...character is therefore the greatest of all our responsibilities. Tennyson's lines are well known : " How pure at heart and sound in head, With what divine...whose thought would hold An hour's communion with the dead."1 This is a great saying, and we all assent to it. Yet surely it applies with equal if not with...

...failure seem to settle our views on the subject, then we may meditate over the further words of Tennyson: "How pure at heart and sound in head, With what divine affections bold Should be the man whose thoughts would hold An hour's communion with the dead." Immortality and the Bible The Bible, however,...

...for words to name; That in this blindness of the frame My Ghost may feel that thine is near. XCIV. ^ foul! the word was yours not mine, I worship that right hand Which shall thou, or any, call The spirits from their golden day, Except, like them, thou too canst say,...

...for words to name. That in this blindness of the frame 13 My Ghost may feel that thine is near. xc1v How pure at heart and sound in head. With what divine...communion with the dead. In vain shalt thou, or any, call 5 The spirits from their golden day, Except, like them, thou too canst say, My spirit is at peace with...

...into " poetic thought " and the prosaic are too many to call for detailed quotation. We may instance " How pure at heart and sound in head, With what divine...thought would hold An hour's communion with the dead." Or " The baby new to earth and sky, What time his tender palm is prest Against the circle of the breast,...

...invisible to external eyes is thus briefly alluded to by Tennyson : " How whole of heart, how sound of head, With what divine affections bold, Should be...thought would hold An hour's communion with the dead." Diodorns Siculus mentions an oracle near Lake Avernus, where the dead were raised. He says the oracle...

...Arthur Hallam, come fittingly to mind: "How pure at heart and sound in head, With what divine affection bold Should be the man whose thought would hold An hour's communion with the dead." With most of us, affection can chiefly be spoken of as expressed for certain persons only, or at most...

...may feel that thine is near. XCIV^V How pure at heart and sound in head, With what divine alïections bold Should be the man whose thought would hold An hour's communion with the dead. In vain shall thou, or any, call The spirits from their golden day, Except, like them, thou too canst say,...

...landing-place to clasp and say, " Farewell ! We lose ourselves in light.' SPIRITUAL COMPANIONSHIP. How pure at heart and sound in head, With what divine...would hold An hour's communion with the dead. In vain shall thon, or any, call The spirits from their golden day, Except, like them, thou too canst say,...

...for words to name ; That in this blindness of the frame My Ghost may feel that thine is near. XCIII How pure at heart and sound in head, With what divine...would hold An hour's communion with the dead. In vain shall thou, or any, call The spirits from their golden day, Except, like them, thou too canst say My...