The Washington times., 1920-12-02
departed husband
Prof Otto Torney Simon.1
HOMER JOSEPH DODGE.

. treatment of the musician; the col
or-9ombinations with line develop
ment of the painter the world fan
tasy of the poet, and the spirit Of
the sculptor showing itself in form,
chiselled in white, massive stone.
Such spirits are mostly our COM
panions here"
A congenial place, you say. l say
so. indeed!
And here Is something very fine.
And the artisan and the laborer."
she says, will no more work with
hands and tools, but will be given
the opportunity, which maybe he
did not possess in mortal worlds. of
absorbing the new world of spirit
ual fineness and beauty"
What can this mean unless it
means that the Government clerk,
tied to dreary desk and tedious file
all his life. but who. in reality.
yearns to be a wood-carver. a
writer or a cowboy, will lfind on the
other side those tools which are
best fitted to his spiritual hand?
Does it not mean that on the
Islands OF the Blest he will take up
that work which he best loves, his
drudgery here below being forgot
ten like a nightmare in morning
sunshine? And. yet. 1T may be that,
like Kipling's galley slave, he will
cleave to that occupation which he
has thought, until departure, he
hated, finding IL, after all. what his
hand loves best to do. Who can
tell?
But the flower is still the flower,
the stone is still a stone. but the
inner forces of these creations have
advanced" says Anne Simon. Who
can say that ash collecting will not
seem a tender and delectable occu-
patton over there? Not L..
Anne Simon takes especial care
to describe the sort of life one
leads in Heaven, IL that be il. as.
according to all our canons, 1t must
be. The outstanding feature OF this
life beyond the veil Is reported by
her to be its serenity She never
tires of emphasizing this. 1t is
that last long rest" the ballad
speaks OF carried to n superlative
degree where all is harmony. In
her effort to describe this special
tranquility she reports (what l
have always suspected) that there
are moments known to us on earth
which give an inkling Of what lies
beyond, moments, she says, when
language ceases and serenity de-
scenSs like an unseen cloud, yet
ever tender and comforting and
quieting."
who has Got known such mo-
ments at twilight, at dawn, even at
blazing noon on some wide white
beach beneath blue sky or at the
edge OF a deep wood? She goes on:
at was a rare moment between
two worlds, maybe remembered in
after days with a peculiar feeling
of "reminiscences, colored by the
deeper shadows of wonder or the
engulfing ones of awe. Mans
mortal vision does not extend far:
and yet, even in the mortal un-
developed soul what spiritual signi-
iicanace is awakened by a little
spread OF earth distance"
The twilight of the gods,
II is OF special interest to know
from Anne Simon that certain
earthly senses persist. She re-
ports the existence of color and
says she sees color columns and
masses, ever moving with n seren-
ity OF movement in the spiritual
ization of their color, movement
and mass. For they are the COM
posite product of spirit-creation
and spirit-imagination which has
It's beginning on mortal planes,
through those mortals who express
themselves by the arts