Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-03-08

meet 40 tho door of Immortality
Once they saw only through a
glass darby, now It IS face to face; cor
ruptlon, interruption, mortality, immor-
mlity Where are now all their Sins aud
sorrows aud troublee2 overwhelmed in
the Red sea OF Death while thoy pissed
through dry shod
Gates OF pearl, capstones Of amethyst,
throncsoi domiuion do not stir my soul SO
much as the thought of home once
there let earthly sorrows howl like storms
and roll like seas Home Let thrones
rot aud empires wither. Home Let
the world die IN earthquake strup-
gle, aud be buried amid procession
OF planets and dirge OF spheres.
Home! Let oyerlastln ages roll In ire.
sistible sweep. Home No sorrow, no
crying No tears No death. But home,
sweet home, home, beautiful home, ever
| lasting home, home with each other,
home with angels, home with God
One night lying on my lounge, when
very tired, my children all around about
me in full romp and hllarity and laughter
--on the lounge, half awake and half
asleep, ! dreamed this dream was IN
n far country. II vas not Persia, al
| though more than Oriental luxuriance
crowned the cities II was not the trop-
les, although more than tropical fruitful
ness illCd the gardens. IL was not italy,
| although more than Italian softnoss
| illled the air wandered
around looking for thorns and
nettles, but | found that none of them
| grew there and saw the sun rise and
watched TO see 10 set but II sank not, And
| saw the people In holiday attire and
said; "When will they put off this and
/ put on wOrlInen's garb aud again delye
In the mine or swclter ut the forgry" but
they never pat of the holiday azure. And
| | wandered In the suburDs OF the city 10
find the place where the dead sleep, and
] looked all along the line Of the beaut.
iul hills, the place where the dead might
most blissiully sleep, and saw tow
ers and castles, but not a mauso.
lcum or u monument or White
slab could see. And went into the
chapel OF the great town aud san1
"Wherc do the poor worship and whore
are the hard benches on which they ait ~
Aud the answer was made me ave have
no poor IN this comtry.n And then |
wandered ont to iind the novels OF tho
destitute, and found mansions OF amter
and ivory and gold, but not tear could
see, not sigh could hear, aud was
bowildored and ! sat down under
the branches Of great tree and
said "Where am r. Aud whence
comes all this scone?n And then out
from among the leaves, and up the now.
cry paths, and across the bright streams
there comes Il beautiful group, throngine
MI about me- and MS | saw them come /
thought knew their step, and as they
shouted thought knew their voices.
but then they were 40 glorlously arrayed
In apparel such as | had never before
Witnessed, that bowed az stranger Ia
stranger But when again they clapped
their hands and shouted "Wolcome, wei.
comel' the mystery all vanished, aud
found that time had gone and eternity
had come, aud we were an together again
In our new home In heaven. And looked
around and said "Arc we ali hereYii
And the voices Of many generations re.
spondcd can here!n And while tears OF
gladness were raining down our checks.
aud the branches OF tho Lebanon cedars
were clapping their hands, and the towers
OF the great city were Ginning their wei
como, we all together began to leap and
shout and sing, "fIomc, home, home
! homeln