The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-07-05

Obstacles. An ungrateful Republic at the
haiIot box denied Horace Greeley the
highest place at the National Capital, but
could not keep him from rising from the steps
of a New York printing office on which he
sat ore chilly morning waiting for the boss
1,ri,te,. TO come that he might get a job, I'M
I'll Id mounted the highest throne of
American journalism. He rolled back
lie stone and sat upon it. A poor orphan
boy, picking up chips at Richmond,
va. aecosred by a passing SEA Captain
and invited to come on board his vessel 1roDs
the CHI ps and starts right away and Is tossed
from Iort to port and, homeless and friend
less wanders one day along fremont street
Bostou. and sees Park Street Church omen
and, Speaking of it afterward on a great oc-
casion and using sailors yernacular, as was
usual with him, he says; Il put in. I IN
helm. lmfurled sail and made for the gallery
and send under bare poles to the cornef pew.
Then hove to and came to anchor.
''The old man, DR.. Griffin, was Just naming
his text Pretty soon he unfIrled the main
sail raised the topsail, ran up the pennants
to free breeze and tell You the Old gospel
ship never sailed more proSperouslv. Tho
salt spray few in every direction, but more
especially did it run down my cheeks.
Satan had 10 strike sail, his guns were
ismomted or spiked his variouH crafts
by which he led sinners captive were
all bsached and the CAPTAIN OF
the Lords's hosts rode FORTH conquer-ing and
10 conquer Before that sailor boy was
poverty, but he conquered it; and orphanage
but he conquered it; and ignorance, but he
conquered it; and the scoff of the world, but
he conquered it; and he rose till every sail
ors bethel in the world blessed him and great
anniversary platforms invited him. and
Daniel Webster and Charles Dickens and
Frederika Bremen, and poets, and or7itors
and senator's SIT electrified at his feet. and
his gospelizing influence viii go on until the
last jack tar Is converted and the sea shall
give up its dead. All the obstacles of his life
seemed gathered into one great bowlder, but
Edward 7. Taylor the world-renowned sail
ors' preacher, rolled back the stone and sat
upon it.
Yet do not make the mistake that many
do Of sitting on it before it is rolled away.
It is bound TO 90 if you OILY tug
away at it. If not before then / think
about u o'clock noon of resurrection
day You viii see something worth seeing.
The general impression is that the
resurrection will take place in the morning
The ascent TO the skies will hardly occur
Immediately. It will take some hours to form
the procession s2SyHard and we will all want
10 take look at this world before we leave
IL forever and see the surroundings of the
couch where our bodies have long been sleep
ing. On that Easter morning the marble,
whether it lay Hat upon your grave or stood
up IN monument viii have TO be jostied
and shaken and rolled aside by the
angel of resurrection, and while waiting for
your kindred 10 gather and the procession to
form your resurrected body may sit in holy
triumph upon that chiseled stone which
marked the placeof your protracted slumber.
On that day what a fragile thing will be
InnTaHcm - t,nco
and the mortar which viii rattle
out OF the wall of vaults that have been sealed
a Thousand years, and the Tai. built for o
queen IN India, a sepulcher two hundred and
seNehty-hYe feet high, and made of Jasper
anu cofnenan and turquois and lapis-laZuh
ana amethyst and onyx and sapphire and
olamond, and which shall that day rain into
glitteriAg dust on groves Of banvan and
BAMBOO and palm. And all under what
powers Ponderous erowbars welded
by giants. No, Thunderbolt cleaving
asunder the granite? No Batterinc ram
swung against the walls of cemeteries No.
Dynamite drilled under the foundations of
aenotaph and abbeyg No It viii be done by
music Nothing but music, sweet but all
leneufaung music. The trumpet shall sound
\ on say that is figurative: how do YOU know
But whether literal or fgurative, it means
music anyhow. The trumpet, that stirring in
'lslve, nalghty instrument, with a natural
'lmpass from 6 below the staff to L above
blown above Sinai when the law was given.
iloWn around JerichOwhen the walls .umbled,
iiown when Gideon discounted the Midian-
les, blown when the ancient Israelites were
,atherel for worship 10 be blown for tho
aislng ol the dead in the last great Easter.
