Milford chronicle., 1889-04-26

day mentioned It will have to sound through
all the pyramids, which are only names for
sepulchers, and liberate the buried kings
And through hypogean graves which wero
built in mounds and the hypogean graves
which we're dug in rocks and through the
nine hundred winding miles Of catacombs
under and around the Roman Campagna,
where over seven million human beings sleep
And through all the crystal sarcophagi Of
Atlantic and Pacific aud Mediterranean
and Caspian and Black sec dceps. And
over all the battle fields of continents,
until all the fallen troops of English
and French and Italian and German
and Russian and Persian and American
and the worlds battlcfelds answer the call
Marathon, come up, Agincourt, come up
Blenheim, come upl Acre, come up! Ho-
henlinden. come upl Sedan, come upl Get
tysburg, come upl Near Sharpsburg, during
our civil war, when / was, with some others.
under the auspices of the Christian commits
sion, looking after the wounded Federal and
Confederate, one moonlight night was
where could look down upon the tents Of
the sleeping army. Oh, what an imposing
spectaclel But my subject calls us to look
down upon n mightier host of soldiers
slumbering their last sleep in the bivouac
of the dust; the seven hundred and
fifty thousand slain in the Crimean
war; the eight hundred thousand slain in
our American war the fifteen million slain
in the wars Of SoSostris, the twenty-five mill
ion slain in Jewish wars, the thirty-two mill
ion slain in wars of Ghengis Khan, the
eighty million slain in the wars of the Cru
saders, the one hundred and eighty million
slain in the Roman wars. Aye, according to
DR.. Dick, the dead in war, if each one occu-
pied four feet Of ground, would make enough
graves to reach four hundred and forty-two
times around the earth
THE INNUAIERABLE DEAD.
The most Of people are dead. The world
is a house Of two rooms--a basement and a
room above ground. The basement has two
to one, three to one, four to one more occu-
pants than the superstructure. Sickness and
war and death have been stacking their hGr-
vests for near six thousand years. Where
are those who saw the Pilgrim Fathers en-
bark, or the Declaration of Independence
signed, or Franklin laSso the lightning, or
Warren Hastings tried, or Queen Elizabeth
in her triumphal march to Konilworth, CT
William, prince Of Orange, land; or Gustavus
Adolphus crowned, or Jerome Of Prague
burned at the stake, or Tamerlane found his
empire' Gonel Gonel
But the trumpet shall sound Music to
raise the dead. Oh, how much the world
needs It'll You take a torch and | viii take a
torch and We will go through some of the
aisles of the Roman 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
4 Al
ont So let us stay close together. and with
o,,,. torches ms v-o vrordar alone n small nort
of these rine hundred miles of UNDERGROUND
nassaces. see the ipscriptions as they were
reallv chiseled there on both sides the way
On vonr side Won read bv the LIGHT of vonr
torch: sHere rests a handmade Of God who
ont Of all her riches now POSSESSES but this
one house. Thou wilt remain in eternal
repose of happiness. A. d. 3SOn On
INV side read by the Hrbt of the
torch. "Aurelia. orr sweetest daughter. she
lived fifteen vears and four months A D.
395 81 On vour side Won read; oEIere hath been
laid n sweet spirit. cuileless. wise and beauti-
fnl Buried in peace A. D. SSS.n On nv
side road. ..Yor we'll deserving ono lie in
peoce. You will rise. A temporary rest is
Granted Won Plaucus her husband made
fbis.n On vour side Won read; ..Nicephorus
n sweet sonl in the place Of refreshnenf
On nv side road. IN Christ. Alexonder is
not dead Init lives bevond the stars. and his
Ieod bodv rests in fills tomb 81 On vopr side
Won read. ,.Tere. bappv. YOU find rest bowed
down with wears - ssIrene sleeDs in God -
s.Valeria sleers in neace.n "Arethusa slecps
in Godr "Navira in peace. a sweet soul
who lived sixtecn years n soul sweet as
honey. This epitaph was made bv her "a.
rents,n
THE GLORIOUS AWAKENING.
But let us come ont from these catacombs
and oxtinopish orr torches. for upon nll these
ionc,i1,rs and ovnactotions Of all nations the
morninr of resurrection dawns. The tluu.
net shah soundI And the sooner it sounds
The better oh. how we would like to Get
ON. Ioved onas hack ogainl If we are ready
IN meet our Lord. orr sinsall hardened. what
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