Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1879 — The Spirit World. [ARTICLE]

The Spirit World.

The very grave is a passage into the beautiful and the glorious. Welay our friends in the grave, but they are around us. The little children that sat • upon our knees, into whose eyes we have looked with love, whose little hands have clasped our neck, on whose cheeks we have imprinted the kiss — we can almost fell the throbbing of their hearts to-day. They have passed fromus—but where are they;? Just beyond the line of the invisible. And the fathers and mothers who directed and comforted us, where are they but just beyond the invisible? i The associates of our lives, those with whom we took sweet counsel, and who dropped from our side, whefre are they butjint beyond us?—not far away—ft may be very near us, in the heaven of light and ioye. Is there anything alarming in the thought of the invisible? No. It seems to me that sometimes when our heads are on the pitlow, there come whispers of joy from the spirit land which nave dropped iiito our hearts thought of the sublime and beautiful and glorious; as though an angel's wing passed over our brow, aud some dear one sat by our;p)llow and communed with ourhearts to raise our affections towards the other and better world.