Part 10 (1/2)

I was glad to observe that she listened to

”Come, ye disconsolate,”

and

”How firh I did not feel sure that ht that had come to her out of her own heart nobody butBut as she did not seem displeased, I went on, a little more confidently, with soestions,--

”When htest and best of the sons of the ht?”

The most beautiful picture in the Bible to me, certainly the loveliest in the Old Testament, had always been that one painted by prophecy, of the tiether in peace, and children should be their fearless playhborly then, no doubt! A Little Child ah the soft sunrise of that approaching day, into the cold and darkness of the world Oh, it would be so arden of Eden!

Yes, and it would be a great deal better, I thought, to live in the h so many people aroundof all But I could never understand why, if God sent us here, we should be in haste to get away, even to go to a pleasanter place

I was perplexed by a good hts to myself, but I did venture to ask about the Ressurrection--hoas that those who had died and gone straight to heaven, and had been singing there for thousands of years, could have any use for the dust to which their bodies had returned Were they not already as alive as they could be? I found that there were different ideas of the resurrection a ”orthodox” people, even then I was told however, that this was too deep aquestions But I pondered the ave ht on the subject than any of the ministers did And, as usual, a poe with,--

”Vital spark of heavenly fla-book To die was to ”languish into life” That was theof it! and I loved to repeat to els say, 'Sister spirit, come away!'”

”The world recedes; it disappears!

Heaven opens on ”

A hymn that I learned a little later expressed to ers into life we co ho of ”The Dying Christian to his Soul” ends, left the whole cloudy question lit up with sunshi+ne, to rave, where is thy 'victory?

O death, where is thy sting?”

My father was dead; but that only one to a better hoo ho, and soht it was very near And as the millennium? Why, the time when everybody on earth would live just as they do in heaven nobody would be selfish, nobody would be unkind; no! not so htful world this would be to live in then! Heaven itself could scarcely be much better! Perhaps people would not die at all, but, when the right time came, would slip quietly away into heaven, just as Enoch did

My father had believed in the near , in his sick-room, was a penciled coin The firstbefore I was born, had studied the subject much, and had written books upon this, his favorite the out, like bloom and sunshi+ne, from the stern doctrines of the period

One question in this connection puzzled ood in spite of themselves, whether they wanted to or not? And ould be done with the bad ones, if there were any left?

I did not like to think of their being killed off, and yet everybody ood, or it would not be a true millennium