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 1UJ Y. ASA WAH&SK. 
 
 and Compiled. 
 
 GEORGE C. KENNEDY. 
 
 Grandson of the Author 
 
 HANNIBAL, MO. 
 ECHOES PUBLISHING Co 
 1887.
 
 Entered according to Act of Lougr-.t^ in thu year 11-87. by 
 
 THE ECHOES .PUBLISHING Co., 
 
 Iu thH Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. 
 
 Printed by ECHOED Publishing Co. 
 
 STANDARL" PRINTING GO,. BINDERS.
 
 Re sped fully dedicated, 
 To all of the friends* cc- workers, and 
 co-believers of the late Rev, Asa Warreri.
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 In ancient days, M priest or prophet who step- 
 ped out of the beaten path of prevalent belief 
 had immortality thrust upon him. The tenets of 
 a new faith proclaimed him, the founder, to the 
 world; and martydom, on the one hand, or 
 triumphing' success, on the other, rendered him 
 a conspicuous mark for future ages. The efforts 
 of the later innovators in revealed religion are 
 destined to an influence no less potent, though 
 the individual investigator is less prominent. 
 
 Then the mental elevation of the priest was 
 as that of the pinnacled cliff above the plain ;the 
 power of mind heaved high amidst the sullen 
 level of universal ignorance. Nav the brave- 
 eyed iconoclast stirs and purifies the thought of 
 the world as he moves unseen through it, as the 
 Gulf-stream, invisible to the eye, plows and 
 lefreshes the dark waste of ocean bringing 
 salubrity and happiness to adjacent shores.
 
 The author, one of these latter day priests 
 of God followed a consistent course of action 
 throughout a Ions: life. His efforts, together with 
 those of the reformers of the first century of the 
 Republic, contributed both to the overthrow of 
 slavery, and to the enfranchisement of thought. 
 Born on the 3oth day of December, 1809, he 
 received ordination at the hands of Presiding 
 Elder Fillmore of the Methodist Episcopal 
 Church, at bis birth-place. Hampton, Washing- 
 ton Co., New York. 
 
 His active anti-slavery work beeor* ing obnox- 
 ious to that church which had put itself on rec- 
 ord as opposed to slavery agitation, lie left Its 
 folds for those of the Wesleyan Methodist 
 Church, \\ hose course was more consistent with 
 freedom. Here; he was for several years Presiding 
 Elder. 
 
 Immediately upon the revelation of phenom- 
 ena declaring the boundaries of spirit commun- 
 ion, he began to investigate the alleged heresy. 
 Becoming convinced of the truth of all that lie had 
 seen, upon il^ disavowal by the ''huvch. lie onee 
 more I'-i'i thai organisation, ami :idhrrcil i<> the
 
 new faith. The remainder of his life here, which 
 closed on the iQth day of September, 1886 was 
 devoted to the spread and development of his 
 convictions. Devout himself, he electrified thous- 
 ands by his words. The poems published here, 
 were written at various periods, but all bear 
 witness to one central idea. Stronger than his 
 hold on life was his hope for immortality, and 
 that is the key-note to which all of his strings of 
 thought intone. 
 
 Posessing neither the grandeur of the ocean's 
 eternal hymning which reverberates in the 
 ancient singer's strain, nor the ornate imagery 
 and delicate tracery of words which, like the 
 empty dome of a laj Mahal, decks the fabric of the 
 trans- Atlantic bard, his simple lines breathe only 
 hope and joy as he dreams of celestial halls, or 
 with sharpened eye and ear sees the sheen of 
 radiant robes, hears the rustle of vibrating 
 wings.
 
 THE CRY. 
 
 What sounds are these that thrill the darkened aif^ 
 
 What merciless hammer clangs its ringing 
 rounds. 
 
 With tumultuous beat the weary ear confounds, 
 And brings to memory back its burdened care ? 
 Whose every shock turns every nerve to flame, 
 
 Vibrating every chamber of the soul ; 
 
 Whose multitudinous echoes mimic roll 
 In saddened tones the accents of his name. 
 Who from my brow shall lift the cypress wreath? 
 
 When shall depart th' unceasing funeral knell? 
 
 My pulses echo to no cheerier beli [death. 
 Than that Which claims the cherished one for 
 Companion, counselor, friend, thy work is done. 
 
 Would I could hear thy cheering voice once 
 more 
 
 Thy footstep present at the opened door - 
 Again with thee behold the risen sun ! 
 Again with thee stand on proud Erie's shore. 
 Again retrace the wave bound Michigan,
 
 10 THE ANSAVKK, 
 
 Recall the struggles which the boy began, 
 And manhood facing Slavery's threatening roar. 
 Again recount the days of want and pain, 
 
 Thy proud defiance to despotic power : 
 
 The bright occasion ; aye, the fated hour 
 When you relinquished other paths to fame. 
 When from the* trembling form- of priestly craft 
 
 You struck the <rlitterin^ show ;md thin di<;rui<e 
 
 Before both friendly and unfriendly eye- [shafr 
 Pierced false pretence with many a trenchant 
 Would I once more nii<rht see that silvered head, 
 
 But no, that form within the ^rrave is laid! 
 
 What is to he must be. Mu>t hope thus fade 
 \ml hu<hed forever lie the silent dead? 
 
 Xot so! beyond the lifting veiU 
 
 The rising- f<is irl<>\\ s, 
 The earth-worn pilgrim, fainting? Ji^ 
 
 Tlie mystic future. Knows 
 The joy of death, the bliss of pain, 
 
 The fr ..... loin of the <lave ; 
 The c.oiltr,-t of eteril:tl life 
 
 \\ itli rapora oi lie- grav**-. 
 Straiii'lit to hi- upcii \'i-i u. -.->ini--. 
 The wonder.-- of the Seen.
 
 LIU: ANSSVEK. 11 
 
 Tlv Universe in lustre show- 
 
 lt> form majestic. Keen 
 A'id keener still his lightened eye? 
 
 Pierce to each hidden <hore ; 
 Behind him countless worlds retreat. 
 
 The Infinite before. 
 Hail to the future! \Ve who pa-s 
 
 The dark, deep choking du^ti 
 Who see through tdoud- the ri-in^ -nn : 
 
 Fair nature through her crust, 
 
 Plail to the future! We \vliO see 
 
 The presence of the year- : 
 We who have doffed the doubter'? robe. 
 
 To people wider spheres, 
 Have brought our hopes, the -even-hued ray* 
 
 Transfused and east, in one. 
 A beacon, till the future brings 
 
 To >i<rht tlie I'li^eon Sun. 
 
 The Law of Progress. 
 
 Progression is a law divine 
 
 F.\ i <tin e\-Hrv where . 
 1'i-rv mlin^ :| 'l tiling- h"re in time, 
 
 M'he ocean, -.-irth and air. 
 
 Progression mark- the mineral realm 
 Where gold and diamond- are
 
 12 THE LAW OF PROGRESS. 
 
 For God, its Author, hold< the helm 
 
 And guides this mighty car, 
 The iloral realm proclaims the la\v 
 
 Unfolded higher and higher. 
 A fact which SI/MMH-C lately s;i\\ 
 
 And raised the bigots ire, 
 
 Poor foolish man-how dark and vain 
 To think God's works stand .-till 
 
 Xay! Sunshine comes and then the rain; 
 Kach makes our spirits thrill. 
 
 Progression speaks in kingly tones 
 
 O'er prairie, vale and hills, 
 For then her annual bounty comes 
 
 And all our granaries fills. 
 
 The realm where mammals sport and play 
 
 And fish and mollnsks swim, 
 Bear testimony day by day 
 
 That progress rules theirein. 
 
 So ages, as they come and go 
 
 God's universe adorn : 
 And latest fo ii- ever show 
 
 Px.'-t symmetry of form. 
 
 And every later age we're told 
 In mammal realms 'ti- found,
 
 TI1K L.V\V OFPROGRESS. 
 
 The higher "intellect unfolds 
 The universe around. 
 
 And thus in all these lower realms, 
 
 Prog res- ion holds the rod, 
 And rules in sun-dune, storm and calm 
 
 A messenger of (iod. 
 
 And if in fields of lower life 
 
 Progression bears the sway, 
 In human destiny and strife 
 
 Shall it not n:le the day? 
 
 Shall man, the noblest work of God, 
 
 Progression fail to share 
 Man! who can anali/e the sod, 
 
 The ocean, earth and air? 
 Nay! Man shall progress while the throne 
 
 Almighty (Iod shall rule ; 
 And lie who doubts shall come at last 
 
 To find himself the fool! 
 
 All^Worlds. all systems made by Him, 
 
 From ang.-N to the sod, 
 Move bv progressions mighty Lav, 
 
 All! but \\\^ farther (iod. 
 
 These pass the spiral ways of life 
 Through lower paths they've trod,
 
 14 AXOKL MIMSTUY TRIUMPHANT. 
 
 Moved by progression's mighty law 
 
 To a n on progressive God. 
 Then rise my soul, stretch every nerve, 
 
 R'se upward to the blue. 
 For there'll be ever room enough 
 
 Between your God and you. 
 
 Angel Ministry Triumphant 
 
 The angel world in Hay's of old 
 
 Came down to talk with man ; 
 And thus revealed, as we are told 
 
 Gcri's great and wondrous plan- 
 By which the race of man on earth 
 
 Can heaven by love attain ; 
 And thus secure the higher birth, 
 
 Immoital to remain. 
 These ministrations came we're toM, 
 
 From Abram down to John ; 
 To safely guide the Jewish fold 
 
 Till God revealed his Son. 
 His Son. the- man. the Nazarene 
 
 With medium powers sublime. 
 Controlled by angels, as it seems 
 
 For purposes divine. 
 Three years through him the spirits plead 
 
 With guilty ehurch and priests.
 
 ANGEL MINISTRY TRIUMPHANT. 
 And then they crucified till dead 
 The NazareiH", the Christ. 
 
 But multitudes had caught the light 
 
 The angel world had shed, 
 And for a time kept up UK- light 
 
 Though He, the Christ, was dead. 
 
 Through all these ages angels bright 
 Did church and priest reprove, 
 
 But still rejected they the light 
 All radiant with God's love. 
 
 But f illen priests did then unite 
 
 In persecution strong, 
 And thus by force suppressed the light 
 
 Which had reproved so long. 
 
 For fifteen hundred years from earth 
 This precious light was gone ; 
 
 Then angels from the higher birth 
 Awoke the glorious da\vn. 
 
 Of this sublime resplendant day, 
 For heaven and earth now meet, 
 
 And in thi-ir hallowed union stay 
 And each the other greet. 
 
 So heaven and earth again unite 
 Our Kindred to redeem,
 
 Ifi ANGEL MFMSTKY TRIUMPHANT. 
 
 And spread abroad this heavenly light 
 As millions here have seen. 
 
 Tl is mighty work tV>r thirty years 
 
 Has spread itself abroad, 
 And thus removed all doubt ami fears 
 
 That it came forth from (iod 
 
 The tiny rap announced its birth 
 
 At Fox's humble door 
 A stranger thing than all the world 
 
 Had ever heard before. 
 
 An angle rapping in the mist 
 
 Of mortal men below, 
 Near threw the clergy into fits 
 
 As men of knowledge know 
 
 The celebrated Doctor Cox 
 
 In pamphlet form did show 
 He fully understood I he knocks, 
 
 4 'The girl h:id snapped her toe.' T 
 
 If not, 'twas plain as lie could see, 
 
 Beyond all human doubt. 
 The girl had surely sn.-ipped her knee, 
 
 And he h id found it ;>m. 
 
 Well done! great Doctor from ihe schools, 
 In this most wondrous fact
 
 ANGEL MINI. THY TlliUMPHANT. 17 
 
 You've shown yourself the simplest fool, 
 Or el<e your brain is cracked. 
 
 * 4 Tis magnetism," others said, 
 
 As all must plainly see. 
 A man must be a leather-head 
 
 To call it sna] ping toe or knee"' 
 
 44 "Tis electricity, 11 some said, 
 
 "Beyond all human doubt. 
 And (very man that's ever read 
 
 Has surely found it out. 11 
 
 Another stretched his neck and cries 
 
 'Its nothing but Od force! 1 ' 
 And thus the fourth stands up and lies 
 
 Till voice and lungs are hoarse. 
 
 Another said, "It's all a cheat, 
 
 A play at sleight of hand, 
 For any conjurer can beat 
 
 All mediums of the land." 
 
 Another said "It's ignorance, 
 
 And thus through all the land 
 Its advocates lack common sense, 
 
 An idiotic band. 11 
 
 Another shouts, * Its urely strange 
 That such a monstrous evil
 
 IN AXOFL MIM.--1I.Y Tlllt MTHANT 
 Should fail to be endorsed by all 
 A< coming fro .11 the devil. 
 
 "But. the old devil shi\ wd and mum, 
 
 As all may safely bet, 
 Has fairly now himself outdone 
 
 In getting ii}) planehette.*' 
 
 44 And thus the devil does decoy 
 Poor souls from Jesus 1 blood, 
 
 By writing with this little toy, 
 Far stronger than their God 
 
 "If not! Why not the God step in 
 
 And quell this mighty evil? 
 Why leave the enemy to win ; 
 
 His" little heaven born devil? 
 
 "One of two things must lie the fact, 
 
 Either he approves the evil, 
 Or else his aim is far too short, 
 
 To eope with such a devil 
 
 'Or el<e hi< moral elements 
 
 Are weak as running water, 
 Why should he leave the Enemy, 
 With human souls to slaughter? 
 
 Six thousand years have passed, 'tissi.id, 
 since God and devil parted
 
 ANGEL MINISTRY TRIUMPHANT. 
 
 A id millions sleep among the dead 
 Since man from Eden started. 
 
 Mm- out of ten the devil won, 
 And thus augment- his number; 
 
 While Uod does little but look on 
 "\Vith great chagrin and wonder. 
 
 And church and priest and doctors wee;., 
 
 O'er this great desolation, 
 And with anathemas do steep 
 
 This modern revelation. 
 
 lUit still the mighty work goes on 
 
 The angel world proclaiming, 
 The battle fought, the vi< to IT won, 
 
 The truth still ever gaining. 
 And gain it must and gain it will, 
 
 Till all shall stand adoring, 
 And old Theology lies still* 
 
 In its last stage of snoring. 
 
 And sure she never will aw:-ke 
 
 To life, or to perfection ; 
 For circumstances indicate. 
 
