New Britain herald., 1928-12-03

lives, which convince: and grief and
hope and love and death are the
greatest of all facts. The hope of
ever swung across the night of mans
dark mind. 1t has been beautifully
said that belief in Immortality Is the
Hottest fight of sympathy and the
final answer to all that hold life to
be cruel and unjust.
The earth has many little cross
es on her breast and he who has
stood mute Tipped with pain and
watched the heavy lidded. pulseless
sleep of death, propounds strange
queries to the universe, at such
times the soul puts forth its ques-
ark, over the waste of the world. and
brings back the answer Of good cheer
to mind not cursed, but rather
made acute by pain. the simple.
natural things of life, such as The
flowers that the little children bring
home in the spring. possess a strange
significance.
Mans earthly life is checkered
scene thrown upon the canvas of
time. here with light, there the
shade. alternating to make up the
composite picture.
Life. indeed, is in keeping with
the phenomena which nature I'M
folds in the revolution of planets,
worlds and systems around the Or
bits of their being.
"Man must fulfill the end of his
being-that end is union with its
source. To reach it he must exper-
fence many and various vicissitudes.
There are days Of darkness. days Of
travail, when the star of hope seems
to be surrounded with the gloom of
a perpetual night. Yet beyond the
, blackness there is light and its beam
eventually breaks through to H.
lumine the path that leads from the
vale of sorrow to the shining heights
Of happiness.
1.-The soul Of man is great and
generous, admitting no other bounds
to be set to her than what are COM
mon with God. She claims for her
country the universe, the whole con-
| vex wherein are included the lands
and the seas. wherein the air. en-
| pending itself between the earth and
the heavens contoins them both. Nor
does she suffer herself to be con-
fined to any number OF years. All
years, says she, are mine. No age is
/ locked up from the penetration of
learned men-no time SO distant or
dark that it is not previous to
thought.
when the day shall come that
will separate this composition, hui
man and divine, will leave this
body here where l found 1t, and re-
turn to the Gods. Not that ! am al
together absent from them now,
though detained from superior hap
piness by the heavy earth clog. This
short stay in mortal life is but the
prelude to better and more lasting
life above.
NO man Of imagination can note
the change in the seasons, the per-
! ennial life of the world, the starting
buds of May and the tender shoots
seeking the sun: or can 1t gaze upon
the dear delight Of springs sweet
face. without knowing that the part
ing in the winter of life is not a
parting for all time. There is no an
utilization in nature and even in de-
cay there are hints OF the resurrec-
| ton. We see but part OF things.
That which is hidden Is greater than
that which is revealed. Who familiar
only with the sights of the day could
guess the wonders OF the night?
Hidden in the rays of the deceiving
sun, are hesperus and all the hosts
| of heaven. Who knows the secrets of
the seas and of the skies; and who
is there in authority to deny to the
human heart its right to courage and
its right to hope. let us then believe
that our departed friends have earn
ed their rest and have entered into
the peace that mortals can but faint
, ly know: a peace that abideth when
the soul is open toward the heavens:
the peace that waits upon
1
| hush,
That comes at even when the thrush.
Ravels the day, SO worn and SO
| long.
Into the silver OF a song
| MY friends, as We review the
names OF the members who have
passed away since the institution Of
this lodge, behold how numerous
they are and how they make our
annals shine.
| I'VE shall see their faces no more.
and we shall hear no more the mu-
sic Of their lips but the message Of
their lives shall be pondered in our
hearts and memory"