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shall be such as to fill the compensation of that peculiar suffering more especially. We say this at a peradventure. Personally we have known no past calamity for which we are not compensated, or for which we do not see clear promises of compensation here. But some may think otherwise. And to such we say, If the vast majority of your ills are compensated, cannot you take the remainder upon trust, and use it as a proof that you will live again, that the balance may be fully settled which is here so plainly begun and proceeding ? We say this because some men who may read this have not the skill in human motives and intellectual influences to determine what a compensation is,—and not because we recede from our proposition that there is no absolute or God-sanctioned evil on earth. Even if there were evils for which no other man sees compensation on earth, we have pointed at that compensation—the hope which the unbalanced account should afford of a life hereafter, where that which here began may find accomplishment.

Try the world by these demands—call thou, and let her answer.

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