 She 1 11 have no resurrection. 
 
 The foe is numerous, not strong, 
 For all her hosts divided,
 
 '20 THE MGI1T OF'miK, AM) 
 
 And SULV her race will not be long, 
 Her plans have till collided. 
 
 For angel truth is pure and strong, 
 Adapted to tin? hour, 
 
 Inspires the Soul with seraph song, 
 And clothes the man with power. 
 
 The Night of Time, ami Day of 
 Eternity. 
 
 We know that the day of Eternity's near, 
 
 And the harvesting angel his sickle puts forth, 
 To gather us home to the heavenly sphere, 
 
 From the east and the west, from the south 
 
 and the north. 
 And no intervention can stay his strong hand, 
 
 Hi- sickle shall gather the great and the small, 
 
 Not the rich, nor the poor, nor the monarch can 
 
 stand, [last call. 
 
 When Nature's great law shall announce her 
 Then awake from your slumbers, ye millons of 
 earth : 
 
 Ye sauls th. t must live while eternities roll 
 And prepare for the glories of heavenly birth 
 
 Nor pass lit'e away like the slumbering mole. 
 Then ronseup and c:i*t off the garments of night ; 
 
 And el Mhe vnur great souls in the v, -tm<-nts
 
 THE DAY OF ETERNITY. 21 
 
 For angels invite you to holier light, [of day: 
 
 Then why in your darkness, Oh why will you 
 
 stay? 
 Then ri-e above riot and drunkenness here, 
 
 All clothed in the garments of virtue and love, 
 Be angels of light in this dark earthly sphere, 
 
 And then you 1 11 rank high in the bright 
 
 worlds above, 
 And chambering and wantonness fail not to show? 
 
 They'll clothe you in garments of hells dark- 
 est night, 
 
 And it may be for ages when earth life is done 
 Will disrobe thy souls vision of heaven's vast light. 
 Then rise from the dark plane of envy and strife, 
 
 Rush away from the dark realm of slander 
 
 and hate, [quaff, 
 
 For as long as thy souls these dark waters shall 
 
 Thy wo is secured by the great law of fate, 
 Let life here be guarded against every ill, 
 
 And in all things be sure and avoid moral evil, 
 And thy soul shall be saved from that inward hell, 
 
 Lest thy life here proclaim an incarnated devil, 
 
 And then though the night hen- 1>- brief or 
 
 prolonged [the soul, 
 
 Or the day come unlocked for, or sought by
 
 22 ON A r.KKiHT MAY MOKNINU. 
 
 It will lind us inspired with seruphic song\ 
 
 And in safety reach tlie bright heavenly goal, 
 
 And tlif irreat law of Progress shall curry us on 
 While the cycles of ages continue to roll, 
 
 Wh<-re toil-' arc all o'er and the victory won. 
 And the -miles of our (Jod arc the fea-ts of 
 
 tllC -'Mil. 
 
 On a bright May morning. 
 
 The morning conies with life and love, 
 
 All nature bivtithinj: tree 
 And anofeN whi-pn- from atuvc. 
 
 "Dear friends, we come to thee. 
 "From the bright realms of endless life, 
 
 We briii* our blf--in^< down. 
 And with the joys of those above. 
 
 Your spirits now would crown. 
 "Open your hearts to make u- room, 
 
 Ai'i-ept our fond embrace. 
 For we have come to pride you home, 
 
 And keep in perfect place. 
 14 Your fai-tbly rac. will soon 1 '!. 
 
 Tin- Mnal victon on, 
 And von will -t;in! nn <n' liri^iit <h"re, 
 
 ( )ur }:; ffui IM-M\ mly lionic.
 
 AXCIKNT AM.J LIC CO3I31UMOX. 23 
 
 "High on the plains of endless life 
 
 With angels bright you'll be, 
 To wage the war of endle<> strife, 
 
 To conquer and be free. 
 'Tn freedom's light through endless years 
 
 You'll wing your rapid flight. 
 Beyond the land of doubt and fear> 
 
 And clothed in angel white." 1 
 Oh welcome, angels, to this place. 
 
 Aye, welcome to our hearts, 
 Here we would meet thee face to face 
 
 As friends who never part 
 
 Ancient Angelic Communion the 
 Dawn of this Resplendent day, 
 
 Far buck to rudimental homes, 
 
 When men were dark and few, 
 The angels came to kindred ones 
 
 As now they come to you. 
 'Twas but the glimmering morning light 
 
 Which thu> prepared the way. 
 For huinrin mind- t.< grasp (he li^ht 
 
 * f thi.- nspb'Md'nt day. 
 A day that dissipates all doubts 
 
 That, man shall live forever,
 
 *2\ ON THE FALLING OF A MAPLE LEAF. 
 
 vSo millions now stand looking out 
 
 Across death's rapid river. 
 Its waver now dash the shore in vain. 
 
 For we have lost all terror, 
 Since kindred angels ealmed the main 
 
 And shook the ancient error. 
 And thus the millions of our earth 
 
 Are gladly passing oe'r, 
 To claim the rights of higher birth 
 
 On heaven's resplendent shore. 
 Then from the land of glorious light 
 
 They come to earth again. 
 To guide us in our upward flight 
 
 To their immortal plane. 
 Then let us labor to unfold, 
 
 In wisdom, love and truth, 
 And soon we'll reach the heavenly goal, 
 
 Where angels dwell in youth. 
 And while eternal ages roll 
 
 We'll rise amid the spheres, 
 And God's pure love shall feast the soul 
 
 Thoughout the emUe-* year-. 
 
 On the Falling: of a Maple Loaf. 
 
 The spring put- forth her carpet green, 
 All nature's fresh and fair,
 
 OS THE FALLING OF A MAPLE LEAF, 25 
 
 Like life arising from the tomb 
 Beneath God's guardian care. 
 
 How beautiful the summer's face 
 
 When flowers are all in bloom ; 
 But autumn comes with chilling blast 
 
 And changes all to gloom. 
 
 The mapie leaf all sere and pale, 
 
 Falls from its parent stem, 
 A letter of the simple tale 
 
 Of what it once had been. 
 
 Cold win ter spreads his icy arms 
 
 O'er all the earth abroad, 
 And tolds the past with all its charms 
 
 In death's cold chilling shroud. 
 
 So childhood represents the spring 
 
 And youth the summer flowers, 
 In autumn manhood fades, yet sings. 
 
 Then yields to winter's storms. 
 
 But life eternal waits beyond 
 
 Cold winters frosty spray, 
 Where toils are o'er and victory won 
 
 In cloudless, endless day. 
 
 Then shout aloud God's endless praise 
 Ye nations round the earth,
 
 2fi HOPE, MAX'S ETERNAL ANCHOR. 
 
 While angel voices ever raise 
 
 Their songs of higher birth. 
 And all the planets in their turn 
 
 Join in the loud acclaim. 
 And seraph hosts that ever burn 
 
 Respond a loud Amen. 
 
 Hope, Man s Eternal Anchor 
 
 Hope is the golden chain that binds 
 
 Man's *>ul to endless \>-;tr>. 
 Sustains his spirit while it drinks 
 
 Its bitterest earth life tear*. 
 Oh, who could pass the eheequered scenes 
 
 Of human life on earth. 
 If hope did not inspire our dreams 
 
 With higher, holier birth. 
 All here would be perpetual night 
 
 Around this earthly sphere. 
 Did hope not wake the inner sight, 
 
 And ope the inner ear. 
 Hope is the anchor of the soul 
 
 Amidst earths darkest storms. 
 She grasps the rocks within the vale 
 
 And shouts, behold the morn! 
 A d when she thus uplifts the vail 
 
 Aud brings the morning light.
 
 P.\i: E ON ATONEMENT. 27 
 
 The soul with joy and triumph sails, 
 And thus outrides the night. 
 
 Hope is man's leading guiding star, 
 
 The brightest of the seven, 
 She holds the helm that guides the car 
 
 That bears us on to heaven. 
 
 And hope shall last to guide us here, 
 
 And lead us safey o'er 
 To join the angels in their sphere 
 
 On heaven's resplendent shore. 
 
 Hope shall inspire all angel souls 
 
 To progress in their sphere, 
 To reach the bright excelsior goal 
 
 And breathe diviner air. 
 
 Paine on the Atonement. 
 
 Would God atonement thus require 
 To save mankind from endless tire, 
 W hen one eternal sovereign word 
 Were equal to a sea of blood? 
 
 Yet theology proclaims a God 
 A thousand ages snuffing blood, 
 Because an angel of his hand 
 Rebelled against his wise command.
 
 2S PAINT. r\ \ TON Oil- NT, 
 
 Again his anger burst ailame 
 When Satan into Eden came, 
 With wrath he then the garden shook 
 When Eve the yellow pippin took. 
 
 "Now, Adam," said this little God, 
 
 "You'll get your bread by turning sod. 
 
 I'll make the sweat run down the face 
 
 Of all your sinful guilty race, 
 
 Your bread shall come alone from toil 
 
 By rooting up the heavy soil, 
 
 I'll cause your every bone to ache, 
 
 ]\Iake every cord and sinew quake. 
 
 And von frail woman, fair and vain 
 Shall bear the race in mortal pain, 
 To Adam thy desire shall be r 
 And he as lord shall rule o'er thee." 
 
 Then C-Jod with Satan did make battle 
 And cursed the snake above all cattle r 
 Saying. "On thy belly wage thy strife 
 Through all the days of snakeship life. Tr 
 "And dust," said (Jo*!, tlmu sure shall eat, 
 Because my plans you did defeat!" 
 But still the snake detie< the <i,>d 
 By living on the bird and frog,
 
 PAIM: ox ATONEMENT. 
 
 But Satan mourns that fatal day 
 When he seduced pure Eve away, 
 And 1 onward crawls with mournful wail 
 Because he can't walk on his tail. 
 
 Now let us leave this foolish stoiy, 
 This Oriental allegory, 
 Whose birth was in a darker age, 
 Than marks the present hist'ry's page. 
 
 Turning from romance and vain song, 
 In truth let each stand pure and strong; 
 With love and science as our rod 
 Point out humanity to God, 
 
 Then mount the ladder Jacob saw, 
 And from the top shout the hurrah, 
 As back to earth, we come again 
 To guide our kindred o'er the main. 
 
 Then back ag-tin to heaven's bright shore 
 With all our kindred safely o'er 
 We'll wander o'er those fields of light, 
 In endless day "there is no night." 
 
 So said the ancient Patnios seen 
 A fact to all clairvoyants clear. 
 Night's but the shadow of the earth, 
 No shadows fall in heavenly birth.
 
 .')U THE HEAVENLY HOME, 
 
 There's one perpetual heavenly day 
 Where all is bloom and no decay. 
 Again I say "There is no night,'* 
 All's luminous, all's infinite, 
 
 The field is broad for every .soul, 
 It joins the universal goal ; 
 And human souls may ever rise 
 To loftier truths ttnd purer skies. 
 
 There fields of science shall unfok! 
 More precious than Earth's mines of goM T 
 For gold Avill vanish when the earth 
 Unfolds into her spirit birth. 
 
 And while eternal cycles roll, 
 (rod's love shall lift the human soul 
 Beyond where angels yet have trod, 
 Approaching near the throne of God. 
 
 And every human soul on earth 
 Is heir to such a heavenly birth 
 Progression's law points to that light 
 "Where all is endless,, infinite, 
 
 Reflections on the Heavenly Home, 
 
 On the gol-lcn shores of the summer land 
 I long to make my rest.
 
 THE HEAVENLY HOME* 31 
 
 And join the pure angelic band, 
 And stand among the blest. 
 
 The vision now enchants my soul, 
 
 I rise on wings of tire, 
 And haste to reach the heavenly goal 
 
 Where spirits never tire. 
 
 I 1 jvc the father's precious plan. 
 
 Adapted for the race. 
 It reaches every soul of man 
 
 W.io runs the heavenly race. 
 
 Though some run slow and others fast 
 
 While here on earth we roam ; 
 Yet every soul shall reach at last 
 
 This glorious heavenly home. 
 
 All hell shall cease when ignorance dies, 
 
 When earthly taints are lost j 
 And then the soul will surely rise 
 
 And join the heavenly host. 
 
 And in those fields all Infinite, 
 Man shall his powers unfold 
 
 To greater breadths And loftier hrii^lils 
 Thai) Hi-^ols yet have told. 
 
 I'.i-rcat God. how grand thy glorious plan, 
 How full of love and grace,
 
 ?>'> LINES GIVEN' ATA Fl'XERAL. 
 
 AVhieh offers boundless fields to man 
 To run an endless race. 
 
 Lot men and angels join in one 
 Triumphant song of pr';i<e. 
 
 And every planet, e\vry ^nn, 
 His highest honors raise. 
 
 Lines given at the iuiieral of a little 
 
 girl, purporting 1 to eo.ne from 
 
 Ler father in spirit life. 
 
 The years of the earthlife passed swiftly away, 
 From the earliest childhood to earthly decay, 
 Strewing childhood and manhood with flowers 
 
 and tears [years. 
 
 As we ripened, then faded midst lire's closing- 
 
 These diversified scenes each finds its true place 
 In developing man for his heavenly race, 
 It's a school for our culture that angels control!, 
 Calling out the great powers of the undying 
 soul, 
 
 Then let us, my dear, ever cherish God's plan, 
 Wl'ich has peopled the earth both with wom- 
 an and man. 
 
 One soul at a time finds its home on the earth, 
 One sonl at a lime gains the heavenly Urth.
 
 LIN F. 8 G J V E X A T A FU X E RAL . 83 
 
 Still our days ever fly as the river rolls on 
 
 Till ilu years of the earth life are numbered and 
 
 gone, [here, 
 
 And the morn of the summer land dawns on us 
 And we meet and embrace in that heavenly 
 
 sphere. 
 
 Oh. I anxiously wait the glad dawn of that day 
 When your work will be done and I lead you away 
 To the bright fields of light where all sadness is 
 o'er, [more. 
 
 And the ills of the earthlife shall reach us no 
 
 Then let the cold waves of the earth life roll on, 
 The fiercer they roll, the sooner they tire gone 
 Then together we, 11 stray o'er the broad fields of 
 In union eternnl the husband and wife. [life 
 
 Yes, forever united the husband and bride [side. 
 Midst the angels well stand with our babes by our 
 
 No\v with you we will go to the dark silent tomb 
 And lay our loved form in its own quiet home ; 
 
 But remember, our darling has joined the bright 
 throng, [song 
 
 And with father, now chants in the heavenly 
 
 A world all ablaze with spirit and light, 
 A day all eternal not followed by night,
 
 o4 S.U.VATInN HY WoKKS. 
 
