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minded peasant believes he shall wear it through the 

 ages of the great hereafter. The literature of human 

 thoughts claims a life that shall endure as long as the 

 future existence of humanity. The memory of many 

 human actions and lives puts in a plea and promise of a 

 duration that shall distance the sun's, and overlap upon 

 the bright centuries of eternity. The human body, 

 even, is promised its resurrection by the divinest 

 authority and illustration, and waits hopefully, under 

 all its pains and weaknesses, for the glory to be revealed 

 in it, when the earth on which it dwells shall have 

 become "a forgotten circumstance." Human loves, 

 remembrances, faiths and fellowships lift up all their 

 meek hands to the Father of Spirits, praying to be 

 lifted up into His great immortality, and to be permit- 

 ted to take with them unbroken the associations that 

 sweetened this earthly life. Many humble souls that 

 have passed through the furnace of affliction, poverty, 

 and trial seven times heated, and heated daily here, 

 have believed that He who went up through the same 

 suffering to His great White Throne, would let them 

 sing beside the crystal waters the same good old psalm 

 tunes and songs of Sion which they sang under the 

 willows of this lower world of tears and tribulation. 

 How all the sparks of the undying life in man fly 

 upward to the zenith of this immortality ! You may 



