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 : And heaven is not some distant sphere : Dou CLIFFORD HARRISON. OUBT who may, O friend of mine! On before with beck and sign Glimpses of immortal youth, Gleams of glories seen and flown, Beauty that eludes our grasp, Sweetness that transcends our taste, Loving hands we may not clasp, Gentle eyes we closed below, Tender voices heard once more, Smile and call us as they go Guided thus, O friend of mine! Chase we still, with baffled feet, Smiling eye and waving hand, J. G. WHITTIER. ET I believe that God is Master still. YET He reigneth; He whose lightest breath could The universe of worlds like drops of dew, 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. WH 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, 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), . All dipt in angel instincts, breathing Paradise, All our World changed! Poverty rich, sick hearts, All the year round the watchful Heaven is q'er us, A luminiferous ether of the soul, A mighty song of blessing, An aching wish to know the world, I knew, 94 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, 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,. 238 234 3 394 And lo! the unearthly song thrills some fine inner chord, 159 396 415 281 And my 154 136 220 65 80 398 76 99 63 134. 54 91 And the things of earth are copies of the things, And woven with them there were words which seemed, And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams, 220 64 50 174 Angel! rather ask what love is in thee, . 307 Angels bright-they muse, be sure, and wonder, 137 |