 And when the sad toiN of the earth life are o'er 
 
 We'll meet and embrace on the heavenly shore. 
 
 Salvation by works, not by blood; 
 
 Would ye be happy here on earth 
 
 Then heed ye duty's call. 
 And thus prepare for higher lifo 
 
 While on this earthly ball 
 For duty and reward -hall go 
 
 Forever hand in hand. 
 While we associate below, 
 
 Or with the angel band. 
 This thought should rouse our guilty souls 
 
 To run the heavenly road, 
 And grasp the bright excelsior goal 
 
 Where seraphs learn of God. 
 No pardon from the God can save 
 
 For guilt contracted here. 
 Still conscience will torment the knave 
 
 \Vith soul distracting fear, 
 Then save thy self from sin and guilt, 
 
 Live righteous day by day. 
 No Savior's blood was ever spiU 
 
 That ran wash thy shame away. 
 Then trust to Works, and not to Bioocl 
 
 Another ma)' have shed :
 
 BLOU8, 00 
 
 Works which thy soul approveth good 
 Will give a peaceful bed 
 
 Yes< works of charity on earth 
 
 Shall meet the soul's behest; 
 And \vorks of love in higher birth 
 
 Shall give eternal rest. 
 
 BLOWS. 
 
 It cannot be that nature 1 '- holy God 
 
 With power and wisdom infinite, 
 Would make his work>s so bad and poor a job 
 
 As to end in dark oblivion's endless night.' 
 
 ]Nor would it help this dark and dread relation , 
 
 If semi-infidelity were true : 
 If half the race end in annihilation 
 
 Then God, the maker's lost one-half his crew. 
 
 And lost them why? Because a little devil 
 Made by his own almighty will and hand, 
 
 By a revolt became sin's great evangel 
 
 To guide the third of heaven'- celestial band,' 
 
 Then down to earth he came to Eden's bower, 
 And here in-spiivd a sriake to d'o hi- will: 
 
 And \}\n< s^Uired by bis Satanic power. 
 
 The race in federal loins that moment fell.
 
 3< BLOWS. 
 
 The snake at this time on his tail did walk, 
 But how he did it 1 could never tell, 
 
 For so he stood when he and Eve did talk 
 And thus he triumphed when the races fell. 
 
 At evening, (rod to Eden's bowers came back, 
 For he'd been gone awhile, the Record says; 
 
 Perhaps to view his works, or feed his flocks, 
 As other farmers spend their hours and days. 
 
 When Adam heard his footsteps in the shade, 
 He hid himself behind an apple tree ; 
 
 For he had learned of God to be afraid, 
 For he had sinned, eat of the fruityou see. 
 
 "Adam, oh Adam, 1 where are you?*' God said, 
 "I am naked, 1 ' Adam said, "behind this tree. 
 
 To have you see me I was sore afraid, 
 For I'm a spectacle from head to knee." 
 
 "Yon ate the apple, and Pve found it out, 
 Which I forbade you in my grand decree M' 
 
 And from that moment God began to pout, 
 And pout he will to all eternity. 
 
 ' ITs true his Son came down to stop the pout, 
 13ut only saved a few from Satan's power, 
 
 So o'er his failure God will ever pout, 
 Through endless Cycles on forevermore.
 
 SELF CLLlTKi:. 31 
 
 Poor Adam, he had made an awful fall, 
 
 Deep down to darkest ignorance from light, 
 Ere that, he did not know himself at all, 
 
 And now he finds himself in awful plight. 
 
 Ohliappy day when Satan did defy 
 
 And Adam taught that God the Father lied, 
 
 For though he sinned, he knew he would not die, 
 And on this certain proof he tfould confide. 
 
 Another tiling he learned of this old devil 
 By eating fruit he learned both good and evil, 
 And so through earth his progeny btill plods, 
 In knowledge vast, as any of their Gods. 
 
 Now here we close this simple, foolish story 
 Its origin, an Eastern allegory, 
 A tale at which all science now revolts, 
 And human reason at its threshold halts, 
 A tale that libels both the God and devil. 
 And loads our race with all its dreadful evil. 
 
 True human great ness through 
 self-culture. 
 
 Let us be great in scientific truth, 
 Unfolding childhood into ripest youth. 
 Let youth be lost in hoary, honored age 
 Replete with light from nature's boundless page.
 
 38 THOMAS PAIXE. 
 
 Let us be great in holiness and love, 
 Meet for the happiness of angel life above, 
 Great in the qualities that make the angel good, 
 Great in the attributes of our immortal God. 
 Then shall our mission work on earth be fully 
 
 done 
 
 Then shall our souls be ripe for our eternal home, 
 And when the hour calls, death shall open wide 
 
 its door, 
 
 We'll enter as a conqueror and reign forevermore. 
 Amen, Amen! my soul replies, and angels shout 
 
 "Amen!" [back to earth again 
 
 And rolls the shout o'er heavens vast plains and 
 Then swells the shout by men on earth and by 
 
 the heavenly hosts, 
 Till echos of immortal hearts in eternity are lost, 
 
 ON THOMAS PAWE. 
 
 He came in his day like a bright, blazing light 
 When the Colonies sighed in the dajkness of 
 night, [fight, 
 
 He bade them be strong as they closed in the 
 For Freedom would turn to the side of the right. 
 His voice in its echo seemed clothed with a pow- 
 er [hour. 
 Which roused men to arms in that dark fearful
 
 LINES TO 31 Y WIFE. 39 
 
 At his bidding they rushed to the fierce bloody 
 
 fight 
 And liberty turned to the side of the right. 
 
 Let his name ever stand as a bright beacon light 
 To liberty's cause through this dark earthly night^ 
 And may liberty spread like a iransfo m'ng leav- 
 en [en 
 Till our hero we meet in our angel bright heav- 
 
 Liiiesto My Wife. 
 
 Take courage, my dear one, the hours are so brief 
 When the spheres shall invite us to endless relief, 
 Then together we'll journey with triumph and 
 In the vast fields of progress eternally long [song 
 
 Let us both keep the mind and the body so pure 
 That the high spheres of heaven will welcome 
 us sure, [hands, 
 
 When we pass to that temple all made without 
 To join in the ehorus of angelic bands, 
 
 They have waited so long for our entrance there. 
 They will meet us rejoiceing with angelic care. 
 And in turn we will come to our dear ones ori 
 And guide them safe over to angelic birth, [earth*
 
 40 LINES TO MY WIFE. 
 
 In reunion we'll stand on that heavenly shore 
 
 And rejoice in the plan which hath brought us 
 
 safe o'er, 
 
 Aye! Rejoice in the God who made planet and 
 And forever exists in his hit-finite home. [sun 
 
 All nature proclaims his existence and love; 
 The wonders of earth and great worlds above. 
 As by million* unnumbered they sweep on 
 through space, [and place, 
 
 While God's hand holds each in its own sphere 
 
 Vast millions of ages already have gone 
 And still these great worlds on there axes roll on 
 >"ot a groan, not a jar, nor vibration appears 
 As they measure the volume of billions of years. 
 
 Midst these wonders divine my soul stands 
 amazed, [Days, 
 
 O'er shadowed by God. the Great Ancient of 
 In his hands all his creatures are eternally safe, 
 For his power and glory blend forever with grace. 
 
 Yet some say that worlds as in ether they roll, 
 With great plastic bodies, and spirit and soul, 
 Though daily and nightly they ever ;;d\ ,-tiier. 
 AY ere brought into being b\ the simplest chance.
 
 LINES TO MY WIFE* 41 
 
 Others tell us that worlds as they roll in their 
 
 sphere, [here, 
 
 Were made and were, governed by angels once 
 That in wisdom and triumph they now hold the 
 
 rod [of Go4* 
 
 Whieh will wipe out the thought and the being 
 Just here I would ask of the hist of these twain, 
 'Who ade the first planet, its mountains and main, 
 For science assures us tlr.it worlds rolled in space, 
 Before man existed to look on their face* 
 One thought is sufficient to calm these proud 
 
 waves, . 
 
 And lay these false claims in oblivion's graves, 
 Viz, Matter's the less and must yield to the nod 
 And be formed into worlds by tke spirit called 
 
 God> 
 
 Lines to my Wife, 
 
 Time rolls its boisterous waves along 
 From human birth to human death, 
 
 As birds carol their plaintive song, 
 When of their little ones bereft, 
 
 >>o generations come and go 
 
 Kach :nis\\ering it* grand design, 
 
 As trees (A varth sway to and fro 
 
 Beneath the storm- and winds of time.
 
 4*2 LINES TO 31 Y 
 
 Commotion reigns through all the earth. 
 There is no settled calm from strife 
 
 7 Tis sad, if there T s no higher birth 
 No happier, holier .state of life. 
 
 !&nd is it true that when we close 
 
 This boisterous scene of toil and care r 
 
 From conscious life we then break loose 
 Oblivion's endless night to share, 
 
 Oh, is it trne that we whose sowls 
 Are joined in lovers (firmest bands, 
 
 Shall, when a few more pains and toite 
 Mingle with ^Earth's nncon scions sands, 
 
 That while eternal ages roll 
 
 We shall not each the other see, 
 
 My soul stands clad in funeral pali 
 At such a dread eternity, 
 
 Oh dreadful thought: Eternal Night, 
 
 Where naught but dark oblivion reign- , 
 
 No boundless day of heavenly light 
 To recompense for human pains. 
 
 Oh, ran it b- that wondrdus man, 
 
 lfle<srd with intrWgriHM' runl love. 
 By Nature's, or by (iod's great plan 
 Must fail to reach the worlds above?
 
 LINES TO Mtf WIFK. 43 
 
 Why all these groaning* of the soul 
 
 To explore and live forever? 
 Why ask to grasp the eternal goal 
 
 Beyond death's cold, dark river. 
 
 These yearnings of the human soul 
 For higher and for holier spheres, 
 
 Are God's great argument-. I hold, 
 Thai man was made for endless years. 
 
 *Tis well that light has eomu at last 
 To toll the knell of these dark views 
 
 Kaked up from the remote>t past 
 From ages darker than tin? <Jews; 
 
 v lis better still that light has come 
 All radiant from the worlds above, 
 
 Assuring us a heavenly home 
 
 Where augeis breathe God's purest love> 
 
 Tis sweet to know this life is brief, 
 Made up of pain and toil and care* 
 
 That heaven will soon bring full relief 
 Where dear ones shall each other share. 
 
 Then let life'* wave- roll swiftly on. 
 
 We'll sooner reach the boundless sea, 
 And join the angels sweetest song 
 
 Whose echo swells eternity.
 
 Filial Triumph of Reason* 
 
 Oh glorious day, the theme of Jewish seers I 
 
 Of Rome and Greece r 
 The day of manly triumph 
 
 And of human peace. 
 The day when glittering swords- 
 Shall in then* scabbards rust 
 And men antl nations 
 
 In each other trust. 
 In that glad day 
 
 Of universal light. 
 Reason shall be the guiding sf.ir 
 
 From morn till night, 
 That day shall a prelude be 
 
 To that glorious rot, 
 Which heaven alone 
 
 Can give the truly Mest 
 Hail, morn of immortal light, 
 
 By prophets seen of old. 
 Thy streets, resplendent, 
 
 Paved with purest gold, 
 Thy gates of massive w-aliJ-. 
 
 Of pearl and stone, 
 The eniMematie^kei-es 
 
 Of our eternal home.
 
 OKI SIN OF ANGELS. 45 
 
 Haste, pilgrim of this earthly sphere 
 
 This world is not thy home. 
 The heavenly doors stand open wide 
 
 And au^rel.s bid you come. 
 There Reason, final arbiter, 
 
 Shall wake the soul to find 
 The central fount of wisdom 
 
 Of the supernal mind 
 
 Origin oi 
 
 An Angel! What's an Angel? 
 
 And where do Angels dwell ? 
 Stupenduous thought and question, 
 
 Let the Muses tel 1 . 
 An Angel? Man's an Angel 
 
 While in the earthly clay; 
 An Angel ere he hails the 1'ght, 
 
 The light of earth born day. 
 These angels pass from earth away, 
 
 Each on his moral plane, 
 And oft return to earth again 
 
 In development the same. 
 If so, thev'Jl speak the lie or truth 
 
 As when on earth they stood, 
 Unchanged are they in spirit birth, 
 
 In evil or in good.
 
 4tf ON CLOSING A LEOTUKE ENGAGEMENT. 
 
 And many a dark, benighted one 
 
 In the gloomy, lo>\er spheres, 
 Are there deprived of heaven's ligh% 
 
 For many dismal years. 
 
 They seek their own affinities 
 
 In pride, and sin and shame, 
 And wallow in impurities 
 
 As here they loved the same. 
 
 Then try the spirits, when they come, 
 
 The great Apostle said, 
 Nor trust them sooner than before 
 
 They passed among the dead. 
 
 Try them their errors to reject, 
 
 r \\& false to cast away, 
 Hold fast the truth with all respect, 
 
 It leads to endless day. 
 
 Lines on Cloning: a Lecture 
 Engagement. 
 
 RTC ! Rise ! and rush fcr higher life ! 
 
 1 ,et every hoi.r of life declare 
 B n ental and by moral strife 
 
 Yen are breathing holier air. 
 
 Let every fcct-prirt here lelow, 
 That marks your upward flight.
 
 T11F PROMISED TIME. 47 
 
 Point the next pilgrim as he goes 
 
 To day that knows no night. 
 So here I drop my final word 
 
 To be recalled, no, never ! 
 Save thou thyself by deed and word, 
 
 Then shalt thou rise forever. 
 In fields of science, truths of God, 
 
 O'er river, vale and mountain, 
 Our souls shall ever upward plod 
 
 Toward life's great, blissful fountain. 
 There life resplendent never ends, 
 
 And joys will spring eternal ; 
 A blest reunion with our friends 
 
 In realms of love supernal. 
 So when our earthly lamp goes out, 
 
 Across the glowing river 
 We'll meet again, I have no doubt, 
 
 Where ail will shine forever, 
 
 The Promised Time is Coming. 
 
 The angel hosts now come to earth, 
 To teach us of their heavenly birth. 
 
