The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1919-03-25
have been made up of day after day

have been made up of day after day
of discoveries-exquisite, infinite
thlngs-with romances, heroisms
comradeships, beautiful realizations
born from each chrysalis of antici-
patton. Perhaps no man hath seer
God at any time but there have beer
moments when we felt Him near
perhaps in the hush of dew-jewelec
mornings in early childhood when we
did not recognize Him as God; per-
haps in the long droning afternoons
Of middle life; perhaps in the after
glow of life's evening when the sur
of our days is sinking and oul
thoughts are turned toward father
and mother and home. But GOO
/ walks yet in the gardens of the earth
I which He has made and watches that
i all is. well.
! "And among the things which God
has made along with mother-arms a.
waiting US at birth and fatherlove to
/ care for US and protect us until we
are able to care for ourselves, along
with the beauties of the universe, the
! companionship of our fellows, the
! solace of religion, the love of woman
the glory of honest attainment; a.
long with all the great and good and
! exquisite aircraft in nature,-is a
I beautiful process to ease the shock
of separating from these things, a
! blessing which the run of mankind
! seems, to miss and the thoughtless
, never see. 1t is the calling-away be-
! fore us, in endless rotation, one be-
fore another, of relatives, friends,
dear ones, so that gradually there
are more of those with whom we
would of choice rather. be-on the
other side of the Veil in the world
which is waiting than in the world
we are leaving behind.
ut is a mastery process. a. pro-
vision divine in conception, infinite in
/ its gentleness and compassion. One
/ by one our dear ones leave us,
go before US, until there are more
/ Over There than remain here with
US, and at some one spot and place
and time in life it comes to US what
the saints of old have meant when in
| seemingly theological and empty
phrases they talked of the "going
home"
II repeat, my friends" he said,
/ "every great and good man who has
/ ever walked this earth, whose name
has ever appeared in history, who has
known mother arms, father-love, ma
ture, the closeness of God,-all those
whose accumulated lives have made
up the culture and the birthright of
the race-each has faced the Veil and
passed beyond. Surely there is no
fear in travelling where they have ira
veled, in meeting them at the rende-
vous, at joining those who have been
waiting long for our familiar faces
coming along amid the throng If
through Heavens gate.
at is the browning blessing of al
the good things Of which the eartl
is very full-that year by year VIZ
should relinquish the loves, comrade
ships, associations, perhaps with mo
mentary sorrow, until there comes al
+ hour in life when we would rather
be with those we have laid away thar
with the handful yet remaining in the
flesh. And when we have parted
with the number that adjusts the bal
ance, when our hearts anticipate be
ing There with them, in that moment
my friends, we have come to know
the peace which passes understand
ing"
It was very quiet in that from
room as Rev. Dodd looked into oul
faces. A sleigh-bell tinkled past out
/ side. The driver of log-team hal
coed unwittingly at companion fur
Their up the hill. An icicle broke
from the caves and was dashed il
pieces on the crust of the snow. Blu
there was no sound nor movement
| within.
II "What horror, what agony and feal
and apprehension would there be, m,
friends, if all of us ceased to exis
at the same time? But no!-each O.
us slips quietly away one by one tt
| join the Choir Invisible of the I'm
mortal Living wherein are faces tina
we know and voices that we recog
nize. And in the going, each one O.
US add ourselves to the long list O
some other persons loved ones whom
someone else looks forward to meet
ing someday when a ship is waitin,
in our last vision and we find ou
place therein and sail away.
THAT is why most elderly peopl
/ do not fear the Great Adventure
| Those whom they have known an,
\ loved and wept with and comforted
those whom they have worked besid
and slumbered beside, those wit
/ whom they have discussed the sam
thoughts and passed the same plea
U santrieS, those who have pone