. Te Karere . wning, Mil-ton and Tennyson, and many others, does so atthe risk of loss to his spiritual life. He missescertain rich formative influences that strengthenfaith, purify conscience, and show us how to makeour human life more divine. And this is truealso of the sacred writings of Isaiah, the Book ofJob, the Psalms and the sublime poetry of the Old Testament. Here are a few verses from poems of poets whom I believewere inspired of God. Montgomery expressed the desire of immortal life in thesewords: Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more?Yet who could tread again the sceneHe
. Te Karere . wning, Mil-ton and Tennyson, and many others, does so atthe risk of loss to his spiritual life. He missescertain rich formative influences that strengthenfaith, purify conscience, and show us how to makeour human life more divine. And this is truealso of the sacred writings of Isaiah, the Book ofJob, the Psalms and the sublime poetry of the Old Testament. Here are a few verses from poems of poets whom I believewere inspired of God. Montgomery expressed the desire of immortal life in thesewords: Who that hath ever been Could bear to be no more?Yet who could tread again the sceneHe trod through life before? The poet Wordsworth obtained an inspirational glimpse of theeternal doctrine of pre-existence when he wrote the following:Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises with us, our lifes star,Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar;Not in entire for get fulness, And not in utter nakedness,But trailing clouds of glory do we conic From God who is our Elder Kirkham Hanuere, 1941 TE KARERE 533 Then there is Robert Brownings Prospice, which was writtensix months after the death of his beloved wife, Elizabeth BarrettBrowning, in 1864. Here are the last two lines of this poem:O thou soul of my soul. I shall clasp thee again,And with God be the thought from Browning: Life is probation and theearth no goal but starting point of man. Space will not permit me to use other poems of inspired my hope is that these few will make you dig and delve into thesereligious riches of which we have such an abundant source to readfrom. Someone has said: Too much of our reading is on a low chatter with clowns when we might talk with kings. FROM THE DESK OF THE GENERALSUPERINTENDENCY WHY GO TO SUNDAY SCHOOL?By Elder Wallace F. Bennett Every man or woman who grew up in a Mormon family anda Mormon community spent most of his childhood Sunday morningsin Sunday School. There he learned much of what he knows to-day
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