 Kef rain. 
 
 Rejoice! Rejoice! the angel hosts are coming! 
 Hejoice! Rejoice! the angel hosts shall reign!
 
 48 THE rrC51I5ED TI3JE. 
 
 Amu-ica has caught the light, 
 And now (-merges out of night? 
 
 Kefrain . 
 
 Old England too is in a Maze, 
 While other nation* star.d ;,n,azccl 
 
 Kefrain. 
 
 All Europe now receives the h're y 
 "1 is spreading wide, 'tis rising highei ? 
 
 Kefrain . 
 
 The raee of man now hails the dawn 
 Of this sublime, resplendent morn! 
 
 Kefrain, 
 
 I:y angel light we wend our way 
 To the T.".sr realms of tr.dkss day! 
 
 Refrain 
 
 r hey hover o T er F.S OH tkc wing, 
 ihey now inspire our souls to sing 
 
 Kefrain. 
 
 They come to bless our meeting here, 
 f ursonls \\ith inspiration chet r. 
 
 Kef rain 
 
 There fields immortal, Edtn'> ^liore 
 Invites us on f ore vei more! 
 
 Kefrain,
 
 Man's Endless Progress. 
 
 In life beyond mnn shall forever stand 
 
 And stretch his gaze far o'er the heavenly land, 
 
 A land all glorious, all serene and fair, 
 
 "Where God is seen in all, for Cod is everywhere. 
 
 All hail, immortal life! How grand, how fair! 
 
 All is eternal day/ no night is there. 
 
 The universe eternal opens wide its door, 
 
 And bids the soul explore forevermore. 
 
 On pinions strong we then commence our flight, 
 
 Forever rising from the land of night, 
 
 Our powers unfolding as we ever rise, 
 
 To loftier views of truth, midst purer skies. 
 
 The loft/ genius of the human mi id 
 
 Asks broader fields, and higher truths to find. 
 
 Defies all w.'.ils to circumscribe its flight 
 
 As onward still it probes the realms of light, 
 
 It asks to demonstrate the fields of law, 
 
 And in the research moves with holy awe. 
 
 Whre to its Source, it bends the grateful knee, 
 
 It views the cycles of eternity. 
 
 Thousands of ages may have come and gone, 
 
 Yet this is still Eterrrty's bright morn, 
 
 All infants still. The rudimental bands 
 
 Of thore, the purer roul: in 1 r'gnte; landr.
 
 50 MAN'S I:M>LKSS IMJOOHKSS. 
 
 Yet the broad goal before us open lies, 
 And wondrous visions ope before our eyes ; 
 And holier inspirations wake the soul 
 To reach the portal of that far off goal. 
 
 Where higher wisdom rules angelic life 
 Beyond all discord and beyond all strife, 
 Yet these so wise, so pure, so God-like born, 
 Have only reached Eternity's bright morn. 
 
 Loud hallelujahs roll o'er heavens bright plain 
 As all commence the march of life again. 
 Hark ! Hear the anthems from the pure and free, 
 As swell they will through all eternity. 
 
 The terraced mount we've reached! ' Tis all aglow! 
 We've marched with Science from the fields be- 
 We're all prepared to find a higher realm [low, 
 Where wiser angels hold the guiding helm. 
 
 Millions of ages all have ended here 
 And yet we're moving in our own bright sphere, 
 As young and fresh as though we just were born 
 Amid the rays of an eternal morn. 
 
 We've just commenced to live, just ,O}).-1 our eyes 
 On scenes all new in puivr, holier skie.s. 
 The etcniril >nn h:is ju t begun t>> glow 
 ShoiMin^ his beams alike on all below.
 
 LINES INSPIRATION' ALLY GIVEN 51 
 
 And here again we hear our father's voice 
 Proclaim through nature, "Now my sons rejoice, 
 You've reached the road by higher angels trod. 
 That leads through wisdom up to Nature's God." 
 The eternal voice still bids us higher rise 
 Midst passing cycles and in purer skies. 
 So upward still our souls shall ever plod 
 Nearer and nearer to the throne of God. 
 
 Lines Inspiratioiially Ciivcii. 
 
 The angels tell me God's a natural God, 
 Clothed with gross matter by a natural law. 
 Each co-existent in the eternal past, 
 The Alpha and Omega, the first and last, 
 The angels tell me man's a natural man ; 
 
 In elements the image of his God. 
 The man's a spirit blessed with mind to plan, 
 
 And rules the body cast from earth'y sod. 
 The angels tell me God's great universe 
 
 In all its vast varieties of beauteous forms, 
 Was by great Nature's mighty laws produced, 
 
 No supernatural thing was ever born. 
 The angels tell me worlds are natural worlds, 
 
 Not made in miracle, by extra force or power 
 The spirit fills the vessel that it moulds, 
 
 Thus worlds are born, in ages not i i hours.
 
 f)2 LINKS 1NSP1UATIONALLY GIVEN 
 
 The angels tell me world's arc spirit orbs, 
 
 Clothed with gros-s matter for a space of time 
 But by progression will throw off tii<-s,' rolx's 
 
 And in tlieir spirit garb forever shine. 
 The angel-! tell mi' wh -n that time shall come 
 
 And our grand world roll in its spirit sphere, 
 It will be the sublime and heavenly home 
 
 Of all the millions it has brought forth here. 
 The angels tell me all God's other worlds 
 
 Are, or will then be, peopled like our own ; 
 And will, when they throw oi'f their shadowy 
 robes, 
 
 Be centers, be our grand ang-olie homes. 
 The angels tell me each of these great worlds 
 
 C Kitain one local family of mankind, 
 While all of them join in one grand whole 
 
 As the one household of the great Divine. 
 Comets aie children of the parent worlds, 
 
 Gambling in space between revolving -phnvs; 
 Growing in form and si/e for years to come, 
 
 Th'3ii they'll \) i r jlli 17 worlds as are lliAc sires 
 And thus this Evolution must go on 
 
 Producing worlds, and all planes down to man 
 For Nature's Liws repeat themselves of yore 
 
 And must i > t!i gre.it future or foreveiv.iore.
 
 LIN'KS INSPIRATION ALLY GIVEN. 53 
 The angels tell me death is not a goal 
 Where man expires in body and in soul. 
 Tis not a depot where man stops to weep 
 And then assumes an everlasting sleep. 
 The angels tell me death is all a myth, 
 There is no death in other worlds or this. 
 The universe is life! In part and whole, 
 Matter but shadow, God's the life and soul. 
 The angels tell me when this life is o'er 
 And we approaeh their glorious heavenly shore, 
 The golden doors will on their hinges swing 
 While they invite our earth born spirits in. 
 A grand reunion in domestic ties 
 We'll celebrate in yonder blissful skies, 
 While shouts of triumph make tLo.se mansions 
 In anthems loud, to our eternal King. [ring 
 And when this grand reunion shall be oVr 
 And eaeh at home on the eternal shore, 
 We'll join by millions in batallions strong, 
 In dread assault uproot each earth born wrong. 
 Millions of mighty spirits now are here [sphere, 
 Spreading the light from their bright, radiant 
 Thev come in mediumistie brain and form. 
 Ami thus, the forts of superstition storm.
 
 54 LINES INS IRRATIONALLY GIVEN. 
 Some speak through mediums, fully in a trance, 
 And thus the cause of freedom they advance, [ed 
 Some speak through mediums consciously inspir- 
 And thus the hearts of millions here are tired. 
 
 Some write through mediums while in passive 
 
 thought, 
 
 And so the truth to millions here H brought. 
 Some write through mediums in unconscious 
 
 trance. 
 And thus the cause of human rights advance. 
 
 Thousands of mediums thti- held at their po^ts 
 Have no conception that the heavenly hosts 
 Are using them to break the glorious dawn 
 Of earth's fu-t coming, radiant, glorious morn. 
 
 And so the conflict rages on the earth 
 Between its powers and those of heavenly birth, 
 Earth's tyrants come with shackles for the race, 
 And angels come those shackles to displace. 
 
 The battle will be bloody, fierce and long, 
 With both combatants well entrenched and 
 
 strong. 
 
 Om- fights for office. ea>e and wealth of earth. 
 And one for freedom, and bi< heavenly birth. 
 
 Some aim to rule by fraud, and hold their fort 
 By leading on a wronged and blind cohort;
 
 J LI GIVES. 55 
 
 The other comes to spread angelic leaven [en, 
 And mould earth to the light and peace of heav- 
 
 One fights to give to tyrants wealth and power 
 And rob the laborer of inherent dower. 
 The other wars to undermine their throne 
 And give to every man unequal home. 
 
 The issue's broad as heaven and earth can make r 
 The war is pushed thoi gli every coward (make. 
 The tocsin sounded by the heavenly hosts. 
 Calls myriad warriors to their earthly posts. 
 
 Free-thought is spreading like the rising morn, 
 And all portends the rise of might v storms. 
 Then when it comes let liberals meet the shock 
 And teach the foe our cause stands on a rock. 
 
 Truth is immortal though she waiteth long 
 To raise her shout of triumph and her song. 
 Yet she will come with angel shouts that ring, 
 And cause the world to blossom as the Spring. 
 
 The noble truths we utter here to- day, 
 Will live when our poor bodies mix with clay, 
 So let us sow them broadcast o'er the earth 
 As \ve go on to our immortal birth. 
 
 Then once again we'll raise the freedom shout 
 As parting from our bodies, we go out
 
 5<> TO FKIKNDS Al PAUlvKLlSlil "KG . 
 
 So long and loud 'twill shake the Earth's green 
 
 [;ol 
 
 Bic'teJ by the angel hosts j. A the Eternal God, 
 Now let us take each other by the hand, 
 And swear with freedom's hosts to ever stand, 
 Till heaven shall say to, each, thy work is done, 
 And bid u^ welcome to our heavenly home. 
 
 Poem to Friends at Parkerslmrg, 
 
 Once more we here meet on your evergreen shore 
 As we met in the years that have gone on before; 
 And have sown the pure seed which the angels 
 have given [ens. 
 
 With fresh insipration sent down from the heav- 
 These pure waters have strengthened our famish- 
 ing hearts 
 
 For the duties of life as asunder we part. 
 Made us strong in our mission and labor of love 
 As we pass through the earth lite to mansions 
 
 above. 
 
 May the seed sown spring up; and a harvest secure 
 Of thought, word and effort: sublime, grand and 
 And the day of eternity grandly proclaim [pure, 
 Our labors in Parkersburg were not in vain. 
 May a multitude grasp the pure, spiritual leaven 
 Who shall finally stand with the armies of heaven,
 
 POEM TO FKIKNDS AT PAUIvKUSUrilG. 57 
 
 Pointing back to these spiritual meetings on earth 
 As the time vvnen they started for angelic birth. 
 
 The time when they first saw this spiritual light 
 And felt their dark minds were enveloped in night, 
 When th^y fully resolved to know more of that 
 life [strife. 
 
 Where the angels now dwell beyond discord and 
 
 Oh, how happy we'll be when together we stand 
 In the angers bright home, in the pure summer 
 
 land, [are o'er 
 
 Where cold winter'^ storms and death's tempest's 
 And the ills of the earth life shall reach us no 
 
 more ] 
 
 Oh friends of the angels, whose mission is here, 
 Spread this heavenly light in this dark, earthly 
 
 sphere ! 
 
 All sacrifice here which the cause now requiies 
 Will but add to your joys in the heave.il/ 
 
 spheres. 
 
 Then rush to your work never heeding the scoff 
 Which attended the Nazarene while he wai 
 here. 
 
 Face the conflict like men and prepare to be off, 
 For the day dawns ; and lo,great Eternity's here.
 
 0<S AT THE FUNERAL OF A YOUNG LADY. 
 'Well done!" the good angels will say as we come, 
 "We welcome you in to our heavenly home. 
 You have labored and given, to save man from sin, 
 To our heavenly mansion's we welcome you in. ' 
 
 Thence the broad fields of light ad iitfinititm 
 
 rise 
 
 And invite you away to those bright purer skies, 
 Where the fathers now banquet in wisdom and 
 
 love, [above. 
 
 Ever passing the spheres of the bright worlds 
 
 Ever rising we'll pass through those bright purer 
 
 spheres, 
 
 As we number the cycles of unending years. 
 Our souls all divested of hatred and fears 
 As we echo the truth, all eternity's ours. 
 
 Lines at funeral o1 a young lady, 
 
 A valued earthly friend ot mine 
 
 On this death's dark river. 
 Has drawn in fair poetic lines 
 
 What angel friends could give her. 
 
 But I would drop a thought or two 
 
 Back o'er the shining river ; 
 A thought of life when one with you, 
 
 And of our great forever.
 
 AT THE FUNERAL OF A YOUNG LADY. 59 
 For twenty one long years on earth 
 
 I floated on time's river, 
 Then plied the oar for higher birth, 
 
 Where ail shall live fprever. 
 
 The race of life was swift and brief, 
 
 Made up of joy and sorrow- 
 Joy came to day to give relief, 
 
 But sadness on the morrow. 
 
 Friend after friend beside me fell 
 
 Into the mystic river, 
 But here I find them all again, 
 
 Blooming in life forever. 
 
 All sadness now is past and gone, 
 
 It will return, no never ! 
 For when I come to your green home 
 
 1 pass no mystic river. 
 
 Our homes connect by law divine, 
 
 No power can ever sever ; 
 Eternal life and earthly time 
 
 Make up our great forever. 
 
 There is no stream dividing these, 
 
 A great and boisterous river, 
 We only fall asleep in death, 
 
 Then wake to life forever.
 
 60 AT THE FUNERAL OF A YOUNG LADY. 
 
 So dear ones, weep no more for me, 
 I am round you night and morning, 
 
 And bring great thoughts of truth to thee 
 For your great soul's adorning. 
 
 And when your earthly toils are o'er, 
 
 You'll pass the mystic river 
 And hail me on the shining shore 
 
 Where all shall shine forever. 
 
 In holy union there we'll stand, 
 
 A household joined together, 
 In love's immortal endless bands, 
 
 Triumphantly forever. 
 
 Loud hallelujahs there we'll raise 
 
 To God the boundless giver, 
 While holy joys of purest lays 
 
 Shall crown our soul's forever. 
 
 Then through the bound ess fields of space, 
 
 O'er mountain, vale and river, 
 We'll run progression's mighty race 
 
 Forever and forever. 
 
