ino-:l. positive proofs tlv.it we have of the sotil’b independence of the body is our great need of love and of something to love. Were wc mere annuals, creatures doomed to perish after a few brief years of life in this world, that which coni'. Nts the brute would also content us. To eat and sloop well, to have an easy time of it, would be enough. As it is, we may have all things, ami health to enjoy them, and yet be uttcily wretched. Neither can mental food satisfy us. l> kJoiue one to love ”is our hearts cry. When the atmosphere of tenderness is about us, we rejoice ; when people are harsh or unkind, we suffer. We begin life, wishing to love all people, and believing that they love us. Our dear ones grow fewer; but, as long as reason lasts, we must love some one, we must at least imagine that some one loves us. Some one to love! It is the cry of the human soul, the note to which every heart responds, the bond which will bind us all together in that other world where mourners shall'be comforted and love shall reign for over,
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Evening Star, Issue 3656, 10 November 1874, Page 3
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199Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Evening Star, Issue 3656, 10 November 1874, Page 3
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