REVERIES OF LIFE

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1676, 13 April 1904, Page 77 (Supplement)

REVERIES OF LIFE

' ' (By a Banker.) - Of - Asiwe. Took ifewrr tlievloW^; • ;>ciieqiuered - ATstaf of; life, what a. flood ;of 7 memories T- Aies of- . joykjmd :qf--sorrows, ; cff 7 triumphs- ' and of > victories; of • glad sunshine-': and >of cloud. And' as' *°n the wings of ■ m ThoughT!wATake-Afght;flack t f ■ .tlie iarj iv 0 scenes * k> u S • ofgCfeten; and sh>rG',adecl in oblivion . : : Twefe • v bf>y estdrday; <We .fi'Oea ; UV to we witnessed.'fbi\ instance tt fib©- display , - 1 ' tiriie do. vtiine.. -\ ; gleam ot : ; wei think i b " heaven. of heavens opening;, aiid with earnest gaze we endeavour to -catclx soniß glimpse of t'be angels ■•'■flying to and fro in the land of glory, or to the rainbow-circled Throne of winch Aye had heard ac orur mother’s knee. Or we remember what ~a I vivid impression^ -• other natural phenomena, made upon •our young .mind; the thunderstorm, the beautiful annular eclipse,. or the great comet: * . £ . ■ • d<>ifl«mined with- a glow of sun-. when wo delve into tlie hature, or -are < thrilled - through and : through at Her glories and her beauties: the high snow mountains 1 and. icy glacr-' . if brs;ion>Mio^veif : etiti^cu% : : sea-shorc!;.-■diinHi© fld\fer .the shady. : forests . and, tlie sun?]ifc glades.; ; or• wlieii. lof the vault- . >;ed ; gGih-sju-ns planets, and perhaps -yffoih'tinieftb; time varied with the rapid I *v flight...of;."a'dbvilliant, gleaming meteor. , there rise up rev- : ...

Cries of -the first meeting with the one with whom they are, hand in hand, to fight the. battle of life,-and toi share all its' joys and all its sorrows; reveries of the glad plighting oh the troth, reveries pfr that ..solemn, ceremonial which links '. them together - until death doth them I part. ; ' ‘ - - ' . ■" I- . Andthen’ conies the grill den, age of llate middtle life; the age ivhen the. mind Its at; its'.prime, and all its energy is. iunimpaifed ;;. . when; 'thebodily powers, thpngh hot perhaps,Capable of quite shell eiidiurahce as when but dialf. the allotted foui- scoie years had been, passed, yet ill' other'respects are strong and>yigorori's; ’when; experience isripeb; stallentsy what-: :;.sdeyer .they be, more practised; and tb° : powers of appreciation • niore enhanced :hpd: ;' ;: y •• •r; Ay- gtttuly l the I retrospect ,bf - life.indelibly i user ibed upon the tablets/of . the meinof y,•'aiid fhe i'eminiscence of .all..its ■jhal.oyon; days, . must to : miiiti tudeS give Adse- to : the; desire to : offer, a ' pean of thanksgiying,; to the ' Giver of jilil good, for' his unbounded beneficenco.' And fthose who have’.loved.and served Him, who,; 'with'the.aid of His Holy. Spirit diave lived a righteous 1 ife andi -\vHosg • misdeedS ’liave. been: -. effaced from: tlie Igyeat^edofdi faith in'tfi' ■ Her ;,dieeiner’k; a.tdnenxent-; ;hayet-thei vaddqd: isfipfOme: pleasairelof■ a sufe;und .certain; liopo of infinitely/ gro'ater joys in the glories of the life to* come.