Mower County transcript., 1889-10-02
THE GREAT HEREAFTER.

THE GREAT HEREAFTER.
Vague Torms Applied to tho Future World
In Many Lands.
Among vague terms applied to the
future world are the following: ..The
great hereafter" ''the other world
"futurity," ''the great somewhere
clse." ''tho after1 life," 1.-The farther
shore" "the spirit world" "the unseen
universe ''the great beyond" II is
unnecessary to inform you that '.the
sweet ultimately is an American
term. A famous Frenchman, when
dying said that he was about to 20 in
to the 'great perhaps" Similar terms
are 1.-The dim unknown" and 1.-The un-
known dark" In poetry the future
world is 1.-The happy land, far, far,
away" the "land O. the leal," 'the
world beyond the stars" "day break"
'the mansion of light, Jerusalem the
golden, 1.-The better land" "the realms
OF the blessed" 1.-THE happy isles,"
"beyond the waveless sea-" ''the fair
home above" ''the realms of endless
day." 1.-THE celestial Shore" 1.-The
harbor OF rest" 1.-The sovereign, dim,
illimitable ground" Camoens terms
it "the Lethean dungeon" and 1.-The
somber shades avernal." Anglo-Saxon
poems refer to 1.-The green worlds of
Paradise" Mrs. Barbauld calls it
1.-The brighter cline" Goethe speaks
of joining ''the ghostly nation"
Shakespeare terms it 'the undiscov-
cred country" and from whose bourn
no traveller returns" Edgar Allan
Poe calls it 1.-The distant Aidenu." "the
Plutonian Shore" and "the Iethean
peace of the skies" To the negroes
of the Southern States of America the
future world is, both in conversation
and hymns, "de oder side Oh Jordan"
"de shinin' strand" ''de golden city,"
''de Land OBJ Canaan" "Eden's bliss
full shore" " or "Canaan's happy shore. :"
To Bunyan, Heaven is 1.-The celestial
city" and "Sion the golden" To COL
onel Ingersoll the other world is a
''shoreless sea-" The Scotch call it
1.-The eternal Sawbath." To the red
Indian of North America the future
world is 1.-The happy hunting grounds. :"
Bower says: 1--WE journey across the
isthmus of now to the continent OF
then" The general term applied by
the ancients to the future dwelling
place Of spirits was 1.-The under world, "
and this term has been much en-
plOyed in medieval and modern po-
etry. A similar term is 'the neither
world" According to the ancient Per-
slams, all spirits returned to Ormuzd,
the vital principle of life and motion.
The Karins of Burmah call Heaven
1.-The new city" Buddhism teaches
that the future life will be blissful qaies-
cence in Nirvana The Mussulman's
':Al Araf'' is the region between Para
disc and Hades, whore those who are
neither good nor bad remain. When
engaged in battle the Slavonian's shout
''Hu-ray'' ITO Paradise''). The spirit
of the good Japanese when he dies
eats of the Wasuregusa. or herb of for
getfulness, and all sad memories are
thus dispeled, and the soul is ''tranced
by it's taste for evermore." The
Egyptians beloved that Immediately
after death the soul descended into the
lower world called Amenti, and was
conducted to the "hall of truth, where
it was judged in the presence of Osiris
and of his forty-two assessors. The
good were then conducted to Ahlu,
or the "pools of peace" These
were the dwelling-places of the blest.
The wicked were condemned to a Sc
ries of transmigrations in the bodies of
animals. If after many trials sufficient
purity was not attained, they were
condemned to complete annihilation by
Shu the Lord of Light. In the my
thology of Greece and Rome the abode
of the dead is named hades, or the realm
of Pluto. The proper name of this re-
gion was Erebus, which was the dwell
ing-place of the virtuous as we'll as the
wicked. This was in later times di-
vided into Tartarus, where the wicked
were confined, and Elysium, the abode
Of the blessed.-English Rare Bits.