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eyes of the multitude, which shine with tenfold more 

 brilliancy from their eternity-face. These are they that 

 halo the homes of good men, whose great hearts drank 

 in the life of Grod's love in perpetual streams, and 

 distilled it like a luminous dew around them ; men 

 whose thoughts were not mere scintillations of genius, 

 but living labors of beneficence, bearing the proof as 

 well as promise of that immortality guaranteed to the 

 deeds of earth's saints. If the soul, after such long 

 isolation, is to take again to its embrace so much of the 

 old human corporeity it wore here below, does it trans- 

 cend the prerogative of hope in the great resurrection 

 to believe, that these biographs of (rod's loving children 

 on earth shall be taken up whole into the same immor- 

 tality as the bodies in which they worked His will 

 among men? Is the faith too fanciful or irreverent 

 that believes, that the corridors and inner temples of 

 Heaven's Glory will be hung with these biographs of 

 His servants surrounding, like stars, the light-flood of 

 His love that radiated from His cross on earth ? Is it 

 too presumptuous to think and say, that such pictures 

 will be as precious in His sight as any graven by the 

 lives of angels on their outward or homeward flights of 

 duty and delight? These are they, therefore, that 

 shall give to the earth all the immortality to which it 

 shall attain. These are they that shall take up into the 



