CH4PTER XXV.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2018, 13 June 1885, Page 5 (Supplement)

CH4PTER XXV.

It is the law of birth that it munt be accompanied with pain. If this ia truo of the material, how much more so it ia of the spiritual ? The birth of the body is but the event of the hour : tho birth of- the soul is a prolonged agony, lasting throughout our mortal life. If we look back— we who have parcel the thirties — what a sucoesaion of throe 1 ? we can remember, each the birth of a now faculty, a new experience. Orinora may be said to have been only in her rpirit infancy until Herbert arrived on the island. Her intellect had grown, it is true, hue the mightier powera of thoeoul, that cal] all its energies into existence and influence for good or ill our future here and heroafter, were dormant. At the touch of the nmgiciau, love, a new soul was born to her, bui one which came into the world garlanded, and with Joy and Happiness as its attributes; a laughing, dascing spirit, that, like tho ephemera, played in the sunbeams and knew no night. Thin evening another poi Dion of the eoul was brought forth : that part that has to feel and suffer. With all of us this birth, or succession of births, has to occur. There are many who say the greatest of our loys arise from our sufferings, and that they chasten and purify ; there ia no joy without sorrow, no crown without a crosß ; yet the religious anticipate a heaven where iheie ia neither sorrow nor toara, pain nor hunger. That ia indeed a heaven that poweifully appeals to tho wretched millions of thij world.

(To be continued,)