Show AS GOLD MUST BE BB TRIED BY FIRE SO THE HEART MUST BE TRIED BY PAIN contributed wo we no sooner are ar in life than we recognize the th fact that th grim erini reaper is thrusting in his cycle amans out our household treasures we do not pass many mile stones on the path of life until awe fl find 11 1 t that hat our clear morning sky Is overcast with threatening clouds of sorrow and death arid and we say with paul it if in this life we only have hopes we are of all men most miserable but thanks be to god that we may look to a higher everlasting life a place of reunion leun lon iri ili our fathers house of many mansions our home ties are our most sacred treasures where these treasures are there will our hearts be also our loved ones gone before aie aa beacons to light our way up the steel sleep and thorny path ot of lire to the throne of god they are a link be between Viveen this and the heavenly home where they await our cam coming with a longing which we can measure only by our own to a again dalri clasp mbeni to our hearts tho the things represented by money though a necessity for material wants are most valuable because they add to the comforts and the pleasures of our dear ones rather than for our own convenience but no earthly possession can solace us its for the in our home it is in these straits that we realize that worldly assi assistance that human aid no matter how low true and loyal can assuage our grief thu makes clear to us its the fact that we need the lie divine comforter to point out to us whore where our loved ones are that ilia his great love for them and for us cannot be measured by the human heart a full realization of which our faith alone can give as well as the true purpose ot of death of that which was mortal and life everlasting of that which was spiritual until sorrow overtakes us until we have walked in the valley of the shadow of death we have not felt the sore need of help to meet these conditions it is in these sorrowful extremes that we remember the words of the savior 1 I go to prepare a place for you that where I 1 am you may be also that we reach out for the guiding land hand of 0 our all wise and loving rather father that by faith we wa seek to peer beyond to that glorious abiding place to which our loved ones have been called god us mole moie than could art an earthly father and bids us look up tip in faith to whore the sun of life Is everlastingly whining shining ile he in III hi dispensation provides tor for the comforts of our souls here and hereafter W W realize imore fully than ever before the truth that our spiritual needs tar far outweigh the matel mate lal ilal the facts are brought home to us its that we came to this earth in order to tor for the higher life that we are but on probation here and need the especial care wild and guidance of our master alaster christ taught us ua that there was to be a conscious reunion in ilis his fathers house more complete than any here a world of reality abere our love will be infinitely greater than here where we will know each other as we ive really are here each individual Is not as lie IK seems but he does not tell hiss his thoughts his feelings his ashira aspiro eions wo we see the outer man only there we shall know each other better there will be no room for misconstructions for misunderstandings the body Is but the casket that holds the mind the character the spirit in this life we love it because it Is the le ie cep of these precious endowments the deathless the immortal personality tor for which the master alaster went to prepare a place which lie takes as a living obeying spirit although the all wise father has withheld the knowledge of 0 details of the heavenly life lie ile lias has given eiven us the assurance that will b 3 joy everlasting tit in that unfolding kingdom of god who could so wiell do the ot of teaching us love chope ope arid and faith who so much to our understanding and their joy as the best beloved of our houe household bold the spirit that still holds the most sacred place in our hearts and homes they lave pio gressed while we are still in the nursery of 0 the heavenly kingdom may faith hope hopa and love ever be our oarsman to guide us to tl tb sato safe harbor of our heavenly home |