CHAPTER XXX. THE GULF SPANNED.

 

YEARS of earthly time passed on; aye, even a half century, and yet my first great desire remained to be accomplished.

 

My former husband had already grown old, entered the spiritual world, found out his grave earthly mistake, and at length become an angel. My man of six had become a man in reality, married, brought forth children of his own, and had come to spirit-life long before he was old; he, too, had entered on his career of angelhood. My cherub of three was the only one remaining below; all my other children had long since become angels on their own account, and the one remaining below was a grey-haired man, past the meridian of earthly life. Would my desire to span the gulf between heaven and earth be accomplished? Yes: the hour had come at last! A long, long time in coming, perhaps you think, but it was merely a drop in the great ocean of events. This babe who was, but now a man, became the connecting link, or medium, between heaven and earth; such as Solon had been, such as the form on the rainbow bridge was, for he had at last reached it; no hands, however strong, could longer hold him back, and, like Joseph of old, he had left his coat of many colors within their grasp, and they had found it worthless.

 

He had nobly struggled on, and stood at last on the apex of the bridge between heaven and earth, his hand fast clasped in that of his spiritual guide, and, behold what happened! Not merely a few words of little meaning, but volumes, whole volumes could now be written and given to the world, because love and wisdom had at last clasped hands, and the link had become connected with the great chain or ladder; and, behold, the angels ascended and descended upon it!

 

Solon and myself had, by the inception of wisdom, been able, through love, to clasp these hands together, or connect the chain; and, even when we had accomplished this, we were not the first to descend, but at last my turn came. Thanks to eternal Love and Wisdom; my turn came at last Reader, the gulf was spanned! Behold the result! I lost nothing by waiting, but gained much.