The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1912-07-05
Children Cry
FOR FLE1CnER'S
GAS . RIA
Life's Now.


Isn't life strange To you? Isn't Il q
perpetual, progressive, miraculous mystery
IL 1t is not, 1t must be n very prosy,
commonplace thing with you. Hub your
eyes, dear reader. and from a new stand
point take a good. steady fresh look at
life. Now That is the way the
Word puts It. Today. tomorrow and
through all this mortal stage of life
what? We see imperfectly, darkly'
through a glass. What is it that We
seq? Not only the familiar surroundings
Of this life, but the realities of the life
to come, in part. pass In dim review be-
fore us. DO not reject this statement
until you have looked carefully into the
subject. This may sound strange 20
you. dear reader. but If you will compel
yourself into proper realization OF the
to realize that the mysteries of the
Then" are also involved. We hook for
ward with wonder and doubt upon the
life TO come, not properly considering
that life niw is really the life to come
already in development and progress and
not knowing, some of US. that a system
Of philosophy has long been held by emf
nent thinkers which throws our actual
existence now as much into doubt with
which skeptic would regard the life %
come. There Is nothing real All that
we see. or think We see, exists only In
the imagination; so say the learned.
metaphysical. philosophical fools. They
do not even stop to help as out of the
dilomma-whence comes the Imagination?
To be sure. disembodied. angelic. spir-
itual life as we now contemplate ii,
seems passing strange, but it is perfect
ly natural for the wonder and enchant-
ment to lie in the distance. What ean
be more wonderful, II we only have the
divine gift, the poets eyes to see,Ahan
this present life? We are cheated anu
look back upon life as we now live 1t in
the body. with as much wonder as we
now look forward upon life as we shall
then live out of the body. There is
only one life, one stage being a part
and a prophecy of that which Is to sue
coed. You and ], dear reader. had II
being before We had birth, and exist
ence In the one stage Is no more wonder
flu or real than In the other. SO shall
life go on up the scale of continuous
the wonder of our existena
II We are not watchful. always flying
backward to the 'land of little people"
or forward into the invisible and angelic,
See to It, my friend. that you are not
robbed of the true meaning and impor-
lance of the Now" The now with ev-
cry man is the ships length pressing
upon the deep and stormy sea Of life.
How important that she be well mann
cd and her hull kept intact now.
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No wonder that many subtle theories
spring up among the medttative and
thoughtful. for when we come to what
Is called maturity. and ahe mystery Of
life Is In any degree penetrated Or real
he'd. experiences and sensations come 20
the soul which cannot he defined. There
are moments when impressions come TO
rs as II they were voices of a previous
existence. Voices from the long-ago, or
down the prophetic galleries OF days
and years to come. Who has not realiz-
ID something akin to this? And whence
come these strange Impressions? As