Year: 1873




If we are sure that the other life is
life, and not slumbering hole in the
ground if death is but the opening of
the gate; if dying is translation; if
passing from sentienee here we reach a
higher sentence there, one can almost
bear anything in this life " Christ,
for the Joy that was set before him, en-
dured the cross, despising shame -
and the Joy that is set before Us, if full
ly revealed to us, would enable every
man, methinks, to endure the cross and
despise the shame. 1t is the unknown
to come that cheers and blesses the
known life that now is. For this is an
orphaned life. Here we are helpless, or
like stumblingi children, with little
strength and little experience, but we
are living toward our manhood and
every year that we leave behind us is
one station on the road over which we
have passed and every day the very
dust that annoys us, and the very Gin
ders that vex our summer eyes, are
so many witnesses of the speed with
/ which we are crossing that territory
which separates between US and ours
between our seeming life and our real
life; between the life that now is and
the life that is to come. Every one of us
viii know each other in heaven. Every
one of Us will be nobler in heaven than
we are here. The sensibihties of this
poor, dim earth are no Interpretation
of the sensibilities of heaven. The
grest march of men through this life is
scarcely hint of the volume, the vast
ness, the magnitude, the grandeur, of
that march In procession, of soul with
soul, through the eternal ages. What
ever we do not know, one thing we do
know, and that is this, that we shall go
to heaven, not to shrink with age. to
find poverty, and 70 find distortion, but
to find riches, and symmetry, and to
develop into all the glory of everlasting
youth. All that populates our fancy
with ideal perfectness, and more, viii
be there. The noblest conception, the
most rapt vision of the most ecstatic OF
seer, will be moe than outdone.
Heaven viii be larger, heaven win be
richer, heaven will be happier, and the
glory of God VIII be more transcendeni
than it has ever entered into the heart OF
man to cohesive. Toward it we are be
ing swept with an irresistible impulse.
For believe that, besides our own life,
there is a great current Of forces II
which We are swinging upward and on,
ward toward the invisible sphere. As
the traveller on earth has a double
journey; as IN addition to the journey
which he is himself making, he is swept
along by the earth IN its revolutions +; sc
believe that the human race is being
swept IN vast aerial circles toward bet
ter climes and nobler societies. What.
ever may be done by tears. by sorrows
by temptations, by WEAKNESS, by study
by toll, there is something better thar
all that. The irresistible power Of God
is carrying the universe upward and
onward to its final perfection and glori
fication.-H ". Bcscher.


A MAX whomarried widow has in
vented device to cure her Of g eternal
/ "" praising her former husband
Whenever she begins 70 deseant on hi.
noble qualities. this ingenious No.
merely says: 50 Poor. dear man = how
wish he had not died aud the lady i'm
mediately begins to think Of something
else to talk about





WIEN Turkish wife foTgets to keeI
the suspender buttons sewed 70 her hus
bands trousers. she IS patted on th,
back for half an hour with = pine board
an inch thick. An African wife is bette
treated. The frown is chased from he