Year: 1870

I the peoples neckS ana Kissed them
T tenderly, and went away with them
down avenues OF light and were 50
happy in their company that, lying in
bed, he wept for joy.


But there weIe many angels who did
not 90 with them, and among them
one he knew. The patient face that
had once lain upon Nle bed was glori-
/ fed and radiant, but his heart found
out his sister among all the host.


His sisters angel fingered near the
entrance of the star, and said to the
leader among those who had brought
the people thither-


as my brother Gomez


Aud hesaid, "No.v


She was turning hopelessly away
when the child stretched out his arms
and said


ooh, sister, I am here! Take met


And then she turned her beaming
eyes upon him, and il was night; and
the star was shining into this room,
making long rays down toward him
rs he saw il through his tear.


From that hour forth he child look
ed out upon the stars rs on the home
he was to go TO, when his time should
come, and lie thought he did not be-
long TO earth alone, but to the star, too,
because of his sisters angel gone be-
fore


There was n baby born TO a brother
to the child; and while lie was so little
that he had never yet spoken word,
lie stretched his tiny form out on the
bed and died.


Again the child dreamed Of the
opened star, and the company of
angels, ard the train of people; and
all the rows of angels with their beam
ing eyes all turned upon those peo-
pies faces.


Said his sisters angel to the leader:


as my brother come?"


And he said, "Not that one; but an
other"


AS the child beheld his brothers
angel in her arms, he cried, ooh,
sister, / am herel Take meu And
she turned and smiled upon him, and
the star was shining.


He grew To be n young man. and
was busy at his book when an old SER
want came to him and said:


''Thy mother is no more. / bring
her blessing on her SON.


Again at night he saw the star, and
all that former company. Said his
sisters angel to the leader:


as nay brother Gomez"


And he said: "Thy mother


y mighty cry of joy went forth
through all the stars because The
mother was reunited to her two chill
dren. And he stretched out his arms
and cried: "Oh, mother, sister and
brother, I am here. Take mew And
they answer. d: "Not yet" and the
star was shining.


He grew To be man whose hair was
turning gray, and he was sitting in
his chair by the fireside. heavy with
grief, and with his face bedewed with
tears, when the star opened cnce
again.


Said his sisters angel to the leader,
SIS my brother comc?''


And he said, "Nay, but his maiden
daughter


And the man who had been Il child
saw his daughter, newly lost to him, a
celestial creature among those three,
and he said, "My daughters head is
on my mothers bosom, and her arm
is around my mothers neck, and at
her feet there is the baby Of old time,
and can bear the parting from her,
God be praised.'


And the star was shining. btt


Thus the child came To be an old
man, and his once smooth face was
wrinkled, aud his steps were slow and
feeble, and his back was bent. And
one night as he lay upon his bed, his
children standing around him, he
cried as he had cried so long ago:


Il see the starr


They whispered TO one anothe-,
"He is DYING


And he said, 81 am. My age is fall
ling from me like q garment, and
move toward The star as child. Aud
0, my Father, now | thank Thee that
it has 50 Often opened TO receive those
to await mel"


And the star was shining; and it
shines upon his grave.