THE AGED MAN

who has "walked with God" is always ready for the Master's call. His

loins are girded about and his lights burning. He "lies down with the

Kings of the earth," and that leveling process which is thus intimated

and begun in death he feels is the order of a higher plane of life to

come, when all the abuses and incongruities of human government will be

swept away, and the light of omniscient wisdom will shine on all alike.

There will he meet the little child who strayed from the fold into the

snows of death early in the married life, and there will he sit beside

that fond old heart who heard his first piteous wail in this cold world,

and nestled him to her bosom all warm with a mother's love.

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