Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1854-04-15
when We are Dead.

/. There will be some honest sorrow.
A few will be really sad, as we are robed
for tho grave, Fewer, probably, than
we now suppose. We are vain enough
to think our departure will produce con.
siderable sensation. But. we over esti-
mate it. Out of q small circle, how
soon we shall be forgotten! a single
leaf in bouudless forest has fallen !
That is all. r'..
The gay will laugh,
Whom thou art gone, the solemn brood Of caro-
Plod on, and each one as before will share
Ills iayoritc phantom. ,...r t.s..
2. The world will go on without US.
We may have thought very important
wheel in the great machinery will be
ungeared when we are gone. But the
world goes cla,tering on as if nothing
had happened. If we filled important
stations in society; if we have wonder
ed what would, or could be done, if we
were removed; yet how soon others
will fill our stations! Tho world will
be bustling, active world. without us;
1t was so before we entered it. 1t vii!
be SO when we are gone. nt gagu
8. When we are dead, affection may
erect q monument, But the hand that
sets it up will soon be as powerless as
ours. and for the same cause. How
soon they that weep over US will follow
US! The monument itself will crum-
BILE, and it will fall on the dust that COW
ers us. If the marble or the granite
long endures, yet the eyes Of affection
will not endure to read the craven let
tiers. Men will give glance at the
name of one they never knew, and pass
on, with not thought of the slumberer
below. ,..., .,..rI..f l.-.r'. '.Lu8.
On my grassy grove Do.
The mon of futurc time will careless tread.
And read my name upon the sculptured stone )
Nor will the sound. familiar to their cars,
Recall my vanished memory. ..-rr'n
a. When we are dead our influence
will not be dead. Wo leave epitaphs
upon indistruclible materials. 4 Our
manner Of life has been writing them
We have stirred up thought and ava
kened emotion. The wonderful ma
chinery of mind has left; our presence.
We have pressed the stamp Of our char
acter into the warm wax Of ouromoral
isensibilities- around-us. Footsteps to-
ward Immortality have been well guild
cd or misdirected by US. Our'places of
business, our social resort, may know US
no more; but living accountable beings
feel the influence that survives our per-
sonal departure. '''' p" "a'-s IL. ~
S. When we are dead the kingdom Of
God will not die. Il did not depend on
us us for existence. And onward will
it go when we have ceased to live
Happy. indeed, lift had been the honor
and Joy Of ourlabors to have promoted
it. Blessed is it to be remembered as
having loved Zion, as taking pleasure
in her stones, and favoring the dust
thereof. Sacred. consoling thought
The kingdom Of Christ moves on, when
we drop our earthly relations toiit.-
Other servants Of God will rise to fill
our places. Abrighter star may rise
for the one that has fallen. Stronger
hands than ours may come into the
ranks. Ho ritNr1ta7 Sa !:
S. When we are dead, some will
think of u.s.. Perhaps not q large cir
Gle. And what will they think Our
present course oflife ia furnishing them
themes ofthought. Goodness aud indif:
ference to the kingdom and glory of
God-of that will our survivors think, if
it marked our characters. And in sad
ness will those that truly love ponder
it. And thoughts, how many and com.
forling, will rise amid the pangs Of real
sorrow over our departure, if wc had
shown forth the praises of Him who
called US to glory aud. to virtue. 0,
reader, think, into which of these chan.
nels am | likely to turn the thoughts Of
men !-Puritan Recorder. alqas4el