Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-07-15

The dear familiar faces have somewbi,e ovsa an o,u,
-Tupper
There was rosebud upon the bush by the
window, and as its white leaves BEGAN to como
forth from their surrounding settingof green
1T looked like beautiful gem, and I thought
1t was typical of the pure in heart, who are
called blessed, for they shall reign with Him
who gave both the animate and nanimate ex.
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glanced at the rose in the morning. inst
as the god of Day was kissing the dew from
the velvet grass near it, and its fragrance
was waited like incense towards me- Again
was the flower typical of the Christian who
sheds around him an influence which is
blessing to mankind Another day passed
by, and the flower was withered by the
scorchlng sun. But II had accomplished its
destiny. Those who have learned to walk by
-" the still waters of the river of peace" if
faithful to the precepts given by Christ un-
IKE the flower, when the destroyer comes,
they will but die to live forever, for
"Death is another life. We bow our heads
Atgong out, we Think and enter straight
Another golden chamber of the kings
Larger than this we love and lovelier,,
The chords which bind us to earth are
many, and when death breaks one of these
often the heart is bound still closer to earth
by the ones that remain. But to him who
has passed from death unto life, who carries
with him the assurance that the recording
angel, at the bar Of God, has inscribed his
name In the Lambs Book of Life the sever
ing OF tie which keeps his affections upon
inns world, but serves to bring him nearer
Heaven and those who have gone before. It
is most cheering hope to the pilgrim who
YEARLY travels lite's journey, to realize that
IN that great and last day, when God shall
"make up his jewels" that they shall again
greet those who were once with them. but
have passed unto the experience of purer
joys than any earth can afford, in that land
where there is no death.
Friends in Heaven! Beacon stars in tho
Kingdom of the Redeemer which guide us
to the portals beyond which is eternal life
with Him who died for us, that we tbrouob
Him might live.
how many wanderers amid the changing
scenes of llfes drama bear its trials and cares
with meek resignation, having with them the
assurance that they shall one day meet their
friends in Heaven.
ferchance some mother has watched. "a
only mother can watch, over tAe bed Of
dying cherub, who had scarce seen life,s bean.
Ties ere the spoler came. Yet while the
most grief is dwelling in her heart Che
presses the last kiss upon the marble brow
ana murmurs, THY will, not mine. O Lord
ana the rosebud which is clasped in the
mana OF the sleeper, is beautiful emblem Of
a ? heart unstained by sin. And by the eve Of
lalth she was seen in the arms Of One Who
has said "Of such is the Kingdom Of Hea.
ven, " 1t has upon its brow the sionet IF
DEATH but there the diadem of glory How |
then Is the love of God revealed /, o;vina
man that grace which enables him to mee s
DIS friends in Heaven when "tbe golden
chord OF life is loosed," and q" this @ortal
snail nave put on Immortality"
y that those who are now eroninc in tho
darkness OF sin, might turn from the error of
their ways, and behold that beacon who in
ages past took upon himself the seed of Abra.
nam, and became like as we are, and left to
mortals, as precious legacy, the assurance
that the dead in Christ shall live again.
Barre, June q, 1858.