Daily Yellowstone journal., 1889-04-28

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saders, the one hundred and eighty
million slain in the Roman wars. Aye,
according TO DR.. Dick, the dead in
war, il each one occupied four feet of
ground, would make enough graves to
reach four hundred and s9rty-two
times around the earth.
THE INNUSIERABLE DEAD.
The most Of people are dead. The
world is a house OF two rooms, a base
ment, and n room above ground. The
basement has two TO one, three to one,
four to one more occupants than the
superstructure. Sickness and warand
death have been stacking their har-
vests for near six thousand years.
Where are those who saw the Pilgrim
Fathers embark, or the Declaration of
independence signed, or Franklin lasso
the lightning, or Warren Hastings
tried. or Queen Elizabeth in her trium-
phal march TO Kenilworth, or Will
lam, Prince of Orange, land, or Gus.
tavus Adolphus crowned, or Jerome of
Prague burned at the stake, or Tanner
land found his empirei Gonel Gonel
But the trumpet shall sound. Music
10 raise the dead. Oh, how much the
world needs it. You take a torch and !
will take a torch and we will go
through some of the aisles of the Ro-
man catacombs and see the expectant
epitaphs on the walls and right over
where the departed sleep. You know
that these catacombs are fifty or sixty
feet underground, 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 our
torches. as we wander along a small
part of these nine hundred miles of
underground passages, see the inscrip-
tons as they were really chiseled
there on both sides the way. On your
side you read by the light Of your
torch: Here rests a handmade of
God who out of all her riches now
possesses but this one house. Thou
wilt remain in eternal repose Of
happiness. A. D. $780," On my
side / read by the light of the
torch: "'Aurelia, our sweetest daugh-
ter; she lived fifteen years and four
months, A. D. 1885," On your side
you read: "Here hath been laid a
sweet spirit, guileless, wise and beauti-
full. Buried in peace. A. D. 3sS."
On my side | read: "You well deserv-
ing one, lie in peace. You will rise.
A temporary rest is granted you.
Plaucus, her husband, made this"
On your side you read: ''Nicephorus,
a sweet soul, in the place of refresh
ment." On my side Tread: 'In Christ,
Alexander is not dead, butlives beyond
tho stars, and his dead body rests in
this tomb" On your side you read:
Here, happy, you find rest bowed
down with years" Irene sleeps in
God" ''Valeria sleeps in peace"
"Arethusa sleeps in God" 'Navira
in peace, a sweet soul who lived six
teen years, a soul sweet as honey;
this epitaph was made by her parents"
THE GLORIOUS RESURRECTION.
But let us come out from these cata-
combs and extinguish our torches, for
upon all these longings and expecta-
tons of all nations the morning of
resurrection dawns. The trumpet shall
soundl And the sooner it sounds the
better. Oh, how we would like to get
our loved ones back againi If we are
ready to meet our Lord, our sins all
pardoned, what a good thing if this
moment we could hear the resounding
and reverberating blasti Would you
not like to zee your father again, your
mother again, your daughter again,
your boy again aud all your departed
kindred againl Roll on sweet day OF
resurrection and reunionl Under the
hoofs of the white steeds that draw thy
chariot we strew Easter flowers. Would
it not be grand if we could all rise to-
getherl You know that the Bible says
we shall not all sleep, but we shall
all be changed. What il we should be
amongthe favored ones whoneverhave
10 see death, and that while in the full
life of our body we should hear that
trumpet sound and these mortal bodies
take on Immortality. oh, how ] would
hasten TO two places before the close
of such a day-peaceful Greenwood
and the village cemetery back of Som
erville. And | would cry aloud: ''The
hour has come, the trumpet has sound.
ed, the resurrection is here. Father
and mother, you were the best of all
the group, o lead the wayI" The
earth sinks out of sight. Clouds under
foot. Other worlds only milestones on
the Kings highway. We risel We
risel We risel to be forever with the
Lord and forever with each other. May
we all have part in that first resurrec.
toni
In this dark world Of sin and pain
We only meet 10 part again;
But when we reach the heavenly shore
We there shall meet TO part no more.
The hope that we shall see that day