Company of Heaven

universal daily. Even those who accepted the philosophy find they had not believed too much, but too little. The ethereal world is apparently in entire correspondence with the physical world. As a condition and not a locality it exists side by side: even more, it actually interpenetrates all this physical world, and it thus presents to us a realm of potency which, if we can but learn to use, will enable us to render our lives far more significant and useful.

LILIAN WHITING.

OD'S kingdom is on earth begun :
Time and eternity are one:

And heaven is not some distant sphere :
It lies about us now and here.

Dou

CLIFFORD HARRISON.

OUBT who may, O friend of mine!
Thou and I have seen them too;

On before with beck and sign
Still they glide and we pursue.

Glimpses of immortal youth,

Gleams of glories seen and flown,
Far-heard voices sweet with truth,
Airs from viewless Eden blown;

Beauty that eludes our grasp,

Sweetness that transcends our taste,

Loving hands we may not clasp,
Shining feet that mock our haste;

Gentle eyes we closed below,

Tender voices heard once more,

Smile and call us as they go
On and onward, still before.

Guided thus, O friend of mine!
Let us walk our little way,
Knowing by each beckoning sign
That we are not quite astray.

Chase we still, with baffled feet,

Smiling eye and waving hand,
Sought and seeker soon shall meet,
Lost and found, in Sunset Land.

J. G. WHITTIER.

ET I believe that God is Master still.

YET

He reigneth; He whose lightest breath could
thrill

The universe of worlds like drops of dew,
And if the Spirit-world hath broken through,
It cannot be unknown, unseen by Him;

It must be with His will. . .

Therefore I trust Him; shut mine eyes and say, 'Lead on, O Lord, Thou only know'st the way!

UNKNOWN.

December 31

NEW YEAR'S EVE

And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams.-ACTS ii. 17.

HEN our Lord comes the second time to earth, a far brighter blaze of miracles will shine around Him than that which ushered in His first appearance. The whole frame of nature will be rent in twain, as the veil of the temple formerly was, and we shall get a glimpse through the great cleft into the world of spirits; we shall see those things which here we have been called upon to believe without seeing—an innumerable company of angels, and a great white throne prepared for judgment, and Him who sitteth thereon.

DEAN GOULBURN.

AND finally

With the great escapings of ecstatic souls,
Who, in a rush of too long-prisoned flame,
Their radiant faces upward, burn away
This dark of the body, issuing on a world
Beyond the mortal.

MOR

E. B. BROWNING.

ORNWARD!' the angelic watchers say, 'Passed is the sorest trial;

No plot of man can stay

The hand upon the dial;

Night is the dark stem of the lily Day.'

J. R. LOWELL.

INDEX OF FIRST LINES

Amid the tumult, who are they that call,

ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase), .
Afraid of death?-that waking bright,
Afterwards, peaceful sleep-yet, had men eyes,
A good man, and an angel! these between,
A guardian angel o'er his life presiding,
Ah me! what a rest fell upon them,
Ah! the dream! all fair, could it but last,
Ah, well! for us all some sweet hope lies,
A little longer, and thy Heart, Beloved,
All are but particles of one divine,
All day long he prayeth softly,

All dipt in angel instincts, breathing Paradise,
All heaven is there, all joy! Go in, go in,

All our World changed! Poverty rich, sick hearts,
All that hath been majestical,

All the year round the watchful Heaven is q'er us,
Alone? No! God hath been there long before,
Also who enters, if I gather well,

A luminiferous ether of the soul,

A mighty song of blessing,

An aching wish to know the world, I knew,

An angel's wing would droop if long at rest,

268

And all about that courtly stable,

431

And always, always, with each soul that comes,

194

And finally with the great escapings of ecstatic souls,
And for the deed of Death; to Thee,

438

355

And hark! I hear a singing, yet in sooth,

And he knew at once that the man who, erewhile,

344

331

And in their stead a wonder world of fancy,.
And in this twofold sphere, the twofold man,
And is there care in heaven? and is their love,
And lo! it trembled, lo! her passionate crying,

238

234

394

And lo! the unearthly song thrills some fine inner chord,
And Love knows the secret of Grief,

159

396

415

281

And my
mind throngs with shining auguries,
And music was the name the dreamer gave,
And nowise ever to ask pay for Love,
And now the prayer is turned to praise,
And now to me the smallest bird that flies,
And oh when brought before us, .
And quickened by the Almighty's breath,
And shall these spirits in an air serene,
And she so young, that I who bring,
And she who bore Him-blessèd beyond all, .
And some good angel bear a shield before us,
And still the skies are opened as of old, .
And such a light was in the angel's face,
And such love lost? No, angels caught each,