They are called the ghost trains and can be found at the north end of Chamberlain Lake which is part of the Allagash watershed. The two 100-ton steam engine locomotives are the most visible reminders of the long abandoned 13-mile railway in the middle of the North Maine Woods.
Many times I visited that spot and theorized on what life must have been like at that time. People who once lived, worked, strived, suffered, loved, grew old and died at one time walked this land.
The same thoughts plague my mind in surveying an old cemetery. My five-year-old grandson stood in the graveyard where most of my ancestors and extended family are buried. I monitored his expression as he read from tombstone to tombstone: Gardner, Gardner, Gardner… I said to him, “Yes, Josh, this is where we all go.” Seems like that was the first time the reality of life and death confronted him.
The apostle Paul addressed a serious misconception about death to the Corinthians.
If, in the manner of men, I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantage is it to me? If the dead do not rise, “Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
Life is not just for the flesh and its pleasures but the whole of now and eternity. God gave us a book about all of that and we should acquaint ourselves with it.
Give it some thought.
Gary