Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-03-30

bread; they gave him q stone. Christ
like every other benefactor of the
world, was better appreciated after he
was dead Westminster Abbey and
monumental Greenwood are to n Ger
tain extent the worlds attempts by
mortuary honors to atone for neglects
to the living Poets Corner in West
minister Abbey an attempt to pay for
the sufferings of Grub street. | go into
that Poets Corner of Westminster Alb
bey and there | find the grave Of Han
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 him with
their discOrds
go a little farther in the Poets Cor
ner of Westminster Abbey and [ find
the grave of John Dryden, the great
poet Costly monument, great mOrtu-
airy honOrs: but | cannot forget the
fact that at seventy years of age he
wrote about the expressions Of misfort-
une, and that he made u contract for a
thousand verses at sixpence line. |
go a little farther on in the Poets Cor
ner and l find the grave Of Samuel
| Butler the author of ''Hudibras. "
Wonderful monument. costly 1nortuary
honors Where did he die? In gar
ret. move farther on in the Poets
Corner and | find the grave of a poet
of whom Waller wrote: AN old school
master by the name of John Milton
has written Il tedious volume on the
! fall of man. If its length be no virtue,
it has none" | go a little farther on
in the Poets Corner and | find the
grave of Sheridan. Alas! for Sheri-
dan Poor Sherdan Magnificent
mortuary honors What a pity it was
he could not have discounted that
monument for a nOuthful of something
to eat! Oh, unfilial 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 while 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 he died. Massachusetts,,
at the tomb of Charles Sumner, tried
to atone for the ignominious resolu-
tons with which her legislature de-
nounced the living senator. 1t was too
late.
The costly monument at Springfield.
Ills, cannot pay for Booths bullet.
Costly mOrtuary hOnOrs on the banks
of Lake Erie-honors that cost between
5000, 900 and $780, 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 commem-
grafton. Costly mausoleum of the gen
tleman in the suburbs of Jerusalem
cannot atone for Bethlehem's manager
and Calyarean cross and Pilates ruff
fan Judiciary.
FLOWERS FOR THE DEAD.
Again. Standing in this place where
the Lord lay l am impressed with the
fact that floral and sculptural ornamen-
tation are appropriate for the places of
the dead We are all Glad that in the
short time of the Saviour's Inflammation
he lay amid flowers 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 casket of the departed. If your
means allow repeat, if your means
allow-let there be flowers on the cas-
ket, flowers on the hearse, flowers on
the grave. Put them on the brow; it
means coronation. Put them in the
hand it means victory Christ was
buried in parterre. Christ was buried
in q garden. Flowers are types of resur-
rection. Death is sad enough anyhow
Let conservatory and arbOretum do all
they can in the way of alienation.
Your little girl loved flowers while she
was alive Put them in her hands, now
that she cannot go forth and pluck
flowers for herself. On sunshiny days
twist a garland for her still heart.
Brooklyn has no greater glory than
her Greenwood, nor Boston than her
Mount Auburn, nor Philadelphia than
her Laurel Hill, nor Cincinnati than
her Spring Grove, nor San Francisco
than her Lone Mountain. What shall
| say of those country graveyards
where the vines have fallen down and
the slab is aslant and the mound is
caved in and the grass is the pasture
ground for the sections cattle2 Are
your father and mother of so little ac-
count that you have no more respect
than that for their bones? Some day
gather together and straighten up the
fence and lift the slab and bank up the
mound and tear out the weeds and
plant the shrubs. After a while you
yourself will want to lie down to the
last slumber. If you have no regard
for the bones of your ancestors, your
children will have no Difference for
your bones. Do you say these relics
are of no Importance? You will see of
how much Importance they are when
the archangel takes out his trumpet.
Turn all your gPaveyards into gardens.
Standing in this place where the Lord
lay am also impressed with the dig
nifty of unpretending obsequies. Joseph
that day was mOurner, sexton, livery
| man-had the entire charge of all the
| occasion. -Four people only at the
burial of the King of the Universe. Let
this be consolatory to those who,
through small means Or lack of large
acquaintance, have but little demon
| stration of grief at the grave of their
dead. 1t is not necessary. Long line
of glittering equipages, two rows of sill
yer handles, casket of costly wood,
| pallbearers scarlet and gloved are not
necessary. Christ looks out from
heaven at a burial where there are six
in attendance, and remembers there are
two more than he had at his obsequies.
Not recognizing this idea, how many