in Holy Trinity Cathedral By Dean Trivett at Evenson: believe that God has not still some use for them. Again there are some whose lives are obviously unfulfilled here and whose going from us suggests - pathetic sense of incompleteness. We feel they have missed something. Should we not be more reconciled to this if only we realized that they were attaining completion somewhere else? When we think of the brave young lives which are being offered so willingly in these war days, can we only pray that they may have rest and peace in that other life upon which they have entered by the way of sacrifice? Rather would we think 4 of that eagerness and keeness being occupied in higher services growing and becoming more useful and finding happiness in the service of Him in whose footsteps by unselfish service and sacrifice they followed here on earth. We are reminded of those fine words of Matthew Arnold his poem "Rugby Chapel" in which he adresses the spirit of his father ʻO, strong soul, by what shore Tarriest thou now? For that force, Surely, has not been left vain! Somewhere, surely, afar, Inthe sounding labour house vast Of being, is practised that strength, Zealous, beneficent, firm.
Yes, in some far shining sphere, lous or not of the past, St thou performest the word Of the spirit in whom thou dost Prompt, unwearied, as here!"
A true note is sounded here and in passing, how immensely the work òf this life is lifted by such confidence in its continuity. Such a faith "brings not only comfort but encouragement'as well. We shall gain a new conception of the importance and dignity of work when we grasp firmly the thought that this life and its duties are but a training and preparation for the life and work of the hereafter. And that in that life there work waiting for us in the doing of which the stored experience of this life will be needed.
Ministering Spirits that may me more vigorous To serve my God when I awake"
ly we Fase that our spirits Rest in the Lord "and then there is the other word so often "of which die in the the Spirit for their labours." But rss mean inaction. tome, all ye that ivy laden, and I But he added and ornised in the pages of Holy Writ Lord Jesus, when he said: Father worketh hitherto." God, because he is, the Living God, is always working. "Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth fainteth not neither is weary?" "Unresting, unhasting and silent as light. Not wanting, nor wasting, thou rules in might." The Biblical meaning of "Rest" is not one of cessation, but rather of completion, and of harmony and it is supremely fitting that we should so understand the word in references to the departed soul.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.