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IN ANOTHER WORLD.

George II. Hepworth In New York Her
aid.
And there shall be no night there
Revelation xxii:5.
We are told very little as 10 the exact
conditions under which we shall lind
ourselves when we wake from the sleep
of death. Perhaps it is best SO. III spite
of our longing to know more about the
life which lies just beyond the horizon
line, and to which every feeting day
brings us nearer.
If there were other sentence except
that uttered by Christ to the penitenr cul-
prit ON the cross, This day shalt thou
be with Me in Paradise We ought tC be
satisfied. 1t contains clear statement
of the fact of Immortality, given under
circumstances of peculiar impressiyeness.
1t is as though a guide who was reading
a poor disheartened pilgrim through that
deepest darkness which just precedes the
dawn should say, Patience, poor soul,
for yet a little while and we shall see
the sun on the hilltops.'
| The world has advanced toward new
conception of the duties and privileges
which await us. The merely poetical the
cries of our fathers, in which unnatural
and uncongenial employments were sps-
icially conspicuous have given way TO a
larger and more rational view We no
longer dread the future because We shall
be strangers there but on the contrary,
look forward to it because We shall be
more at home than it is possible to be
here, with opportunities which we have
hoped for in this life, but have never
been able to attain.
The necessity for drudgery which con-
sumes so much of our time, the struggle
to provide for our dear ones and our
selves will lapse with death, and we shall
be free to follow the divine ambitions
which have during our earthly career
been an elusive dream. We shall dea
with our souls unhampered by the needs
of physical bodies, and can develop our
selves in whatever direction our ben
may lie, with an environment which will
encourage US to do and be our best.
It is very rich truth that death take
from us what we can most easily par
with-a body which claims so much o
our attention is oftentimes a painful bur
den-but it is powerless to rob us o
mind and heart, which are the basis o
. all conceivable excellence.
The poor yioliniSt who makes Strang
music out of wretched instrumen
/ would deem it good fortune to be pre-
scented with a Cremona which would re
spond to the touch of his finger tips an
give forth the sounds which he has onl
beard in his dreams, but never been abb
20 produce. So, take it, the soul ma
* forward with high anticipation
rs time when the noblest and pures
}, anu truest shall be placed within reac
!. and >s.n be had if he is willing to max
: the necessary effort.
One thing is certain, that deaf
changes nothing except location an
standpoint. Personality remains III
touched. The grave covers no faculty
the soul / myself will never go into til
tomb Before my body is taken there
shall leave it. and it will go alone, II
duty done. its mission ended. I love M
body, and my parting will not be ,yithoi
a certain kind of sorrow. just as tends
associations move me to tears when
mo, . out of an old house in which hay
Iliyec for years. But / have joy also, Il
lea@e Il WORKOUT home for new ar
jbett, esse.
If ain my personality then l hay
all ~ ask for. Invincible logic Leaf
me ca My mind, my memory, my
fectioas are part of my personality al
}. they remain undisturbed. tenderly kes
the past in view, and no future, howe
er glorious, can obliterate my remen
brance of it. I keep my love for mo
. who have been left behind, my intere
lin their welfare, my desire to. give the
assistance. am not changed one WI