The tympanum of the ear will vibrate no longer when the music
or the clamor that arrested and aroused it has subsided into
silence. But that invisible yet living spirit, which watches
through the eye, and harkens through the ear, and which takes
instant note of whatever surrounds it, has caught the sight and
the sound now vanished, and it will keep them forever. It writes
its records, not as the Roman laws were written, first on wood,
then on brass, and afterward on ivory; but at once on a tablet
more impressible than wood, more vivid than brass, more precious
than ivory, and more imperishable than either.--RICHARD S.
STORRS.
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We are all writing our lives’ histories here, as if with one of
these “manifold writers,” a black blank page beneath the flimsy
sheet on which we write; but presently the black page will be
taken away, and the writing will stand out plain on the page
behind that we did not see. Life is the filmy unsubstantial
page on which our pen rests; the black page is death; and
the page beneath is that indelible transcript of our earthly
actions, which we shall find waiting for us to read, with
shame and confusion of face, or with humble joy, in another
world--ALEXANDER MCLAREN.
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=Recovery, Difficulty of=--See MATURITY, SINS OF.
=Recovery, Instant=--See DIABOLICAL POSSESSION.
=Recuperation=--See NATURE’S RECUPERATIVE POWERS.
=Redeemed by Song=--See WANDERER’S RETURN.