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T1]0 Immortelle. 
The Immortelle is one of the so-called “Everlasting Flowers.” 
Life Eternal. 
Iff IIEhT I say “Life Eternal ” I mean to express the eternal Happiness 
of the just in Heaven, which, without alloy of an}" sort, presents to 
us the pure and unmixed enjoyment of every good. It is, as the Scripture 
declares in the most explicit terms, an exemption from all evil. “They 
shall no more hunger and thirst,” says St, John, “neither shall the sun fall 
on them, nor any heat ;”* and again, “God shall wipe away all tears from 
their eyes; and death shall he no more; nor mourning, nor crying, nor sor¬ 
row, shall he any more, for the former things are passed away.”** But the 
glory of the blessed shall he without measure, and their solid joys and 
pleasures without number. The mind is incapable of comprehending or 
conceiving the greatness of this glory; it can he known only by its fruition, 
that is, by entering into the joy of the Lord, and thus satisfying fully the 
desires of the human heart. 
Oh well-created spirit, who in the rays 
Of life eternal does the sweetness taste 
Which being untasted ne’er is comprehended. 
—Dante’s Paradise, iii, 37-39. 
Oh joy! Oh gladness inexpressible! 
Oh perfect life of love and peacefulness! 
Oh riches without hankering secure! 
—xxvii, 7-9. 
♦Apoc. vii,16. 
**Apoc. xxi,4. 
J. 
