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pick them out Of the debris OF Il railroad
crash. 1t was written by Robert Burns-or
In regard to him, l have forgotten which,
"If there Is another world, he lives In bliss;
If there Is none, he made the most Of THIS"
Blessed he God, our religion make the best
Of this world and takes all the next: ana
that Is q good religion to have, whether on .tfe
lay or the Hudson.
Again, learn from the Scotch calamity
that all travellers ought TO have spiritual In
90 flsIcrand faster. ! said last Monday night,
to Il conductor on the Erie Railroad. How
many trains 20 over this road every day
And he answered, From l5 to 10" What
muliItudcS Of people shot Into and out of our
great cities. The near Sl50,0OD 900 paid for rail-
road tickets. In one year, In the Cnltcd Sialcs
and the more than f!S o. paid for tickets
I'm one year In the United Kingdom, give an
idea of the immensely of modern travel. On
the continent Of Europe. there arc more tham
$1,000 miles of railway. The Holy Land VIII
soon hear the shrek Of the steam whistle.
and much OF the solemn romance OF Palcs-
tine will be gone, us the conductor shouts,
"All aboard for Jerusalem - twenty nm
utcs for dinner ut Damascus!' and. Change
cars for the Dead Sea-" Railroads to tunnel
all mountains. cross all rivers, marry all
cities, intcrlock all nations. Let their man
apemcnt be the best, there Will be accidents,
and almost always sudden. alto ding no prep,
@aration for what comes next. Three times
have been on trains Off the track, and l know.
as many of o know, thnt the excitement or
such scenes positively prohibits spiritual adj
,justmcnt. How long at Norwnlk: or at Ash
tabula. or at the Tay bridge ava the naSs"n,
think they Ind five minutes, Or three, or two,
or one. 1t was lnapplicable. shy these
things, not to make you cOwardly Tor your
Journey, but placid By antecedcnt prepare
ton. DO not have your souls %etcrna! welfare
; depend upon u frosted rail, Or q drunkcn
switch tender, or an incompetent bridgc arch
itect, or q conductors timc-picce. or n ircshct,
Structed nature, bound for Heaven, It makes
but little difference whether he goes by land
or water, by day or night, through eXpiiouea
stea or tumbled rail train. he has Il
through ticket, and whatever connections nc
may miss or gain, he Will finally ride into the
Grand Central depot of the Universe. II you
wan to 20 to Il certain city, ana there - II
train that goes at the rate of fifteen miles an
hour and one that goes forty miles an hOur.
! which do yon take" The quickest. Irotrttct-
ed sickness for II Christian man Is the slow
train to Heaven sudden and instantaneous
departure by accident Is the quick train. You
ask MT what node Of departure | eli, ose, the
prolonged or the abrupt I answer. 1t is not
our business to make choice. All ask for
myself and yourself Is that we may be inliy
and grandly right. Between the top or q
bridge and the bottom Of a river Is Il short al
Iowance for fitting ourselves out for n resi-
dcnce of five hundred thousand million cen
turtles.
Finally, this rail train plunge teaches us
that death Is no rcSpcCtcr Of persons. w c
know but little in America of the classifica-
ton Of travellers, but in Great Britain and on
the continent the distinction Is very marked.
That doomed train Of last SABBATH was made
M of ono first class cal, one secod class. four
third class and q brnkcman'S van. W men
went over and dow first / know not, out All
ofticm went The fact that tliosoin the
first class paid twice as much rs those In inc
IT,. -l-,, .,,4 xl,x,N, M kNt.nTnrn,NIsn II N
moment of calamity. "Thcy that trust III
their wealth and boast themselves In the
multitudcS OF their riches, none OF them can
by any means redeem his brother or give u
God Il ransom that he shall not see corrup
tion." Complete democracy of peril, com.
plcte democracy of grave yard. Death Is sc
dim sighted and laundering footed that Inc
Staggcrs as roughly across the Axininstel
TAPESTRY rs bare floor, and can not tell tho
difference between the huttcrlng rags OF &
tattcrdelnilfDn and Il cOnqucror'S plume. In
death no first class or second class or thlro
class. We must all lie down together: The
and put Il sccptcr in h isstif hand and q crown
the prostration. When the Tuilcries, at
Paris, were captured by the mob. In the rev
laid across the Iimperor's tyrone till his life
blood gave deeper cOlcr to the Imperial up
holstcry but he aftcrward came down To tht
level where we must all die. Death come
, mo inc HOUSE, Dn rtttl lllll tkllNR Soy L ""ii
that novelist; into Windsor Castle and says
IL want Victorla's cunsort," into Ford's Thea
ter. and says. "tiivc me that President :.
into Spanish palaces and says, give me TIT
Queen Mercedes - into Zulu war and says
':tiivc me that French Prince Imperial :
INTO the aims house and says, give me tlla'
pauper - on 10 the Tay bridge and says
"Givc me those passengers; discharge thch
into MY bosom with one shock" Look
Look! by sccpturcd s~arcophaguS. by pyra
inids grandeur. by cpitaphnl commcmoratlon
by more Intoxicated wake or grlnder cathc
drai dirgc. we may seem 10 MAKE ulllcrehr.
OF caste among the dead, but 1t Is soon over
| took my pencil and memorandum book ;
few weeks ago. in Westminster Abbey ant
copied from Il tablet II verse you Will DO inter
cstcd to hear:
Think how many royal bones
Sleep within these heaps Of stones.
Here they lie, had realms and lands,
Who now want strength to stir their hands.
No first class or second class or third elias
among the dead. only the righteous and the
wicked. before last sabbath night, the Keep
CT Of the Tay bridge station and james !tnb
crts. the Locomotive superintendent OF th'
North British hallway, lial criLwled out, VIII
bleeding hands, on tue bridge to learn thu
cause OF the nOn-arrival Of the train from
Edlnburg, all the passengers, frStclasS, sccoiit
class and third, class, hal reached ctcrnp
destruction without referring 10 what WAS 81
earth their social. financial, literary or politi
clal status. If they were ready what q tortu
nate transition from Winter night to sum
ncr morning! What a.lecful thing to die !
one is ready! Gov. George Briggs said
doctor, am afraid you are going. To cIr'
me. Oh, how ! want to be In Heaven!
One Of the l;arlS OF scotland told me l;s
!, summer that when his Christian boy died, 81
rapturously WAS he anticipating departure
that the Countess. his mother, said to tll,
physician: "lO not discourage him by tell
/. ing him Ire IL goln" to get wcll.' My opinion
Is that, ut the Christi;ln's obScqulcS, the "Dc;i'
| \Torrl, I'm Nunl' IL mt half XII unDrOl +, ntp q.
"Handlc's IInllclujul Chorus | lnIplor;
you this moment. by the light OF the Hin;
lanterns Of the Scottish rail train, on lhi!
first Sabbath in january, within sound oftiit
passing train of linked year rolling Oh Will
more than express velocity, TO prepare fJ
that hour when the urcliangcl, with one fu
ell the sea- and the other on the land. shall
swear by him that livrth forever and eve
that time shall be no longer. But | can no
dismiss this august asScInbllgc until we have
all bowed ourhcads in sympathetic prayer To-
those Scotch and English homes that were
awfully dcsolatcd when last Sabbath nigh
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