Chapter 12 A REVELATION ON ETERNITY

Life is real! Life is earnest!

And the grave is not its goal;

Dust thou art, to dust returnest,

Was not spoken of the soul.

-Longfellow.

While Edwin was still laboring among the stones in the field of grass, this thought came suddenly to his mind:

"If I should be so unfortunate as to die before I receive the assurance that I am go