Show 4 i various views selected by geo anderson andersen from the weekly enquirer continued 11 life to la is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities we strive in vain molook beyond the heights we cry aloud and the ibe only answer is the echo of our waiting wailing cry from the voiceless lips ol of the dead there comes no word but in tte tta night of 1 death arpe sees a star and listening love joya can hear the rustle of a wing he fie who sleeps seeps here when dying mistaking the approach ot of death for the re torn earn ol of health whispered with ina his latest breath 1 I am better now let us believe in spite of doubts and dygmas and teats tears and fears that thesa dear words are true of all the countless dead ingersoll at his hia brot brothels heilis grave bat is now rude made manifest by the appearing G C our oar savior jesus hith abolished death and hath bath hr ought aw and immortality to light in the gospel st paul paal men are oaks oaid women are vines children art an fl flowers owera and if there is 13 any heaven in this thia world it is in the family it is where the wife loves lovei vie tie husband and the husband loves the wife and ahra the dimpled arms of children are about the necks of both that is eaf en i if there is any and aad I 1 do not want any better heaven in another world thal anat and if in ia another world I 1 cannot live w th tb the onea I 1 loved here then I 1 w uld uhl ramer er rot 0 be ba abere and 2 after ader ail that d dah wh dos doa en benl enl 1 al next nest to eternal j ay iy y axt n at to 10 being in z forever n ith tl ta oae we e loveana love and tho iho e who b have ave loved us cs next to that 18 ia i t to 0 be wrape in tte deim dea aless leas drapery of 01 eternal peael loger aall if you want to know it I 1 will tell tall you yen the truth and you yoa may call it reve regeia I 1 M tion lion or anything else you please when you yoa go into the clestial ce estial kinz kingdom lom 71 u w will ill have bave your resurrected reettia bodies and yon von will gather around you yoa your I 1 families and friends and be assue associated with them there as here we are now mortal there we shall be ba immor immortal this 9 dif difference farence will exist and it is ai the diffee difference ence mortality is a perfect similitude ili tude pattern and emblem of the celestial kinz kingdom dom brigham young susan B anthony was asked aro are you afraid of death I 1 dont know anything about heaven or ol hell she answered or whether I 1 will eyer meet my friends again 1 or not but its as no particle of matter is ever lott I 1 havo bavo a feeling that no particle panicle of mind is ever lost the thought cosent bother mo me I 1 feel that nothing not nin is lost and that the h hereafter re after will be managed as this life is managed now I 1 I 1 have a father brothers and friends who have gone to a world of spirits Bp irita they are only absent tor for a moment they are in the spirit and when we depart we shall bail our kurnoth mothers fathers friends and all whim wham wo loye love mothers vou voa shall have your children for lor they shall have ete eternal rual life for their debts is paid there is no damnation adalis them lor they are in the spirit joseph joeeph smith it is ia recorded that the leaders of 0 the french revolution wrote over the gates gate a of the cemeteries death is an ebern eternal sleep verily verily I 1 eay unto you yon the hour is ia coming and now is when the dead shall hear bear the voice of the son of god and they that hear shall vel not at this ibis for the hour is coming in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice and they shall come forth they that have dons done good unto the resurrection of life and they that have done evil unto the tion of damnation i st john and the sea gave gava up the dead which were in it and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them key elation I 1 want it so ao that when a poor wom woman an rocks the cradle and sings a lullaby to the he dimpled darling that she will not be compelled comp elied to believe Ie lieve that ninety rane idaa chances in a hundred handrea she is raisins raising kind kindling linz wood for bell next to eternal life is eternal death upon the shadowy shore of death the sea 0 trouble casts no wave eyes that have been bean curtained by the everlasting dark will never know again the touch of tears teara lips that have been touched by eternal silence wilt will never utter another word of grief hearts of dust dost do not break the dead do not weep and I 1 had bad rather think of those chave I 1 have loved and those these I 1 haye have lost as having returned as having become a part of the ele cle mental wealth of the world I 1 would rather taink of them as unconscious dost dast I 1 would rather think of them as gurgling in the stream floating in the clouds bursting bar sting in the form of light upon the shores of worlds I 1 would rather think of them as the inanimate bed and eternally unions unconscious dous than to haye baye even s suspicion that their naked souls eoula had been clutched by an orthodox god but as for me I 1 will leave the dead when nature keayes them and whatever flower of hope springs up in my heart I 1 will cherish but I 1 cannot believe that there is a being in the nut I 1 verse vene who has baa created a human soul lor for eternal pain and I 1 would rather that every god would destroy himself I 1 would rather that we all should go to eternal chaos to black and starless night than that jast one soul should suffer eternal agony I 1 haye baye made up my mind that it if there is ia a god he will be merciful merc ifal to the tha merciful upon that rockI rock I 1 litand stand abat he will forgive the forgiving upon that rock I 1 stand egand that eat entry rv man should be ba true to himself and that there is ia no world no star i in ia which honesty ig ia a crime and upon teat t bat rockI rock I 1 stand the honest man the agno good 1 kind sweet woman the happy child has nothing to 0 o fear neither in th tha s world nor in the would world to come and upon abi 3 erck I 1 stand ingersoll to be crin canti tinned cued |