 Farewell the moment, dearest ones, 
 Though think me round you ever, 
 
 And shall be till I guide you home 
 Into our great forever.
 
 Lilies given on rising to lecture 
 at Lime Rock, Iowa. 
 
 I rise at this altar, before you to-night, 
 To plead for the pure, the holy, the right; 
 May the truth, like the ancient baptism of fire, 
 Pierce each soul with a strength still uplifting 
 
 and higher. 
 
 The clarion trump of. the augels of light> 
 Now echoes through earth in this dark earthly 
 
 night, [earth 
 
 The heavens now bend to our dark gloomy 
 To teach man the glories of angelic birth> 
 Irrespective of dogmas and creeds then arise 
 And listen to teaching which come from the skies! 
 Our kindred immortal in armies are here 
 To lift our great souls to the light of their sphere* 
 May our meeting together at this time and place 
 Leave resting on all here the smile of God's face 
 And the final result when eternity comes. 
 That an army of souls find the heavenly home. 
 
 Lines given at Abel Peterson's* 
 
 Again we have met on our dark earthly shore, 
 A.- we've met in the years which have gone on 
 before ;
 
 62 LINES AT CLO E OF A VISIT. 
 
 Made welcome for days in your beautiful home, 
 
 But noiv leave, to encounter whatever may come. 
 
 And night after night in your beautiful home 
 We have talked with the angels, who, happy to 
 
 come, 
 
 Have taught us of life on their beautiful shore, 
 The home of our kindred, the great evermon. . 
 
 Well, we soon shall have crossed to that blessed 
 shore, [before, 
 
 And be numbered with those who have gone on 
 
 And with them will return to our dear ones on 
 earth, 
 
 And guide them safe over to angelic birth 
 
 If our parting to-day be our last one on earth, 
 We know we shall meet in heavenly birth , 
 Where the rich and poor as from earthlit'e they 
 
 come, 
 Shall equally share in a beautiful home, 
 
 Oh well shall it be, if it then shall appear, 
 The rich man has fed the poor Lazarus here, 
 So upward forever they ever may plod [God. 
 Reaching nearer and ne irer the throne of our 
 
 As we lea\e you to-day, we bid you God speed, 
 In the great work of love, in hu-nanity's need,
 
 LINES AT irNELAL OF EIINE^T CA8E. 63 
 
 And when tin- great work of the earthlife is done 
 With our sheaves we will pass to our heavenly 
 home. 
 
 Then the broad fields of life ad infinitum rise 
 And invite us away to those bright, purer skies, 
 Where the Fathers now banquet in wisdom and 
 love [_above. 
 
 Ever passing the spheres of the bright worlds 
 
 In these vast fields of life we will ever go on, 
 In the great work of Progress eternally long. 
 
 Lines at the funeral of Ernest Case. 
 
 It is not death, for nothing dies, 
 
 It is only changing human spheres. 
 
 The man has passed to purer skies, 
 A pledge of life tor endless years, 
 
 God's laws assume the aseending plane 
 
 In all the fields of science trod; 
 And hence the truth, ''t > die is gain " 
 
 Is claimed to be the word of God. 
 
 To-day we hail this precious truth, 
 Confirmed by science, law and God. 
 
 And here give n;> this precious youth, 
 To walk the fields by angels trod.
 
 (U FAITH IX GOD. 
 
 To explore timid the boundless realm.*? 
 
 Where God reveals his mighty power, 
 With wiser holier angel friends 
 
 Adding mental wealth to his great dower, 
 How sweet the truth to us made clear, 
 
 That we shall soon like him pass o'er, 
 To dwell with those we hold so dear 
 
 On that eternal happy shore. 
 Our meetings here will soon be past, 
 
 Life's river Hows so fast apace, 
 15ut sure we are we'll meet at last 
 
 In an eternal fond embrace. 
 Then let life\s waves roll swiftly on; 
 
 We'll sooner reach the boundless sea T 
 And join the angel's purest song 
 
 Whose echoes swell eternity. 
 
 Faith in God. 
 
 Let us have faith in (Jod, 
 
 Whoso plans can never fail. 
 He holds the mighty rod 
 
 That governs land and main. 
 And when tin- Father's might v works 
 
 shrill all become complete, 
 Those human souls from other worlds 
 
 We shall not fail to -rivet,
 
 FINAL TRIUMPH. 65 
 
 Then through the boundless fields of life 
 
 We'll stray o'er that bright shore, 
 Where souls from all these worlds of light 
 
 Commune f ore vermore . 
 Great God, my soul on pinions ri.e 
 
 At such a glorious thought, 
 My vision sweeps the boundless skies 
 
 Where angels shall be taught. 
 To know the wisdom of our God, 
 
 The fields of boundless lore, 
 Beyond where angels yet have stood 
 
 In the great fore vermore. 
 Then let the earth life waves roll on 
 
 With all their toils and tears 
 Till all our mission work is done 
 
 And we pass to endless years. 
 
 Final triumph. 
 
 This world's a seene of confiier, toil and strife, 
 
 The millions suffer more than they enjoy 
 Yet such is human destiny and life [annoy. 
 
 In this dark world where changing seenes- 
 Hut nngt'N f.'ll u< there's a brighter land [ocr, 
 
 \Vh.-ii earthlv toils and pains, and griefs are 
 Where we shall join their pure angelie band, 
 
 And sin and pain and death shall reign no more.
 
 <;) LINES AT FUNEliAL OF 3UIIS. GKEEN'LEAF . 
 
 So here I leave myself in angel hands 
 
 To meet life's conflicts as they gather here, 
 Till they shall bi.l me join their happy bands, 
 
 To chant the glories of their radiant sphere. 
 And then I hope to come again to earth, 
 
 Unless materialism shall close the door, 
 To teach the truths of our celestial birth, 
 
 As seen and known on the eternal shore. 
 And then beyond these narrow fields of thought 
 
 I hope to walk in boundless realms of life, 
 To conquests for which wiser angels fought, 
 
 Beyond all discord, and beyond all strife, 
 Then standing on the terraced mount of life, 
 
 We'll view our conquests in the realms below- 
 And then renew the mental, moral strife 
 
 As onward still t > higher fields we go. 
 And here iny great soul staggers at the view ! 
 
 A destiny so great, sub ime and grand. 
 And yet I know it is for me and you 
 
 And e\vry great immortal soul of man, 
 
 Lines givoii at the funeral of 
 Mrs. Groeiileat. 
 
 Yes, iVe passed to the Ian 1 where the prophets 
 
 have gone, [home. 
 
 Wlure the saints of all a<res are making tin ir
 
 LIMES AT FUXERVLOF MRS. GREEXLEAF. 67 
 
 Its a land of great beauty, a land of great peace, 
 WLe e the Joys of bright angels shall never- 
 more cease. 
 
 Myearthlife was strewn with bright flowers and 
 ?al tears, [fears. 
 
 With the brightest of hopes and the dart est o* 
 
 v lwas a scene-oh, how checqnered as years ever 
 rolled, 
 
 The half of its changes will never be told, 
 
 But it came as a school from my pure angel 
 
 guides [my side 
 
 Whom I both felt and saw, as they walked by 
 
 Oh how oft amid both my joys and my fears 
 
 They showed me the land, where they never shed 
 
 tears. 
 
 Oh then how I rose by the might of their power 
 Oh I felt that a month was as short as an hour! 
 I could triumph o'er obstacles dark as the grave 
 For I felt that the angels had power to save. 
 
 Oh, how much I still owe to those dear angel ones 
 May they still guide my husband, my daughters 
 
 and sons, 
 
 And when their sad toils of the earthlife are o'er 
 We'll meet and embrace on the heavenly shore.
 
 68 LINKS WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM. 
 
 But while death, s dark veil shall our spirits divide 
 
 Each day I will come and will stand by your side 
 
 As a ministering spirit Til labor to save 
 
 My dear ones of earth from pollution's dark wave. 
 
 Oh may the good angels help me by their power 
 
 To save my mere babes from error's dark hour, 
 
 That in earth they may come to be holy and wise 
 
 And reach a bright home in our heaven's pure 
 
 skies. 
 
 Farewell for the moment, to neighbors and all, 
 And accept this to-day as my earliest call 
 To each, from the land to which I've gone oe'r, 
 And prepare by right living to come to our shore, 
 Now take my poor body, putrid and sore, 
 And lay it to rest in the great nevermore, 
 But remember I've risen from the dark house of 
 To chant in the morn of eternity's day. [clay, 
 
 I, I lie* written In an album. 
 
 Long yercrs have passed since first we met as 
 friends, [ship ends- 
 
 And long eternity shall pass before that friend* 
 
 These rears have brought to each of us its sun- 
 shine and its shade. 
 
 And angel friends have ever watched the pro- 
 gress we have made.
 
 GIVEN BY REV. ABEL WARUEN. 69 
 
 And still they're round about us, on this restless 
 
 sea of strife, [lift 1 , 
 
 Inspiring each of us to live, our purest, holiest 
 
 Oh let us ever bear in mind this life is short and 
 
 brief, [or its grief, 
 
 It matters little whieh it brings, its pleasures or 
 
 But there's a life immortal awaits us in the skies ; 
 A life where sorrow never eomes and pleasure 
 never dies, 
 
 A land of beauty, love and joy, no tongue can 
 tell how fair, [meet 3*011 there ! 
 
 Then live for that angelie home! Go on. I'll 
 IJne* given by Rev Abel Warren. 
 
 The angels, bright angels are ever around us, 
 
 They come from the home of the pure and the 
 
 good, [spire us, 
 
 They come here to guide us, they come to in- 
 
 And feed our dark minds with pure angelic 
 
 food, [their (iod. 
 
 And teach our great souls how to worship 
 
 They are here, they surround us, this glad 
 
 peaceful moning, [know night, 
 
 Just come from the land that shall never 
 
 And the rainbow of peace there forever adorning,
 
 70 GIVEN BY KEY. ABEL WAUUEX. 
 Inspire love and joy through those vast realms 
 of light, [pure white, 
 
 Where the angels, our kindred, stand robed in 
 
 They worship with us the same great mighty 
 
 Father, [vale 
 
 Whose balance weighs both the mountain and 
 
 Whose great law formed the solids and ether, 
 
 Whose power calms the ocean in tempest and 
 
 gale [and turn pale. 
 
 When the bronzed face of sailors grow cold 
 
 They labor with us for the world's reformation, 
 To guide men to knowledge to virtue and love, 
 
 And thus bless our race, with preventive salva- 
 tion, 
 Adapting us here to the bright worlds above, 
 
 Where each may be pure as the innocent dove. 
 
 They teach not a righteousness founded in faith, 
 Or a pardon secured by the shedding of blood, 
 Or that heaven is obtained by God's boundless 
 grace, [hood 
 
 They tell us man's saved by unfolding self- 
 And '<\v works here on earth which all heav- 
 en calls good.
 
 GOD'S LIVING GO,- PEL. 71 
 
 Then let our souls rise with transport to greet 
 
 them. 
 
 And rush to our duties MS angels on earth. 
 
 For so shall our souls be prepared as they go, 
 
 when [earth 
 
 We pass from the toils and the conflicts of 
 
 To the glories and triumph of ange'ic birth. 
 
 God's living gospel. 
 
 jt is not a truth inhrm and old, 
 Born in a former, darker age, 
 
 But truth that's new, alive and bold 
 Written on life's unfolding page. 
 
 God's gospel is a living truth 
 Adapted to the present hour, 
 
 That meets the wants of age and youth 
 With inspiration's mighty power. 
 
 A chain of truth from heaven let down 
 By angel ministry and love, 
 
 Ascending it \ve gain the crown 
 That angels wear in worlds above, 
 
 God's irospel strikes ;it every wrong, 
 In every age and every clime. 
 
 Nerved with angelic power, it's strong, 
 And triumphs in its own good time.
 
 72 LINES AT THE I I'M-: UAL OF WIKT CASE. 
 
 Poos wealth oppress the laboring poor, 
 
 And gri-ul the masses in the dust? 
 And tyrants close each open door 
 
 To which the laborer looks and trusts? 
 Gou's gospel cries to such, beware, 
 
 You're heaping coals upon your head, 
 You'll meet eternal justice there, 
 
 Beyond the grave where sleep the dead. 
 Then cultivate a life all pure, 
 
 Free from oppression's cruel rod 
 And an eternal peace make sure 
 
 With smiles from the eternal (iod. 
 Then through the boundless fields of light 
 
 Where wisdom holds the guiding rod, 
 We'll take our upward endless flight 
 
 In the vast renhrs of nature's Cod. 
 
 Lines at the funeral ot Wirt Case. 
 
 A few months since we gathered here 
 
 To drop the sympathizing tear 
 
 With these dear friends, whose son had gone 
 
 To hail eternity's bright morn, 
 
 Then he whose death now calls us here 
 
 Joined with the rest to drop the tear 
 
 Fresh flowing from a wounded heart, 
 
 When death did these two brothers part.
 
 LINKS AT FCNEllAL OF WlUT CASE* 73 
 A^ain your pleasant city bell 
 Will sound the solemn funeral knell 
 For one that's left the toils of earth 
 For the glad rest of spirit birth. 
 
 Two brothers in life's early morn 
 Have passed from earth's eold winter's storm^ 
 And joined where Vessels never strand 
 The shore of the bright summer land. 
 
 They've joined another of their band, 
 Who years ago left this sad land 
 A tender babe ; all sweet and fair 
 Yes, they have found the lost one there! 
 
 Think you that they've forgot the earth 
 Or those that gave them human birth? 
 Will they forget their brothers dear? 
 The two now left that linger here? * 
 
 Another yet. how dear no tongue can tell, 
 To whom he said his earthly last farewell? 
 
 Nay, love ahd memory will unite 
 
 And draw them back from morn to night, 
 
 As ministering spirits ever come 
 
 Till these pass o'er to their bright home. 
 
 And then in brighter; holier skies 
 They'll relebiMte domestir tics.
 
 74 LINKS OIVKN I;Y vrinr r\<T:. 
 In bonds so strong they will n >'. sever 
 Through vast eternity. No, never! 
 And here my great soul stagger.-' at the view, 
 
 A destinv so givit snbl : me and grind, 
 And yet I know it is for me ami you 
 
 And every great immortal *<m\ of man. 
 Well, I am now >'> near the eternal shore 
 ' Tis provable [ may not meet you more. 
 If not, my way to heaven seems cl -ar and fair T 
 fio on. go on. I'm sure we'll all meet there. 
 Then through the boundless fields of space, 
 () er mount im. vale and riv<M\ 
 XVe'll nm p;-.>gre-u>n'- nughty raee 
 l''<jrevM' :tnd i'i>iw'r. 
 
