Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1852-11-20
7 II L B U GLE .
Elegy wiIhOut Fiction.
A !Scrmoa, Preached OeioLer 3lSi, 1852.
by n. W. HiCCfNsoN.

M by n. W. HICCfNsON.
Minister Of The HoyeeStr Free Church.
s"I have suid yc arc gods. But yc shall die
like mcu, and FALL like ono of tic Prince"
--PSaAns, LerrH: 6 Z.
have remarked to YOU before, that the
ancient Hebrews took dark view Of death,
compared with the Egyptians, Greeks,
and Romans. There was u maxim among
these last nations, that "whom tie Gods
love, die young" llut the Hebrews did not
think So. They thought the chief rewards
and punishmcnts of men, consisted in the
events of this liic,-ihat M earthly death was
punishment of sin, aud u long life was an
honor from GuP II YOU look through the
Old Testament, you will find many illusira-
tions of this.
Nevertheless, they must all die, sooner or
later. And then, the Hebrews, with their
vivid oriental imagiuutions, saw clearly what
sn event the death OF "A distinguished man,
especially, wns-whnt n gap it seemed to
make in the world--wlint Il tremendous
blow il struck at earthly pride instant
ly il transferred tho power, the position, the
interest, which had belonged to the most H.
lustrious departed, from him 10 those LETT
behind, inferior rs those might he. No
man has power over the split, to retain the
spirit, nciher hath hc any power IN the day
vi deuii."
] am struck with the inprcssivrncss of the
distinction uS,d in tie text. g" We rhal die
like iiru." NuIhing more ar less lunu that.
NoIhirg less, lnr all Must die EVEN jesus
must have dird, ns tu the body, aud HAT have
returned To the dt>t. Nuihng more inr
wini can he more : there it j. The great
...l.l l. go. A a..
-,nnu irlds uI, his hnih 20 IT. ihrir account.
Ye shall dlc like men. nrly hat " slm'l tM
like one Of Me princes; all, there Is Iir dis
iinriinn. There Is ~ tall IN lhr hlInlhie
man: nay, the po"r pauprr, ignorant, irirnd
lcrr, helpless, during liIe, hrruurs sutnrhIdy
upon the event of death. CARRIAGES, il mnl
he, then follow, in procession, him wio nrv-
er even entered carriage, or joined II pro.
rcssinn, before no tall for him the world
thinks. But the prince, the public officer,
the eminent man, hG heiOrc whuIn all men
bowed during lite, whose mere drcsiun
could save or sentence the criminal, enact n
law 10 Tree the slave, or scud him back To slu-
very what change, when Tor hlm who
stirred the world, there is stirred little
piece of green iuri, and the turf Is replaced
and grows greener next year, aud that is all.
Here is n fall from place and power, which
man, MS man merely, does not lave and 20
it is well written, lc shall tile ns men, aud
fall as one OF the princes Of the earth. Men
die, and we do not notice IL; the princes OF
the earth fall, aud we hear il the higher the
tree, the crash echoes louder.
Aud, rs when we hear II stately tree fall,
we forget that trees have been growing mud
falling ever since The world began; so we
forget the princes of the earth who have fall
len one by one. There has been no mod-
ern inscription, grnnder lnnn the inscription
OH Cleopn,ra's Needle, the great Egyptian
Obelisk, thousands of years ago. " The Slo-
rons hero, the mighty warrior, whose actions
are great upon the bunner-the king of un
obedient people--a man just aud yirluous-
beloved Of the Almighty Director OF the
universe created happiness througout
his doninions. During his life, he eslah-
lished meetings of wise aud yirtuous men,
in order to Introduce happiness and prosper
ity throughout his empire. lle was, there
fore, exalted by the Almighty, Rhamsis, the
third king, who, for his actions here below,
was raised to immortality"
Aud yet, but for this crunbling stone, this
Rhnmsis would have been but one moro
barbarous name, on a long aud tedious cat
nloguG of kings. Aud as it is, perhaps that
is true of this inscription, which is true of
one of the sculptures Of Nineveh. Ii is said
that one of the bricks, brought from those
famous ruins, besides the letters inscribed
upon it, is marked with the footprints Of
small weasel, that must have run over the
brick before it dried so illat the records OF
the mighty king, aud of the diuiiuuliye AMI
nal have been handed downward upon the
sane piece of clay, to an equal Immortality,
longer or shorter.
But there nre sterner lessons than these
There is 10 satire so bitter ms the preserva-
ton of the epithets of greatness, when, not
only the memory Of the name, but all lis
visible glories are past away. ltis said, that
far in the Egyptian desert, the traveller comes
at length, upon the solitary relics Of ggan-
tic statue Two vast stone feet stand fixed,
forever, in the sand, and in them, lies nnimcd
81 and broken, head, with crumbling features,
on which cold, naughty sneer is still ap.
parent. And upon this relic is this carved
epilhet;
"My namc is Ozymindas, king of kings,
Look ON my works, yc mighty, and despair"