1 see it gleam from your eyes today, and I
see it irradiating your countenance. Some
times 1 am abashed liefore an audience, not
because I come under your physical eye
sight, but liecause I realize the truth that I
stanu liefore so many immortal spirits. Tne
probaliility is that your body will at least
find a sepulchre in some of the cemeteries
that surround this city. There is no doubt
but that your obsequies will bo decent and
respectful, and you will bo alii? to pillow
your lu.ad under tiie maple, or the Nut way
spruce, or tiie cypress, or tho blossoming
fir; but tills spirit about which Stephen
prayeil, what direction will that take.'
What guide will escort it? What gate will
open to receive it? What cloud will lie
cleft for its patliway? After it lias got be
yond the light of our sun, will there lie
torches lighted for it the rest of the wav?
Will the soul have to travel through long
deserts before it reaches the good land? If
we slioiild lose our pathway will there be
a castle at whose gate we may ask the way
to the city? oh, this mysterious spirit
within us! It lias two wings, but It is In
a cage now. It is locked fast to keep it;
but let tin- door of tills eage open the least,
and that soul is off. Eagle's wings could
not <atch it. The lightnings are not swift
enough to come up with it. When the soul
leaves file liody it takes fifty worlds at a
bound. And 1 have no anxiety about It?
Have you no anxiety about it?
I do not care what you do with<my body
when my soul is gone, or whether you
b< lieve in cremation er inlntuiation. I
si all sleep just as well in a wrapping of
sackcloth as in satin lined witli eagle's
down. Blit mv soul: Before I close this
discourse I will find out where I will land.
