The Great Question: A Poem

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to wiltdown and think themselves paupers. If you have health, strength, youth and intellect, at command, you are in possession of the most valuable earthly blessings possessed by man. They are blessings that scores of people would willingly pay you a million dollars for, if you could deliver the goods. Fortunately, this kind of wealth cannot be delivered, if sold: and if you properly use it, every earthly comfort is within your reach. Don't be afraid of working yourself to death. "Rust consumes faster than labor wears." If hard work of head and hands were killiog, I should

have been dead twenty five or thirty years ago, instead of now being quite aman in my eighty-third year. Young man, husband your present wealth of physical, mental, and moral strength; don't destroy nor waste them by smoking, chewing, drinking, gambling, idleness or other dissipations. To gratify these evil habits will consume your time, health, strength of body and of mind, and your acquired wealth. When you gratify them long enough, you will then, in truth, be a self-made pauper, of no value to yourself or to the world. Paauilo, Hawaii.

THE GREAT QUESTION. Is it true that I am a sojourner here. That this life's a prelude to a happier sphere? Then tell me, Father, from whence am I come, And why am I here, and where is my home? Are you watching the work you have giv'n me to do? And, when it is done, will I come back to you? The more earnest my toil, will it sooner be done. Enter into my rest, and the victory won?

Could we understand what the future life is. Perhaps we would not be contented with this. Our hearts would be lured by the rapturous view. And we'd long to go hence, if we only knew. As wanderers here, we oft walk alone. But there, over there, we shall know as we're known. Evolution's a law that is stamped on the soul, And the good will progress while the ages shall roll. —J. H. Ward. Salt Lake Cit}-, Utah.