the atheist, death must be good ; for what God gives to all is a blessing. It 

 must be a good thing to die when death comes. And since the unexhausted 

 powers in man are thought, love, and action ; since there is so much more to 

 know, to love, and to do, than we can accomplish here, we may believe, that, 

 in the future life, our heaven will be, as our heaven is here, in having plenty 

 to know, plenty to love, and plenty to do. How much work here is just 

 begun, and then dropped ! How the tenderest love of this life seems cold 

 and weak to that of which the human heart is capable ! What vast problems 

 of thought open before our eyes, insoluble by our present methods ! The 

 best things we have or do in this world are only prophecies of what is wait- 

 ing for us hereafter. We open our arms so wide, and we embrace so little ! 

 We are like children to whom the mother says, " Be patient, little ones : there 

 is time enough ; you shall have it all by and by." Go up, then, dear friend, 

 and go on ! Outsoaring the shadow of our night, advancing into regions of 

 knowledge to which all former insight is but the auroral presage of coming 

 day, go on, to see what you foresaw ! Go up into larger ranges of vision, 

 into a mightier fulness of comprehension. The soul that always humbled 

 itself here in adoration of the first Fair, sole True, will be exalted into com- 

 munion with the intellectual principalities and powers above. There, too, you 

 will, we trust, meet again the noble brothers of science who have gone before, 

 those who also believed at once in law and love, in things seen and things 

 unseen, in the God of Nature and the God of Reason and the God of Spirit. 

 There you will meet with Agassiz and Jeffries Wyman, Henry and Bache, and 

 renew on a higher plane the studies and affections of earth. Farewell, 

 brother, for a little time. We who remain will endeavor to use these golden 

 hours of time with something of your fidelity : we also will do the work of 

 Him who sent us while it is day. We will go back to life, not sadly, but 

 grateful to Him who has given us such noble friendships, has enabled us to 

 be the witness of such great labors, and who feeds the heart with such 

 immortal hopes. 



