The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-01-15

Twenty minutes for dinner at Damas
GUS" and "Change cars for the Dead
Sea-" Railroads to tunnel all noun
tains, cross all rivers, marry all cities
interlock all nations. Let their manage
ment be the best, there will be aCci
dents, and almost always sudden, af
fording no preparation for what comes
next. Three times | have been on
trains of the track, and | know, as many
of you know, that the excitement and
CONSERVATION of such scenes positively
prohibits spiritual adjustment. How
long at Norwalk, or Ashtabula, or at the
Tay Bridge did the passengers have
time to ask, what nextP" | do moi
think they had five minutes, or three, OF
two. or one. 1t was inappreciable.
say these things not to make you cow
ardly for your journey, but placid by an.
teCedent preparation. Do not have
your SOULS eternal welfare depend upon
frosted rail, or a drunken switch ten
der, or an incompetent bridge architect,
or a conductors time-pieCe, or freshet
or a tornado. If man is, through re
constructed nature, bound for heaven, 1t
makes but little difference whether he
goes by land OF water, by day or night,
through exploded steamboat or tumbled
rail train. He has a through ticket, and
whatever connections he may miss or
gain, he will finally ride into the Grand
Central Depot Of the Universe. If you
want to go to certain city, and there is
train that goes at the rate of fifteen
miles an hour and one that goes forty
miles an hour which do you takef The
quickest. ProtraCted sickness for a
Christian man is the slow train to
heaven; sudden and instantaneous de.
ure by accident is the quick train. You
ask me what mode of departure /
choose the prolonged or the abrupt. l
answer, 1t is not our business to make
choice. All I ask for myself and your.
self is that we may be fully and grandly
right. Between the top of bridge and
the bottom of river is short allowance
for fitting ourselves out for a residence
of fvs hundred thousand million cen.
turies.
Finally this rail.train plunge teaches
US that death is no respector Of persons
We know but little in America Of the
classification of travellers, but in Great
Britain and on the Continent the dis.
tinction is very marked. The doomed
train of last Sabbath was made up of one
first-Class, one second class, four third
class, and brakemRn's van. Which
went over and down first l know not,
but all OF them went down. The fact
that those in the first class paid twice as
much as those in the third class gave
them no preference in the moment of
calamity. "They that trust in their
wealth and boast themselves in the
multitudes of their riches, none Of them
can by any means redeem his brother
or give to God ransom that he shall
not see corruption" Complete democ
raCy of peril, complete democracy Of
graveyard, Death is so dim,sighted and
laundering footed that he staggers as
roughly across the Administer tapestry
as the bare floor, and cannot tell the diff
ference between the Auttering rags OF a
tatterdemalion and conquerer's plume.
In death no first class, or second class,
or third class. We must all lie down
together. The subjects sat Charlie.
magne's corpse on throne and put a
acepter in his stiff hsud and crown on
his pulseless temples, but long ago he
took the PROSTATE position. When the
Tuileries at Paris were captured by the
mob in the Revolution of July boy
wounded to death was laid across the
throne till bis life-blood gave
deeper color to the Imperial upholstery,
but he sfterWard came down to the level
where we must all die. Death comes
into the house on Gad's Hill and says,
II want that novelist" into Windsor
Castle and says, II want ViCtoria's con.
sort" into Ford's Theatre and says,
Give me that President" into the
Spanish Palace and says, "Give me
Queen Mercedes" into the Zulu war
and says, "Give me the French Prince
into the Aims. house and
,ays, "Give me that pauper;" on the
ray Bridge and says, "Give me those
them into my
BOSOM with one SHOCK" Look Look!
By embalmment, by sCulptured sarco
ohagus, by pyramidal grandeur, by epi,
;aphal Commemoration, by more intoxi
,ated wake or grander cathedral dirge
We may seem to make difference of
,aste among the dead, but it is soon
)ver. l took my pencil and memoran.
lum. book few weeks ago in Westmin.
ter Abbey and copied from tablet a
'erse you will be interested to hear
Think how many royal bones
Sleep within these heaps Of stonesl
Here they lie, had realms and lands,
Who now want strength to stir their hands"
No first class or second class or third |
lass among the dead Only the righ.
eous and the wicked. Before, last Sab |
,ath night, the keeper of the Tay
Bridge Station and James Roberts, the |
locomotive Superintendent of the North |
British Railway, had crawled out, with
bleeding hands, on the bridge to learn
he cause of the non-Arrivsl of the train
rom Edinburg, all the passengers-frst
lass, second class and third claEs-had
cached eternal destination, without ref.
renee to what was on earth their social,
literary or political status. If
hey were ready, what fortunate tran.
ition from winter night to summer
norningl What gleeful thing to die, if
ne is ready Governor George Briggs
aid: doctor, ! am afraid you are 20.
ng to cure me. Oh, how | want to be
hesvenp' One Of the Earls Of Scot.
and told me last summer that when his
,hristian boy died, so rapturously was
70 anticipating departure that the
Iountess, bis mother, said to the physi.
ian: 'Do not discourage him by telling
i'm he is going to get we'll" Ny opin-
on is that the Christians obsequies the
Dead March in Saul" is mot half 30 sp.
rOpriate as Handel's "Halleluiah Cho.
u.s." | implore you this moment by
be light Of the flying lanterns Of the
Cottish rail!train on this first Sabbath
a January, within sound Of the passing
rain Of linked years rolling on with
lore than express velocity, to prepare
Or that hour when the archangel, with
ne foot upon the sea and the other on
he land, shall swear by Him that liveth
,rsVer and ever that time shall be no |
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