The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-02-08
PARTINGS.

And all that generation were gath
cred unto their fathers. lilo.
The gates of heaven can never be
closed. for every instant of time some
released and glad soul, from some part
OF the earth's surface, crosses the gold
en- threshold and finds rest. The air
is filed with our goodbys and the well
come of angels, and if we hear the one
but not the other ii is because our
faith is weak and our ears are dull
We are apt to forget when some dear
heart leaves us that if there is sorrow
in our homes there is great rejoicing
in the upper zone.
After the WEAKNESS and pain of
long Illness heaven is what a safe
anchorage is to a storm tossed NesSei.
The vessel heaves = sigh OF relief that
it's struggle is over and II can rest
quietly on the bosom of the calm wa
tiers which are so landlocked that it has
nothing to fear. 1t has done brave
battle with wind and sea, has perhaps
been taxed TO the utmost to hold It's
course. but the rafting of the anchor
chain means that the victory has been
won and that sunshine and blue skies
are to be the reward of its brave Ell
forts So the soul, hampered and nam
dicapped by some insolent and agrees
sive disease, becomes resigned TO sepd-
ration from the body. and finds in an
other world the peace and freedom
which were denied in this. 1t hest
tates possibly, as il approaches the
end because il is a strange experience
, through which il is about to pass, but
when the. crisis is over, and IL scars 10
realms unknown in company OF those
whom the Father has sent 10 see II
safely on its way. ii is like the Traveller
who suddenly energies from a multi
tude of dangers and hardshlps ana
finds himself in the embrace OF OLD
friends.
That we should mourn is both natu-
raj and proper. That we should robe
ourselves in heavy black, as though
the sun and God Himself had been
blotted out, is. from the standpoint OF
q cheerful faith. little short or a CRIME
Death if we think Alright, Is a release
f,o,,, the burdens which we have borne
for wears and entrance into realm
{ of larger opportunity. Many man
/ has come to his best self only after
ne has left the churchyard oehlnu MIN
If our religion is worth any lhlhS II
shows itself in the temper IN Whlch
We face separation We may think or
ourselves. of our personal loss. in when
case seIfishness is the chief CHARACTER :
} istic of our grief. or We may thlnR OF
. the departed, and beneath our tSai
cherish the glad belief that ne has
found at last the rest which his earth-
" Iifa refused TO give. The true view
Of the situation is that which our
/ CHRISTIANITY furnishes-sorrow when
cannot be depressed. with rejoicing ina
there is another life, and that ne Is III
a better home than earth can AFFORD.
/ 1t seems to me that religion Wh.Gh
keeps US company until We Iedom I, -
/ edge Of the grave and then aoruPtlE
leaves us. has little practical value. l
would as lief never have met II as 10
be compelled to part with in 1t that SI-
prerne moment To shrug its shoulu
ers when we ask about the future 60
$50 rotbinc TO say shows plainly
enough that it is not the kind OF re-
Iieion the soul Graves. The Christ al
such a time. shines like Orion on a
winter night. He grows GRANGER %
stature and calmer of spirit as de aP.
breaches Calvary. But He Is grahoes'