1t cannot be that earth is mans only abiding place. It cannot be that our life is a bubble, cast tip by the ocean of eternity to float moment upon its waves, and sink into darkness and notIl- ingness. Else why Is it that the high and glorious aspirations, which leap like angels from the temples of our hearts, are forever wandering abroad unsatisfed! Why is it, that the rainbow and the cloud come over us with beauty that is not of earth, and then pass of and leave us omuse upon their faded loveliness! Why is 1t that the stars, which sshold their festivals around the midnight throne," are set above the grasp of our limited faeulties-loreyer. mocking us with their unapproachable glory! And finally, why isit that bright forms of human beauty are presented to our view and then taken from us-leay- ing the thousand streams of our affec- tlons to flow back in an Alpine torrent upon our hearts we are born for higher destiny than that of earth. There is a realm where the rainbow never fades ii-where the stars will be spread out be. fore us like the Islands that slumber on the ocean and where the beautiful be- ings which here pass before us like yis- ions, will remain in our presenc forever.

 [N r. Amulet.

 