White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1916-12-17

auiry addressed to all men, is the
use made of life while We have 1t.
For death is not a stupid blunder
in the economy of nature,---rather Is
it a kind and ministering angel, quiet
" closing the Book of Life when we
are weary of its items. That cannot
be so great an evil which is one rem
edy for all other evils, o can 1t be
a mistake which puts an end to all
other mistakes. And who that knows
life could believe that We would have
it otherwise? We turn TO those
whom we love most, as they may
turn to us. and. 10, upon the face of
each is written an unaccomplished
purpose. an untitled desire, an I'M
attained perfection, to teach us We
are mortal.
What a sweet tradition it was
which placed in the bosom OF an in
land sea the mystic isles--one vas
called the Island of Life. the other
the Island of Death. Into the first,
death could not enter to disturb its
Immortality. All things continued
there. hut as those who dwelt upon
its shores took up their daily tasks
there sometimes rose from them muir
murs of disappointment, of perplexity
of pain and sickness, a WEAKNESS of
spirit. a heaviness of heart and soul
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as night would descend and the shad-
ows lengthen they crept down even
to the waters edge to gaze upons the
other isle and wondering whether
God was there they looked upon it
as a haven of repose toward which
they finally launched their barks
giving up the Island of Life to find
in that of death its endless peace.
The inhabitants of that other isle
looked upon them with a gentle pity
They did not know aught of the dis
appointments of life. of its perplex-
tiles. its pains. its worrying, and sick
ness, but they had heard the rumor
of life's activity. its call to duty. its
splendor of achievement. the very
glory of something really done in the
service of ones fellows. and toward
these, as they heard. they had in
stinctively yearned. The very peace
in which they dwelt. unbroken. end
less and undisturbed, made them
wonder If God might not. indeed. be
found in that Island from whence
their strange visitors had come and
so toward it they in turn set out
They reached its shores and passing
through its shadows they found His
strength in life's realities. So may
death, He also remains with MS in
life.
IL we but reach out our hand, His
influence is there. If we but open
our hearts and souls TO receive. He
is ever ready to give. In our wax
ing and sleeping hours, in our mo-
ments of grief and happiness. in the
daily tasks of life,---whether they
bring e%xultation or disappointment
He is waiting to give just as we pre-
pare ourselves TO receive. Here is
a Iimitless love. an infinite mercy
an omniscient wisdom. asking accept
ance, for. as God was. SO He is now,
so must He always be. and this great
force of love and power which sets
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love and power which may continue
TO eternity. If we desire to contem-
plate power, we see il in the immens-
4 ity of creation. If we want to con-
template wisdom. we see IL in the I'M
changeable order by which the ineom-
~prehensible whole is governed If We
contemplate munificenee. w see il
in the abundance with which the
earth is filled, and if We contemplate
mercy We see IL in the fact that album
dance is not withheld, even from the
unjust. Mans existence is the re-
suit of Gods affection. and as that
is eternal, SO must be its product.
Such is the message of every great
teacher. the source and basis of every
great religion. God seems TO have
dropped this germ of truth into the
heart of every race and 10 have With
held IL from none. Leibnitl es-
teemed among philosophers, has DO
clared that mankind seems destined
to attain perfection. Spinoza told
it to the age i'm which he lived Bud
Ia. revered and ~worshipped by toe
Oriental world and loved by all for