CLOSET AND ALTAR.

White Ribbon, Volume 13, Issue 164, 15 February 1909, Page 9

CLOSET AND ALTAR.

lx the Vai.i.ev or hie Shadow

Thoayh l walk throut/h the valley of tin xhadow of death / Will fear no ml, fa Thou art with me.

It is a very great thing to leave this world, and yet I cannot think it a specially frightful thing. True, we make a plunge into the unknown, which is so far appalling, and yet even that is somewhat of a fiction We do know a great deal about the matter, after all. We know Christ, which is to know pretty much everything ; we know what lie is and can be to us, so that if we knew all about the city and the river and all the paradisaic figures it would not add much to our knowledge. —Horace Hath a ell.

It is not darkness you are going to, for Christ is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not an unknown country, for Christ is there. — Charlex Kinyxley.

It seemeth such a little way to me. Across to that strange country—the beyond And yet not strange, for it has grown to l»e : The home of those of whom 1 am so fond. They make it seem familiar and most dear, As journeying friends bring distant countries near.

And so to me there is no sting to death. And so the grave has lost its victory. It is Imt crossing with abated breath And white, set face a little strip of sea, lo tind the loved ones waiting on the shore, More lieautiful, more precious than before. —Ella Whetler Wilcox