It is equally true that the mons ing depends upon the evening, Dare I Use an extremely expressive eolloe quialism? We sometimes speak of "the morning after the night bee fore." That is what every morn ing is. The evening stamps its mark the following morning, Have you not noticed that the last thought 1 of night is the first thought in the morning. We do not indeed find it as we left it, for it has been developing during our—unconae sciousness. But there it is with the associations it has gathered. The importance of our closing thoughts has been recognized during recent years and announced as though it were a new discovery. The empha assis and wide recognition of this truth is indeed mew but the dise covery is a very ancient one, The saints have always known the secret, and it has been an tone since the book of Psalms. wi compiled, But whether we knew it before or not, let us grasp the truth now: ithe life of the day Physical," mental and normal is influenced by the evenings that have gone before, Every evening is new beginning.
Is that not equally true evening of life? What we have said about old age as a time of reflexion is robbed of its significance if, old age is the end. Why trouble to gather up the lessons of life, if life has no sequel., These things have no meaning wiles the evening of life is a prelude to another morn ing. And that is our Christian hope, Jesus has brought life and immortality to light through the When we lay our dead to we do so in "the sure and certain hope of the resurrection to eternal life through Jesus Chri our Lord." Therefore the evening of life need not be spent in mere iniscences of the past but in anticipation of the future, This is that which was spoken' by the prophet Joel: "your old men shall dream dreams." Think of the aged Paul. Is he concerned merely with the past? No indeed. Glorious dreams of the future fill his mind: he has a desire to be with Christ, which is far better than anything he has experienced hitherto. Think of the lonely exile on Patmos and his vision of the new Jerusalem, These and hosts of others spend the evening of life looking not only backward but also forward to new day, Even "the valley of the shadow of death" has no terror for the Christian, for he does not pass through it alone and he knows th: its deep darkness does but usher in new and glorious dawn, "Heaven's morning breaks vain shadows flee in death, O Lord abide with THE news of the recent. opening of the John Bright Memel il Room at the Rochdale Museum isa int echo of Bright's many ase ions with that town. One of the exhibits is a. large and handtted bookcase. presented to Bright by friends of Free Trade for his, services. to the Anti-Corn Law League..... The subscribed sum for. thia..presentation' was.' over $3,000, and. it wis; 1 typical ofthe man that he, declined @ proposed gift. of plate. in favour of library oR 1,200 books which he' selected: himself, His chulge of reading rexeals.the man, Standard. works, of. the English Rois, histories of the nations, and nerenhies. of. noble diver, ind ness}ou, Ser lasting things.
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