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THE MYSTERIOUS BALANCE. 
A TEACHING OF THE AQUARIUM. 
In the vast procession of beings which passes before the 
eyes of God as a panorama, and of which man catches 
bat imperfect glimpses here and there, the many which 
drop out of the ranks into the jaws of death form the 
tesselated pavement on which the successive races tread, 
secure in their perpetuity. Life stands in fear of death, 
though death is but its servant—a faithful servant— 
appointed by the Author of life to gather life's tangled 
threads into an order of successive developments. The 
dying Christian may fear death, though assured of 
immortality; and the unthinking worm writhes in its 
expiring agonies, as if it would by a last effort struggle 
into strength once more. .Deeply hid in the core of the 
organic universe is the secret of Death, “ who keeps the 
keys of all the creeds; ” yet man is permitted to read a 
part of the mystery in the experiences of his kind, and 
in the records of past ages. He doubts the fact of 
death, while openly admitting it; for his fear dictates a 
thought directly opposed to reason, to observation, and 
to the knowledge that has been revealed— 
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