The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-01-17
THE GREAT HEREAFTER.
Vague rerms Applied 10 the Future world
In Many Lands.

80 Muuy AAhuas
Among vague terms applied to tn,
future world arc the following. 9Th,
great hereaftern ''the othcr world,
"futurlty,n .'the great someahert
else" 'the after life. ! F'the farther
shore" "the spirit world ..the unseen
universe .'the great beyond" Itis
unnecessary toinform you that ''ths
sweet ultimately Is an American
term. A famous Frenchman, when
dying said that he was about to 90 In
70 the great perhaps" Similar terms
are ''the dim unknown" and "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 '.iaybreak. !"
'the mansion light, Jerusalem the
golden, .'the better land, /" .'the realms
OF the blessed" "the happy isles, I"
"beyond the waveless sea" 1.-THE fair
home above" ''the realms OF endless
day" 1.-THE celestial shore,n "the
harbor of rest '.the sovereign, dim,
illimitable ground" Camoens terms
II 1.-THE Lethean dungeon" and "the
somber shades avernal." Anglo-Saxon
poems refer to 'the green worlds of
Paradise. Mrs Barbauld calls 1t
.the brighter cline Goethe speaks
OF joining ''the ghostly nation"
Shakespeare terms 1t '.the undiscov-
cred country" and "from whose bourn
no traveller returns" Edgar Allan
Poe calls it ''the distant Aidenn.n .the
Plutonian Shore" aud "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"
i'de shiniD' strand, ..de golden city,
de Land OBJ Canaan s,Edeu'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.n To the red
Indian of North America the future
world is 1.-THE happy hunting grounds"
Bower says: I'VE 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 "the under world.n
and this term has been much en-
ployed in medieval and modern po-
stry. A similar term is ssthe neither
world" According to the ancient Per-
Iians, all spirits returned to 0rmuzd.
ihe vital principle OF life and motion.
The Karins of Burmah call Heaven
'the new city" Buddhism teaches
hat the future life will be biissful quies-
'ence in Nirvana The Mussulman's
al Araf' is the region between Para
lise and Hades. where those who are
leither good nor bad remain. When
Engaged in battle the Slavonian's shout
'Hu-ray" (''to Paradiser'). The spirit
i the good Japanese when he dies
ats Of the Wasuregusa. or herb of for 4
Tetfulness, and all sad memories are
hus dispeled, and the soul is .'tranced
" its taste for evermore.n The
egyptians believed that Immediately
fter death the soul descended into the
over world called Amenti and was
TO the "hall of truth. where
was judged in the presence of Osiris [
nd of his forty-two assessors. The
ODD were then conducted to Ahlu. {
r the .'pools of peace" These |
ere the dweling-places of the blest.
he wicked were condemned to se- I
les Of translnigrations in the bodies of {
nimals- If after many trials sufficient I
urity was not attained. they were Z
,ndemned to complete annihilation by
hu the Lord Of Light. In the my I
lology of Greece and Rome the abode 1
the dead is named hades. or the realm q
Pluto. The proper name of this re-
on was Erebns, which was the dwell n
g-place of the virtuous as well as the n
lcked. This was In later times di- /.
ded into Tartarus, where the wicked (,
ere confined. and Elysium. the abode v
the blessed. English Rare Bits. q
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