The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1872-12-24
where we Oft have met in eladness.

sang sweet hymn of.which the following
iss part:
Where we Oft have met In gladness,
On the holy Sabbath day;
Now we gather In our sadness.
Mourning over one away"
I Then followed the sermon, which we
give below, after which the choir sang n
most appropriate selection, beginning,
"Rest, Weary Hearth
THE SERMON
My brother In Christ, with whom I so
often took sweet counsel, and whose
prayers for tho peace Of Jerusalem were so
frequent and fervent, has gone in the
twinkling OF An eye, "Over the River" TO
see that Jesus whom he loved, and with
Him to dwell forevermorc.
His seat at the home circle and in the
house OF prayer is vacated. His voice is
hushed in the silence Of the grave. His
warm Christian greetings are all numbered
and fnished.~ The songs he sung have
merged into heavenly hossnnss and his
form l shall SEQ no more. My friend
the friend OF God, has gone quickly to the
eternal world. feel therefore rs though
one OF the mourners were Attempting to
address you this morning. NV heart
cries out, why is this thus? The ans wer
comes BE still and know that am God"
'Be ye therefore ready ALSO
1t comes TO pass, now and then, IN the
strangely complicated history OF human
life, that the tender words, tho soft, kind
accents of love, falling from the lips
of the living speaker, sound gloomily and
CRATE hsrshly on the mourner's ear: be-
cause sudden, appalling, unexpected and
cvushing weight of comfortless sorrow lies
hard upon the soul. Racbels are they,
mourning and refusing to be comforted-
harps, lying prone with broken strings,
that will not respond to the touch of
the musicians hand. All! bruised reeds
broken stats, aching hearts! The Great
Healer, the Divine Physician, has a balm
for them that the world knows not Of.
Sometimes q nation, city, community,
or family 10 suddenly borne down BY the
avenging tide of calamitous visit tions,
and stands appalled, at the magnitude of
the desolation.
When one Of our great cities ut the
West, and then another ut the East, fell
victims to the rage and fury Of the devour.
ing conhagration; when Lincoln sunk in
death under the assassin bullet when the
great light in Tire editorial rooms of the
d.rL,ass ~ das,h ~ ra,hi;s
stood sgh..t az n shuader ou;verad .Ion',
o'n.,ion'. nerves Tbns soma,,,,a. n,,n,
n neacefnI bousobo,d ,Lero ga,bors a AL,
fort;dd;co clo,d snd fror r.. ,hicL fo,ds
holt ermod win do.,rnc,;an aar,s
svif,iy down and ,'i,noass f.u,i,,, in,o
n,oTorna.s, ,,;af - No.. H.; H.,
5rsadf,I event hat snwmonod .o,na " "s
AZ nnicL,v a taa, n;1h,s o,,n ~ ,hat - as
oyar wh;cb honru 10 d,ri nai, ns $3.50
inc Iiko tbo ali. ,oh. IF ninn,
a. .ccurs,a ,ntai,;~oncs nsmo fro,, Oh.
soon. or disas,ar snt tho aroaaS,, r,'n, .ns
grsw into I'M. FL, r,i rasi;,y. as Iarrnass
s;lenco and Sea,S ra;rrsd sSd,', ornnnd :,
scanned .s ,ho"nh r. $50 - 81 ~
tsrt would asms ont nm Tho SarIna.. VIZ
a. Re- % ,hor.foro ,o.a,, e.. ca. a..
Son or Nan co,na,h n. an ,r H. VIZ
tbink not " ~ ~ -
When nv eve saw what nv car had
heard 7 ,hon,h, bow t,na IN onnnla,.-
ooh cod,il ,s n dro,ar,, ,hina
To. see the human soul thus take wing -
MI Joseob s. Davis whose un,ime,v
death has cast a gloom over onr city WA
c.,,.as n. 10 monro Was nor, in EoIu,n-
hisna co,,ntv PsnnsvIvania Nav 81 isa,
He Was whsn called "a bis an.i rswnrd
Al va.,. ,r .oa ua ,,oda . ,.bl;o -
fession os Chris. before man At Evans.
vile Indians in tho wear IsG7 In lsos
he moved 10 his oi,v md united with tb,,
chnrch Far fonr 800 ha i.hor.J ana
wo,shinpea with Ills neonl. in the bonds
of Christian love. By his daily
w.lL convarsa,io, ana Ch-isri.n
80 t.,;a. ~ I;'.;
1Uepor'men' NC eAen' Pihou sno rung,oh "
S si, anu endeA, REQ n'm'e'i " 'au heatts
al, e WE '"o urhane".s ~ 'noeN
sHu 4uvs spirit no was u""ssu"''"s,
uhoosiusi'e, cnee.iuI anu P'ohsnn., aha
gU.e uaiy Wines 70 ms unioh win cur's, :;
us 'he was s'a WIN EhrIs. aha You
a. hG surshc c IN ears NC grew III grace
.'Hs cni's.,ah, SHOWN hna ,eAu oi
'asa, ,.,a nu'oA"u T 1na iA'ne,, no was
E"s. oeioseu. ins quick aha
terr'o,s ,unasrihg o. those roma
"oine ties ieit the surviving Irlehus