The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-03-11

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ana down lie ped, unui one nignt, Win
only one 10 greet Him, He mriged-~His
decentralization 80 unpretending, 70 quiet
that II was not known ON earth until the
excitement In tho cloud gave intimalion
that something grand and glorious hadhap.
pened, Who comes hereY From what
port did he sayY Why was this the placo
Of His deslinationp ] question tho aheps
herds, | question the camel drivers, l
question the angels. ! have found out
HIe-was an exile. But the world has had
plenty of eyilea. Abraham an eyile from
Ur OF the ChAldeesi John An exile from
Ephesus; Kosciusko an exile from Poland;
Mazzini an exile from Romei Emmet An
exile from Ireland; Victor Hugo IN exile
from France; Kossuth an exile from Hun.
gary. But this one Of whom speak to-
day had such feeounding farewell and
came into such chilling reoeption-for not
even a hostler went out with his lantern 70
help Him in-that no Ia more 10 be oele-
bratod than any other srpatiAsed ons Of
earth or heaven.
tits 96,000,000 miles from here 10 the
sun, and all Astronomers agree In saying
that our solar system 10 only one Of the
small wheels OF the great machinery OF the
universe, turning round some ono greAt
center, the centerso far distant II Ia beyond
all Imagination and calculation; and II, %
some think, that great center In the distance
IN heaven, Chriat came far from home when
He came here. Have you ever thought Of
the homesickness OF CHRISTI Some OF you
know what homealoknoas 10, whom you
have been weeks absent from the domestic
circle. Christ was thirty-three years away
from home. Some OF you feel homeaick-
ness when you arc hundred or thousand
miles away from the domeatio circle.
Christ was more Millions OF miles away
from home than you could calculate IN all
your life you did nothing but calculate.
You know what II IN 10 DO homeslok even
amid pleaHurnble surroundings but Ohrigt
slept In huts, and Iie was athlrat, and He
was a.hungered, and Ho was on tho way
from being born In another mans barn 10
being buried In another mans grave.
have read how the Swiss, when they are far
away from their native country, at the
sound OF their national air got no homeaiok
that hoy fall into melancholy, and 6ome-
times they die under tho homoslckness.
But, oh, the homeaicknoss OF Christi
Poverty, homealck for celestial rrheh,
persecution, homealok for hoannnA. Woari-
ness, homesick for rest Homoslck for
angelic and archangolic oompanionship.
HomosclS 70 so out OF the night, and the
storm, and tho worlds oxeoration, and oil
that homeslckness suffered 10 got nu homoi
At our best estate We are only pilgrims
and strangers hero. HIeayen ie our home.A
Death will never knock al the door OF that
manaion, and In all that country there 10
not single grave. How glad parenta are
In holiday times 10 gather their children
homo again. But have noticed that ther
~ almost always Bon or daughter absent
absent from home, porhape absent from
the country, perhaps abeont from the world.
Oh, how glad our Heavenly Father will be
whom lie gets all His children homo with
Him In heayonl And how delightful II
will be for brothers and sisters 10 moet
after long eeparationl 0noo they parted az
the door OF the tomb, now they meet at The
door OF Immortality. Once they saw only
through glass darkly, now Il is face 10
face corruption, interruption, mortality,
Immortality. Where are now all their bins
and sorrows and troubl,ap Overwhelmed
in the Red Soa Of death while thoy paesod
through dry shod,
Ono night, lying on my lounge whom
very tired my children all around about me
In full romp aud hilarlty and laughter, half
awake and half aaloop, | dreamed this
dream l waa In Far county. II was
not Persia, although moro than Oriental
luIurianco crowned tho cities. II was not
the tropics, although more than tropical
fruitfulneeo filled tho gardens, II was not
Italy, although more than italian Goftnom
filed the air, And / wandered around
looking for thorns and nettloa, but found
that none OF thom grew thero, and I saw the
Hun rise, and watched 10 400 u not, but u
sank not. And saw tho people In holiday
attire, and said: 1Whon will they put on
worhmona garb and again dslvo In the mine
or eweltor nj the forget" but thoy noyer pul
on the holiday sttiro. And wandered n
tho suburbs OF the city 10 hnd the piaDp
whore tho dead sleep, and l looked ~
along the limo OF the beautiful hills, The
placo where tho dead might nogt hiissfuIiy
ploop, and i saw towers and oasAlos, buA
not q mausoleum Or q mcnumant or q white
slab could zee. And I went into 10
chapel OF the KroAt town AAd sAidt
sWhoro do the poor worship and xheno an
the hard benches on which they sA2" And
the answer was made me: AWo have No
poor IN this county" And then wandered
out 70 find the novels Of tho dostitutA,
and found mansions Of amber and lyofy
and gold, but not tear could see, not .
Sigh could hear, md ! wis bevildoYo1
and sat down undor tho branches Of Q
groot trco and 0aid, "Wbsrs am II And
whom o comes oil this poonop' And thon
out from among thd loavo0, and up The
nowory paths, and aUroaa thu bright streams
there como q beautiful group, thronging all
about me, and ~ / saw them como
thought know their step, and M thor
shouted thought know their yoloos, bul
thon they woro no Rlorioualy airayod In ap-
parcl such as had novor before witnosnod
that ! bowed an stranger 10 stranger.
But when again thoy cloppod thoir hands
and shouted Welcome, welcomed" the
mystery all vanished, and | found thai
time had gone and eternity had come, and
We woro all togotlior again In oul nsv
home In heaven. Aud looked around and
said, "Aro wo all hcrc2" and tha voiooS
OF many generations responded, "An heYotA
And while toare OF Rladnoea wore raining
down our checks and tho branches OF the
Lebanon codor were clapping thoir hands
and the towers OF tho great oily were chin.
Ing their welcome, wo all together began V
leap and shout and sing: -Ilomc, konAa,
homo, homel"