IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL.

Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 95, 15 September 1877, Page 3

IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL.

The -wife, of W. S. Robinson ( " Warrington, " the> well-known newspaper correspondent), m her biography of him,' sa-ys :^— ."•"A. few weeks before his death ,He, sat. one, day, as. was his wont, before his open 1 fire, m a meditative postur,e ? with Ms kands at rest. His wife spoke to him, and he iooked up, with the bright 'smile so well remembered by all who knew him, and said^ "It is., curious how the, immortality otthesoiii grows upon you. As I have rbee ill sitting here day after day it has come to me ; and I am sure of it— a r s sure of it, and of living again, as I am- ''thai; I am here— more sure, for ,I < don't know half the time whether lain here m the body or not. It is just .like going into another roo.m^into that xooni' (pointing to the. ;ppen ; . parlor^ door near him) ' .Why, this world and the nextf are^ joined closely as my two hands, 11 * opening tnehi and placing therii together,"" one above the other, with palms reversed; there they are-r— no; break n P break between, no gulf to "pass. I "feel every day like ope who walks' by a hedge, and is lopkmg,.,fpr a gate, a gap to go through, to walk on the other side. AfieF that the subject was one of common talk, and was spoken of m" the jtnidst of eyjer} r day affairs. Erequ'ently; when he was spoken to he iwpuld r .Ib.bk, tip, smile and-place his : ;han'ds.'as I Bave described^ saying ;-only,!: '|N"a break, no break.' :Grod was good to him. He had tried to, leadSfeh^ people to truth and. right m this life.; was it not given to Mm, m so'mepart, to lea,d them^still further—to a/b.elief m the life, beyond, toward the great Centre of Truth, and ■. ■ " ','".'.