The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1907-06-14
THE HEREAFTER.
What Shall il BE? What Great Minds in All Ages Have
Thought About This Subj Ct

The busy man with his mind bent on money-making
and his mark made high up in the millions, and tie
poorer neghbo who looks forward to bare subsistence
for the winter alike at times rejecting the themes
of happy hereafter.
Aside from the teachings of the Bible and the training
of childhood there creeps into our intellect an undena-
BILE vision of life eternal that peases while it cheers us
and raises vision to home somewhere beyond the
and above the stars that in thoughtful hours is
song.
Cicero the peerless Roman orator. believed and breahed
and breathed out beautifully in his orations Webster
most noby expressed it in his Griard will argument; Bry
ant has thought it in his ThanatopsS Crttenden pro-
claimed it in his eloquence and Ingersols haf-hd-
den faith flashes into being under the pain of bereave-
ment while he excaims. 81 better now" In spite of
doubts let believe that such is true of all dead,
The answer from the poets like Longfellow from the
deeper students like Milton the heroes like Napoleon the
painters like Angelo, and the inspired teachers of enigh
ened Greece confirms the words of Hugo that life is eer
nal and death is but change of place
learned and emminent doctor lately said: The
theme is beyond my ken, but even SO the growth of
able historian John S. c. Abbott, said: From the
powerful glass at Greenwich measure in the world
above us-que enough space for all the millions to exist
ETERNITY IS vast Our little world is but speck COM
pared to other worlds above it. Abbott saw in the
to live in hereafter The growing seeds explain their
ct arnty The hope within the souls great prompter
dreams OF ending with so brief lie as seems our
three and ten.
The fact that space the mind is mitess that thought
will cross the country, pass to Europe, mount the tall
heights beyond the sum- be with those love sud-
change and yet its grander power to span all worlds alike
Mysterious mind chained in dungeon for awhile then
let to light again Skipping from sea to sea and ever
ready for another flight! Mysteries of CHILDHOOD play
thing of YOUTH enjoyment of manhood solace of age;
glimpse of hereaer!ls it shadow chased like butterfly
at school? Is it cheat Turing to dream of the good and
90 to oblivion? Is it vision that takes oneha
our race at seven twothrds at hirty-hree, and deals
with partial hand great happiness and longer life to
and less to all the others? Do great lives fall down be-
fore their prime and end forever the dead leaves fa
Or does the mind keep brilliant like the end Of Stevens in
the Senate and of Garfield at Long Branch Tden writ
ing like statesman and Grant making his monument af
ter he given up dead to show us that the body
and mind are not destroyed as one!
What shall hereafter be? What should it be?
With savage tribes death in darkness brings but dark
ness The Indians almost always so believe for they
die they expect to be beyond in darkness in light with
or without their guns, ard game, their happy hunting
ground is just as clear to them ours is to Pave
ments of streets mansions of homes and silver brooks
need not at all be realized to make the happy glad Most
of the happiest we will know in life are happy inl
their minds and souls and when they about to say
good bye to earth there broader CLEAN OF charity
that seems to open wider doors to life of hope love
and happiness All through life there is no nCber hope
grander thought than Of eternity Selfishness alone
could PROMPT It and to leave out every plan but nature
pass by every theory promise of the scripture and only
to think as the great and good have thought will lead US
70 evidence intelpent conviction that life immortal