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close prophecy. A friend recently said to 

 ine that it would be interesting to know 

 what we, or those that shall follow us, will 

 be thinking, fifty or sixty years hence. It 

 would indeed ; but a thick veil shrouds the 

 future. Probably the most that we can 

 say is, that the past, and many of the ideas 

 of the past, are gone, and forever. The 

 latter were legitimate children of their time, 

 and they doubtless served their purpose, 

 but they are out of key with our larger 

 view, and no power exists by which they 

 can be revivified. We seem to see some 

 stable ground emerging from the troubled 

 waters of the present, but all that we can 

 certainly say, is, that whatever of vesture 

 fades and vanishes, the eternal verities 

 remain the same yesterday, to-day, and 

 forever ; and the time-spirit saitii : 



Here at the whirring loom of time I sit and 



ply, 



And weave for God the garment thou dost 

 see him by. 



SEPTEMBER 2, 1894. 



