The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1912-03-16
By BILL cox.

When life's busy cares claim the
attention, when happiness and pros
perity attend our way, when those
we love are gathered about us, when
there is song Of JOY in our hearts,
when our interest and affection are
centered upon the day of existence,
when nature, art and all our en-
vironments seem to conspire togeth-
er to make our way one of pleasant
ness and peace, our thoughts turn
but lightly to the contemplation of
what is contained In that boundless
ever enduring realm beyond the
fleeing span of this life. Eat, drink
and be merry. Take no thought of
the morrow, consider the lilies of
the field and kindred texts appeal
to us as being the proper philosophy
of life. When in contemplation Of
a long life surrounded by congenial
associates and a reasonable portion
of the comforts of our times we
picture in our imagination our chill
dreh growing to useful and content
ed manhood and womanhood: it is
only in our hours of solitude that
we consider the promblem of eterni-
sty. The natural man, the product
OF the hand of the Supreme Archi-
sskect ana builder untrameied py
3treeds and conventionalities or cast
saown by physical ills or driven
about bv the singing lash of power
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mntry from whose bourne no trav-
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9n his imagination and when he
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ings are for the assurance that At
some future dav we NAV be permit
ted again to clasp our dear departed
one to our yearning. bleeding hearts
and be forever secure in the assur-
ance there shall be no more parting.
1t is when the dark clouds of dis
tress fall athwart our horizon and
we grope our way that we cry aloud
for aid and strain the eye of faith
in our effort to behold an effulgent
glory on the other shore. We hope
that the junction Of time and eter-
nifty for us may reveal an unbroken
chain of reunited and radiantly
happy families.
To him that by faith sees those
who are called from his circle to
their final reward ONLY released
from the struggles. disappointments
hardships and heartburnings of life
to an endless existence of joy and
gladness; and who is fortified by
the blessed assurance that 1t is only
9 short time before he may go to
them and that then sad partings will