The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1854-05-12
when we arc Dead.


| will be really sad, robed for The grave
| Fewer probably, than now suppose. We are
vain enough 10 think departure will produce
considerable sensation. But we over-t stimate 1t
| Out of "a small circle, how shall be forgot
| ten! A single leaf from boundess forest has
fallen That is all.
| The gay will laugh
When thou art gone, the solemn brood cf care
Plod on, and each before will share
- His favorte phantom.
| 2. The world will go on without rs. We may
| have thought very important wheel in The grca
| inachlnery will be upgearcd when we are gone
But The world goes Gathering on as If nothing
had happened. If we filled important stations in
society-if we have wondered what would or
could be done, if we were removed-yet how soon
others will fill cur stations The world viii be a
busng active world will be buslIng active
world without US. 1t was so before we entered it.
1t will be so hen we gone.
3. When are dead, affection may erect a
monument. But the head that SETS i, no will soon
be as powcress as ours, and for the cause.
How soon they tnat weep will follow us
The monument itself will crumbIe, and it will fail
on the dust that covers Us. If the marble or the
granite long cndures yet the eyes of affection will
not endure to read the craven letters. Men will
give glance at the name of one they never knew
and pass on, with not thought Of the slumbeier
below.
On my grassy grave
The men OF future time will careless trade
And read my name upon the ulpturcd stone;
Nor will the sound, familiar to their ears,
Recall my vanished memory.
4. When dead our influence will not be
dead. We leave epnaphs upon indestrucflble ma
ferials. Our manner of life has been W ring them
We have stirred up thought and awakened emo
ton. The wonderful machinery Of mind has felt
orr We have pras ho ct,p,n # or1r
character into the warm wax of the moral sensib-
ites around US.
Our places Of business, our social resort, may
know more ; but living, accountable beings
feel the influence that involves our personal de-
mrture.
When are dead the kingdom of God will
not die. 1t did not depend on US Tor existence
4 md onward will it 90 when We have ceased TO
live Happy, indeed, fi; had been the honor and
icy of our labors 10 have promoted it. Blessed is
tito be remembered as having loved Zion, taking
pleasure in her stones and favoring the dus!
thereof
Sacred, consong thought. The kingdom of
[ Fhrls moves on, when We drop earthly rela- |
lions to II.
Other servants Of God will rise to Gil our places. |
brighter star may rise for The that has la- |
en-. Stronger hands than ours may come into I
he ranks.
6. When we are dead some VII think OF us !
Perhaps not large circle And what viii :hey !
hInk ? Our present course of life is furnishing I
hem themes of thought. Coldness and indiffer.
sncc TO The kingdom and glory OF God--of that
will our survivors think If it marked our charac-
ers. And in sadness will those that truly love
'onder 1t. And thoughts, how many, and how
will rise amid the pangs Of real
orrow praises of him who called US to glory
md to virtue. 0, reader, think, .nto which of
hese channels am likely to turn the thoughts of
nen?