The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-01

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D For such Yisnds have the keenest appetite
I and my knife cuts through the lusciousness
Pour into my chslice the richest blood OF m,
victims Pour il up to the rim A few
2 more drops. now, until it bubbles over
4 There now that will do. Oh, this inferno
D banquet OF choice souls. Ha, ha | smacl
! my lips with the potion. Let common de
J. mons take the coarser natures; give me, wht
g am the king of all diabolism, the jolliest anC
the giaddest and the rarest of all the immor
e tai sacrifice. Ha, hal'
] Here also in my memory IS the church
| gallery of departed ones to whom I minis
e tered-Belleville gallery, Syracuse gallery
} philadelphia gallery, Brooklyn gallery
} These figures appear to me in frames of no
sannas and halIelujshs Sweet spirits
2 glorious spirits transported spirits spirits
, blest! Rxpiring childsen with the face o!
RaphaePs Madonna. Octogenarians with
lpatriarchal demeanor and look that made
one think that Elijah, safely arrived, had
sent back his fiery chariot for another pas
: senger. Fair maidens whose last hours were
q TRANSPORTATION. Young men going out oil
pearline portals in their eyes.
Here also in my memory Ia the home gal
Ilery. On. how dear the faces-old faces and
lyoungl Faces more and more haloed by the
recession of years. Faces into which we
looked when We sat on their lap. Faces that
Faces wrinkled with old age. Faces all
atlush with infantile jocundiiy. Faces that
wept Faces that laughed. Faces that dis
appeared. Faces gone.
FORWARD GLANCE.
But. you ask, as stand on top OF the hill,
how does the other road look-the one that
winds down to the whiae marble slab at the
foot2 / answer, the rode to travel seems
brighter than the one passed l would not
want TO live life over again. as many wish.
We would do no better next time than we
d d this. The fact is, the life we have had
was lived over by 500 other people whom we
know and if we did not prove by th1se
500 experiences We would not improve by
our own. II we who have come to the oon-
tide of life-the II or l oclook-couId be
put back to o'clock in the morning,
we would simply repeat the
to go back and pick up the old
burdens and fight old battles and weep over
the same graves.
But, says some one you don't know what
may be ahead Of misfortune or trial or duty
OF course not But if | have a railroad
journey OF 1000 miles to travel. and for the
first 500 miles l have found the tracks solid
aud the bridges safe and the conductors
competent and the engineers wide awake. it
increases my confidence for the next 500
miles. For this life believe have through
ticket and, though the track may wind this
way and that and there may be dark tunnels
to traverse and May occasionally switch off
to let some other trains ass and we NAV
sometimes have hot box and pass places
where the red flag bids Us slow up. We are to
come out at the right place. Whatever our
duties and trials are we shall be able to meet
them.
The late Willard Parker, the renowned
surgeon, had a case of goitre brought to him
for treatment. The patient was several
times millionaire. A million dollars was
offered the surgeon If he would perform the
operation and warrant the safety of the pa
tient. He said: II can not warrant any.
thing. bat | will do the best L can" My
friend said to him: How did you feel when
you undertook the SURGERY He said: my
hand trembled fearfully until my knife
touched the place, and then my nerves were
steel, and, without tremor and without
any excitement, i went through the success
ful operation"
So, we may tremble and feel unfit to meet
the responsibilities of this life, but when the
tune comes God will hold our hand, and we
shall come through without a perturbation,
strong in the strength of Christ our Lord.
AHd then Notwithstanding all the balder-
dash OF the infidels and free thinkers and
atheists and nothingists about the great fu-
ture, shall believe that our life here is only
small fragment of an expanding existence.
The three miles that make up this life are
not an inch long compared with what here
after shall open.
THAT PICTULE GALLERY AHEAD
is brighter aud more thrilling than the pic
ture gallery behind Indeed, we take down
the best pictures of the earthly gallery and
go up one step-ladder of amethist and hang
them on the FURNISHED walls OF heaven.
Look There is Christ For earthly CALLER.
Rubens painted Him. and Cuyp and Correg.
OF mai ted i'm and int tod
and Benjamin West painted him, and Dore
painted Hin, but this eclipses all, and is the
master piece of Heaven. Look! There is
Paul. the hero of Senehedrim aud Agrippa's
court and Mars Hill aud Nero's infamy. and
who shook his chained fist in the face of
teeth 'chattering royalty. Look There is
Joshua, the man who postponed shutdown ;
and Vsshti whose vail the pro6igscy of
Persian court could not lift or tear. Behold
them all along the corridOrs-DayId with his
harp, and Miriam with her cymbals, and
Zschariah with his scroll, and st John with
hts seven walls. and the resurrection angt l
with his trumpet Yea, there are our trans
ported loved ones, the cough gone from the
throat the WEAKNESS from the limbs, the
languor from the eye the wanness from the
cheek. Let ne go up and embrace them Let
as go up and III ye with them From this
hilltop of my Journey l catch q glimpse of
that hilltop where all sorrow and sickness
IsQdu De done away WltQ- MAY zoo MAKE
that place to us a reality.
! Full faith in it gave old DR. Tying the
strength to stand by the casket of his darling
son. whose arm had been torn of by q thresh.
ing machine, modification and death ensu.
ling. and speak with supernatural compos-
ure. That sustained Martin Luther, till be
buried his favorite child without tear.
That made one of the old dying saints say
she saw written all over the sky the letter
w. When asked what she thought it meant
she said, Nv stands for welcome" That
makes the plslnest shroud the embroidery
of Kings palace. o Heaven, swing open
thy anthems! Heaven, fash upon us Wis
ion of thy lustre
A ship from india coming toward the
coast OF France had for crew some French
sailors, who had been absent from France
for mapy years as they came in sight
they leaped and skipped the decks with Joy
pointing out to each other the spires of the
churches they had attended in childhood
and the hills on which they had played, and
they became quite uncomfortable; and when
they entered the port and saw on the
wharves fathers and mothers and wives and
families calling them by name, the sailor
could be kept no longer on board but lespeC
. to the shore, so that another crew had to b,
: employed to bring the ship to her meorings
! SO Heaven, our fatherlsnd, will, ate
: awhile, be 30 fully in sight that We can De,
its hills and its temples and its foliage. ans
our friends there shall call to as, and VI
will spring TO the shore and with them z