Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1860-07-14

by angels And the star, opening, showed
him great world of light, where many more
such angels waited to receive them
All these angels, who were waiting, turned
their beaming eyes upon the people who were
carried up into the star; and some came out
from the long rows in which they stood, and
fell upon the peoples necks and kissed them
tenderly and wentaway with them down ave
nues light, and we're so happy in their com
pany, that lying in his bed, he wept for JOY.
But, there were many angels who did not
90 with them, and among them one he knew.
The patient face that once had laid upon the
bed was glori6ed and radiant, but his heart
found out his sister among all the best
His sisters angel fingered near the entrance
Of the star, and said to the leader among those
who had brought the people thither--
rs my brother come p
And he said "No."
She was turning hopefully away when the
child stretched out his arms and cried 20, sis
ter, am here Take me /" and then she turned
her beaming eyes upon him. and it was night
and the star was shining into hisroom, making
long rays down toward him as he saw Il
through his tears.
From that hour forth, the child looked out
upon the Star a. on the home he was to go TO-
when his time should come, and he thought
that he did not belong to the earth alone, but
to the star, too, because of his sisters angel
gone before.
There was baby born to be a brother TO
the child; and while he was so little that he
never yet had spoken a word he stretched his
tiny form out on his bed, and died.
Again the child dreamed Of the opened star,
and Of the company of fangels, and the train of
people, and the rows of angels with their beam
ing eyes all turned upon those peoples faces
Said his sisters angel to the leader
us my brother come2
And he said, "Not that one, but another ="
As the child beheld his brothers angel in
her arms, he cried 20, sister | am here !
Take mel And she turned and smiled upon
him, and the star was shining
He grew to be young man, and was busy
at his books when an old servant came to him
and said
"Thy mother is no more bring her bless
ing on her darling son."
Again at night he saw the star, and all that
former company. Said his sisters angel to
the Leader
is my brother Gomez
And he said, Thy mother"
A mighty cry of JOY went forth through all
the stars, because the mother was reunited to
her own children And he stretched out his
arms and cried, 80, mother, sister and broth
er, | am here Take me- And they an
swered, "Not yet, and the star was shining.
He grew to be man, whose hair was turn.
ing grey, and he was sitting in his chair by the
fireside, heavy with grief, and with his face
bedewed with tears, when the star opened
once again,
Said his sisters angel to the leader, SIS my
brother Gomez
And he said, ''Nay, but his maiden daugh
ter"
And the man who had been the child saw
his daughter, newly lost TO him, a celestial
creature among those three, and he said, my
daughters head is ON my sisters bosom, ant
her arm is round my mothers neck and Al
her feet there is the baby of old time, and
can bear the parting from her, God be prais
ed"
And the star was shining
Thus the child came to be an old man, anC
his once smooth face was wrinkled, and hi
steps were slow and feeble and his back wai
bent And one night as he lay upon his bed
his children standing around him, he cried, a
he had cried so long ago;
~ see the srar T.
They whispered to one another, "He is dy
ling"
And he said, II am. Ny age is falling from
as child And o, my Father, now | thanl
thee that it has so often opened to receiv
those dear ones who await me !"
And the star was shining and it shines up
on his grave.