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trie power, as they step on a moving stairway or 

 platform in our cities here on earth, to be borne 

 with scarcely a sense of motion to their bright and 

 heavenly abode. It is a swift and continuous band, 

 an endless chain, a mighty ligament of light and 

 life and power constantly passing between heaven 

 and earth, and earth and heaven, between sun and 

 planet and planet and sun. These are the count- 

 less pathways between suns and stars, the mighty 

 and everlasting highways of eternity which God hath 

 built to span the silent ether of space between suns 

 and worlds, and bind the universe in one harmoni- 

 ous whole. 



On these mighty currents, as on a moving bridge 

 of golden light, angels and men and ministering 

 spirits may pass and repass to the gateway of 

 eternal life. 



Moses and Elias, Christ and John, and all the 

 departed saints of earth have trod this Jacob's 

 ladder on which the angels ascend and descend be- 

 tween heaven and earth, and all the departed deni- 

 zens of earth have trod its golden stairs to their 

 celestial, sun-bright home. 



Dr. Minot J. Savage, the eminent New York divine, 

 says he objects to my putting eight minutes of time 

 between the earth and the spiritual world. He thinks 

 Christ taught that they were in immediate connec- 

 tion with each other. And so they are, by the com- 

 ing and going tides of spirits between the two worlds. 

 But now that the speed of light seems to be discov- 

 ered to be instantaneous, it may be the communica- 

 tion between them is instantaneous. 



When the deathless spirit has dropped its "mortal 

 coil," and visited with electric wing the luminous, 



