The Greenville times., 1889-12-14
THE GREAT HEREAFTER
Vague Terms Applied TO the Future World
In Many Lands.

Among vague terms applied TO the
future world are the following: The
great hereafter" s'the other world. y
''futurity.n y s'ths great somewhere
else" the after. life" ''the farther
shore" ''the spirit world" ''the unseen
universe" ''the great beyond 1t is
unnecessary to inform you that 'the
sweet ultimately is an American
.erm- A famous Frenchman, when
dying said that he was about to 90 in
to the great perhaps" Similar terms
are 1.-The dim unknown" and .the un-
known dark" In poetry the future
world is the happy land. far. far.
away" the Gland O the leal.s ''the
world beyond the stars" ''daybreak." )"
the mansion Of light. Jerusalem the
golden" 1.-THE better land. ''the realms
Of the blessed "the happy isles.
"beyond the waveless sea- 'the fair
home above.n 'rhe realms OF endless
day." 'the celestial Shore" "the
harbor Of rest" "the sovereign. dim.
illimitable ground" Camoens terms
it 'the Lethean dungeon" and ''the
somber shades ayernal." Anglo-Saxon
poems refer to 'the green worlds OF
Paradise Mrs Barbauld calls it
''the brighter clime.n 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 ''the distant Aidenn.' "the
Plutonian Shore" and 'the Lethean
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 OBJ 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 ''the celestial
city" and "Sion the golden" To Col
onel Ingersoll the other world Is a
''shoreless sea- The Scotch call II
''the eternal Sawbath." To the red
Indian Of North America the future
world is "the happy hunting grounds. ="
Bower says: 1--WE journey across the
isthmus of now to the continent OF
them" The general term applied by
the ancients to the future dwelling.
place OF spirits was "the under world" d"
and this term has been much en-
ployed In mediaval and modern po-
etry. A similar term is "the neither
world" According 10 the ancient Per-
SLAMS, all spirits returned to Ormuzd.
the vital principle Of life and motion.
The Karins Of Burmah call Heaven
'the new city" Buddhism teaches
that the future life will be blissful quies.
cence in Nirvana The Mussulman's
"Al Araf' is the region between Para.
disc and Hades, where those who are
neither good nor bad remain. When
engaged In battle the Slavonian's shout
"Hu-ray" (''to 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 Its taste for evermore. The
Egyptians believed that imm ediately
after death the soul descended into the
lower world called Amenti. and wa,
conducted to the ''hall Of truth" where
1t was judged In the presence Of Osiri,
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 10 So
ries Of transmigrations In the bodies o
animals. II after many trials sufilcien,
purity was not attained. they were
condemned to complete anniAilation BY
Shu the Lord OF Light. In the my
thology Of Greece and Rome the abod,
Of the dead Is named hades, or the realu
Of Pluto The proper name OF this re.
gion was Erebus, which was the dwell
lng-place OF the virtuous as we'll as the
wicked. This was In later times d.
vided into Tartarus, where the wicked
we're confined. and Elysium. the abod,
Of the blessed. English Rare Bits.