The Springdale news., 1889-09-27
THE GREAT HEREAFTER.
Vague Terms Applied to the Future World
 In Many Lands.


 In Many Lands.
 Among vague terms applied to the future world are the following; "The | great hereafter ''the other world, '' "futurity,n 'the great somewhere else, 'the afterilife. ''the farther shore" "'the spirit world" "the unseen universe the great beyond" It is unnecessary to inform you that "the sweet ultimately is an American term. A famous Frenchman, when l dying said that he was about to go in- to the great perhaps" Similar terms are the dim unknown" and ''the un- known dark In poetry the future world is the happy land, far, far. away the "fand O the leal," the world beyond the stars. daybreal1, "the mansion of light, 'Jerusalem the golden, ''the better land, " ''thc realms of the blessed,n n "the happy isles, Y "beyond the waveless sea. .'the fair home abovo.a "the 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 avernaL" Anglo-SaXon poems refer to "thc green worlds of Paradise Mrs. Barbauld calls it 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 "the distant Aidenn. a 'fhe 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 ob Jordan, "de shinin' strand. de golden city, "de Land ob Canaan. "Eden's bliss ful 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 "shoreless sea. The Scotch call it "the eternal Sawbath. To the red Indian of North America tho future world is "the happy hunting grounds. Boyer says; We journey across the isthmus of now to the continent ot then. 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 em- ployed in medieval and modern po- etry. A similar term is 'the neither world According to the ancient Per sians, 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 fife will be blissful quies- eence in Niryana The Mussulman's Al Araf' is the region between Para disc and IIades, where those who are neither good nor bad remain. When engaged in battle the Slavonian's shout ''Hu-raya ito Paradise.D. 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 etraneee by it's tasfo for eyermore The Egyptians believed that i'm mediately after death the soul descended into the lower world called Amenti and was conducted to the "haH of truth, where it was judged in the presence of Osi~is and of his forty-two assessors. Tae good were then conducted to Ahl. or the pools of peace These were the dwelling places of the blest The wicked were condemned to se- ries of transmigratious 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 fthe dead is named hades or the realm of Pluto. The proper name of this re- sion was Erebus, which was the dwell- ing-place of the virtuous as well 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.