Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1891-04-04
mistook him for the gardener.

not mend it. Forever and forever 1T II
O broken tomb. Death that day tax
ing the side of the military received 1
horrible cut under tho angels spear o.
flame, and must himself go down ut tho
last-thc King Of Terrors disappearing
before the King of Grace. 1.-THE Lore
is risen" Hosanna! Hosanna!
Oh, weep no moro, your comforts slain.
The Lords risen, he lives again.
When one of the old Christians wa!
dying he said he saw on the sky ths
letter 'v," and ho said, 81 cannot I'm
derstand what that is see against th'
sky; it is the letter W" A Christian
standing beside him said, II know villa
it means; that letter W stands for vic
tory" | gather up all these flower
to-day, anil | strcw them over th,
graves of your Christian dead in til,
letter "v,' for victory" "R" TO
resurrection. g IT" for triumph,
..IIr for, eayen. $ ..Thc Lord isrisen.'
sHosanna! -: ..;,:s
Z 80 uos5oiss AFTER DEATH.
nile stand ing round plac
!ss .Wlh ere;t asL ord an I'M pressed wit
tito tGa ii oIs seanElo
atone for wrongs to tho living. 1.-THE!
could have afforded Christ such a cost
ly scpulchcr they could have afforded
him decent earthly residence. vii
they give n piece of marble to The dead
Christ when they might nave given +.
soft pillow to tlsiiving Christ. If they
had put half til, expense of TINT 1nau-
solemn in the making of Christ's life
ON earth comfortable tho story would
not have been SO sad. lie wanted
bread; they gave him stone. Christ,
like every other bcnefactor of the
world, was better appreciated after lie
was dead. Westminster Abbey and
monumental Greenwood are to GER
tain extent the worlds attempts by
mortuary honors to atone for neglects
to the living. Poets Corner in West
minister Abbey on attempt to pay for
the suffcrings of Grub street. go into
that Poets Corner of Westminster Alb
boy. and there find the grave OF Ham
del, the musician from whose music
we hear today as it goes down rever-
berating through the ages. While |
stand at the costly tomb Of Handel
cannot forget the fact that his fellow
musicians tried to destroy lin with
their discords.
go u little farther in the Poets Cor
ner of Westminster Abbey and find
the grave Of John Dryden. the great
poet. Costly monument, great lnortu-
airy honors; but cannot forget the
fact that at seventy years of age he
wrote about the expressions of lnisfort-
une. and that he made a contract for a
thousand verses at si1pence a line. /
go little farther on in the Poets Cor
ner and I find the grave of Samuel
Butler, the author of "Hudibrns. !"
Wonderful monument, costly niortuary
honorsl Where did he die2 In gar
ret. move farther on in the Poets
Corner and l. find the grave of a poet
of whom Waller wrote: IAN old school
master by the name of John Milton
has written tedious volume on the
fall of man. If it's length be no virtue,
it has none" go a little farther on
in the Poets Corner and | find the
grave of SheFfaun. Alas! for Sherl-
dan. Poor Sheridana Magnificent
,nortuary honors. What q pity it was
he could not have discounted that
monument for q moutllful of something
to eat Oh, untilial children, give
your old parents less tombstone and
more blankets, less funeral and more
bedroom.
Five per cent. of the money now ex-
pended at Burns banquets would have
made the great Scotch poet comfort
able and kept him from being almost
harried to death by the drudgery of an
exciseman. Horace Greeley-outrage-
ously abused whilo he lived going out
to his tomb was followed by The presi-
dent of the United States and the lead
ing men of the army and the navy.
Some people could not say bitter
enough things about him while he
lived; all the world rose up to do him
honor when lie died. Massachusetts,
at the tomb of Charles Sumner, tried
to atone for the ignominious resolu-
lions with which her legislature de-
nounced the living senator. 1t was too
late.
The costly monument at Springfield.
Ills, cannot pay for Booths ballet.
Costly mortuary honors on the banks
of Lake Erie-bonors that cost between
$500, 600 and $500, 000-cannot pay for
the assassination of James A. Garfield.
Do justice to the living. All the justice
you do you will have to do this side
the gates of the metropolis. The dead
cannot wake up to count the number
of carriages in the procession or see the
polish on the Aberdeen granite or to
read the words of epitaphal comment
grafton. Costly mausoleum of the gen.
tleman in the suburbs of Jerusalem
cannot atone for Bethlehem's manger
and Calvarean cross and Pilates ruff
fan judiciary.
FLOWERS FOR TEE DEAD.
Again. Standing in this place where
the Lord lay am impressed with the
fnct that floral and sculptural ornamon-
tation are appropriate for tho plnces OF
the dead. We aro all glad that In tho
short time of the Saviour's Illumination
he lay amid fiowcis and sculpture. ]
cannot quite understand what see in
the newspapers where, amid the an
nouncements of obsequies, the friends
request ''send no flowers" Why, there
is no place SO appropriate for flowers as
the caskct of the departed If your