SOME day when sin is conquered, may angels come

and whisper;

The mount of stumbling shall no more by weary feet

be prest;

Away from murky cloud-lands, breathe air of heaven's

mountains;

For doubtless He will give to all His seeking children

rest.

XI.

Converse on Higb.

TERNITY pierces time; the visible and invisible interpenetrate. Time and eter

nity, matter and spirit, all are of God, and are not separated by any walls of partition. They are interdependent parts of God's great building in as real a sense as are the hand and foot, the ear and eye essential to integrity of human body. All parts of God's handiwork articulate. We grasp this not in all its truth just yet; but when man shall have passed from the training-school of the natural to the higher plane of nature glorified, much that now he sees, as through a

glass darkly, will then stand out clear before his vision.

We are encompassed by wonders which we never see, and waves of ether vibrate with sounds we never hear. When this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, new worlds of beauty and of harmony will appear; and still beyond them all, will be infinite possibilities of experience and of richness unexplored. A passing touch of all this glory came, when eye and ear of man observed with wonder, those sights and sounds which brush of painter ne'er can place on canvas, nor composer's pen e'er write for music of earth's instruments.

High above the plane where men do dwell, and farther in extent than human eye could reach, the countless legions of hell's and heaven's armies were assembled. On the left, midst blackest darkness, restlessness personified, sat Beelzebub. On right, in calm of glory bright, appeared the mighty Gabriel. Stretching back, in outlines foul and ugly, were the