Never had she listened to such tones as these; they came from beyond a large dark curtain which separated the regions of death from the land of eternity.
All the deeds of our life, the great and the little alike, we put into this savings bank; and when Death calls with his omnibus, and we have to step in, and drive with him into the land of eternity, then on the frontier he gives us our service-book as a pass.
As the eyes of the old woman closed to earth, the eyes of the soul opened upon the hidden things of eternity, and then she, in whose last thoughts Inge had been so vividly present, saw how deeply the poor girl had sunk.
" The story is very closely akin to reality; but still it has its harmonious explanation here on earth, while reality often points beyond the confines of life to the regions of eternity.
Eternity is long, much longer indeed than this story.
" Then the sunbeam spoke of the boundless love of God, as seen in creation, and over all that lives, and of the equal distribution of His gifts, both in time and in eternity.
It was the word "Eternity.
On the carriage of the Greek tragic poet, Thespis, the Phoenix became a talkative crow, for the troubadours of Island it played the harp disguised as a swan, and on the shoulder of Shakespeare the phoenix whispered "eternity" as it was the Odin's crow.
I stood there for what seemed an eternity, until eventually the driver asked, "Son, are you getting on this bus or not?
One moment of such happiness is worth an eternity of darkness and woe.
Guard it carefully, and the evil spirit of discontentment shall never in all eternity have any power over you!
