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by NELS P. NEILSEN
HERE are the dead? A solemn question indeed, for death
is everywhere. We meet it on every hand. No land on earth
can boast of freedom from its ravages. By millions are its viec-
lims tolled in every clime. Each city has its burying place; each
damlet has its “city of the dead.” Scarcely can a home be found
where death has never come. We all have felt its sting. We
pll have seen the helplessness of man, when death has laid its
hand upon one we loved.
Where are the dead? What is their state in death? Are they
unconscious in their sleep, or are they still alive? Do they go to
heaven at death, or are they resting in the grave? Do they now
experience the joys of heaven, or suffer the pains of a molten
hell? These questions — yes, and kindred ones — will throng our
minds as we stand beside the form of a loved one who has passed
away.
Where are the dead? We speak to them, but they make no
reply. We touch them with a fond caress, but there is no re-
sponse. Our hearts may nearly break with grief, still they lie
unmoved by our tears. We follow them to their last resting
place. But where are they now? What is their state? Silence
reigns supreme. No word comes back from them. Sternly the
tomb closes its heavy portals against every attempt to solve our
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