The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-31
The Closing Year.

Another year has nearly ended Soon
the year 1874 will be laid upon the shelf
of Time to mouder and be forgotten
But the incidents Of the past year will
cause pang in the hearts of many, never
to be obliterated. Many an empty chair
will be fresh reminder of the devastation
death has made-the rich and poor-the
high and low-have fallen. The places
that have known them will know them no
more on the earth. The good man will be
remembered for his benevolence, his tenn
perance, his amiableness and christian viz
tues which shed radiant light all along
his pathway OF life. But the bad mans
end is misery and remorse. See the end
of Mosher and Douglass, the abductors of
little Charley Ross. While committing a
burglary near the city of New York they
were detected by a burglar alarm, and
while in the act Of emerging from the cell
lar, were both shot MORALLY ; one lived
SHORT time wrthng in great agony, but
none to pity or attempt to assuage his agony,
but on the contrary, was told by domestic
that :" it was good enough for him. He
groancd and said - he had been bad man,
which was about all he could say F.; and
after few more struggles and efforts to
| speak died as the fool doth
Young man, rs you value yvuI hopr;aoss
here, and your hope of eternal life here
after, shun the paths that these burglars
and thieves travelled, as you would avoid
their miserable end. Associate here with
the good of earth. and trust in the promises
of God and a clear conscience, and you will
be able to sing praises with the heavenly
choir in the mansions of the blessed.
The scenes through which we are passing
on the earth, may tell us something of the
singular richness of predicted melody.
When from the lonely desert, or the wide
waste of waters the long absent traveller
comes once more into the bosom of his
family the hymn of plaintlve gladnes!
lifted from his dwelling may give foretast'
. of that which The saints shall sing IN glory
Yet still, how faint its sweetness, compar
cd with that of the song whose echoe
shall be heard when Il Christian joins thu
kindred who have, from time to time, bee
gathered INTO the mansions OF the Grea
, Fathers house. Let US, then, bear wit
a holy patience the pains and griefs whc
here afilict us. \ most abundant and mos
fitting reward shall we gain when we joi
the choral company, and sing the song o
those redeemed from the earth Let Il
no, too sorey grieve for those now lost t
the sight of these mortal eyes, and tn
hearing Of these feshly ears-but even be
come glad in the hope of seeing theI
clothed in their celestial bodies, and listen
ing to voices unspoiled by any OF earth
tones and sympathy and love, thougl
strengthened into the richness of the heay
enly melody.
Soon will the veil drop. The mournin
Rachel will gain that comfort which eartl
denies, and receive the afllctions of Tim
ripened into the harvest of eternal joy.
"oh! when a mother meets on high
The babe she lost in infancy,
Hath she not then for pains and fears.
The day OF woe, the watchful night,
For all her sorrow, all her tears,
An oyerpayment OF delight"
And the father, from whom disease o
accident has snatched the hope of his Oh
age,if himself faithful unto death, will fin
that the destroyer has but raised his chill
to glory, and prepared him fer that on
family above-that one hundred and forty
four thousand redeemed from the earth
among whom all who now rightly endur
: the Great Parents discipline will be nun
bered. ARGUS
Mildlnhnrv Dpcpmhpr.