that a rich and influential family can give. So the days went by

"Life is a gracious gift from God, almost too great a gift for

us to appreciate!" said the young wife. "Yet they say that fulness

of joy for ever and ever can only be found in the future life. I

"The thought arises, perhaps, from the arrogance of men," said the

husband. "It seems a great pride to believe that we shall live for

ever, that we shall be as gods! Were not these the words of the

"Surely you do not doubt the existence of a future life?"