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Vanished Hours.
VANISHED HOURS .
~ T 7 ^ VERY UOAV and then there comes to us all , as Time , weird and weary , - * --- passes onward , a sort of " mooning and crooning" over the dead and buried past . It is not easy always to say Avhy or hoAV such feelings or thoughts or memories arise in our minds , move us , stir us , hold us spellbound , for the time , in their grave power or fond
enchantment . If we could all analyze and explain these strange gyrations of our inner being , of our spiritual part , we should be the greatest of psychologists , the most learned of metaphysicians , and the sagest and wisest of philosophers . No , we cannot explain , do what we will , this great mystery of
human life , remembrance , sentiment , and will : but so it is ; so it will ever be Avhile mortal men wend on their pilgrimage , and Ave are still inhabitants of the cities of the plain . Let us believe that there is a
reason in all these things ; that they have a meaning , nay , and a mission , —in the good providence of T . G . A . O . T . U ., and that Ave are just the most foolish and Aveakest of bodies , if we either doubt the living machinery of the marvellous Artificer of all , or shut our ears and hearts to such seasonable and subduing thoughts .
They are , depend upon it , for our good , our very great good . The sciolist and sceptic may laugh at all such " ideas . " The careless and material may forget them in the Avear and tear of life , the mere " curriculum " of pleasurable enjoyments . The captious and the cynic may pronounce them " twaddle " or " gush ; " but there is in them
something both of the needful , the valuable , the beneficial for us all , which it will be our hi ghest Avisdom , as well as our surest safety , to realize and to recall .
HOAV strange is Time ; and how wondrous and significant are the changes and chances of years ! We are what we AA ould not be ; we have what we never asked for ; Ave miss Avhat we would give our very life to gain ; we lose what we Avould surrender our very existence to keep . How patched and
discordant our past appears to-day from what we once hoped years Avould be to us , and bring us ; and how seared and sodden , how wan and withered , now look those blooming trees which , in the luxuriance of blossom and the ripeness of fruit , seemed to promise us once such a golden harvest . Alas ! how different reality is from expectation ! after years from
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Vanished Hours.
VANISHED HOURS .
~ T 7 ^ VERY UOAV and then there comes to us all , as Time , weird and weary , - * --- passes onward , a sort of " mooning and crooning" over the dead and buried past . It is not easy always to say Avhy or hoAV such feelings or thoughts or memories arise in our minds , move us , stir us , hold us spellbound , for the time , in their grave power or fond
enchantment . If we could all analyze and explain these strange gyrations of our inner being , of our spiritual part , we should be the greatest of psychologists , the most learned of metaphysicians , and the sagest and wisest of philosophers . No , we cannot explain , do what we will , this great mystery of
human life , remembrance , sentiment , and will : but so it is ; so it will ever be Avhile mortal men wend on their pilgrimage , and Ave are still inhabitants of the cities of the plain . Let us believe that there is a
reason in all these things ; that they have a meaning , nay , and a mission , —in the good providence of T . G . A . O . T . U ., and that Ave are just the most foolish and Aveakest of bodies , if we either doubt the living machinery of the marvellous Artificer of all , or shut our ears and hearts to such seasonable and subduing thoughts .
They are , depend upon it , for our good , our very great good . The sciolist and sceptic may laugh at all such " ideas . " The careless and material may forget them in the Avear and tear of life , the mere " curriculum " of pleasurable enjoyments . The captious and the cynic may pronounce them " twaddle " or " gush ; " but there is in them
something both of the needful , the valuable , the beneficial for us all , which it will be our hi ghest Avisdom , as well as our surest safety , to realize and to recall .
HOAV strange is Time ; and how wondrous and significant are the changes and chances of years ! We are what we AA ould not be ; we have what we never asked for ; Ave miss Avhat we would give our very life to gain ; we lose what we Avould surrender our very existence to keep . How patched and
discordant our past appears to-day from what we once hoped years Avould be to us , and bring us ; and how seared and sodden , how wan and withered , now look those blooming trees which , in the luxuriance of blossom and the ripeness of fruit , seemed to promise us once such a golden harvest . Alas ! how different reality is from expectation ! after years from