The Newtown bee. (Newtown, Conn.) 1877-current, 1902-12-26

the mother will reach out her arms
to clasp her loved one again but the
little fairy will elude her touch, and
hide herself within the folds Of the
invisible garment.
OF late 1 have had pleasant inter-
views with my father and with my
late brother in my dreams. I have
questioned father as to his condition,
and have tried to make him tell me |
something about the characteristics |
of heaven, but could get from him
no satisfactory answer, and when l
pressed the question to the degree OF
Importantly, he turned and left me
alone. Surely, now we see through a
glass darkly; but then face to face.
Now we know in part: but then we
shall know even as also we are
known"
nI.-THE LEAF FADES BEAUTIFULLY.
The most beautiful leaf is not the
one which the frosts nip in early au-
tumn. The most beautiful leaf is that
which has matured and ripened I'M
molested by frosts-the leaf which
Nature has taken time to paint.
AS with nature, so with grace. We
get the wrong idea of beauty as it is
applied to mankind. The young lady,
who, after she has put the delicate tint
upon her cheeks and lips, and has got
he eyebrow ''dip'' to her hair, goes
orth from her boudoir thinking her.
self beautiful; but one may have SYM
metry of form, regularity of features,
smoothness of skin and delicacy of
color and not be beautiful. The
skin-deep beauty can easily be
destroyed. The flame may scorch it and
may pit and mar an outwardly beautl-
full face. Consumption can destroy
both regularity of feature, and symme-
try of form. But the beauty that car
stand the ravages of disease, and the
endurance of time is the beauty o.
character, the beauty of soul. Sucf
God would have us be. The mos
beautiful head, according to Jobs idea
is the head that wears the whit.
:, crown of hoary hairs, If it be found ii
the way of righteousness.
The most beautiful life, according
to the Psalmist's idea of beauty, is tina
life which is compared to the pain
tree which is planted by the rivers o
water, that bringeth forth his fruit il
his season, who leaf shall not withel
and who prospers in whatsoever b
does. Ruth is made to say in Chip
and Chunks" "What we shall be II
\ we are now, but what we are bein
and doing now will have very grea
effect upon our old age" That is
beautiful old age which has :. 100
youth and good life behind it, and
bright passage out of this life befol
it. Such was Paul's life. How bea,
tiful he said, 81 am now ready to /
an offered, the time of my departure is 8
hand. Therefore there is laid up X
he me crown of righteousness which tx
he Lord, the righteous Judge, will 81,
re me in that day." There is somethir
nd grand and beautiful about the hea
u ua Of that faded old saint, which h;
nd been forming all the years of the pas
e. tiful hands, though hard and mi
W. shapen, which will grasp the victor
o palm. There is something beautif
va in the eye, though dim it may be no,
w. which shall soon s'see the King in 81
n y; beauty, 1t is beautiful to fade VIII,
, u,o one is permitted to sdwel in tt
, nS secret place of the Most High" al
nv to 'sabide under the shadow of the A
Oh mighty, and to be covered" all Ov
M with the feathers of God, and to {
~ under His wings. Oh, it will pay O
IN, for all his toll, and sorrow, and distre
nd and poverty which he has endured
ste His Master to find himself, one ds
I n1 so honored, as to have angels for
,n59 body-guard, angels for his servant
nal and to be borne up in their hands, a.
,so May it be ours to say:
' a Are a little longer grown,
veT Only waiting til ths glim a. san,
led led Then from out the gathered darkness,
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