Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-04-27
Talma go OH Funerals.

DR. Talmagc prcnchcd scrmon at his
iancrnacl" in Brroklyn on Easter Sunday
fran the text. "Cnn.e see tn" place where
the Lord Iay.' Matthew xviii, 6 We
extract the part relating 10 funerals and
n'"r'unry h""ors, in eonir..s. with our w.3nr
ct iitrr'ii'y I" .nc living:
> nile sanding around the place where
:;"c h',d lay, mn, impressed with the fact
that mor'nn,y honors cannot atone for
wrongs to the living If they could have
afforded Christ such costly scpnlchrr
they could have afforded him decent
nrthly residence. Win they give a piece
of m"rb c to the dead Christ when thry
might khvr given - s"f' pil'rw IN the living
Christ? Ii thry Mad put bari he cxpnrSc So
of that m1u>"lrnm in the nakirr OF Gh,lsi's
l,ie on earth comfortable, the story would
not have been SO sad lie wanted bread:
| they gave him stone. Christ life any
other hrncnctor Of the world was bc,er
appreciated after he was dead. Wcs,miu-
ster Abbey aud mopuu,rntal GrrcDwo I'd are
To crrt,in extent, the wrrd's attempts, by
mnrtuary h"nnrs. to atone for the glcct 10
the living Poei 5 Corner ia Westminster
Ahtey is M attempt TO pay FOR the suffer-
iugs of Grub street.
20 I'M" that P"e,'s Corner of West
minister Abbey aud there | fn,l the grave
OF Handel. tic musician from whose music
VIC hear to d,y. AZ it goes down rcvrrn'rn e.
ting through the ages. Whit, | stand y,
t he costly t"uh OF ilaodel, ! cnnnn, ioi.",
{ he fact thar his tcllnw musicians tried to
destroy him with ihcir ,i,scords 90 It
little further i' the Poets Garner of West
inins" Abbey, and find The grave If Juhu
Dry den. the great poet. Costly monument
great m"r'unry honnrs, hnt | canu"t N'urgrt
ia" fnct thrt ut seventy yenrs of aye ht
wrote about the Impressions at misfortune
and ihut he m,ndc couI,,c' for IA thou ,und
verses at slxrrncc liuc 20 u lutIr fnr
thrr on ~ The P,ct's Cnrn"r. ana lina tn,
grave of Snnuc Butler, ,hr author "f Ilu~
dior Wnndrrtul uouu cnf, c,sri,
II ortnary lonors. Where did he die? IL ,
uar,ct.
81 move further on in the Po",,s Cor-
ncr, J. iLd the crave Of great porr o
whom Waller wrote: "An uld schouI.plstc,
ty the name of Joi.u Milton has wntt.n .
tedious volume on the fail % man II it.
length tr no virtue il has none. I 90 ,
little further on in the Poets Corner, noG
tind the gr,vc OF Sheridan. M,gn,fircn,
mortu"ry honois What PITY it was h,
cnu!d not have discounted that monument
for Il mouflful of something to eat
so, unliiin children give your parents
Ices tombstone and more blankets; I.ss fu
neral aud more brdrnnm Five per cent
OF the money now expended on Burns ban
Quets would have made the great Scotch
poet con Portable and kept him from being
almost bnrlied to death by the drudgcrs ui
OIL cxciseman.
"ll"raco Greedy, outrageously abused
while he lived, going out to his tomb WAS
followed hy tho President of the Uuncd
States and the leading men of the arm,
and navy. Some people could not say
bitter cnouah things obout him while ho
lived, YET all the world rose 10 to do him
honor when ho died. Massachusetts is
trying to day, at the tomb OF Charles Sum
ner, to atone for tho icnominlous resolutions
with which her Legislature denounced the