Coz
= lts sutnor; and II God Is its author t must b
adapted to mans nature; and, If ADAPTED II
mans nature, the object desired must De rea
ana not fictitious. In the economy of rhys.ca
nature there is perfect adaptation everywhere
adapted to the elements in which they reside
and all the habits Of their being. Nothing II
contradictory, discofdant out of place, or even
unnecessary. Can we not see the same wisdom
ana goodness in the economy of our own ply
steal nature? Does God provide for the instincts
which ne gives to beasts an0 reptiles, and leave
the noble aspirations of our soul to be disap-
pointed Does he deceive ne by exciting hopes
that are Elusive, and implantiDg desires that
are only to be Knocked We believe CTR Maker to
| be absolutely true, wise and benevolent. and as
we believe nature to be an exponent of this
ruth, wisdom and goodness, we are assured that
the natural desire and hunger for future life
shall be realized in the perpetuity and eternity
of our spiritual being.
Truly we ere immortal. mays as well seek to
get away from being altogether as try to throw
of or get away from the idea of afuture life,
eternal in its duration. This life here is only
tie infancy of our existence. The duration of
ofthe great temple of nature; does ont give us
barely time to lisp the alphabet of the stipend
Gus volume that lies unrolled before u.s. For
We're man to live co-eval with the sun,
The patriarch pupil would be learning still
Yet dying, leave his lesson half unlearn'd.
given to man the capacities of an archangel,
with less than the duration OF q beast? Has he
endowed him with powers unlimited, to be i'm
mediately exiting uished? Has he ennobled him
with the lineaments of his own image to be blot
tee from existence the moment they begin to be
unfoited. Do unconscious suns and systems
roll on TOR ages, and the insentient materials of
earth pass through many cycles and retain their
being unimpaired, and is the only spiritual
essence that is capable of unfolding their opera
lions and laws to be in moment destroyed ?
impossible. Reason repels the thought as IN
worthy of God. The wisdom that has impaired
harmony everywhere cannot create discordance
here. The wisdom that adapts everything to de- |
yeiop Its powers guarantees the certainty that
the soul shall have an existence cO-equal with |
Its intellectual and moral faculties, and as these
are unlimited, SO the duration of its being can |
nave no bounds. This being true, our late sister
ls not dead but liveth; not lost, but gone before
ABSENT from the body, It's true but she is pres
ent with the Lord We carry our spiritual |
identity through eternity. Your mother is the |
same mother she was a few days ago, only glori- |
fed mortality being swallowed up in life,'
Could we zee her we should recognize her. |
Blessed thought. If man die he shall live |
again In this we may rejoice to-day, and with |
lay the remains of one who e now no longer |
visible to u.s. whose loss we deeply feel, to rest.
The important work had been done, completed |
before death came, and now all is well.
Let us try to do likewise. At last abe had only |
TO wait for the Master, and being ready when |
ner till we meet to part no more.
rOr you, the dear husband, children and |
relatives few more troubles and trials: yet |
only be patient. To the will of God try to be re-
slgned. y, soon all your tempess, SORROWS and
Trials will be over, and then you will meet your
loved ones in the " Sweet Beulah land" never |
more to part. The sympathy of many warm
hearts Is yours in your bereavement. Amen.