New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1867-06-02

come to walk the shadowy way; when the
great TaX-gatherer calls all men before him.
to one he saws, "Giye me thy ships.n go
Death, they are thine says the man, and
they are passed over. To others he says.
" Give me thy houses and thy lands" and
they and their possessions part company
without papers. To another he says, "Giyc
me thy funds that thou hast toled tor;' and
the man that stood highest in his day and
generation is stripped bare, and showed out
of the world with no capital for the life to
come.
Then comes another NAV, man of
dreams. as he is called, and Death says TO
him, Yield up thy ships" 81 have none"
says the man. yield up thine acres" 81
have none "Yicld up thy bonds and
thoughts NAY, . Death my thoughts
are mine, and are beyond thy power"
Yield up thy affections" NAY, Death
thou canst not touch my affections. And
my hope, my mprobability-thesea are not in
thy schedule. That which | am by the
grace of God, thou canst not tax nor hold.
| carry all that with me- The man that is
mightest in this world leaves his might be
hind him. and the man that is weakest in
this world carries his might with him. And
when we step into that other world where
things are measured according to their rcali.
ties, the man that has the most outside has
the least, and the man that has the most
luoiNt HAS 'lt must Anu 50 llc MET Sldll
be last, and the last shall be first.
4. In looking back through the events OF
life, though they are innumerabie, though
they are amazing in their variety and in
their diversity, yet those that remain at last
are very few not because all the others
have persisted, hut because they group them
selves and assume moral unity in the dis
tance. We find that the patriarch's life in
looking at it retrOspcctiyely. summed itself
| up in two or three experiences which had
! their respective types. He speaks of his life
rs being all represented by these few things
And our life will stand up by.aud by in the
| same way. 1t consists not in the abundance
| of the things which we possess. The things
| that now seem of the least account will seem
, of the most transcendcnt importance. What
| you retain that connects you with God, what
/ you have known in iii. that was most gen
! crous, and deep, and sweet of love, and what
| great cleansing grief y0p have suffered
! these will stand highest in the last hours of
| life. Though they seem to perish, yet they
are more and more precious as we draw near
| to heaven. And sorrowcrs and sufferers,
| when they look back upon their sorrow and
! suffering, at the close of life, will see beyond
! it love, beyond that God, and beyond them
| all eternity and bles-cdness.
Let us, then, not revoke the duties of the
| day but let us remember that there is a
higher fruit than that of which man thinks.
And while we are building up the family
and the State, and discharging our fuuC
tons in the great realm of civilized life, let
us remember that these are but instruments,
that the true life is that which is carried on
in mans silent thoughts and deeper aiTec
tions, and that he only that lives day by
day is projecting his life into the other life
and sphere.
And as you look back from your last
hours, may it be yours. Joined, as you are
in common faith with the old patriarch, t.
behold standing highest on the horizon
nature, when the fret, and fever, and suffer
ing of the body have ceased, and have NJ
more record forever.