A Beautiful Incident.
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| On beautiful summers day clergy
man was called to preach in town in In.
diana, to young Episcopal congregation
At the close of the discourse, he addressed
his young hearers in such words as these !;
"Learn that the present life is prepa-
ration for and has tendency to eternity.
The present is linked to the future through
out creation, in the vegetable, in the ami
NAL, and in the moral world As is the
seed, so is the fruit; as is the egg, so is
the fowl; as is the boy, so is the man; and
as is the rational being in this world, SO
will he be in the next; Dives estranged
from God here, is Dives from God in the
next, and Enoch walking with God here
is Enoch walking with God in calm and
better world. Go to the worm that you
tread upon, and learn lesson of wisdom
The very caterpillar seeks the food that
fosters it for another and similar state, and
more wisely than man, builds its own Sc
pulchre from whence in time, by kind Of
resurrection, it comes forth new creature
in almost an angelic form. And, now that
which crawled, flies, and that which fed
on comparatively gross food, sips the dew
that revels in the rich pastures-an en-
blem of that paradise where flows the river
of life, and grows the tree of life. Could
the caterpillar have been diverted from its
proper element and model of life-if it had
never attained the butterfy's splendid form
and hue, it had perished worthless worm.
Consider her ways and be wise. Let it
not be said that yc are more negligent than
worms, and our reason is less available
than their instinct. As often as the butter
Hy fits across your path, remember that it
whispers in its ffight-'Liye for the Fu-
ture.0


With this the preacher closed his dis
course; but TO deepen the impression, a
butterfly, directed by the Hand which
guides alike the sun and an atom in its
course, futtered through the church, as if
commissioned by Heaven to repeat the ex-
hortation. There was neither speech nor
language, but its voice was heard saying to
the gazing audience" Live for the Fu-
ture"