v.] " MODERN SYMPOSIUM." 77 



those who consider a dogmatic belief in another life 

 essential to the proper discharge of our duty in this. 

 Though we may not know what is to come hereafter, 

 we have at any rate all the means of knowledge 

 requisite for making our present lives pure and beau- 

 tiful. It was Jehovah's cherished servant who de- 

 clared in Holy Writ that his faith was stronger than 

 death. There is something, overwhelming in the 

 thought that all our rich stores of spiritual ac- 

 quisition may at any moment perish with us. But 

 the wise man .will cheerfully order his life, undaunted 

 by the metaphysical snares that beset him ; learning 

 and learning afresh, as if all eternity lay before him 

 battling steadfastly for the right, as if this day 

 were his last. " Disce ut semper victurus, vive lit eras 

 moriturus." 



December 1877. 



