Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-04-22

tied and which have been meetod out to her 50
sparingly. Aad would not fail to do for her
all that child can do, even to the fulfilling
her other request if it should devolye upon ME,
which is, if she should pass before me- to the
Spirit-Land, that should perform the same
Office for her as for my father.
But | admit his remark, " that it dries the
fountain of tears IL does SO. Would any
weep 50 mournfully if they really trusted in
God and felt that g Death is swallowed up in
victory" 0 grave where is thy victory, Oh
death when is thy sting s. has been peculiarly
considered the feeling of the true christian, and
yet my friend speaks as though the only way to
show respect for the departed and follow out
the principles Of Christianity is to bitterly be-
wall their loss and make their funerals season
OF bitter lamentation and weeping And he
even quotes it as decided proof of the barbar-
ism of Mahomadans because g no signs of OK
cossive grief, no tears or amontation are al
manded by their great law-giver to submit with
cheerfulncss to the most affecting disponsation
of Providence" And this is to be ascribed as
EauA Thought this was the doctrine of Chris
tianity, l hare get to learn that is not con-
sidered one Of their greatest triumph when they
can say aoithom tears at the departure of loUed
one " Thy giH be done,
They say, how unlike Christianity is Spirit
ualism. Our Savior wopt at the grave of Lag
arus. He mingled his tears with those of the
afflicted. But the Spiritualist is taught that
tears and lamentation arc proofs of human
weakness"
What says Mathews Sth Chap. Dist and ODD
verses?
And another OF his disciples said unto him,
Lord suffer me first to go and bury my father.
But Jesus said unto him, Follow me ; and
let the dead bury the dead.
If had left my parents in their old age
without a care and followed mymission as far
as Christ g who wcpt at the grave of Lazarus, y
required his disciple to do, then Mr.. B. might
have said that failed in respect. But its g wild
enthusiasm as he terms it, never carried me thus
far. But through the fundamentally of my
Spirit Friends who knew my anxiety to be with
my father in his last days, | was warned OF
his greater illness before | received letters to
that effect, was prevented from making engage
monts and impressed to go homc-a distance
of several hundred miles, as was then in the
Southern Statcs-although letter was on its
way to me at that time, saying he was better
and need not come. The day after my arrival
bed till he passed to his better home just three
weeks from the time of my return. had the
happiness of ministering to him and soothing
him when no one else could in the hours when
his mind wandered and he thought himself
among strangers, and of being recognized tC
the last, when all knowledge of others had
passed away. If in not leaving the dead tC
bury the dead" if in making my religion con
sst In fulfilling my home duties as well as my
public ones, even to carrying out the wishes o
my best friends without consulting the opinion
of the world, is proving Spiritualism unlik'
Christianity then plead guilty. Is there on
who believes Christianity teaches differentl.
from this? If any, speak, for him have Ct
Tended"
Tears, what are they? Drops of affection
If 81, like David who tasted, prayed, ant
wept, while his child yet lived, but who arose
changed his apparel and eat bread after, the.
} told him it was dead and when qucstione'
with wonder upon the subject he said.
While the child was yet alive tasted ant
wept for [ said, who can tell whether Go
s will be gracious to me, that the child ma,
live?
g" But now he is dead wherefore should
: fast?"
f shed them in the hours when my friend
sufrand not when their suferings have passe
away and they have gone where this sor
- shall grow bright with purity and happiness
David made no bitter lamentations at I'll
: funeral of his child, and yet " he was ma
l after Gods own heart y and no one ever think
of his conduct as demonstrating a want of a
fiction. L have wcpt long hours of hopele
agony Tor that same father, but have no teal
to shed now, save tears Of joy that believe
Il not in humiliation or an endless hell enoue
. to drive one mad and make life one long III
l ending funeral, sufficiently awful in its tral
scendent sorrow to satisfy the most fastidious-
but in an Eternal Life of Progression whC
" g this mortal shall put on immortality -,
u more strictly speaking shall find that immorta
II ity is given, as the birth and the spirit of Il
u departed shall rise from every earthly stain ar
u gather closer to those left behind impartng tt
u beauties of Heaven and its own Immort
r. Joy.
it "And a brother in-law of the deceased co
he Quoted the funeral " This also he says, was
he source of regrte and modification to the frien
ii of the deceased Oh conrentnaHty when W
~ thy reign cease? A friend must be burr
re with all the honors of war, if heart brea
rs every time the cannon is fired over the graz
And the moment the breath has left the boo
IN the friends must leave the form 50 lately CHI
Is shed, unto the hands of strangers to array
to for burial and to care for until the appoint
hour has come, merely because custom has 81
al it is improper TO do otherwise and hold I
Us mother with a steady grasp when she often fe
re it would be such happiness to do for her lit
Is treasure to the last And friends who hi
lie that same comforting faith that few h;
X found, who fell that they know not where
us loved are gone, must be paraded up and do'
pc the aisle when their hearts are breaking, a
100 have the cold prying eyes of strangers wat