The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1862-05-17
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SENTMAN.--On the 1st instant JESSE
ADDISON, youngest son of Jonathan and
Mary +. Sentman, aged 2 years and 5
months.
"Of such is the Kingdown of Heaven"
MAFfIT-on Sunday. the 4th inst. william WRIGHT
infant son of Samuel ;. and Adelaide G. Mafit.
ADDRESS by REV. MIR. MITCHELL
OF Trsity Church, Ekton, on the death Of an Infant
tn" death Of an infant my brethren is very solemn
most unnatural To abrautifu face unfolding bright
visions Of coming sweetness, nd bcsprcAd with holy
calm, distorted by agony Of suffering must be painful
stranger hat how much more So to parent There
something in this which tells ms that fell disaster
has oretken our r"ce and married rrimcval glory
God made God did not Intend that we should
be ~. Death Is not native Of world. enana-
tion from heaven; no is foreigner. invader,
upper Upon the pale face Of the dead infant the.
indrc, mysterious hirrog lyphcs, which reason
dccypcr; at which nature stagsrrs and grows faint
Christianity alone reads them. SnE pou,s from the
eliminates with the Of the past and the light Of
tine FUTURE showing death victorious by sin, but van
pushed by Christ
We are sometimes, my brethren, disposed to ask
Does it not though the infant had been given If
God for NO PURPOSE. Docs it not look to live and die
almost like q blank, or like something which h Is failed
I" answer the great end Of its being; Not at ALL
believe that the infant in its brief and weeping pilgrim
age breaches eloqucntly than the pastor in the
pulpit, and 10y its death seals its testimony solcmnly
n. the martyr at the stake. What is II dead infant hut
an ambassador Of esd. that has preached family =
The wages Of sin is DEATH the gift Of God is eternal
life through Jesus Christ Lord sand sealed that
lesson by it, ownlcparture. Each dead infant been
honored to DO minister aud martyr both and reached
the joy Of each. How cosoling these views
parents who bercavcd Of their childrens Ours.
brethren, il privilege IA well as pain. 1t painful
Job to his and daughters in the meridian of
laid PROSTATE before him. 1t was still affecting
to Aaron to ha two struck down 10y the bolt Of
heaven. in the midst Of their rebellion against God. But
it cannot he thus painful to the christian parent
behold an Infant dying. because he knows that infant
has been forgiven his original SIM and forgiven in add
tion, all its seventy years Of weary pilgrimage; has
gained the without the turmoil reached the goal
without running Of the course its harvest has been
heaped M in its seed time it has reaped without sowing
Ana surely no christian parent would wish an infant
hack again to earth. Can you avlct ask Of every
parent that bas lost inf,ntcan you say to that infant
~ were to back, Weep ~" Can you dry
~ tears from Its that it shall more >
what can you PROMISE 1t Seventy years Of weary
pilgrimage at the very heat. in world where
hecnme almost martyrs get their daily bread; where
a hollow all is deceptive all unreal; where every
"oHeht ~ II speeds tells that the great Of
eTrnHy u rusbug UPWARDS and carving millions unprc
pred tn the Judgment Of God The fears M nature
arc wiped away tT the hand II grnce We sorrow
fe"ae our INFANTS are removed. They GO (hanpy and
holy oncs) from life Of nartyrlom to a lie of milienia
bcssedners and an infant tongue in h.avc cosld he
audible on earth, that infants tongue would say-Wcc
gone unto my Pathern -
There is something pleasing sson the fact that every
infant thar You -e Is link that binds to the grave
the one haBl and link also that hnls to etc unity
the other. portion Of yourself has taken ~
the tomb to remind you That liz down there -
soul that related to yourself has t,ken
of eternity To remind you that must enter there
Our bodies are through infants, in communion with
the dust and our spirits with The everlasting throne.
Ny brethren. disposed to strike our roots
deep into this fading and aintinS earth, that ought
TO feel it mercy the part Of God to send those
tiseipcnts which loosen oir affections srom world
doomed destruction. Each infant that lose tie
less to bind to this world, and tie 10 bind
hearts that world where they have prcccd.d
NJ Happy truth if NC but rehe III iTHrry Lesson, il