| Show LIFE AND DEATH bEATH The great at procession pro lon of ot bat baI moved along since Inee ince the evacuation of the garden of ot Eden A thousand phases of increase and decrease have baYe marked that Kist fry rl Yet in 10 spite of aU all obstacles obstructions ob and o calamity genera general maintenance and aDd Increase e testify to the wonderful forces force for 88 and fecundity of or our race Myriads Myriad have bale fallen victims to the Moloch of war millions mill ton have pawed passed away away through unree log plagues plague and aad famine has bu devastated d whole regions region reg I sweeping nations almost almot from the face of the earth Earthquakes Earthquake accidents accident and minor calamities by their magnitude and aDd frequency have become historic and every elery letting setting sun lun un baa has marked somewhere in if its course a mighty host of slain lain Yet this appalling series of startling inroads upon the b hum hum- humbers hum ben m- m bers ber of ot the human family is II as the dust duat in the balance balance to that a as- as series w which from quiet and unknown chambers chamber la Is every hour bour yield yielding 1 to the inexorable flat fiat of ot death Every year lear Ial vast number Dumber from the be pressure of ot life lite make their exit through the gateway of ot suicide Every year millions million die in Immaturity they they know not oot manhood or woman woman- hood bood womanhood hood but are an abortive product 0 of na- na nature na nature ture indignant somehow as al a it if it were her indig nant protest prote t against Ignorance Incompetency incompetency and and surroundings The statistician tells telli the world in io ton tones which bloh ought to roll like Ulle thunder that bat thata a quarter of ot those who are b Jr ra rn dl die ere thy they read two year years tears of or age and aDd the be t ba often otten been made without challenge that In sin D enlightened Intel intel Christendom 7 1 one half di die 0 on the inner side fide of five years yean Learned men further assert that a large part pare of the which further decimate one remainder one half at least l a t belongs to the class olas or pr r are read reach reachable readable able to 0 extermination were precautions experience and to rule in these matters aa as a they do in some others other No sander ladder chapter com comes into lato human lift life and Its iti relation relation- ships than when the little ores one in i their innocence beauty and purity are called away away Who does doe not remember the first bitter experience In this line line the anxiety the sorrow larrow the turning this thil way or that for tor hope relief rUef and aDd aDdre re restoration Who hu has ha notI not I felt that bat overpowering weight r lof of gratitude when heD recovery wa was wa I assured a or the tike lir In- Insatiable satiable of a wounded heart when the crisis orleta tent went ent the tb other way And ADd yet there are w hl oh seem tn In Inexperience experience to d dwarf rf eYel for herb ben herband and there a young life ute go toile goes i out out out- step step- ping stepping ping from rolD thee the threshold I of ot man hood bood man hood or womanhood womanhood- when beD ben lit lifes life's life opening door I full ot or promise Jaden laden With beauty t uty and perfume ai as are the flowers Bowell nowen of spring pring l the the young man toll fall of hope and good Intent the young woman fair fairand fairand and good an epitome of angel Ute life d welling dwelling in a tenement of clay cIa but they are gone and the the ae a tit t fatherhood and motherhood are an quenched by the of of unaI ing log unavailing tears tean Life seems reft tt of ot ita its IJo glom the home bome of ot its Ita sunshine dut duty of its 11 willing worker society and and of an aD acknowledged charm tb these lIe coming climax coming at times not by bf b insidious disease dlease or a hungering fever and nd waist from tag lag waat froma a visible change and an- an anticipating an anticipating f ail f the end but oftentimes the grim unwelcome messenger com comes with the rapidity of the lightning dub dash and from s a sky Iky as a serene erene a a the morning without warning and aha against an all human probability Who has bai DO not not known knon kno of 01 tale the 8 ather of I ofa fa a little family of the mother of Dt a I little tt Hook flock suddenly called away TIle The bread winner on the one hand or th b the untiring an and devoted mother on tb the other I And And yet this allee affects not me children alone tone but the utter otter loneliness and nd desolation blo befalls the survivor appears without g redeeming feature Paralysis of ul and energy t i Iu indifference ai as to the be future or t cp tip surroundings urro Is 18 i the 10 lot or of many a broken broken b heart ri ou or Clr otherwise according to mentality spirituality or that tbt innate hope which springs eternal in the human breast Separation n troll fron those thole who ar are matured from those hole who have haTe borne borDe the burden and the heat