The Republican journal., 1870-01-06
HAVE CARE FOR THE DEAD.

bHttHN Hl'uN H'nuA9 WV ia 80 uVi' 'e' : -
lu ta'h Whh our numerous renders on 'AFious hi'',
ur- NJ how to be houS Z, fed warmed ana
N'rtH how to care tor the great interests oi t'ie
A.dt miuA and soul, &,. Now Wheh BUSINESS
SCENT. tl need reposp when the iate year i'seli HIS
.3- He'd ont 4nd gouC to be mere no more 1t ls Il
uul, lAe m5si fitting TO enqIllfe-iio" Is IL VIII
Mn, d,p1lt,.l out- oflhe household; Are me mem
r..- -ui.l,y .teri>heds Has Inc spot "here iieiI
.ludr- Nose had INC care 9no attention "llich
m.ky lhr q proIef loNe ai'd respect iof 'ne ueao'
uIf -0HNor- dtainments IN the higher ilie
F.l 900 tlons the world history every great
h,u. au3 event have left their marks TO show for
..I aoA lial their waves have flowed. Thus
.4t,r- hr1o ait their scratches high on the solid
r,ch- ut hill, 10 show where and whittier swept
u. mighty urrents; The vast monuments of the
Sic .rn>, 10 note the height OF its rising tidc; and
u the countries of tho dead, from the rudest grave
r. lht most costly malIs0lcum are hut the monu-
m.nt- which the ages have erected along the shores
q hme. io mark the height and character Of the
i,Iizsfiou that has rolled there
For Invariably you VIII lind, as we Often and
My see, that people whose only care Is " to
11rj Tic dead out OF sight VINO select as the
p'0 for family or pabie bulia some hieah, DlSht-
0d W>ghtly place, Toe worthless lof AhylhHS else :
-huuued by the birds, ana 100 desoiate almost lof
u4iy lra-ts to roam through; grown thlch WIN
tun- uud hgjcrs- never VISITED by Survivors eN-
ur as 9no more Is 10 DC Iiid ihere Ill liAt ''0ol-
nulJu ~ deeolhtoi' -Nueh people nave al ihen
.4, hoih o lhe present 'hd lutore lie oil the low
ISL and most gloNelhg soft' whose reilSoh' II
.1cA have any, is either pllhti ifc we cannot
,t1rl, and should not if we could; or are the vie
lu- ot those dark, gloomy. horrblc beliefs which
-., these shameful graves appropriate things lor
tins sin-cursed world as they term it,
I'm ule other hand, when we sec the spot selected
r heina accessible; flr its own beauty and that of
n- surroundings well protected from Intrusion;
i1t out. ornAmented and kept with taste; often
visited by the living, as both duty and pleasures
here is people possessed OF all those attainments
and good things expressed by the term highest civ
ilzatinn: whose religion, like charity is kind,
hopeth nll things endureth all things
Alike then as "A duty to the dead and pleasure to
the living; as lifting the mind upward to a higher
plane of refinement and progress, do W. hope to
see these old disgraees in the way Of country burial
grounds removed this very spring Almost with
out money and price it may be done. A little Joint
action ana labor of few neishbors will work
,yre:t and blessed change You want no costly
monuments, these are dumb. cold and heartless as
are otleu those who erect them But d simple tree
shrub or flower planted there by the hand and Wa
tered nerhaus by the fear, of affection. are monu
,pents ro.tinc nothing and far ,nor. heontif,l ana
,.uuropriaie than the towering lile, Of sulnfnred
marble or Granite Ana nevnr-as If j. a,o,, our
7le,sant lot T., ao,Io we receive calls from so,no
stricken mother sister lover or friend for same of
these living and beautiful embcins of their love ia
piant around and make cheerful the graves of the
luved ones, without think;ng-here is taste, soul;
,iue pietv, that outweigh and will outla,t all the
...>ty decoration, of art III that mere ,ypah can
conceive and tio
Ou, great reason for thi, neglect and DEGRADATION
Of tne drl ,,a, ,l4vneye,7 ,.-. s-tant p-
10 the nature and condition Of deceased bodies.
The great majority never think anything at ali on
the subject. The majority perhaps of those who
thuk something believe that The human remains
lie, somehow, where placed till some great day III
the far distant future when they up IN the li1
lur state 10 resume their forluor nature and func-
lions. This view, however. j, now one of The cX-
llod,i dogma. Of lie past; al philosophers every
where. and all inetligent Christian, of All ~vcts
now mite to pronounce il alito monslrotl- an-
scientific and unscriptura
For organic chemistry demonstrates with the
certainty of mathematics thai. strictly there is no
death, Nnat only tflnStl0n. ucalI
being enly the change Of the body : particles from
ont To another mode OF being. according 10 the
tlga, ot organic matter which are there to receive
thrm, II tAlstles and thorns and I'LL the low forms
ot life those human particles become a part of
lhrm il the higher forms Of vegetable being, they
l~o 1rst perhaps in the waving grass, then the ma
,-t, tree or the beautiful flowers that adoln vour
t,yrQr. ;i,l risns ,I,,n,.ni and inward tbrouerb
.,tl3u..iI sr,,Ja, f nrg,nizna hpinos to hocon,e
,aiu anna lgain a> bDfnro thc material vesture Of
7,,. su,pan sonl
Then if nur very ,lust is fins to nprnotuallv ro.
live. does il matter nothing to find itself gricvino
tn live in these low ANA aasnised forms nj woods
thistle, ind bramhles rather tI,,n in those nohlar
and more heaut,ful forms of life whose con-
temnlation rives ;ov IN clp,,tos md enlaroos al
The ,o1vcrs of The souls
Nm inannronriate ,arl,a,,. to o,,r s,,,ct : +ho
-to-, ol nm American foy and his nresop, ia Nich-
olas late enperor of Russi9-a t7Ie story md less
widely known than it ought 10 be-
our then minister at the Russian court and If
forwards Vice e-Presdent-II0n Geo. NJ Dallas
Al Il pubc dinner given him hy hi> friends on his
return home related the following incidents which
is our authority for them.
Onc dlv, lie said a green gawkv Yankee boy
whose limbs seemed to have outgrown his gar