Show oe b A SUNDAY REFLECTION With Sabbath morning dawning bright and fair fall the snows of win winter winter winter ter dissolved the birds singing in inthe inthe inthe the trees the leaves bursting forth and the early flowers lending fragrance to the air all nature seems to be imbued with the promise of still more glorious things to come when the weary pilgrim on earth lays aside his staff at the end of his Journey If It a man die shall be ha belive belive live again 7 Decidedly yes The Tue thought Is beautifully expressed by b Victor r Hugo I feel in myself the future life I Iam Iam Iam am like a forest once cut down the new shoots are stronger ad and livelier than ever I am rising I know toward the sky The sunshine is on my head The earth gives me its generous generou sup sap but heaven lights me with the reflection of unknown worlds You say the soul Is nothing but the resultant of the bodily powers Why then than Is my soul more luminous when my bodily powers begin to tall fall Win Winter Winter Winter ter Is on my head but eternal spring is In my heart I breathe at this th hour the fragrance of the lilacs the violets and the roses as at 20 years Thene I approach the th end the plainer J 1 hear ear around me the tha th immortal symphonies s of the worlds which invite me It is mar marvelous marvelous marvelous yet simple It Is a fairy fairs tale and it Is history For half halt a century I have been writ writing writIng wrIting ing my thoughts in prose and Jn In n verse history philosophy drama romance tradition n satire ode and song I have tried all But I feel I have not said ald tho the thousandth part of ot what Is in me When I go down lown to the grave gra I cansay can say liko like many others I have finished my days work But I cannot say I have haye fin finished finIshed my life My ty days work will wUl be begin begin begin gin again the next ext morning The tomb is not a 8 blind alley it Is Isa a thorough orough thoroughfare tJ fare Care It closes on the t jt opens oc on the dawn da wn The burden burde imposed upon all man mankind mankind mankind kind feels lighter er we realize that this life with Its ts Joys and a d sorrows S its I caresses and cares Is but the trial stage that real existence is yet to come With Hugo let us say any that I eternal spring Is In I my heart hea t |