Homer guardian., 1890-03-07

compactness of muscle! What
ruddy complexion! What flash
ing eye! Standing with HIM in a
group Of twenty or thirty persons
at Piedmont he looked the health
lest, as his spirits were the blith-
est. Shall we never feel again the
hearty grasp Of his hand or be
magnetized with his eloQuenct?
Men of The great roll, men of the
pen, men of wit, men of power, if
our friend had to 60 when the call
came so must YOU when your call
comes. When God asks you what
have you done with your pen or
your eloquence or your wealth Or
your social position will you be
able to give satisfactory answer?
What have we been writing all
these years? If mlrth, has 1t been
innocent mirth, or that which
tears and stings and lacerates!
From our pen have there come
forth productions healthy or
poisonous? In the last great day
when the warrior must give ac-
count of what he has done with
his sword, and the merchant what
he has done with his yardstick,
and the mason what he has done
with his trowel, and the artist what
he has done with his pencil, we
shall have to give an account OF
what we have done with our pen?
There are gold pens and diamond
pens and pens of exquisite manu-
facture, and every few weeks l see
some new kind of pen, each said
to be better than the other; but in
the great day of our arraignment
before the judge of quick and
dead that will be the most beanti-
full pen, whether gold or steel or
quill, which never wrote a prorane
or unclean or cruel word, or which
from the day it was carved, or split
at the nib, dropped from Its point
kindness and encouragement and
help and gratitude 10 God and
benedlction for man.
May God comfort that torn up
Southern home and all the homes
of this country and Of all the
world which have been swept by
this plague of influenza, which has
deepened sometimes into pneumo-
MA and sometimes into typhus
and the victims ofwhlch are count
ed by the ten thousand! Satan.
who is the
PRINCE OF THE POWER OF THE AIR"
has been poisoning the atmosphere
in all nations. Though 1t is the
first time in our remembrance, he
has done the same thing before.
In 1896 the unwholesome air of
Cairo, Egypt, destroyed the life OF
10000 in one day, and in Con
stanstlnople in TIA 100000 people
died of 1t. | am glad that by the
better sanitation of our cities and
wider understanding of hyglenic
laws and the greater skill of ply
sicians these Apollyonic assaults
upon the human race are being
resisted, but pestilential atmos-
phere is still abroad. Hardly a
family here but has felt it's lighter
or heavier touch. Some of the
best ofmy flock fell under it's pow
er and many homes here represent
Ell have been crushed. The fact
is the biggest failure in the uni
verse is this world If there be no
heaven beyond. But there is, and
the friends who have gone there
are many and very dear. 0 fearful
eyes, look up TO the hills crimson
ing with eternal morn That re-
union kiss will more than make ND
for the parting kiss, and the well
come will obliterate the good-bv
THE Lamb which is in the midst
of the throne shall lead them to
living fountains Of water and God
shall wipe awayall tears from their
eyes" Till then, 0 departed
loved ones, promise us that YOU
will remember US, as we promise
to remember you. And some OF
you gone up from this city by the
sea, aud others from under South.
ern skies. and others from the
homes of the more rigorous North.
and some from the cabins on great
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