 I/HHS ^iveii by AVirt C'ase. 
 
 SMV to thy sadd-.-n-jd s->ul be strong. 
 
 Life there i> u rapid riv-r. 
 The raee on earth will nol be long. 
 
 Then we'll t-mb;-i<-" for-vr. 
 An I while you -ha 1 ! remain on earth. 
 
 I will not leave >.u friendless 
 But everv day shall claim you mine 
 
 Till we meet where joy.- are endless. 
 In all v>iir earthly toils ami grift 
 
 oh, feel that I'm beside you.
 
 LINES GIVEN EXTEJIPOKE. 7; 
 
 To lift you up and brin^ rel : ef 
 
 As only angels can do. 
 My mission will be back to earth 
 
 Where I have left my idol. 
 More than the spheres of spirit birth 
 
 Till you sha'I reach our heavenly goal. 
 It will be heaven to stay with you 
 
 And share yuur grief and pleasure, 
 It would be hell to say adieu. 
 
 And meet no more forever, 
 Oh, idol of my manly heart, 
 
 Be strong, atid pure, and good, and wive, 
 Then when we meet we'll never part 
 
 In brighter, purer, holier skies. 
 My home is beautiful and fair 
 
 My heaven complete if you were there 
 God's plan is best, 'tis all divine 
 
 Propelling earth and heaven and time. 
 
 Linos given extempore*. 
 
 Oh weep not so, my darling, this bright mom 
 My arms around you 'mid this dreadful storm, 
 Oh, th.-it you felt my spirit power and life, 
 And feel, as now I feel, thou art my wife. 
 And yonder on the Alpine hills of light. 
 In an eternal day. 'there is no night."
 
 7<> LTML.S TO 31V HKOTIIM . 
 
 Yes, there in life eternal, endless time 
 
 I'll grasp thy slender form, them wilt be mine* 
 
 Be calm and peaceful as a .summer morn, 
 Let life flow on with all its toils and care 
 
 And when the toils and cares of earth are gone, 
 At death's dark door, bit sore I'll meet yon there, 
 
 Lines to P. P. Warren when 
 (liingeroiiftly wick. 
 
 Say to thy saddened son),, be strong, 
 
 Eternal life's before tbt-e, 
 The race on earth will not be long, 
 
 And heaven will soon restore theev 
 To sound immortal endless life r 
 
 Where pain shall never enter, 
 To boundless scenes of spirit wealth 
 
 Where joys supreme shall centre. 
 Doubt not, the wife of other years r 
 
 That's passed across the river, 
 Now oft comes back to calm thy fears, 
 
 From her home, the great forever. 
 And when your earthly pains are o'er 
 
 She'll meet you at the river, 
 Ami guide the boat with skillfnj oar 
 
 Safe to cur great foiwer.
 
 THE OHANGIvs OF EAKT1I. 77 
 
 There i-i perpetual health jind youth, 
 
 Where death can never sever, 
 You'll rise in purity and truth 
 
 Forever and forever. 
 
 Oh, happy day, when kindred dear 
 
 Shall meet to part no more, 
 In that bright land so fair and clear 
 
 On heaven's resplendent shore. 
 
 O'er endless fields of science, and of God. 
 
 Our souls shall gather wisdom, love and truth 
 And upward still our souls shall ever plod, 
 
 Amid the scenes of beauty and of youth. 
 
 When untold ages ail have ped their flight 
 And our great souls o'er numerous worlds 
 have trod, 
 
 We're still among the morning rays of light, 
 Whose noonday sun is our eternal God, 
 
 Our pole star through eternity's great day 
 
 So all our wiser, holier angels say. 
 
 The Changes oi Earth. 
 
 This world is one vast scene of change, 
 Man's up's and down's are everywhere.
 
 78 THE CHANGES OF JOAliTH. 
 
 It spreads all o'er earth's broadest range 
 Involving man in toil and care. 
 
 No c'imj p >5se-?S''S all that's goo I, 
 No age of man is free from cure. 
 
 Yet every c'ime provides its food 
 As proof of the All Father's care. 
 
 Our brightest prospects oft we blast, 
 The objects of our love remove, 
 
 'Tis well perhaps, if but at last 
 We reach a better home above. 
 
 If in the midst of this vast change 
 We learn the lesson all divine, 
 
 That there's a life of broader range. 
 Adapted to the human mind 
 
 Where all these blasted, earthly hopes 
 Which so oppressed the spirit here 
 
 Shall rise in higher, broader scope, 
 In heaven's resplendent, purer sphere 
 
 There Alps on Alps eternal rise 
 
 With mines of sacred lore. 
 Before our glad and wondering eyes, 
 
 While our great hearts adore. 
 
 The God, whose wisdom formed the plan 
 Of the great Universe,
 
 AMJK1JC .UTACHAlKVrs. 71> 
 
 And at the head placed wondious man, 
 
 To run an endless race. 
 Unfolding his <*reat Godlike powers 
 
 While endless ages roll, 
 With angels of immortal dowers 
 
 Great, mighty human souls. 
 
 Ang-elic attachments. 
 
 Our parents home was dark and pO)r on earth, 
 And constant labor pressed the sire and son. 
 There sixteen souls found an immortal birth, 
 
 Have run their race and all but three are gone. 
 How rough that home made up of rocks and hills, 
 And yet how sweet the music of the rills, 
 Our souls still linger in that wild retreat, 
 Which then was trod Ly our bare, youthful feet. 
 How sacred still that rough secluded place 
 Where each of us commenced our endless ra^-c! 
 Oh. yes we love that grand old sacred spoi 
 Wl.ich by us each shall never be forgot. 
 Oh, sacred soil, now trod by stranger feet 
 Tliungh we jour va'es and hills si*^ never jreet, 
 S.iil ;Oii aiv L:.xc:e.l as t.ic lo.ie retreat, 
 The iilciii, Aiou.e where many loved ones sleep. 
 No! Not the loved ones, but the house of earth 
 The loved ones reached a pu^e immortal biria -
 
 80 VISION OF OUR ANGELIC MISSION WORK. 
 
 And thousrh their bodies sleep so far away, 
 They're in om- homes, and round us day by day. 
 
 And soon we'll rise and leave the house of clay 
 To sleep beneath the brilliant prarie flowers, 
 
 Our home shall be in bright eternal day, 
 
 Which shall unfold our great immortal powers 
 
 We'll bathe our souls in life's unbounded sea, 
 The aromal breath of God, the Deity. 
 As upward still our souls shall ever plod 
 Nearer and neaeiv to the throne of God. 
 
 Now may good angels watch and ever keep 
 Us all from harm both when we wake and sleep, 
 Till all our toils on this sad earth are o'er, 
 And we pass upward to the eternal shore. 
 
 Vision of our angelic mission w>rk 
 ami its final triumph. 
 
 A glorious light shines all around 
 Amid the darkest gloom profound, 
 *Tis showered by angels from above 
 Fresh from the fountain head of love. 
 The darkness comprehends it not, 
 'Tis so profound ! How sad the lot, 
 Yet aiigels pity the forlorn, 
 And come to break this glorious morn.
 
 VISION OF OUR ANGELIC MISSION WORK. 81 
 
 The light of this resplendent day " 
 Will chase the darkness all away, 
 And break man's theologic chains 
 And lift him up to higher planes 
 
 Of light, and love, and freedom's dower, 
 And clothe his soul with heavenly power 
 To do his mission work on earth 
 Ere he ascends to higher birth. 
 
 Oh that this glorious heavenly light 
 May spread through all these realms of night, 
 Till man through every vale and coast 
 Redeemed ! shall join the heavenly host. 
 
 And then with those who've gone before 
 To that immortal, blissful shore, 
 We'll celebrate domestic ties 
 Where love and friendship never dies. 
 
 And then in fields of boundless lore 
 Our souls shall evermore explore 
 Realms, which no angels yet have trod, 
 So near the burning throne of God, 
 
 And yet eternities shall roll 
 With God, the pole-star of the soul. 
 Oh, angels spread the truth like leaven, 
 Naught else can make an angel's heaven.
 
 God soon and known by his works. 
 O, wondrons knowledge deep find high 
 
 That laid the glorious plan 
 Which evolution demonstrates 
 
 In reaching up to man. 
 
 And still move wondrous is the scheme 
 
 While opened wide the door 
 Through which all human souls must pass 
 
 To their bright, angelic shore. 
 
 Yet stupid mortals, darkened minds 
 
 Straying o'er the*c dark shore." 
 Tell us in all this scheme they find 
 
 Nothing but a blind foice. 
 
 The universe connects by laws divine 
 
 Its numerous wondrous planes 
 Like clock-work counting the hours of time 
 
 Eternally the same. 
 
 Millions of worlds in grand array 
 
 Controlled by laws divine, 
 Have counted billions of years away 
 
 Without gain, or loss of time. 
 
 How wist that mind how vast that power, 
 Holding world.-? in the! . own place,
 
 GOD SEEN AM> KNOWN. 
 
 As noiselessly from hour to hour 
 They run their endless race 
 
 O, God, my great soul bows before 
 
 Thy universal shrine, 
 With all my power, I do adore 
 
 Thy majesty divine. 
 I feel a law within my soul 
 
 That binds me to thy throne, 
 Thou art my pole star and my all, 
 
 O guide, oh, guide me home! 
 'Tis true I cannot see thee here, 
 
 Nor shall I see thee there; 
 But I read thee in the world's eareer 
 
 And hear thee in the thunder's roar. 
 
 I know that he who made great, rolling wor'ds 
 
 Is greater than those worlds ean be, 
 And though his greatness is not told, 
 
 I feel those worlds were made for me, 
 1 cannot see my real form, 
 
 And yet I know I am 
 I never saw the crawling worm, 
 
 Neither my fellow man. 
 But I have seen the dark, gross tent, 
 
 In which we live and move,
 
 4 tJOl) SEKN AM) KNOWN. 
 
 The gross to make us here content 
 Till we leave for worlds above, 
 
 And there in worlds of beauty and of light 
 
 My real se ] f I shall never see 
 For all shall have a body pure ami white, 
 
 Our outer house, to all Eternity, 
 
 It is not strange perhaps, that the dark mind 
 Which only believes what it can see 
 
 Should laugh at our great view of human kind 
 And ridicule the eternal Deity 
 
 But I am struck with wonder arid surprise, 
 That we, who are taught by angel friends, 
 
 Should doubt that Clod rules both in earth and 
 We cannot see him ; Infidel pretense, [skies 
 
 When materialism says you are a jack or fi>jg 
 You feel indignant at the shameful blow, 
 
 But when they jeer and ridicule the God, 
 
 On wings of joy you rise, they're black below 
 
 Go like a man, and tell the world you doubt 
 If man's immortal : since you see him not, 
 
 Or join with us the materialist to rout 
 
 And leave his views with all that's false, to rot 
 
 In man, we only see the outer form of earth 
 And this we know will soon return to dust,
 
 PKAYEK, 4 -5 
 
 While still the mail) will reach the higher birth 
 
 With all his powers of mental, moral worth. 
 
 'Tis not from sight, but from his mighty powers 
 We grasp the thought of immortality, 
 
 Again his mighty works stand out as towers * 
 To stamp him with his own Divinity. 
 
 Ami so of God, we claim him not from sight, 
 But from his wondrous works and mighty 
 
 Beheld in mighty rolling worlds of light [power 
 Which blaze and whirl through space forev- 
 ermore. 
 
 Prayer. 
 
 God of love, and god of power, 
 Hear us in this sacred hour, 
 Send thy promised blessing down. 
 With thy love our spirits crown. 
 We are traveling home through earth 
 To the realms of higher birth. 
 There with angels on the wing 
 We'll thy name and praises sing, 
 While we shall remain below 
 Teach us each thy truth to know 
 Ever reaily with our hand 
 To blc-s our suffering IV Imv man.
 
 Sl> Kl KKCT AND CAtSE 
 
 \Ve would each be good and wise 
 Ready for those purer skies 
 Where the fathers dwell ii love 
 In thore brighter worlds above. 
 Help us each to feel and kno.v 
 We shall reap just as we sow 
 God's justice must decide our case 
 As we have run onr earthly race. 
 
 Effect and cause. 
 
 We are asked the q-iestion is existence re.il, 
 
 Or fancv's dark deceptive show? 
 Arc human ac's -^nd life ideal 
 
 Imagination's vivid glow? 
 If the apparent universe is not, 
 
 But only seems to us to be : 
 Then iran in form and size is naught, 
 
 There is nojw/. There is no me. 
 
 1 1 I am not, how can I write, 
 
 With pencil held within my hand? 
 
 Or how discern what's black or white, 
 Or feel I move on solid land? 
 
 You only think you sit and write, 
 Think pencil, think your hand! 
 
 in fact there [* no black, up wrhite;
 
 KFF1XT .\M) C.UST. 87 
 
 Well then, I ask what is it thinks, 
 
 For thought must have its laws; 
 Full well we know there is a link 
 
 Between effect and cause. 
 Yes. but you only think you think 
 
 And do not really think at all! 
 Still there mu>t be a cause, to think 
 
 Or there could be no thought at all, 
 
 No matter how far you go back 
 
 There's still a connecting link. 
 To think implies a real act, 
 
 And something must impel to think. 
 Effects are all that we can reach 
 
 That we can surely know. 
 A law we then deduce from each, 
 
 A cause for each act show 
 
 The cause is greater than Kind force. 
 
 Vast worlds are proof of this. 
 Intelligence directs their course 
 
 And holds each in its place. 
 We cannot comprehend the cans?. 
 
 His attributes are all divine: 
 Iut we may study well his laws 
 
 AS our powers unfold with time.
 
 88 EFFECT ANJ> CAI\E. 
 
 Millions of these great worlds connect 
 By bonds unseen by human eyes 
 
 Yet float in systems all erect 
 Through all the universal skies. 
 
 Like clock-work, every wheel in place, 
 To measure days and hours of time, 
 
 These worlds roll noiselessly through space 
 Controlled by love and power divine. 
 