The mother, who, when the child must be
lEyakensd- kisses its eyes awake, does well.
But the trumpet, which when the dead are
o be aroused kisses the ear awake, does
iettar- Be not surprised if the dead are to
e ava sened by music Why, that Is the
way n0iv we raise the dead. Take the stalls
les If y-ou can OF the millions of souls that
ave bean raised irom the tieiitlI 81 riia b..
.ymrs, By psalms, by solos, by anthems
y flutes, By violins by organs, by
rumpets. Under Sod what hosts
ave leen resurrected by Ira D. San
.ey by Thomas Hastings, by William d.
Bradbury by Lowell Mason, by motherly
allabies, by church doxologies, by oratorios.
f we raise the dead now by music, be not
that on the last day the dead are to
be RAISED by music.
The trumpet shall sound And T.
strumeilt shall have plenty Of work thew.
the dalr mentioned. 1t viii have
through all the pyramids, which ingy w
names Tor sepulchers, and hberate t.a;,. mon,
kings And through hypogean gIis-Sii iiiO'i'
were loilt in mounds and the with bot
graves which were dug
and through the nine hurdlt. In the
ing miles Of catacombs
around the Roman Campagna, ~ &c, Hlu
seven million human beings STA IN !
through all the crystal sarcophaeSu VI
nc and Pacific and Mediterranean of cred
battle iisls q ea,ti, a7 ma. Am. will prob
troops of the English autbers. O
and italian and German
sian and Persian and Ame7d, Is fore
the worlds battle fl IL
swer the call. Marathon. come 6IS5 tnuS
court come up! Blenheim, come ans of Z
come up Hohenlinden, come 8 =,
come upi Gettysburg, come zen ohar
Sharpsburg during cur Civil War., vas
With soiEe Others under the austld De the
Christian commission. lookina,-t ~, the
wounded. FedeFaland Confeslera tSe cdI9on-
nght night l was where I coz for fiown
upon the tents Of the sleepinS Oh.
what an imposing spectaelel{s thafy sub
host s 9 Of us t. ook a9Sp qty iaf
sleep in the bivouac OF st; the
seven hundred and fifty til slain IN
In s,d oE I! war The eighfha me- thou thou
million slain IN the "a -of SesostTis
he twenty-five million ~ in Jewish
wars the thirty-two million slain in
wars o. Ghsngis Khan. the eighty million
Slain ia tine wars of the Crusaders the ono
hundred and eighty million slain in the Ro-
nan wars. Aye, according to DR.. Dick, the
lead III war, II each one occupied four feet of
ground would make enough graves to reach
Iour hundred and forty-two times around the
sarth
The most Of people are dead. The world is
! house OF two rooms, a basement, and a
room above ground. The basement has two
% one, three 20 one, four 20 one more occu-
pants than the supeEstructure. Sickness and
sFur and death have been stacking their
harvests for nearly six thousand years.
Where are those who saw the Pilgrim
Fathers embark, OF the Declaration of
Independence signed, or Franklin lasso
the lightning, or Warren Hastings tried. or
Queen Elizabeth in her triumphal march to
keniiworth, or William, Prince Of Orange,
land OF Gustayus Adolphus crowned. or Je-
rome, Of Prague, burned at the stake. or
1aInerland found his enpiref Gonel Gonel
Bat the trumpet shall sound Music to
raise the dead. Oh, how much the world
needs IT, You take a torch and will take a
loren and we viii go through some OF the
aiSies OF the Roman cataconbs and see the ex.
pestant epitaphs on the walls and right over
where the departed sleep. You know that
these catacombs are fifty or sixty feet uuder-
ground and if one loses the Guide or his
torch Is extinguished he never finds the way
out So let US stay close together and with ouF.
torches Is we wander along a small part OF
these iIO miles Of underground passages SO