Arizona republican., 1912-06-01
LOOKING INTO THE HEREAFTER.
There Are Possibilities That the
 Heart Cannot Grasp

Whether in the lapse of ages and i'll the course of progressive being. the more dormant portions of each mans nature will be called out and his de- sires, and therefore the elements of his heaven change; whether the lov- ing will learn to thirst for Knowledge. and the fiery and energetic to value peace, and the active and earnest to grow weary of struggle and achieve ment and to long for tenderness and repOSe, and the rested to begin a new life of aspiration. and those who had long lain satisfied with the hum ble constituents of the beatific state tU Yearn after the conditions of a loftier being. we cannot tell Prob ably. It may be. too that the ten dency of every thought and feeling will be to graVitate towards the great center. to merge in one mighty and all absorbing emotion. The thirst for knowledge may find it's ultimate eX- preSSiOn in the contemplation of the divine nature-in which indeed all may be contained. It may be that all lOngings will be finally resolved into striving after a closer union with God, and all human affections merged in the desire to be a partaker in his nature. IL may be that in future stages of our progress we shall be- come more and more severed from the human and joined to the divine; that. starting on the threshold of the eternal world with the one beloved being who has been the partner of our thoughts and feelings on this
 
 ward to the goal and soar upward to the throne, and dive deeper and deep CT into the mysteries and immensities of creation, that affection will grad
 ually emerge in thought. and the cravings and yearnings of the heart be calmed and superseded by the Sublimer interests of the perfected intelligence: that the hands which have so long been joined in love may slowly unclasp to be stretched forth towards the approaching glory; that the glare of tenderness which we cast on the companiOn at our side may become faint. languid and hurried before the earliest gaze with which We watch the light that shall be re- vealed." We might even picture to ourselves that epoch in our progress through successively Ioftier and more purified existence, when those who on earth strengthened each other in every temptation, sustaining each other under every trial, mingled smiles at every joy and tears at ev cry sorrow; and who in succeeding varieties of being, hand in hand, heart with heart, thought for thought penetrated together each new secret gained each added height, gl0wed with each new rapture. drank in each successive revelation shalt have reached that point where all lower affections will be merged in one ab sorbing Presence: when the awful naerness of the perfect love will dis solve all other ties and swallow up all other feelings; and when the fin ished and completed soul before melting away into that sea of light which will be it's element forever, shall turn to take a last fond look of the now glorified but thereby lost companion of so much anguish and so much joys, But we cannot yet contemplate the prospect without pain: therefore it will not be yet; n totil we can contemplate it with 1 ioy; for heaven is a scene of bliss l and recOmpense, not of sorrow and bereavement.-FrOm William Rath- bone Greg's "Enigmas of Life