 Yet mortal man, dark human souls 
 Look up but read no wisdom here, 
 
 And onward crawl like eyeless mole", 
 In their dark, earthly spnere 
 
 They view themselves a lump of clay 
 
 Made up in beauteous form, 
 Which at death's touch will fade away 
 
 Into a night without a morn. 
 
 Again they'll roll around the wheel. 
 
 That it is evolution's plan, 
 Then come again from the evolution, 
 
 To reach the beauteous ] lane of man. 
 
 And thus they'll evdutioni&e 
 
 Eternal days and years away ; 
 Sometime.* they live, ^onif limes they die, 
 Put never, r.ever c.ome tn stay.
 
 EFFECT AM) CAUSE. 89 
 
 V 11s strange that evolution's force 
 
 Should cease oi> reaching man, 
 And then reverse its former course, 
 
 Changing Nature's final plan. 
 
 It's strange to me that this great law 
 
 . Reaching man should make a halt, 
 
 Then like a lobster downward crawl 
 
 Turning endless summer-saults. 
 
 If this is man's supreme estate 
 
 The destiny of ape or frog 
 Eternity can ne'er relate 
 A work worthy of Nature's GcxL 
 
 If man's immortal, I can see 
 
 An object worthy, wise and good, 
 
 For he'll explore the boundless sea 
 Of wisdom there revealed by God, 
 
 That man's immortal all can demonstrate, 
 
 Pure souls come back from their bright spii ere, 
 
 They tell us of a boundless, pure estate 
 Which every soul from God inherits. 
 
 Great fields of science, law and God 
 
 Where our great souls shall endlessly unfold, 
 
 As upward still our feet shall ever plod, 
 
 Reaching for life's mast grand, excelsior goal.
 
 9'") niMnliTALMAX. 
 
 When endless ages here have sped their rounds, 
 
 They ], oirit us to great towering mounts in sight, 
 "Where whirling, blazing suns will ne'er go down* 
 
 For nil with God's eternal smile is lisrht. 
 
 immortal man, 
 
 Man lives to walk forever. 
 
 The fields of life on high ; 
 And analyze the ether. 
 
 The ocean, earth and sky ; 
 Lives to ascend 1 fe's river 
 
 As upward still we'll plod. 
 And demonstrate forever 
 
 The wisdom of our God. 
 The unbounded fields of spirit lore 
 
 Spread out before his eyes. 
 Where wiser souls have gone before 
 
 Exploring through the skies. 
 Tnen up, my soul, on higher mount 
 
 With joy thy feet shall stand; 
 In great eternity's account 
 
 You sure must take a hand. 
 Millions of years from this sad mom 
 
 Where clouds and sorrow reign. 
 You'll stand among the earth's first-born 
 
 Immortal to remain.
 
 SAYINGS OF A DYING CHILD, 91 
 
 And while eternal ages roll 
 
 In wisdom still shall rise. 
 As God's pure love shall feast the soul 
 
 In higher, holier skies. 
 In angel robes, all pure and white, 
 
 AVith towering angels stand, 
 And still look up and ever ask 
 
 As now, "oh. what is man," 
 I seem to hear the Infinite, 
 
 Who holds the sovereign rod, 
 Say to the asking human heart, 
 
 "Man's an incarnate God." 
 
 Sayings ot a dying child.* 
 
 Dear mamma see these lovely forms, 
 
 The vision thrills my heart, 
 They call me to their seraph home, 
 
 So yon ami I must part. 
 Cousin Laura is among those forms, 
 
 All dressed in purest white, 
 They've passed the laud of wind and storms, 
 
 Go le where they have no night. 
 Just see my little cousin dear 
 
 In her bright spirit home, , : . 
 
 * Spying* of a dying ch Id, Ella Ander on, thrown into 
 verse by Rev. A?a W;irren, at the close of preaching her 
 funeral discourse, M y5, 1872, Waterloo lo\v;i.
 
 92 SAYINGS OF A DYING CHILD. 
 
 She'- looking down with words of cheer, 
 And beck "mug me to come. 
 
 Now, mamma bring my little dres-, 
 My prettiest white with blue 
 
 And put it on as you think best, 
 And let your Ella go. 
 
 To join with Laura in her sphere; 
 
 Then we will come and go, 
 To visit you while you stay here, 
 
 These angels tell me so. 
 
 Now, mamma, do not weep for me 
 
 While waiting here below, 
 For Ella can come to visit thee 
 
 These angels tell me so. 
 
 And mamma when your locks are gray 
 And your bright eyes grow dim, 
 
 Then you will hear the music play 
 From heaven's pure seraphim, 
 
 When you^'e about to leave the clay, 
 
 Just ready then to go. 
 We'll come to guide yon on the w y 
 
 These angels tell me so, 
 
 And on the plains of endless life 
 Together wt'll all go,
 
 1'OEJl EXTEMPORE. 93 
 
 Devoid of pain of dezith and strife, 
 These Angels tell me so. 
 
 Now, bear this casket to the grave. 
 
 Let the beauteous body go, 
 The jewel's reached the angel birth 
 
 This hour we know 'tis so. 
 
 Poem "delivered extempore at the 
 inneral-of M. Clark. 
 
 Our brother has gone to the pure realms of light, 
 Where the sun ne'er goes down ; AlPs infinite $ 
 As the polar star ever shines in that home, 
 He'll ascend by progress tin eternal flight. 
 
 How delightful to know that each of our race 
 Have run anil are running an unending race, 
 Where fields open wide with fair play for the soul 
 As they're pressing their way to the infinite goal. 
 
 But a few rolling years will pass swift away. 
 And anchor our ships in that peacful bay, 
 Whose radiant waves lash our earthly shore, 
 Then we'll join our dear brother in the great 
 cVefmorxSv 
 
 Then like the jrood spirit- who .-uv with u* h<-n 
 XV. ''11 ^ml" toonr (teatonea wfi'vo left in this
 
 ''i FOEITi EXTE3irOIIE. 
 
 Inspire them to work for humanity's r'>e [sphere 
 Till earth's race shall be pure as heavens pure 
 skie*. 
 
 Then with heaven's, haltallion.s we'll join to 
 lu infinite fields of the grant evermore, [explore 
 "Where myriad* of worlds roll in grandeur sul - 
 Never losing O r gaining a seco'ml of time, [lime 
 
 Like clock work they roll in regions of space, 
 Like man they are running an infinite race. 
 While the right hand of (Jod holds orbs in their 
 spheres, [years. 
 
 They'll pass on for millions.-, aye, unnumbered 
 
 Some ti-Jl us that worlds a. s in ether they roll, 
 With great plastic bodies, with spirit or soul, 
 Though daily and nightly they ever advance, 
 Were brought into being by the simplest chance. 
 
 Others tell us that worlds as they roll in their 
 
 -plie re. 
 
 Were made and governed by angels once here, 
 That in triumphant wisdom they hold the rod. 
 That will wipe out the thought and being of God, 
 
 Just here I would ask of tin- last of these twain, 
 \\ It" ma.].- tin- tir<t planH. it- mountain ami
 
 -SWEET 1101 K OF 1'KAYEi:. IKl 
 
 For .science as*l\res us that worlds rolled in space, 
 Before man existed to look on its face. 
 
 Oue thought is sufficient to calm these proudi 
 
 waves, 
 
 And lay these false claims in oblivion's grave- 
 flatter's the less and must yeild to the rod, 
 And be formed into worlds by the spirit called 
 
 God. 
 
 Sweet hotttf of* prayer. [Selected.] 
 
 Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer, 
 That calls me from a world of care, 
 And bids me at my heavenly home, 
 Make all my wants and wishes known, 
 In seasons of di-tres- and grief 
 My soul has often found releif. 
 And oft escaped the-temptc'r ssnare 
 1>V thy n-tuni. sweet hour of prayer. 
 Sweet hour of prayer, weet hour of prayer, 
 Tliv winir- -shall my petition bear 
 To tho-e whose truth and truthfulness 
 Enra;re the waiting soul to bless, 
 And -ii\ce "i.Hey 1*4 J me seek llu-ir face, 
 Hel\v\e their \vor<\ and trust their -gfrar.o. 
 I'll <-a-t on them my nv-ry care, 
 And \v:iit for thee, sweet hour of prayer*
 
 ( J(J 8 \VEET HOUR OF PRAYER, 
 
 Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer/ 
 
 It brings divine communion here. 
 
 It lifts the soul to things above, 
 
 Through the all conquering power of love, 
 
 Sustains the soul midst earthly care 
 
 liy visions of that world so fair r 
 
 It binds us to tin 1 eternal throne,, 
 
 The centre of our heavenly home. 
 
 Sweet hour of prayer. [Original.] 
 
 Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer, 
 
 May 1 tHjf consolation share, 
 
 Till in the Summer- Land so bright, 
 
 I view my home and take my flight. 
 
 This robe of flesh I'll drop and rise 
 
 To seize the everlasting prize, 
 
 And shout while passing through the air r 
 
 1 owe thee much, sweet hour of prayer, 
 
 Sweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer, 
 
 "We'll need thee just as much up there, 
 
 For while we roam o'er heaven's vast plain, 
 
 We'll need (Jod's guardian care the same, 
 
 And though we'll rise still higher and higher, 
 
 Our souls aglow with heavenly lire, 
 
 "We still shall need his guardian care. 
 
 Obtained through 'Jivi-. -wect hour of prayr-iv
 
 SWEET HCtli OF PRAYER. # 
 
 fcweet hour of prayer, sweet hour of prayer, 
 
 It lifts the heavenly hosts up there 
 
 Ami loud seraphic anthems roll, 
 
 From myriad angels pure in soul. 
 
 And while eternal ages roll, 
 
 God's purest love shall feast the soul.- 
 
 As still We feel his guardian eare, 
 
 Obtained through thee, sweet hour of prayer"
 
 aons oems 
 
 . , I, fflarrnt,
 
 THE PUBLISHERS herewith present the reader 
 with a few of the many Inspirational poems of 
 Mrs. C. L Warren, believing them worthy a 
 place along-side those of her gifted husband.
 
 HOPE. 
 
 Hope through life has been my star 
 
 Cheering me in undertone, 
 Cheering as if angel* prompted, 
 
 Life is better farther on. 
 I've heard as now a kind voice speaking 
 
 Softly in an undertone, 
 Speaking as loved oaes departed 
 
 Life will be brighter farther on. 
 Night and day, I seem to hear it. 
 
 Hear it when I sigh and groan, 
 Speaks so lowly, yet I feel it, 
 
 Life must be better, farther on. 
 Thinking of the grave, hope whispers 
 
 Cheering when the heart would moan, 
 Speaks it when the shadows darken, 
 
 Life will be smoother farther on, 
 Farther on, oh, how much farther - 
 
 Count each mile-stone, one by one, 
 Not as counting, only trusting, 
 
 Life may be brighter farther on.
 
 102 INSPIRATION. 
 
 Yet 'm trusting must be piv>p:nted 
 
 By the loved of spirit home. 
 To cheerfully arise and meet them 
 
 In my pathway farther on. 
 
 Inspiration. 
 
 A voice seems speaking, kindly speaking, 
 
 Softly in an undertone, 
 Listen, lone one, lam coming, 
 
 To meet and guide yon safely on. 
 We are coming ever coming, 
 
 Some are near you night and day, 
 Come to cheer and buoy you upward, 
 
 Safely through life's rugged way, 
 Think not of the grave our loved one, 
 
 They :u*e not there you loved so well, 
 Thev have outrode ; ife\s tioubled waters 
 
 Of unbounded joys they each could tell. 
 Where the immortal hosts have led them, 
 
 There with kindred joined in throng, 
 List, they re singing, sweetly singing, 
 
 As they pass in progress farther on. 
 Your aged companion oft is near you. 
 
 Youthful, joyous, buoyant, free, 
 Banish all that can bring sadness, 
 
 Or mar your joy, for he is free.
 
 AX INSPIRATIONAL APPEAL. 103 
 
 LU'ti n_ then, loved ones, we're coming; 
 
 All in health and strength are free, 
 They no more have grief or sadness, 
 
 Only as your griefs they see. 
 List, we're coming, ever coming, 
 
 Songsters of the heavenly sphere, 
 Mourn not them, your friends are near you, 
 
 Some are coming, some are here. 
 
 An Inspirational appeal. 
 
 Dear ones of the earth life .draw near, angels call; 
 
 Fear not to join hands with them here. 
 The loved ones, your kindred await near you all, 
 
 And would guide to our beautiful sphere. 
 Say not you have wandered far from the right, 
 
 Have groped on in error and wrong, 
 And dare not look upward to angels of light, 
 
 Nor join in the soul-cheering song. 
 Weak ones, arise, and take the hand given 
 
 Of the loved that have passed from your view 
 Awake now, arise, and hear the glad call, 
 
 The angels are speaking to yon. 
 Take courage, ye sad ones, and tike the hand 
 
 Make pledges to ever be true, [given, 
 
 And follow the light that will lead yon to heaven, 
 
 Your kindred are beck'ning to you.
 
 101- AX IXSPUJATION'AL APPEAL. 
 
 Press onwaM; ne'er 1 >o'c to the past with regret, 
 
 Your soul's needed all for the gain, 
 But study life's lejsons and never forget 
 
 That joy is the bl >ssom of pain. 
 There's many a wide, sandy desert on earth, 
 
 Where flowers were never in bloom, 
 And many a cavern so dark and so drear, 
 
 That the sun never lighted the gloom, 
 Yet we know that a change will sweep over those 
 That ages will quicken their powers, [sands, 
 And yielding at length to Nature's fair hands, 
 
 The wild waste will blossom with flo.verr. 
 And the cavern's dark bosom so rock bound and 
 
 strong, 
 
 By the lightning's quick flash may be riven, 
 Its silence and darkness re echo with song, 
 
 As it catches the sun light of heaven. 
 Take courage, then, frail ones, look up, angels call, 
 
 Fear not to join hands with them here, 
 Your soul loving friends oft wait near you all, 
 
 And will guide to their angelic sphere. 
 Where you can press onward in pure robes of 
 As unnumbered ages may roll, [light, 
 
 Forever expanding in progressive flight, 
 In the beautiful land of the soul
 
 CONSOLATION . 1 05 
 
 Be cheerfully progressing though earth cares op- 
 
 And man\- your burdens to bear, [press, 
 
 Your good angel friends oft stoop to caress, 
 
 Your sorrovvs they tenderly share. 
 
 They have only passed onward a little before 
 In advance have reached their bright goal, 
 
 Your i^ood earthly deeds will insure you a rest, 
 In the beautiful land of the soul. 
 
