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 l have had pleasant inter-
views with my father and with-my
Questioned father as to bis 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.
1u.-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,
color and not be beautiful. The
skin-deep beauty can easily be
destroyed. The flame may scOrch it and
leave deep and ugly scars: small pox
J 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 can
endurance of time is the beauty OF
character, the beauty of soul. Such
God would have us be. The most
beautiful head, according to Jobs idea,
is the head that wears the white
. crown of hoary hairs; if it be found in
the way of Righteousness.
The most beautiful life, according
to the Psalmist's idea of beauty, is that
life which is compared to the palm
tree which is planted by the rivers OF
water, that bringeth forth his fruit in
his season, who leaf shall not wither
and who proSperS in whatsoever he
does. Ruth is made to say in 'sChips
and Chunks" "What we shall be In
our old age has no effect upon wha,
we are now, but what we are belnt
and doing now will have very grea'
effect upon our old age" That is ;
beautiful old age which has goot
youth and a good life behind it, and I
bright passage out of this life befOr'
it,, Such was Paul'S- life. How beau
tiful he said, 81 am now ready to b
IN offered, the time of my departure is a
III hand. Therefore there is laid up 70
10 me a crown of righteousness which tn
10 Lord, the righteous Judge, will Civ
-, nc me in that day." There Is something
I'd grand and beautiful about the hea
W. of that faded old saint, which ha
ID been forming all the years of the past
IN to just tit the crown. Those are beau
a. tiful hands, though hard and mit
~ shapeny which will grasp the victor
. palm. There is something beautifu
70 in the eye, though dim it may be nov
vo which shall soon ''see the King in Hi
,is beauty" 1t is beautiful to fade whe
go one is permitted to "dwell in th
od secret place of the Most High" an
~, to 'sabide under the shadow of the A
~ mighty, and to be covered" all owe
~ with the feathers of God, and to s.
"a under His wings. Oh, it will pay or
I'M for all his toll, and sorrow, and distre!
nd and poverty which he has endured II
.ts His Master to find himself, one da,
no so honored as to have angels for b
o5 body-guard, angels for his servant
,ai and to be borne up in their hands, an
'A' to be kept by them in all his way
GO May it be ours to say:
lie "Only waiting till the shadows
or Are little longer grown,
ed OF the days last beam Is flown.
ed Then from ont the gathered cred Dizziness lsa
IRE By whose light the soul shall gladly