A Moral in a Billy
A Kiwitea workman hid his billy under a, tree neaar the creek on Saturday night after knocking off work, and on the tollowing Monday morning he was surprised to find the following letter m it :— February 9, 1890, My dear sir,— Your billy Toahave left here you know, but your felly it is not yet to go. But a few words from 'on high perhaps will help you along in this dark misty sky. Though we ponder here below it is only to develop and grow, and if by the force of external circumstances you are forced externally to the laborious stages of lif , It is only for the one night of darkness, and as tlie spirit quits the interment to the unheard ■world your spirit will have wisdom in its hands, and a broad path of progress extending before it, where you will rise into the higher spheres of life. There is no hell beyond that which you make yourselt, Wt the spirit commences its enfoldment iust where it left off here below; it will 'be "ever rising into higher spheres of life. Sblive while here a just^ kind and aimiable life, doing all the good you can and no fcann and you then will find yourself better off than many of your friends who take a high stand in the external world. The mind lives on for eternity, each short y a fora s a part of our soul."
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 100, 15 February 1890, Page 3
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246A Moral in a Billy Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 100, 15 February 1890, Page 3
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