Litchfield enquirer., 1853-10-13

that sepulcher was in a garden. so every flower, and every tree, and every rOot ars nuual prophets sent to affi,m the future and cheer the way. Thus, as birds. to teach their little ones to fly. do fly first themselves and shew the way and as guides that would bring the timid to venture into the dark. faced ford. do first go back and forth through ii, So the year and all its mighty multitudes oi growths walk in and out before us. to encourage our faith of life by death of decaying for the sake of better growth. Every
 seed and every bud whispers to us 10 secure, while the leaf is yet green. that germ which shall live when frosts have destroyed leaf and flower.
 Is there anything that the heart needs more than this Is there anything that can comfort the heart out of which dear ones have fled, as birds flying out of and
 forsaking the trees where they were wonsed to sit and sing. but the assurance of their speedy TO re-coming. They are not silent every where, because they do not speak to us. Their feet walk yet, though no foot-fall may be ;n our bosoms. Thine, O death, was the furrow; we cast theraia our precious seed. Now let us wait and see what God shall brng forth for ps,
 A single leaf falls--the bud at its axiI will shoot forth many leaves. The has- bandman bargains with the year to give hundred grains for each one. Shall
 God be less generous? Yet when we
 SOW, our hearts think that beauty is goae out, that all is lost. And when God shall
 bring again to our eyes the hundred fold
 beauty and sweetness of that which we planted, how shall we pity and ehane over tbat dim faith, that having eyes saw
 not, and ears heard not. though al
 heaven and all earth appeared and spake,
 to comfort those who mourn. And yet!
 and yet something sinks heavily down and weighs the heart too hardly. The future is bright enough: but. the Noo! Bat this glorious vision. this hope and
 everlasting surety of the future, bow
 shalloW were life without it, and how deep beyond all fathoming with it. The threads. that broke in the loom here. shall be taken up there. The veins of gold that penetrate this mighty mountain of Time and Earth. shall have forsaken the
 rock and dirt and shine in a seven-fold purity. And all those wrongly estranged
 and separated. and all who. with great hearts. seeking great good for men. do yet fall cut and contend, and all they who bear about hearts of earnest purpose, longing to love. and to do, but hipdered and baked. and made to carry hidden fire in their hearts that warns no one. and only burns the censer. and all they
 who are united for mutual discomfort. and all who are separated that shout d
 have walked together, and all that in.
 wardly or outwsrdly live in dream ell
 their days. longing for the dawn and the
 waking-to all such how blessed is the dawn of the Resurrection. The stone is
 rolled away. and angels sit upon it. and
 all who go groping toward the grave to
 search for that which is lost. shall hear
 their voices teaching them that Heaven
 hatvests and keeps whatever good Earth
 loses. But we began to write for the sake of saying farewell to old Salisbury. and to all its beautiful scenery. The enjoy nent which one receives m an eight week . communion with such objects as abound
 here cannot be measured in words. We are not ashamed to acknowledge that our
 last ride through the familiar places. was attended with m overflow of gratitude, as intelligent and distinct as ever we ex> per;enced toward a living person. Why not {? Did not God create the heavens and the earth full of benefactions ? Did He not set forth all entertainments of morning and evening, all processes of the seasons to he almoners of His own bounty God walks through the earth with ten thou.
 sand gifts which he finds no one willing to receive. Mch live in poverty, In cad. ness and dissatisfaction. yearning and
 wishing for joy, while above them. and Iabou. them. upon the grandest scals and
 with variations beyond record. are store:
 of pleasure beyond all exhaustion. and incapable of palling upon the taste.--
 When our heart has dwelt for a long time in these royalties and has been made
 rich wiih . wealth that brings no care nor buIdeu, nor corruption. and tba'
 wastes only to burst forth with ne"
 treasures and sweeter surprises. we can
 not iorbsar thanksgiving and gratitude
 which fills the eye rather than moves the
 tongue. It is not alone thanks tc' God.
 By natural process the minL gives sen iient life to His messengers, and regards
 them as tbe cheerful and conscious stew~
 ards of divine mercy, and thanks tbem heartily fur doing what God sent ibenD | to do. Nor can we f0fbeag q sense of sorros that that which uas meant lorp 50 great blessing to all men shopld be
 wasted upon the gseaIest number of men
 either because they lack education 10. Y -A ....h eis.,r.. .ss lasE !. .a,esk sksl;fv . that