hest of the day when weariness has hal supervened and aDd a the grasshopper has baa become a burden is II not so 10 0 necessarily nece calam- calam calamitous calam itous The great Issue is II anticipated discounted inevitable Survivors feel eel If si if it it J were release from a s mission ended from om a life Ute well wen filled rem from duty well performed Natural sorrow lean association natural recognition of indebtedness natural missing of a a beloved form or a sanctified d face there lent course but the keen edge of a a lOD found in earlier life ills t la tar dulled aD b y an evident propriety and aDd that tha the be time bad had fUU fully come com I Urea Even in the most sad lad and solemn aid crushing of all aU bereavements bereavements it is 1111 to fio endure from a In ID par part that thac we we are are not our own that than there is i t an unseen but recognized which has bas determined the end ead from the beginning There is 18 laUse the be operation of faith the conclusion of 01 reason the inspiration of ot theater theater- the eter eter- eternal nal dal spirit which in ID the ao active lve recep- recep receptive UTO recep-UTO tive soul vl rel obe that conclusion ap is 18 true and life 10 that all things well well The or inspirational soul loul realizes realize Deliee knows know that Angels Angela of life lite and dea death h alike are His Without His HU leave they cross no DO threshold eer Who then SIteD would wish or dare believing this hIs A Against Against t His Is messenger to shut shut the door j 1 liere 1 here is II an feeling l in uble bereaved humanity every every- everywhere where if II not so 80 clear olear as al the above it carrying with it a certain Jo on which comes of innate lonate or religious faith or orice ice spiritual phenomena which is II st as universal amour as a our race That something in advance of ot this vague t M feeling this Intense de- de deski de ski this half assurance aU-a aU of mankind be found among the Latter day Latter tin o into is In 9 lq BO no way as surprising for tor In skill Ion O to 0 this ble general intuitive this peela oy cy 0 of or hope bope they ha hs e a ua a or chore sure lure word word of prophecy unto Which they do well to take heed beed as s to toa toa a shining loa Ina ina dark place and andall ands s all bereavement no matter bow how sad Bad or undesirable carries carrie with it Jia illuminated side alde The views view views and aDd thoughts which grow out of at the ae- ae ace ac acceptance ft e of the principle of pro pro- pre pre exist pc ce of ot time times time's probation of 01 personal agency of aa as overruling hand band of ot con oon- continuous continuous relationship are grand grandly I con oon- consolatory consolatory These remove calamity Crum fromIn ibis be realm of ot accident Alt All has bus been known and if 11 veiled and lo long g for for- for forgotten gotten yet in the divine program anti and ntO record rd it tt t is 18 inscribed more brilliantly than it could be under the noonday su n go Bo there bere Ct ci omes me mes mitigation of or the heaviest t sorrow sunshine into loto the t cloud aloud and a quiet which is 18 never ever absent in the wildest storm TI The e nd ret ties tle the most absorb absorb- ab absorbing orb orb- i ing affection the greatest lose 10 have pip Ita p which is Ie the rt r fi action of a brighter shore and where adi 1 f 1 the te tender and aDd sacred acred ministries of love bay have been conspicuous and continuous lull luP Doder deems deem that this can an D neither aft 81 sit abar bar nor sleep that to Is an an now u e n but not unfelt 15 blo i is ie a principle and a prerogative also allo that a promising son a loving father or devoted husband Is not Dot barred eav save by the veil of flesh h that bat the precious daughter the idolized wife wife the glad giad young mother or one ot of heavier Ier years is 18 not so 10 far removed that their gentle souls can CAD whisper in 18 such form as a ia is preservative and all the time from bl this has baa come the answer anwer to many any a prayer the healing bealing of man many a aheart aheart heart and alad the experience of ot that b e peace which b all aU understand understand- understanding understanding ing for tor it is la the be afflatus of I the atm atmas- atmas phere of a slime more radiant and radiant an warmer than that of earth God Ine in the e tb infinitude of HI His mercy temp tempers trl the tb wind to the shorn horD lamb Jamb and un- un understanding as that c craving for tor those beloved which i is an aD ingred i tent lent placed by Him in the b heart every VelY such prophetic manUes- manUes manifestation manifestation tation tatton is 18 assurance of It its I fulfilment So Bo while He uHe bi his angels minis minis-I minie tare and His Hie servants servant like Uke I a flamIng fir firs these kin kindred red of the flesh b ano no io in the Holy Priesthood are beyond an all controversy ministering servants sent lent forth to minister unto all aU those who shall ball be heirs of salvation for forever forever forever ever and forever |
