He understands now
why he lost his hearing while in mortality, and he praises God for his
then seeming misfortune."
"Husband," said she, "I am thinking again about our children. How long
will it be before we shall receive them all?"
"Not long now; but each in his order. Leave that to the Lord."
They looked out at Alice. The swans were eating from her hand, and she
was stroking their curved necks.
"To look back," said he, "and see the wonderful ways through which the
Lord has brought us to this perfection, fills my heart with praise to
Him. Now we are beyond the power of death and the evil one. Now the
pure, life-giving spirit of God flows in our veins instead of the blood
of mortality. Now we can know the two sides of things. We understand the
good, because we have been in contact with the evil. Our joy is perfect,
because we have experienced pain and sorrow. We know what life is,
eternal life, because we have passed through the ordeal of death."
"Yes, Father teaches a good school.
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