The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1854-02-07
When we are

!. There will he some honest sorrow. A
few vii be really sad, AS we are dressed for
the grave. Fewer, pr"bably, than we now sup
mnse. We are vain enough to think our de-
parture will produce considerable sensation:
But we over estimate it. Out of very small
circle how soou shall we be forgotten. A sin.
ole leaf in a buunde,s forest has fallen! That
is all.
The gay will laugh,
When thou art gone the solemn brood of care -
P,d on and soon one as before will share
His favorite phantom ..gs. ~
9. The world will go on without us. We
may have thonght very important wheel in
Pthp great machinery will be ungeared when we
are gone. But the world gnes claitering on us
if nothing had happened. IL W filled lmpor..
,ant stations in society, if we have wondered
what QUILL, or could be done, if we were So
moved; vet how soon Others would fill our
stations! The world can he Il busting, active
world, without US. 1t was So before We en-.
tered it. 1t will he when we are gone.
8. When we are dead, affection may erect a
monument But the hand that sets it up will
soon be as pnwerless as ours, and from the
same cause. How soon they that wept over
Us will follow Us! The monument itself will
crumLle, aud its dust will fall on the dust that
covers US. If the marble aud granite long en
dures, vet the eyes Of affection will not long
endure to read the craven letters. Men will
give a ha>ty glance at the name OF one they
never knew, and pass on, with not single
though, of the <lumberer below.
On my messy gravo
The men of future times will careless tread
And read my name upon the unsculptnred stone:
Nor will the souid, familiar to their ears
Recall my vanished memory.
q. When we are dead, our influence will
no, be- dead also. We leave epitaphs upon in
d,S,ructihle materials Our manner Of life
has been writing them We have stirred up
thought and awakened em"tion. The wonder
iul machinery of the mind has felt our presence
We have pressed the stamp of our character
into the warm wax of moral Sen>ibilities
around us. Fnot>tcps towards Immortality
hav. been well guided, or misdirected hy Us.
Our places of business. or social resort, may
know us no more; but living accountable be-
gs feel the influence that survives our per-
<onal departure.
5. When we are dead the Kingdom Of G"d
will not die. 1t did MT depend on u. for ex
slencc. And onward will it go when we have
ceased to live Happy, indeed, if it had been
the honor and JOY of our lab"rs to have promo
ted it Blessed /, it to be remembered as hav'
ing loved Zion, as taking pleasure in her stones
aud favoriu. the dust thereof.
Sacred, c"nsoing thought! The Kingdom
of Christ nwves ON, when we drop all of ouI
ea,hIy relations to it. Other servants of God
will rise To fill onr Ilaces. 4 brighter star
NAV rise for one that is fallen. Stronger hafds
than 'uls may come int" the ranks.
6. When we are dead some will think ofu<.
Perhaps not large circle. And what will
they think Our present course OF life is fur
ni>hiny them with themes of thought. Cold.
ness and indifference to the Kingdom OF G"G
of that will our survivors think, if it marked
our characters. Aud in sadness will those that
truly loved u ponder it. Aud thoughts, how
many, and how comforting, will rise, and the
pangs of real sorrow over our departure, II we
had shone forth the praises of Him who called
US to glory and virtue. luto which OF these
channels are we like y to turn the thoughts o
men ?--Pmutan Recorder.