The Forget Fulness Of Pain

It is wondorfiilly easy to forget pain. We oftcn thought tliere was a sort of witneas to immortality in tlie strange faot that while omotion remembered is, to some oxtent, rmotion experienced, sensation íh never réally vemembered at all. Whfttever helónos to tho body seeins to bear the st&nftp of mortality - it pft8&68 at once into the región of oblivion vhéo we are delirvered from lts pressure. How different is the rolation of meniory to tho maladies of the soul! Place the unkindness of long yeara ago sitie by sido in your recolleetion of the toothaehe of last week, and you feel at unir yon are compuring a living thing and i dcad thing. The unkindness, whether remenibercd by him who feit or inflicted it, is a living reality, potent to reopen and envenom the wound it liad made. The toothiu'he is gone, as if it luid oever been. To this fact, we are convinoed, nmst be ixaced the common assiuption that any degree of bodily snffering would be chosen rather thiin severe pain of mind. "What people inciui in wiving this is. no doubt, that they wonld rather reinember physieal than mental puin, and, of course, a short experienee of the pnin whieh leaves no trace is to be preferred to an equally short experience of the jiain which leaves a profonnd trace. Ï5nt we ai-e considering the case of one who knows that this fierce companion will not quit liis side till the clay whitsli gives it its power is laid in the grave, and no sufferer, we think, is to be set by his side. The deadljest mental angujsh allows some respifce, wlion t)o body claims its clue; anundying grief does not prevent som o faint glearns of pleasuro wlicn sleep comes on after fatigue or hunger and thirst are relieved. But there is no converse to tho picture. Au unintermittent pain of body, when very sevcre, leaves 100111 for nothingbxit itself. - Wpectator.