NATURE’S SWEET RESTORER

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1695, 24 August 1904, Page 81 (Supplement)

NATURE’S SWEET RESTORER

888 g./ 888.:.;;v-8.8 (• B;y • iA' Banker.)',y v .. - ■ >s.' thb ti? od i -workerj. : and more es:,yg pepially if tho;. toil:: bo brainwork, that ' ■' ■'most-fdtiguing bf all labour, b o\v gratescyfis dominion'of that “balmy 8-8 • sleep” -which. So revivifies the enervated V ' -poyfers and-causes new lit© to course ; ’ 'ltlirough the veins, and new vigour and : Vitality td. • stimulate the.entire systeni. -at times, in those dormant hours 8; of oblivion;;when the .mind .is. insensible /'* to all the passing/events of time, the .brain.is Hofjiig in a v<ery;sea/of dreams, altis apparently as tan- ■ / ,v gibld 'and' as- free froin illusion as though v<r^bo^^^^V : 'Wer©v-^sing' ; :' through > -g * veritable' experience . . of, real . life; al- .: thotigh the plbastire or. the pain, the ’rhapsody; ‘or 'the' horror, is intensified iy^antl^giabbted•!., ;8V ',}:y. ■ y. :8 8 'Now- he us experiencing the delicious :. senshtibn-of casting off the trammels of 'dearth,-arid> vaulting , off a high cliff, , r ; > swoops the sea, and skims and mvef the foam-crested waves, B’yjofniiig the sea-birds in their gambols curvetting flights, and then .with ?V a“' bonndj 'Vaulting upwards again, and, ;:-?wwi'th foot r: scarce. touching the ground ' viyncina along the slopes and acclivities of the turfrcovered downs above. Or perhaps everything goes wrong he is out shooting, and his gun invariably >misses fire; lie is counting money and makes tlie amount different at each at.: ' -tempt ;-or is attacked by some jnturiat© animal,''or terrified Iny \ some horrible >• gß>.g ■' 88g, 1 V. gg these ipsiibstantiai tantasies ■8 of the'night most, entranc. 1 . ihg is a vision of the. starry canopy of •’ the skies, but all the' constellations. ; transfornfed into; the fanciful., figures g D'-.sin glorying;’ apd moving in' 8. solemn and stately procession across tlie gy ?•' form and. ravage visage glitter- , V; irig jyith an : overpowering brilliancy; cohere; Perseus. V with ope hand chit clung 88. tlie gory head of Medusa, with i lie other . - graspinga great fiery sword, with winch Sjg-He;slays the huge sea-monster which y' the fair Andromeda: here

CUS struggling with the writhing python, and Vi rgo holding the palm of peace, her angel-wings glittering and scintillating like diamonds; with many another, some grotesque and fantastic, some majestic and. commanding. At -length the strange shining figures assume more and -'more angelic form, and soon the entire canopied vault of tho skies is peopled with a legion of brilliant os}pstial beings, a very galaxy of transcendent magnificence, altogether. . overpowering in its effulgent splendour, and in ibi vivid beauty rand sublimity. And the entranced dreamer, overwhelmed and .awestruck by ' the august grandeur of the great pageant, and now dazzled by yet more supernal glory, awakes to find, alas! that it was but a dream. But if a mere dream is so.thrilling and so rapturous, what must he the reality! Ay, surely, it .must be worth a life even of hardship and of deprivation to obtain even a glimpse of the actual glory of' heaven. But, if instead, a free passport by id be given to- all- whp live the happy life of the righteous, and whose /sins, both inherited and committed, are expunged from the record through the Saviour’s atonement for them, how mad wilfully to risk the loss of it all.