The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-12-12

Of Joppa there is mourning -mourning be.
cause Dorcas isdead
When Josephine of France was carried
out to her grave, there were great many
men and womenof pomp aud pride and posi-,
ton that went out after her, but am most
affected by the story of history that on that
day there were ten thousand of the poor of
France who followed her coffin, weeping and
walling until the air rang again, because,
when they lost Josephine, they lost
their last earthly friend Oh, who
would not rather have such ob5e'
quies than all the tears that were
ever poured in the lachrymals that have
been exhumed from ancient cities There
may be no mass for the dead; there may be
no costly sarcophagus; there may be no
elaborate mausoleum; but in the damp cell
lars of the city, and through the lonely huts
OF the mountain glen, there will be mourn
Ing, mourning, mourning, because Dorcas Is
dead, Blessed are the dead who die in tho
Lord; they rest from their labors, and their
works do follow themn
| speak to You of Dorcas the resurrected.
The apostle came to where she was aud said:
Arise; and she sat upr In what short
compass the great writer put that She sat
upP Oh, whata time there must have been
around this town, when the apostle brought
her out among her old friends How the
tears of JOY must have started What clap.
ping of hands there must have been! What
singing! What laughter! Sound it all
through that lane Shout it down that dark
alley Let all Joppa hear it! Dorcas is res
You and have seen the same thing meny
time; not dead body resuscitated, but
the deceased coming up again after death in
the good accomplished If mau labors up
to fifty years of age, serving God, and then
dies, we are apt to think that his earthly
work is done. No. His influence on earth
will continue till tie world ceases. Services
rendered for Christ never stop. A Christian
woman tolls for the upbuilding of church
through many anxicties, through
many self denals, with prayers
and tears, and then she dies, 1t is fifteen
years since she went away Now the spirit
of God descends upon that church; hundreds
of souls stand up ana confess the faith of
Christ Has that Christian women, who
went away fifteen years ago, nothing to do
with these things? | see the towering out of
hos ii..ho hs,.rt l hear tha echo of her foot
steps in all the songs over sins forgiven, in
all the prosperity Of the church. The good
that seemed TO be buried has come up again.
Dorcas is resurrected
After while all these womanly friends
of Christ viii put down their needle forever
After making garments for others, some one
will make garment for them: the last robe
will have heard The last cry of pain You
will have witnessed the last orphanage. You
will have come i'll worn out from your last
round of mercy. | do not know where you
will sleep, nor what your epitaph viii be-;
but there will be lamp burning at that tomb
and an angel of God guarding it, and through
all the long night no rude foot will disturb
the dust. Sleep on, sleep on Soft bed,
pleasant shadows, undistnrbel repose! Sleep
on!
Asleep in Jesus. B!e5jei sleep
From which nole ever wake to weep.
Then one day there will be a sky rending,
and whirl of wheels, and the flash of a
pageant; armies marching, chains clanking,
banners waving, thunders booming, and that
Christian woman will arise from the dust,
and she will be suddenly surrounded-sm
rounded by the wanderers of the street whom
she reclaimed, surrounded by the wounded
souls to whom she administered! Daughter
of God, SO strangely surrounded, what means
this? 1t means that reward has come, that
the victory is won that the crown is ready,
that the banquet is spread. Shout it through
all the crumbling earth. Sing it through
all the flying heavens. Dorcas is resurrected
In 1855, when some of the soldiers came
back from the Crimean war to London, the
Queen of England distributed among them
beautiful medals, called Crimean medals.
Galleries were erected for the two houses OF
Parliament and the royal family to sit in.
There was great audience TO witness the
distribution of the medals. A Colonel who
had lost both feet in the battle of lnkerman
was pulled in on a wheel chair: others came
in limping on their crutches Then the Queen
arose before them in the name of her
government, and uttered words of common
dation to the officers and men, and distrib-
uted these medals, inscribed with the four
great battleGelds, Alma, Balaklava, mixer
man and Sebastopo As the Queen gave
these to the wounded men and the wounded
officers, the bands of music struck up the ma.
tional air, and the people with streaming eyes
joined in the song:
God save our gracious Queen
Long live our nobie Queen
God save the Quecni
And then they shouted "Huzza! lizza p
Oh, it was proud day for those returned
warriors! But brighter better and glad
der day will come when Christ shall gather
those who have toiled i'll His service, good