8 ke My Sister. BY THEODORE THINEER, Ir is twilight, and I am alone. Now come before me, from the spirit land, the forms of those I love. I am no longer alone. Though the busy, bustling, visible world is shut out from the mind, familiar faces, long missed from earth, hover near me, and look kindly upon me. My sister! I see her glad smiles, hear her accents of love, converse with her, as in earlier days, ere her spirit departed. O this still, serious, solemn hour of twilight! I bless my heavenly Father for the associations which cluster around it, for the thoughts of the past which it calls up, for the images of loved and lost ones which it oS TK Vy 277 ; EM bipy ee eae. as ““ ~