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Show THAT MACKAT DISPATCH. j 1 Judge Goodwin in Goodwin's Weekly: p ; Notwithstanding the sorrow, there ought to have been a little comfort la the message that Clarence Mackay re- ; ceived by wireless telegraphy on the steamer in mid-ocean, that his father had died. At least it ought to be a comfort to him when time shall have mellowed the grief over his bereavement, bereave-ment, for it was a notice that the in- ; finite sea is not broad or deep enough to turn back or neutralize the sweep of immortal minds, and was a symbol that the waves of death even are not sufficient to quench the fires of an immortal im-mortal soul; that the father so much loved still lives, though the tabernacle which held his soul so long finally ! ' crumbled and fell away from around it. t It was a symbol that a flame lighted from immortal fires cannot be quenched; that while in nature's sub- f lime economy transitions come; that j while a human life has like the sea- sons, a joyous spring, a summer witn r Its flowers and fruits, an autumn with its harvests, and then the winter when V ... all becomes cold and still, when there ) is no more babble of brook or song of bird, and when what was so responsive and warm is stark and frozen and wrapped in a white winding sheet: still experience has made good the longings of hope and the convictions of faith. and we know that after the hush and the rest another spring will soon greet us, a spring filled with blooms and in which the lark will again mount to hail the sun, and the call of the dove to her ; mate will fill the air with song. ' That experience is a symbol that while a wornout body may need rest, there is'in it a soul that had its light ; kindled by a spark from the fountain where everlasting light has its source and that light cannot be quenched. It Is shining somewhere, for death is but ; transition, and we have a right to be- s ; lleve that as progress is the rule, w'.tere that light is shining now, there is a clearer atmosphere, and to souls sublimated sub-limated there are handclasps sweeter than are ever known here, there is softer soft-er music than was ever played here. and the love-light in the eyes that wv in sorrow closed here takes on a new i enchantment. ( ; The possibilities of all this comes with the strength of conviction upon i us as we read of that message fin-1- ing its way above the trackless ocean and! through the pathless air to tell a sorrowing son that his father was no more; it is a symbol that he who holds the mountains and billow-tossed ocean In the hollow of his hand i3 keeping watch and that all is well. |