The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-07-10
PASSING AWAY.

Sad words. mournful destiny, written on
every object of creation, from the great globe
tina. sails IN silvery light through space, to
the tiny flower that only blooms TO die!-
Melancholy lesson that, though everywhere
inscribed on the book OF Nature and OF Life,
we never fully learn, till taught by our own
painful experience. As the barque that oears
us, passes noiselessly down the stream OF
Time, and we miss the objects that surrouno-
ed us when our voyage began; as new scenes
open to the view, and the stream widens' ana
the dull roar of the distant ocean ever and
anon falls in deep-toned murmurs upon the
ear, then for the first time do we realize no"
truly our condition is described in those So
Tenn words, passing Amay!'
Nothing is stationary, nothing Stable on
this tide of life. In vain we try to cast an
Choir in the bottomless current. Notnihg IL
unchangiug but the skies. "Passing a~"!
is the universal and memorable law 'icis'
STUDIES of fortune, alienation OF flenoS'
death of kindred-one by one these ties aio
sundered, with which in vain we seek "
the "big ambition of the great warrior
foiled of its mighty prey, and chained ike
an imprisoned lion, upon barren rock In
the ocean, to the mothers hops that hes
blasted in some little coffin, change and DIS
appointment are the inevitable lot OF our
race. passing away is written IN SAD let
ters on the graves of those who die in child
hood, but in more mourntul characters
in ths hearts of those who live and suffer, a
more dismal change from joy to SORROW ana
from innocence to sin.
The spring passes into summer, summer
Into autumn, autumn into winter, and winter
into spring. From death to life the transi-
ton throughout Nature is as regular as from
life to death. Consoling thought! All the
xnalogies of Nature gid the grave with the
hope of resurrection. 1t cannot be- while
even the grass of the field revives with the
breath of spring; whilst the tree, that seem
ingly barren and leafess through the long
winter, casts off with the vernal air its shroud
of snow, and displays new vitality and beau
fy; it cannot be that man, the master OF the
lower world, shall know no resurrection
that the sIumber of the grave shall have no
morning, and in the form where dwelt god
like mind, there shall be no germ of immor-
tality.
Passing away" Mournful thought to
the young the happy, and the proud sons of
wealth; but good news, glad tidings OF great
10y to the children of sorrow and misfortune;
to the hewers of wood and drawers of water;
to the toiling multitudes who SOW that others
may reap, and whose sweat is coined into
gold for rich mems Golfers. A woeful re-
QUEEN to Dives 40 clothed in purple and fine
linen, he revels in luxury; the sweet whisper
of an angel to Lazarus, strengthening him
in his agony.
Passing away is written upon sorrow rs well
as upon joy; the cloud must pass as well as the
sunshne; and every buffet of the pursuing
wave sends the voyager nearer his haven
The inequalities of life will soon be ended; the
rich and the poor become food for the same
worm; the political and social tyrsnts ex-
change their good for evil things; and then
Time passing away into Eternity, will
come that grand and permanent state, in
which Eternal Justice will assert its domi-
Mon; in which patient, merciful and forgiv.
a1g Virtue will be raised from the dust, its
tears wiped off, and the shadows of 10y
shat "passed away" from it On earth, will
become angels of Heaven, and abide with
and gladden. it forever.