The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1863-08-19
- He Died RiCh.''


People said this everywhere, when the
morning papers announced the death ot
John Russell, President OF tho -. Bank
They sad 1t on Wall street, whore they
count wealth hy hnndrcdH of thousands.
and thoy said 1t IN elegant parlors. and by
luxmiaut breakfast tables, all over the
souarcs and avenues in the great city they
said IT, toe, in da,k alleys and squald
homoe where all his thousands could not
buy back to the millionaire ono hour of tho
llo that was to thom burden and mis-
cry Everywhere IT was tho same story,
" He died rich'
His family and his friends thought 30 az
they gathered around the bedside Of the dy
ing man and you, reader, would have
thought SO, too, II you could have looked
around thai chamber, into which death was
entering with his footballs and his ghastly
rrcscnCc.
Oh, IT was princcly room. Raro pic
lures flushed the walls that winter day with
! the glory of Arcadmu summer the fairest
/ blossoms of Southern Mays were piled
! thick upon the costly carpet and the dain-
! tily embroidered drapcry fell i'll soft, crink-
/ led clouds from tho massive bedstead. And
1 tho owner of this magnihCenCo lay there
| dying and through all his lifo OF more
/ than thrccscorc years, he had toilcd and
! struggled for this--to dio rich He had
, bought lands and sold them; he had sent
I richly ircightod ships to foreign ports ; he
had owned shares in railroads and stocks
/ in the banks, and now!
! All there was an angel who stood at the
| bedside of John Russell in that dying hour
and the man had nothing out Of all his life
tu give him no gcncrous, noble, self-sacri
] a.. i,l, hnv hapn la
and gold and all precious Jewels in the
| hand of tho angel; So he wrote down under
the last chapter Of John Russclrs life" llE
DIED roor."
Aud John Russell saw the words as his
soul followed the angel on that journey,
which, sooner or later, we must take, and
he knew then, for the first time, that all the
labor and toll, and struggle for life on the
earth had only brought him this verdict at
the bar of the kingdom of Heaven: "HE
DIED POOR
"IIc died rich" Very few persons said
this of an old man who lay in a back cham
hcr of a small, dilapdatcd building, whose
solitary window looked ont on the back
garden of John Russcll's residence, The
floor was bare, and there were only iow
chairs. u table and A low bod in the room,
By it's side stood an old black woman
whom the dying man had occasionally fur
nishcd with an armiull of wood, or loaf OF
bread. She moistcncd his lips with water
OF held the tallow candle close to his eyes
So that no might ouca more SEQ the dim
light ut the world. llo had not dollar
upon the earth; his fortune had takcr
wings and flown away; his wife and chill.
drcn had Sole before him, his friends de
serted or lost sight oi him, but the CRATE
tul old black woman he had saved from
). starvation,
But the angel with the hook stood there
too, and looking over the old mans life, hC
saw how mary good and gentle, aud gen
crnus deeds frightened every year how
he had been kind to the suffering, and for
given such wrongs as make men tionds, anc
strlvcn through all the trials aud tcmp;a
tons of his long, sad life, to be true to Goo
and himself. So tho angel wrote mdol
the last chapter of this mans life, and ev
cry letter shonc like somo rare setting q
diamonds llG DIED RIcu'
There was the house not made will
hands, with its columns of pearl, and its
ceilings of Jasper, with its pleasant rooms
and it's lofty halls, and its mighty organs
from which peal forever the notes Of praise
tn our God
There, too, WAS the pleasant landscape
, with its green avenues, ITS golden pavlllouS
it's trees waving in the Joy of eternal leaves
and it's silver meadow lands slopng duwI
t. the river ut eternal waters. lie Wal
heir 10 all these things, tor he had laid NJ
for himself a crown ot glory IN the kingdom
above, where moth aud rust doth not cor
rupt'
\ GRAVE NWHour A MONUMENT tn,
sea is the largest ut GENE tories, and all ~
S'umhcrrrS sleep without monument Al
other grayryards, in all lands, show SOM
symbols Of distinction between the grca
and the small, tho rich and the poor bu
D IN that ocean cemetery, the king aud In,
crown, the prince and the peasant ar,
alike lmdjstinguiShcl The same way,
. rolls over all, the requiem, 10y the min
strelsy OF tho ocean, is sung 10 their houor
, Oven their remains the same storms beat
and the aomc sun shines; and there, M
marked, the weak aud The powerful tn,
! pMmrl and the unhonurcG Wall sleep ol
tmul awakened 10y the trump, the sea Wal
give mp IFS dead.
so marble rises to point ont where ,hci
ashes are gathered. Vet the ccmctcry hatl
= ornaments Of which uo other can boast
uu uo other Jru the heavenly uyNS volyct,,
IN such Spouaur over no other is hear,
!, such noble melody Hepyy GUts,
i, IluAvENN NlsuANrS.-Wo nocl no
Y Doubt the fact that angels whose home i
, ia heaven, visit our earth and bear par
! il our transactions and We have good rra
son o. believe tlat, if We obtain admission
into heaven, We shall still have opportu
j. nifty, not only to return Ia earth, hut L
% N.,w the operation of God in distan