Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-01-09
enough. Let your sorrowing die away in

enough. Let your Borrowing die away in
sacred silence.
Whenever we stand helpless before in
scrutable ~death-before a death which has
taken a life that seemed Indispensable
we do not enough remember that our only
duties are not of this world. The Lord
needs us in other spheres. We are wont to
say. nearer to God; and then disappear our
gaze.
TT Is wonderful how death gradually
takes a more beautiful form: how the UNI
to us and the goodness of God more than
ever before. The departed one it is who
effects this change within us. To noble
souls alone is it granted to bequeath this
legacy-he power to comprehend fully
consciousness of Immortality. The bless
ing which the beloved being is to us can
not be quite felt until after his death.
Death Completes the Circle.
w say death rends asunder the fam
lily or the friendly circle. but this is not
of its members are missed.
II will be silent. not from niger nor des-
and 1t must, therefore, be well done. He
had the end in view. meaning reason. and
that reason is good. To try and find out
that reason would be to- try a. things too
despair. but from a faith like that of a
child who sits at the feet of Its mother.
not understanding her actions. but conf
dent that all Is done in love-
Suffer and be silent. is the illustrious
sufferers message. The princess has some
fine thoughts:
abide therein. In vain it is We seek to
illumine the darkness with candles. 1t
must remain dark. Perhaps we may dis
cover then new beauties in the stars.
D they pray. in PARADISE. Can we
doubt it," asks the author. LAS long as
the spirit dwelt in the flesh 1t was quite
its joy and support. l will pray again
when once reunited with the body in the
new everlasting life. Shall it.. therefore.
only abstain during the state between death
and resurrection?
The soul Must Still Pray.
able to pray. Just as certain is it that
1t prays with the freedom of joy and love,
Of which we here below. with our tempta-
lions and the weaknesses Of this frail
body, so crushing to the soul, can lave no
knowledge"
Discussing whether we may beg the
saint to pray for us in paradise. the
" do not dare to go so far. That
would mean w~orshiping them. an9- that
is due God alone. We dare not address
that the spirits of the departed could
hear us: and we have no right to endow
them with. divine knowledge. We dare
The princess aptly likens the saint in
paradise, in relation to us. as grown up
children to children in the nursery.
lilts II III pS Itolic = oOiIls we
are only in the nursery and the school
room. They do not understand all. per-
haps, but we may believe they delight
In watching every step we make forward
toward the last great triumph. How they
must smile sometimes over our blind
ness"
Life is spoken of by the princess as n
troubled sea. but all is not dark to him
who believes no star of Bethlehem shines
over him and leads him on in safety.
Rejecting on the purpose Of pain. the
princess writes:
Turn to the Savior.
THAT is one of the mysteries we can
| not u%nravel. 1t is strange we should ask
| such n question, when we do not doubt
| that the angels see and hear everything
| and yet remain In undisturbed bliss. one
| might say. But the angels do not love
us as our dear blessed Savior. Is He not
full of sympathy and tenderness for US?
And yet HI looks upon all grief and mis-
fortune without putting an end to it. He
feels our suffering. and yet He enjoys per-
feet peace. May ii not be so with our lear
! ones? 1t NAV be that they see light where
! to us all is darkness. They feel joy where
we feel grief. They smile when we weep
The book is written throughout in an
impersonal style. 1t does not contain a
single photographic allusion. but dis
PLAYS deep tenderness of feeling and SUBJ
lime religious belief.