Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-06-09

Ia very abe DauUS. I1c arrangements MSAS pei
feet and all carried out to the letter, without
miscalculation in any point The family desire
to express their thanks to the numerous friends
who SO kindly assisted in this needful hour, but
particularly to DR.. C. S. Perry, for his constant
attention and services, and to his estimable wife
whose kindly ministrations and noble heart We're
| appreciated. Also, to Mrs. Horace Smith, who
watched and waited with the little sufferer, and
lastly, with her own skillful hands constructed
and arranged the beautiful apparel for the final
rest.
| The sympathy for the family was duly express
ed by the presence of one of the largest assem-
blages ever congregated in this town on any SINH
lar occasion. The following is the
| DISCOURSE:
BY THE REV. Il. C. FARFAR,
This is "a solemn hour which witnesses this
gathering and these funeral ceremonies. The
dark shadows of death are for the first time flung
across your hearthstene. The image of death re-
poses peacefully within the sacred precincts of
your own home. The bitter sadness d affection,
which before ycI have heard ofand seen in others,
is now your portion. You have Otter gone to the
house of mourning-have spoken wc1ds of SYM
pathy to others in their sorrow, and now comes
their turn to minister sympathy to YOU. o, the
spoiler has broken into your fond eircEi He has
snatched away your loved and loveE daughter.
Your hearts are crushed, for the blow was heavy.
| The image of death rests upon you, first born,
your own dear Minnie. But whit it is the
''image of DEATH it is also the prophecy of life.
For hear you not the voice of Jesus eching down
through the ages, 81 am the Resurrectonand the
Life: he that believeth in me. though le were
dead, vet shall he live" Death has but broken
the casket-the jewel is safe, for the Angel Life
has borne it far away and set it forever III the
crown of the Redeemers rejoicing.
Little did you dream as you were teaching her,
and as little Minnie who listened to the rectal of
that beautiful hymn at our last Sunday School
Concert, II
81 want to be an Angel,
And with the Angels stand;
A crown upon my forehead,
A harp within my hand - /
little did Minnie dream that it was a heTt-wish
so soon to be realized. 1t is no wild, dark tangled
dream no. it is stsrn. sad reality. the I'LL con-
sciousness of which will grow upon you nore and
more 4
oh how prcuinns TO vnr,r parental heats those
deeply suggestive words of Christ, What do
thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know here
after" what do''-God's doings Mt chance.
Not an unseen enemy GOD!
"Thou shalt know hereafter; wait, then, for
the hereafter revelation. All the dark things of
life shall be made known in the light ofeternity.
Gods plans and workings are inscrutableto finite
minds. The earthly father pIzzles not rs child
with intricate problems; he waits until tie men
tai powers are matured, until they can rapple
with and solve them. So God bids us wdt, and
all Will be understood.
1t is unfair to enter the studio OF the artist
l,,,fF I,al %,
not gain the artists ideal from the mers frag-
ments. These remains before us are but thshalf-
finished picture, such was the beauty of th origi-
nal design. God has removed it that it MAJ have
Heavens light and Heavens coloring frcn the
skilled hand of the Divine Limner.
Write no bitter things against God. I-sthis
bitter cup from which you are drinking, tlsre is
not a single drop of wrath. 1t is mingled > in
finite skill and pressed to your lips by the wing
hand of your Heavenly Father. All be asured
there is some deep necessity in all thaaour
Father does. In our calendars Of sorrow We may
evermore put this luminous mark, cit was
needed" Some redundant branch needed nm
ming, that the fruit might be larger and rAher |
The heart-hbres were roofing themselves, it |
may be, too deeply in the soil of earthliness and
the Heavenly Father tore them up as gently as |
possible and would have your affections set on
things Heavenly, that from the world above YOU |
might draw your spiritual sustenance and grow
in the graces of the Spirits importation. |
God is speaking to YOU, Obi hear His voice |
to day and learn the lesson this first trial teaches
A first trial has its peculiar responsibility. Bow
before the Christening rod and let the yearnine Of
your heart be, |
"Nearer my God to Thee,
Nearer to Thee; |
Fen tho it be cross +
That raiseth me-
Still, all my song shall be-
Nearer my God to Thee" /
How, for these months gone by, you have been
toiling and planning for your New Home. Many
time have you gathered your little ones about
you and filed their hearts and excited their
minds with the joys and comforts of ssOur New
Home" But little did you dream that this new
and beautiful home should have such a eonsecr4-
ton fet such are life's experiences Joy comes
OF sorrow. Strength grows out of weakness. Life
is born OF death. Sad dedication yet blessed (;
for 1T is better to go to the house of mourning
than 10 the house of feasting"
This home Is temporary You have a mansion
on high-the far away home of the soul - and
Jesus bids you ay your treasures up there. Your
choicest treasure is there. #..s.
Your darling Minnie is at Home She has at
once ente ed upon her appropriate life-work in
the sphere vi her eternal destiny. Had Won spir-
ituaI vision yeu might see her beckoning YOU
thither.
Dear PARENTS, as you shall go on completing
your house and arranging its rooms and furnitureI
there will be one place more dear than others.
and gathered there will be the mementoas of vorr
precious Minnie. o let that place be as a shrine
which you shall oft visit, and as oft from it catch
holy inspiration for your life-work. The future
is not yours but Gods. He will guide and bless
and save you, if You trust Him. In a few mo- I
ments you will carry your little one away to the
cemetery and there in that lovely place, lust on
the brow Of the hill, she will peacefully sleep nm
til the breaking light of the Resurrection Morn.
Such is our faith and from it we derive hottest
consolation. ,.a
May the Astounding grace of Jesus be yours to
console and strengthen and save.
In Tic Douloureux, rub Renne's Pain-Killino
Maolp Oil ali tha