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Rest.
"Outside the limits of our space and time,
Whereto we are bound,"

that they shall "rest from their labors," it could never be meant that they should endure perpetual repose, and endless lethargic inactivity. They shall rest from their warfare against the evil inclinations over which they have gained a victory, as the conqueror rests with laurelled brows after he has triumphed over his foes. They labor and are weary no more, but the rest they enjoy is congenial employment, a happy ministry, an untiring use of faculties quickened, heightened, perfected in that atmosphere where no work will be in vain; where our hearts will not ache, as now, over brave attempts defeated by circumstance; where no good purpose will be allied to infirm execution; where deeds will keep pace with aims; where noble labor will be followed by glorious fruition! The poet's soul spoke with the voice of inspiration when it said:

"I count that heaven itself is only work
To a surer issue,"

but work which knows no distaste, no coercion, no waste of power, no exhaustion! Work which carries in its bosom the truest, most delightful rest!

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