Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1844-02-10
SHORT PATlsNT SER MON.

SHORT PATlSNT SER MON.
My presen, discourse is drawn from
the following lines of Young;
Death great proprietor of all !Iis thine
10 tread out empire, g. to quench the
stars.
The sun himself by thy permission shines,
And one day, thou shalt pluck him from
his sphere.
My hearers--It is well enough to re.
mind you once in few months at least
that death is not dead, but still silently
busy in this great stint Of destruction
At this autumnal, melancholy, and medi-
tative season Of the year, when death is
solemnly visible throughout the vegeta
BILE world, and when you see the leaves
dropping, one by one, you cannot but bel
reminded how your friends are annually
falling through decrepid old age or dire
diseasc--and ye, your thoughts OF death
don't dwell longer in your bosoms than a
mouse in bee hive The wing Of the
9eet bird leaves no scar upon the sky
no stain is left upon the cloud where
the rainbow rcste6--;hc parted wave
quick closes behind the vessels keel, and
no furrow remains; and so dies in hu
man heart each thought of death.
My (rend-Death, is among us at all
times. He is continually treading some
of US, insects OF an hour, that crawl along
the pathway of life, into dust; and there
is no knowing how soon we, ourselves,
may be crushed beneath his feet. When
a friend Unexpectedly falls by the way
siderw give shudder, and stand APP
pailed for moment. A lew melancholy
reflections, like a cloud shadows over
sunny landscape, fit across our minds !;
and then we trot along as merry as the
ploughboy that whistles while turning
the which covers the ashes ofhi ances-
tors. The flowers have time to fade
and the leaves season to fall man, NOR
tai man, is just likely to be cut off in theI
bud Of infancy, the greenness of youth,
or the full bloom of man, as in hoary
age. The hand of the husbandman gath |
ers the grain only that is ripe and fit for
harvest, but the reaper, death binds his i
bundles, unmindlul whether there be
tares, tender blades or ripened heads a. |
mong them. Some Of the most beautiful
blossoms of mortality are instantly blight
ed by his breath the Strong aud the
powerful fall as easy a prey 10 him as
the weak and tho fenceless--and the
swift foot can no more outspeed HIM
than crocodile on clutches could keep
clear OF u steam locomotive.
My dear hearers--Death is but step
that reaches 10 eternity, and yet when
that step is taken b one Of our assoc-
ntes in existence, how little do we know
for certainty Of his Whereabouts, what
about, and howaboul! All thou certain
" knowost Of death, saith the preacher,
is, that it putteth an end 10 all our sor-
rows. We follow the remains Of our
beloved ones 10 the sepuchre, then the
door Of the sepuichre is slammed--they
are shut out from our sight foreve r, and
all beyond surrounded in darkness,
1oubt and uncertainty. The deed no
1ouot are like stars by day, Withdrawn
from mortal eyes, ard yet no. extinct;
or they hold their way in glo-y through
he sky; spirits from bondage set free,
md left 10 vanish amid immensely, where
10 man sight like human thought fails
o pursue their trackless fight. We may
suppose that TO dieis 10 land on some ST.
ent shore upon which the pillows ofaC I
LECTION mover break, and where tempest
4 trouble are never known to disturb the L
'ence and tranquility, that forever there
reside; but the truth Of this my friends
5 only known 10 him who has passed /
hat borne from whence no traveller
elurns"-who remains an exile in the '
asst empire OF eternity from whom I
'e expect no more information than r
rom last years almanac, respecting e
nc result Of the next presidential cleo L
on, $,
MY dear friends--whcn the old, weary
ndlhe worn out are removed from, the 8
'orld; we look upon as a natural con- Y
equency, and only consider that everylg
ne must come to this at last but when y.
he young and vigorous are nIown down u
J their rashness, wo weep are startled SC
/ the sacrifice. Little babies, the bright Iel
ST diamonds OF naturo,are ofien merely Egt
xhibiteito the gaze OF the world, andlin