Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-24
For Breakinq Hearts.

Nothing you can say from your
thinking will avail with the newly be.
reaved. but anything you say from your
knowing and believing and feeling will
be precious" in these words Mr.. How
ellis opens series Of papers to run TOR
the year in Harper's Bazaar on the SUBJ
ject Of the future life. It is explained
that the papers will be in the nature
of a counsel Of consolation, addressed
to those in immediate bereavement.
and containing such comfort and hope
as the great writer's who prepare them
can offer. Mr.. Howells, writing in the
April number, tells us that his prime
counsel to mourners would be ito trust
not only to eternity. but to time, for
consolation, and to trust time first, for
time is here and now, and eternity is
hence and Of the future" He adds:
This counsel does not imply forget
ting; to grief, which is of love, that is
impossible; but it is well to realize
from the universal human knowledge
that the agony OF tomorrow will not
be the agony Of today; the sharpness
will have been dulled a little, and a
morrow will come when the lacerating
edge will be rounded so that you shall
not feel 1t except as a stress that will
no longer tear your heart, and then no
stress, but valued consciousness. You
shall even wish to feel 1t; there will
be a sweetness in it which you would
not forego, but would keep with you
for life"
There is an interesting element Of
personal apologize in the words that
follow:
II can not truly speak to the stricken
from the absolute faith which some
others can speak from. am Of those
who patiently wait for the fukfilment
Of the hopes which christianity has
worded from the Greek philosophers
rather than from the Hebrew prophets.
Once asked my father, a man whose
whole life was Informally but deeply
religious. whether he kept the vivid In
terest in his doctrine which he once
had. He was an old man, and he an
swered me, youth Is the time to be-
lieye. age is the time to trust Now I
am myself an old man, and more than
ever feel the wisdom of his saying.
There are many things that I doubt,
but few that deny; where can not
believe, there often trust; and as all
faith is mystical, would have the be-
reaved trust their mystical experiences
for much truth which they can net
| affirm. In their darkness it will be
| strange If there are no CLEANS Of that
outer light which wraps our whole ig-
norance of this life. These will pene-
trate 1t sometimes in what seem pre-
ternatural experiences Of the waking
hours, and sometimes In visions of the
night, which would have the sorrower
at least passively accept, or not pos
lively refuse. Others can say that
such visions, such dreams, are Pigments
of the overwrought brain, but no one
whose despair they have frightened
will reject them. Whether they are
natural or supernatural, they are prec-
ious; whether they are the effect Of
causes quite within ourselves, or are
intimations to US from the source Of all
life that death too shall have an enc
somewhere somehow, they are to be
cherished and kept in the heart, ana
not cast out Of it as idle and futlIe
They may be Kaleidoscope adjustment
Of our Jared and shattered being; they
may be prismal rays Of celestial light,
who shall say from knowledge? What
they oftenest involve is that reunion
with the absent which the whole sou
yearns and grieves for.
, During the spring every one would
! be benefited by taking Foleys Kidne,
Remedy. 1t furnishes needed tonic
to the kidneys after the extra strain
Of winter, and it purif1es the blood b.
stimulating the kidneys, and causing
, them to eliminate the impurities from
i it. Foley's Kidney Remedy impart.
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