The Brookhaven leader., 1888-04-12


| false prophecies. Re blind to each others
faults. Make the most Of each others
excelencies. Above all, do not both get
mad at once! Remember the vows, the
ring on the third finger Of the left hand
and the benedicton of the Gala lilies.
q II You insist on asking me the ques-
| ton: What are flowers good for? | an
swer; They are good 20 honor and COM
| fort the obsequies- The worst cash ever
made into the side OF our poor earth is the
! cash of the grave. II Is 50 deep, il is so
cruel, it is So incurable that it needs some.
thing to cover it up. Flowers for the cas-.
ket, flowers for the hcarse, flowers for toe
cemetery,
, What contrast between n grave in q
| country churCh-yard, with the fence broken
| town and the tombstone ashanti and the
neiGhbOring cattle browsing amid the
mullen stalks and the Canada thistle, and
June morning in Greenwood, the wave
of roseate bloom rolling to the tOr OF Tho
/ mounds, and then breaking into foaming
Crcsts of white flowers all around the pill
lows of dust, 1t is the difference between
/ sleeping under rags and sleeping under
an embroidered blanket We want Old
Mortality with his chiscl to go through the
/ grave yards of Christendom, and while he
carries chisel in one hand we want Old
Mortality to have some flower seed in the
/ palm Of the other hand.
/ "Oh," you say, the dead don't know;
it makes no difference to them" l think
! you are mistaken. There are not so many
steamers and rail trains coming TO any
| living city as there are conveys coming
/ from Heaven to earth; and If there be ia
Simultaneous and constant communication
] hot Il tl,o L-4
/ do you not suppose your departed friends
know what you do with their bodies? Why
has God planted golden rod" aud Wild
flowers in the forest and On the prairie
where no human eye ever sees them? He
/ planted them there for invisible INTEL
ligcnces to look at and admire,
and when invisible intelligences
come to look at the wild flow
erS of the woods and the tablelands, will
they not make excursion and see the flow
ers which you have planted in affection
ate remembrance of them?
! When | am dead | would like 10 have
handful of violets-any one could pluck
them ont of the grass, or some one could
! lift from the edge of the pond a water lily
nothing rarely expensive or insane dis
| play, as sometimes at funeral rites where
the display takes the bread from the chill
1 dren'S mouths and the clothes from their
( packs, Dut something from the great
uemocrac! OF mowers kather than I'M
perial catafalque OF Russian Car, | ask
some one whom l may have helped by
/ Gospel sermon or Christian deed to bring
a sprig Of arbutuS or handful of China
astOrs.
1t was left for modern times to spell re-
spCct fer the departed and comfort for the
/ hVlng III letters OF floral Gospel. Pillows
OF hoWcrS meaning rest for the pilgrim
/ VINO mas got 10 the end OF MS Journey.
/ AhCilor OF mowers suggesting the Chrlst-
IAN nope which we nave as an anchor to
the soul sure ana S'tauIaSt' cross OF
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