Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1884-03-28

When we are called, and so often,
to perform the last sad offices to our
departed friends and neighbors, who
have preceded us in that journey to
the grave, and the solemnities Of death
impress our senses, then certainly it is
well for us 10 be unusually thought
full, and serious. The sickness, the
last asonies and pains of consuming
nature, pale, cold, CHASTITY corpses.
The kt.ll, the shrowd, the mattoc., and the
grave,
The deep damp vault, the darkness and the
worm
These forecast our own mortality.
None hath power over the spirls, 10
retain the spirit, neither hath any
power in the day of death" One here
and there Is taken out Of our neigh
borhood. or family circle. To us tho
remain 1t is a signal of the approach of
the final enemy. death. and | hope
th,: melancholy occasion, which calls
us together here to-day, may set you
looking for, and preparing to meet the
hing of Ierr"rs IN triumph. Some
just enter into life, and seem to ilit on
INTO an unknown world, as If they but
lighted upon our Globe Of the vast
army of children We feel. however.
10th We are 10 have them leave us so
soon, that it is better for them; they
are sac in the arms of Jesus others
who have had long travel through
this life, We know is we'll nigh ended,
and must, according 10 the course OF
nature, pass away: but the compari-
lively young, as the deceased. One in
the prime of womanhood, SO affection
stely brought up from youth; and
tenderIy regarded, having favor with
all her acquaintance, who so re-
Gently was joined in married life to
our brother, April 2d, 1873. How
many plans We formulate of a beauti-
full, sunshlny life, that shall come
through the years. Alas, there she
lies victim OF the ruthless hand of
deseasc, aud death; for one TO die at
such an age We say is saddest Of all,
We can part from the children for it
is we'll with the child, We can see the
gray, headed cross beyond; for their
sIme is at hand but for the mes senger
death to take out OF this world the
soul Of our deceased sister. So Young,
life so full of hope, is one of the mys-
teries of the future to be opened by
God himself, except We know that at
all times 1t becomes MS to be ready,
for in such an hour as you think not
death comes. In these SORROWS of life.
on account of separation from those
VT once conversed with ; our friends,
our companions, our fathers and moth
ers, our brothers and sisters is there
no help. no deliverer: BLESSED be
the name of the Lord, in Him will |
trust. Into every life some grief falls.
1t has its light and shades. We are not
to pore over the gloomy pages of ones
history, or its contemplating the ills we
bear unduly; We have hitherto been
preserved through them all E; in like
manner neither should We wholly look
at 1T wreathed in smiles without a com
planning utterance, but to take lie as
1t is in all its appearances, knowing
that all its days are not to be brigh
and beamiug, cloudless days, that some
will be dark, rayless, many trial has
already come, and others will arise to
dampen our lives, and leave them en-,
veloped in mist. The bright and
beautiful is needed, and is too the
dark, and desoiate season, what We
purpose is t" help you endure the dis
tress which presses heavily upon you.
We might mention many, but they are
all swallowed up in the sorrow OF
this hour. In few years at most it
will all be ended here, We will also
have gone into the valley, how soon
we can Lot tell, much sooner perhaps
than We expect, we should not grieve
over much on account of heaviest be-
reavements, knowing 1t is so little a
while and We shall terminate on,
journey, to which every day brings us
nearer. Again, the severing of these
links which bind hearts can not be
avoided, it is so, We can not change it.
ut is appointed unto men once to die, y
and as impossible of change when We
come to die, as the separation OF our
loved ones from US; hearts will cry
for us when we are not, as We weer
for others dismissed this life.
10 those who have prepared them.
selves for death it is far better with
them, many trouble they have es.