Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1866-10-03

there many of them spent much of their
lives in the darkness; and there they
were accustomed to lay away their dead.
They dug out in the rock, houses of re-
pose and through the light of day
never visited them they adorned the walls
with paintings and sculpture, expressive
of chastened affection and triumphant
faith. We have none to hurt or to make
as afraid, and under the clear light of
day We can use natures owa handjworh to
tell the story of our love and hope.
Our Lord Jesus, on the cross, said to
one hanging by his side: "To day shalt
thou be with me in Paradise" A Para
disc, in the literal sense of the word, is
delightful landscape garden, with its fow-
ers and shrubs aud pleasant walks and
overhangng trees.
1t seems to me not unsuitable that we
make the place where we lay down the
bodies of those whom Christ loves, Par
adisc, that it may shadow forth the bean
ties of that better land to which He vel.
comes theis spirits u.
And yet 10 what we DO here, the sad
der associations of the spot should not be
forgotten. 1t should be made to speak of
mortality, as well as Of immortality. 1t
should have its soomnitics, as well as its
beauties. 1t should tel! of cur grief as
also of our hope
$ We will plant here then the pine, that
the wind sighing through its branches
may whisper in sympathizing tones to the
C sowowing heart We will plant by its
side the cedar, ever green and long abid-
$ .ingxto speak Of The life that never fades
d We will plant here aud there the elm, lift
; ing its form in grandeur, yet bowing its
I. heavy saddcncd branches over the sccucc
e and when its leaves fall in Autumn the,
It shall tell US Of DEATH when they com
a forth again in the spring time; they shall
IS proclaim a glorious resurrection. We wi
j. plant flowers also We will, as Milto
lo sung Of old;
Bring the rath primrose that rorsaken dies;
" The tuited crowtoe and pale jassamine
bn uht ia tplr nd tba al Will io
The glowing violet, r
And every flower the sad embroidery wears;
" Red aramanthus all his beauty shed,
Il And danodillies fill their cups with tears"
at to strew the ground where love is lai
of l4id in dust
OF cannot refrain from saying here, th
d. ii is not by profuse adornmcnt
in particular lots, but by a tasteful arrang
&C mcnt Of the whole, that 'our end is to
re gained In this way it will be mat
beautiful for all, and at the same tin
lg more beautiful for every one. If on Il
mt other hand, there be some who fence the
III lots, and endeavor to make them bea
tiful within, while the rest of Il
or ground is neglected, the effect will be hi
bc that of putting siken patch on a toy
,se cloth garment
of For myself, would rather say, J
Of there be no fences here, only substanti
i. fence for the whole. To mark the size
=. the lots let them be raised little abo
lv the walks that surround them, and
square stone bound be placed at the &C
- ners Of each But let US not with ir'
,w ratings elbow each other away, in th
IN place where we must all at last be equi
!, and let there be no ambitious strife
~, surpass each other in the magnifcence
"A our monuments. Let us not force {
oe poor men to feel here more than any whC
is. else, the misery Of his poverty, but let
nc. make the whole ground pleasing to t
.Lo eve for the benefit alike of the poor u
ed the rich. d1iN
Ike The spot We have chosen has some
tn. markable adaptations to the purpose
aen which it is set apart. ai
,bs 1t is Withdrawn from the village a
nan vet it is full in view. it is away from
h noisy thoroughfarcs, and yet from the p
The lie ways on every side the traveller n
od behold it from hundred homes.
nm You can look upon the spot wheie
his lay down your dearest ones, and VII
In you yourself must lie down at last
cak The grandeucr of the mountains
did looks down upon it. 1'aA ny '1i
,ose The valley smiles around it with
Of cqualcd loneliness, and how eonson
the with tic design Of the spot is it that
ucb must cross that stream as we come hltl
om How we are reminded by il of the r