 Consolation. 
 
 You would have me come this beautiful day, 
 
 And whisper some cheering words into your ear 
 I will, my loved one, do best the that I may, 
 Under broken conditions, will try you to cheer 
 
 Six months since I parted with my wornout frail 
 
 body, [morn, 
 
 Just half a year, my darling, this bright surny 
 
 Earth sphere is a symbol of our lovely garden, 
 
 With us theiv, no storm clouds nor sad wuela 
 
 as here. 
 
 And I now give thanks to God the great giver, 
 That I am released from the burden of clay, 
 
 And all of earth's trials that might follow after, 
 I'm freed from them all and am happy to-day.
 
 lOfi CONSOLATION. 
 
 When I passed from the earth form my loved 
 
 friends did know, [here, 
 
 From my weak condition :ind loner suffering 
 
 That strength must come slowly as it slowly did 
 
 1 needed th< i rest in tin- angel- pore sphere, fgo, 
 
 They tenderly took me 10 the home of my friends 
 Tea, bore me in arms to their bright sonl-]it 
 
 shore, 
 
 There with loving embraces they did me attend 
 In the home of my parents in this great ever- 
 more. 
 
 Where with sisters and brothers and children so 
 
 dear. 
 
 And an < a 'ly companion, yea, all joined me here 
 Triumphantly happy to meet me once more[o'er 
 Where there's no more parting, our sorrows all 
 
 They considered it wiser to have, me rest here, 
 Awhile with the loved of this genial sphere, 
 To rest with the loved, my strength to renew. 
 Ere they cautiously took me to earth home and 
 you. 
 
 'Twas thirty-six hours passed re I awoke to 
 
 know, [me so ? 
 
 Aftd came into a conscious state, n y friends tell
 
 CONSOLATION. 107 
 
 My mental exhausted from long .ruffering and 
 
 pain 
 Of the poor weary bo ]y to die was my gain. 
 
 I was happily jubilant, had no thought or care 
 Had not even a thought how the body might fare 
 1 Twits well ; when I came 'twas buried from sight 
 But I found you, my darling, in grief's darkest 
 night. 
 
 Wo strove hard to comfort, build up and make 
 brave, [the wave, 
 
 But your weak, sick body could not stand 'gainst 
 Your mind just as weak as your body, could see 
 Only years of long-suffering, and sorrow for me 
 
 You wouhl retrace my sufferings, you w r ere sore 
 
 distressed, 
 
 My years of soul anguish, of toil and unrest, 
 Yet I lingered near you, unable to cheer, [divar 
 Or make know,] my presence-your soul grL-i so 
 
 As I could not comfort by coming to you, 
 Our spirit friends counciled what's next best to do 
 I yeiided to their wishes like a babe in a era lie, 
 And they calmed all my fears as best they were 
 able.
 
 CONSOLATION*. 108 
 
 Now w? come to you. darling, your earth kin- 
 dred nnd mine, [clime. 
 Who are all joined in love bands in this genial 
 Encouraging you onward, as err long you'll be 
 Mid earth freed soul*; who've crossed the dark sea 
 
 Your earthly companion long dwelt in this clime 
 With parents and children of many years time* 
 Yea, sisters and brothers of your early years, 
 You'll meet all in lovelies in this genial sphere. 
 
 Now, since we can meet this side of death's river 
 Rejoice and give thanks to God, our great Father 
 That we united in earth life many long years. 
 Though parted by death's chilling hand. 
 
 Will again be united in love ties when here, 
 In this beautiful land so tree from all di.-word, 
 Where joys are unending and no hopes blighted 
 Yea, ti grand reunion we'll have in this sphere. 
 
 Hallelujah! Sing praises to God. all as one, 
 
 Let heaven and earth re-echo the song, 
 
 The weak ones are risen, the lost lu re are found 
 
 All souls are united, with love li^lit they're crown- 
 ed 
 
 Triumphantly shout, God's ways are divine, 
 iiis laws are unfolding, all science sublime,
 
 LINKS AT A FUNEKAI . 109 
 
 Yea, science God's mouth-piece, doth to all 
 
 declare 
 Our progress unending- in this genial sphere. 
 
 Praises to God, my great soul his wisdom adores 
 As I view our vast home on these infinite shores 
 Where with myriads we're joined in harmonious 
 Giving praise to God as we journey along, [song 
 
 Now seek you wise counsel, live a life all divine 
 As you journey on through the rough seas of time 
 Discharging each duty as an angel of love, 
 That you may rank high in bright planes above, 
 
 Where together we'll journey with triumph and 
 In vast planes of progress eteanrlly long. [song 
 Well knowing we'll reap in eternity here 
 The harvest we've sown in the earthly sphere. 
 
 Lines at a funeral of a young lady. 
 
 Thrice happy is each spirit that's early bereft 
 Of its burden of clay and of cares without num- 
 
 The blessings of earth life give little of peace[ber 
 Death's angels alone dashed the sad cup asunder 
 
 Each spirit unfledged has soared to our heaven 
 And in purity's progress ascended our plane, 
 
 And unto each beauliful sernph 'ti- given 
 
 To drink from the fountain of love o'er again.
 
 110 LlM-> AT A FLM.KAL. 
 
 This broad earth is covered with joys and with 
 sorrows, [woe 
 
 'Tis scattered with poverty, want and with 
 The night of death brings groans of tin 1 dying, 
 
 Hut the morn of the Summer land's all aglow 
 Before the freed spirit, and to it is given 
 
 The hand of agirmli in that ever is near f [ven 
 They're always at-;eiiding',biig > ht angels from hea- 
 
 To lead from the earth to our beautiful sphere 
 
 Where they are again joined with the loved and 
 long parted, [more 
 
 And meet each true heart in affection once 
 Where none of the soul's aspirations are thwarted 
 
 Death's angel has led them to our shining shore 
 The land of long promise, the home of the weary 
 
 Where passes each spirit from earth life of woe 
 
 Where hopes have been blighted and earth life 
 
 is dreary, [aglow 
 
 Death's angels released them, their souls all 
 
 The portals of death, Oh wreathe ye with flowers 
 By each grave sing y< 1 songs of triumph not 
 
 woe 
 
 Each exulting, freed spirit in celestial bowers 
 Are weaving fresh garlands for loved ours below
 
 UOD EV KKY W1IEKE. 1 L I 
 
 Oh, yes, and they're gathering truth's gems 
 
 from the fountain, [hearts 
 
 And oft will impress them on your loving 
 
 They'll teach yon companions, parents and 
 
 children 
 Must meet in the Summer Land, never to part 
 
 Then meet all and often, there's no death before 
 
 y u > 
 
 But only a transit to heaven's bright sphere, 
 
 . Your angel friends ever about and around you, 
 
 They'll give you great comfort and impress. 
 
 words of clu-iT. [with ilowers 
 
 Then wreathe ye. oh wreathe ye death's portals 
 
 Let joy take the place of affliction and woe, 
 Let love-light adorn each earth brow, for the 
 hours [know. 
 
 Must swiftly glide by till ye meet them, we 
 
 Now, we'll pass to our bright sphere, and 
 To beautiful regions ' of light [ascending 
 
 \\V11 leave you bright anjrels attending 
 You ever in your progressive flight. 
 
 God everywhere. 
 
 Kn.rh beauteous flower display? its hue. 
 And each green le:if presents to view
 
 112 GOD EVERYWHERE. 
 
 The power of God in flowers so fine. 
 His love breaks forth; when all sublime 
 We read in flowers the love of God, 
 In every leaf there is a wurd 
 That speaks to us of God's great love. 
 
 The lovely roses pure and fair. 
 Are emblems of God's holy care, 
 Which should to us through Nature teach 
 That we from all that's wrong may stretch 
 Our longing gaze, to worlds on high, 
 Where naught of sin, or e'en a sigh, 
 Could mar our joys, but we should be 
 As angels blest, like seraphs free 
 
 From all that is of low device 
 To lead our minds from holy peace, 
 Be pure and spotless, without sin, 
 To dwell with God, the Father, in 
 Eternity above. 
 
 Thus in all Nature we can see great truths 
 Which should large volumes be 
 To man, if he would only read aright 
 The works of God, in Nature bright, 
 He'd see in every leaf and flower, 
 Mementoes of God's love and power,
 
 GOD KVKUYWIIKKE, 
 They're records all, earth, sea and air, 
 Of God's great presence everywhere. 
 
 E'en from the simple blade of grass, 
 O'er which most minds unheeding pass, 
 Up to the rose or beauteous flower, 
 Each, all, proclaim with love yet power, 
 To minds that list to voices here. 
 A God is dwelling in our sphere ; 
 His inspiration opes our eyes, 
 Flowers are the language of tne skies. 
 
 In Nature's unfoldings we do see 
 Each shrub, each plant, each lake and tree, 
 Through every form on earth 'tis given 
 To thread from lowest depths to heaven, 
 From grain of sand to circling sphere, 
 Each, all, proclaim a God is here, 
 We're records all, earths, spheres and air 
 Of God's great presence everywhere. 
 
 A God in ever) thing vvt see 
 
 His presence in the towering tree, 
 
 With arms outstretched they all proclaim, 
 
 This truth, that God in them doth reign, 
 
 Each woodland plant and shrub on earth, 
 
 Bears record of the higher birth.
 
 114 GOD EVE11YW11EUE. 
 
 And eac 1 ! in solemn voice declare 
 That God is present everywhere. 
 
 Thus we can trace all Nature through, 
 Each streamlet in its windings through 
 Each glade and dell and lonely way, 
 Gatheri \-r strength, they never stray, 
 But rippling, singi ig Nature's song, 
 We now are weak, yet we'll be strong, 
 B ending with many rills we'll stand, 
 With united force i:i rivers grand. 
 
 These mighty rivers in their winding way. 
 That naught i.i power of man can stay. 
 Doth roll along with strength and power, 
 Increase in bulk with every hour, 
 Great throes jind cataracts thrill, 
 The soul of man. Each little stream their void 
 Until to ocean's mouth they come, f will fill, 
 They empty there, they are as one. 
 Though of lakes, streams and rivers be, 
 They're one grand body of the sea. 
 
 That i-i their elements combine 
 To proclaim this truth, grand and sublime, 
 That mind of mortal man ninst thrill. 
 For none cm ^ilm. saving. Peace be still.
 
 c;oi> j;vi;i; i \\niKE. 115 
 
 Its tumults not by love nor force, 
 Can be assuaged. But oh, rejoice ! 
 '(loci culms the tempest of the sea, 
 By law, as he builds worlds. 
 
 Glance o'er the ocean's bosom wide, 
 To vales and plains and mountain side, 
 With immortal vision we can see, 
 As soaring high, extending far, 
 Vet in all Nature there's no jar; 
 E'en here connecting links we find 
 E'en links that ocean's depths doth bind 
 To mountain top, where \vc do see 
 The mineral, pearl and coral tree, 
 That under ground ar.d ocean's vein 
 Doth form in Nature's link a chain, 
 That all by hidden gems .may see 
 The wondrous power of Deity. 
 
 This wondrous globe on which yo-.i stand 
 As held by law in God's right hand, 
 With unnumbered orbs sublimely fair, 
 As myriads 01" lights and signs declare, 
 Seen hanging in extended space 
 As if a firmament to grace, 
 With celest : al orbs encircling all, 
 As ours; surround this earth Iv hall.
 
 Hi) GOD EVERYWHERE. 
 
 Each one a light to others are, 
 
 As the sun's rays to this earthly sphere. 
 
 Eacli one in their own orbit roll, 
 
 As their own circle from pole to pole, 
 
 Each, all as destined in their course, 
 
 Yet all are one grand universe. 
 
 That God encircles with his power 
 
 And fills immensity.
 
 INDEX. 
 
 The en*. - - - - - 9 
 
 The answer. 10 
 
 The law of progress. - - - n 
 
 Angel ministry triumphant, 14 
 
 'Ihe night of tune, and day of eternity. - 20 
 
 On a bright May morning. - - - 22 
 
 Ancient angelic communion. - - 23 
 
 On the falling of a maple leaf. - 24 
 
 Hope, man's eternal anchor. - 26 
 
 Paine on the atonement. - - - 27 
 
 Reflections on the Heavenly home. - 30 
 
 Lines at the funeral of a little girl. - 32 
 
 Salvation by works, not by blood. - - 34 
 
 Blows. - 35 
 
 True human greatness through self- culture 37 
 
 On Thomas Paine. - 38
 
 Linos to my wife. - 39 
 
 Lines to my wife. - - - - 41 
 
 Final triumph of reason. 44 
 
 Origin of angels. - 45 
 
 Lines on closing a lecture engagement. - 46 
 
 The promised time is coming. 47 
 
 Man's endless prog-ess. - 49 
 
 Linesinspirationally given. - - 51 
 
 Poem to friends at Parkersburg. - - 56 
 
 Lines at funeral of a young lady. - 58 
 
 Lines given at Lime Rock, Iowa. - 61 
 
 Lines given at Abel Peterson's. - - 61 
 
 Lines at the funeral of Ernest Case. 63 
 Faith in God. - - - - - 64 
 Final triumph. ----- 65 
 
 Lines at the funeral of Mrs. Greenleaf. - 66 
 
 Lines written in an album. - - - 68 
 Lines given by Rev. Abel Warren. - 69 
 
 God's living gospel. - - - 7 1 
 
 Lines at the funeral of Wirt Case. - 72 
 
 Lines g'ven by Wirt Case. - - - 74 
 
 Lines given exte npoiv. 75 
 
 Lines to P. P. Warre:i. - * - 76 
 
 The changes of earth. - - 7 7
 
 Angel'c attachments. .- 79 
 
 Vision ot our angelic mission work. - 80 
 
 GoJ see.i and known by his works. - 82 
 
 Prayer. 85 
 
 Effect and cause 1 . 86 
 
 Immortal man. - 90 
 
 Sayings of a dying 1 child. - 91 
 
 Poem extempore. 93 
 
 Sweet hour of prayer. [Selected.] 95 
 
 Sweet hour of prayer. [Orginal.] - 96 
 
 Mrs. Warren's Poems. 
 
 Hope. 101 
 
 Inspiration. 102 
 
 An inspirational appea 1 . 103 
 
 Consolation 105 
 
 Lines at a funeral. . 109 
 
 God everywhere. - - - - , 1 1 1
 
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