Brownlow's Knoxville Whig, and rebel ventilator. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1863-1866, 1864-06-18
Knoxville, Saturday, June 10, 1864.
For the Knoxville Wing.
The Grave,

The Grave,
|e home of all mankind from who's
bonn has fled the vital spark. The YES.
|plc, the chamber to Il "housc no
de with hands, eternal in the heavens
W hat "reminiscences of the past ar,
qght to mind by the sight Of n grave
grated with a marble monument OF
ch is inscribed the token of last respect
litlcss indeed, would be the attempt t.
onicle the association Of ideas thus sud.
ly brought into being. The cause and
ure Of the oflcnsc which consigned man
the tomb, the irrcvocablc decree o
,yen's ruler, Dust thou art and unto
shalt thou return the countless mum.
of the many y-tongucd SONS Of Adam who
c mouldcrcd back to mother earth, the
cdcnrc unto death of the immaculate
of God, breaking the bars Of death and
hing from the tomb as the first fruits OF
N that slept and ultimate victory OF
mankind over the iron jaws of death,
but the most interesting and instructive
mes thus evolved.
he grave The high and the low, the
and the poor the king and the vassal
here lose their distinction. "AIl 60
one place all are of the dust and all
! to dust again. .'-.S0i0m0n.
he atheist is often compelled, when wit
ing the clods falling upon the coffin OF
c dear friend, to douJt, if not to full " re-
,ce, his rash assertion. there is no God.
ugh in health and in the pursuit o.
div honor, he stinc the innate hope and
Re Of man for existence after this traiI
shall have been dissolved yet when
parting hour comes, candor and his
al forebodngs compel him to confess
the idea Of perpetual sleep is not con
mt with the rational wants of man $
re. Even Nolmire himself was COM
ID at the close of his life to acknowledge
lief in the existence of future state,
WAS willing to give n great part of his
me for I'M extension of that existence
n he wasted in hostility to God, hui
it's, christianity and his own eternal
tests
ow natural it is when standing by the
B of the departed to adopt the language
pb: "If a man die shall he live again y
the lifeless body, lying beneath the
ever be resurrected? Have the icttcrs
bound man to the charnal house for
than four thousand years been sever
Have we any assurance, any incon-
dc evidence that il man die he shall
hgain?
ch Of the foregoing questions can be
cred in the affirmative. Christ, our
brother. is the resurrection and the
he was the first to rise from the tomb
again to return to it. This fact is
lishcd by tho testimony Of Cephas, OF
weve Apostles, of five hundred brcth-
pf James, and last of all. by Paul him
who witnessed the shining light at
lay when on an errand of persecution
smascus CAS- in (bv) Adam all die,
so in (by) Christ shall all be made
- The antdotc is as powerful as the
Sc is universal.
40 can visit the grave even Of an enc
ithout feeling power within that
ics the stcrner passion. and without
ting tie on consanguinity that as
y every emotion of malevolencc -
much more intense is the sympathy
Election awakened when we resort to
lst peaceful abode of friends and loved
Words are too feeble to express the
II passion that possesses the soul, but
vmpathetic tear is indicative of the in
workings, too powerful for uttcrance.
-rave, 'Tis n solemn place:
is dark purple loan, whcrcon ! lie,
his green mould, the mother of bright flowers,
one and sincw once now dccomposcd.
,s has lived, breathcd, walked as proud ns We.
inmate with all the faculties.
ner senses Of the human soul
ow what are they? To their elements
as returned; dust crunIbled back to dust,
iri, gone to God"
J. F. RioHARD,
rr;,le, Tenn, May 49, 1864.
,.EvERAycE.-In the afternoon Of that