The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-04-09

stration of grief at the grave of their
dead II 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 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
small properties are scattered in the
funeral rites, and widowhood and or
phanage go out to the cold charity of
the world. The departed left enough
property to have kept the family to.
gether until they could take care of
themselves, but it is all absorbed in the
funeral rites, That went for Grape
which ought to have gone for bread.
A man of small means can hardly af-
ford to die in one of our great cities.
Funeral pageantry is not necessary,
No one was ever more lovingly and
tenderly put into the grave than Christ,
but there were only four in the process
sion.
THE DEAD SHALL RISE AGAIN.
Again, standing in this place where
the Lord lay, am impressed with the
fact that you cannot keep the dead
down. The seal of Sanhedrim, regi-
ment of soldiers from the tower of
Antonio to stand guard, floor of rock
roof of rock, wall of rock, niche Of
rock, cannot keep Christ in the crypt
Come out and come up he must Came
out and came up he did. Prefgura-
ton. The first fruits of them that
sleep. Just as certainly as you and
go down into the grave, just so GER
tainly we will come up again. Though
you pile up on the top of us all the
powders of the mountains, you cannot
keep us down. Though we be buried
under the coral of the deepest cavern
of the Atlantic ocean, we will rise to
the surface, Ali my friends, death
and the grave are not what they used
to be to us, for now, walking around
the spot where the Lord lay, we find
vines and flowers covering up the
tomb, and that which we called
place of skulls has become beautiful
garden. Yea, now there are four gar
dens instead of one-Garden of Eden,
Garden of the Worlds Sepulcher, Gar
den of Earth's Regeneration, Garden
of Heaven.
Various scriptural accounts say that
the work of grave breaking will begin
with the blast of trumpets and shout
ings; whence l take it that the first
intimation of the day will be a sound
from heaven such as has never before
been heard. 1t may not be so very
loud, but it will be penetrating. There
are mausoleums so deep that undis-
turbed silence has slept there ever since
the day when the sleepers were left in
them The great noise shall strike
through them. Among the corals of
the sea, miles deep, where the ship
wrecked rest, the sound will strike. No
one will mistake it for thunder or the
blast of earthly minstrelsy. There will
be heard the voice of the uncounted
millions of the dead, who come rushing
out of the gates of eternity, flying
toward the tomb, crying: make wayl
Oh, grave, give us back our body! We
gave it to you in corruption; surrender
it now in interruption" Thousands
of spirits arising from the field of
Sedan, and from among the rocks of
Gettysburg, and from among the passes
of South Mountain. A hundred thou
sand are crowding Greenwood. On
this grave three spirits meet, for there
were three bodies in that tomb; over
that family vault twenty spirits hover,
for there were twenty bodies.
From New York to Liverpool, at
every few miles on the sea route, q
group of hundreds of spirits coming
down to the water to meet their bodies.
| See that multitude that is where the
Central America sank And yonder
multitude that is where the Pacific
went down. Found at lastl That is
where the City of Boston sank. And
yonder the President went down. A
solitary spirit alights on yonder prairie
that is where traveller persisted in
the snow The whole air is full of
spirits spirits flying north, spirits fly
ing south, spirits flying east, spirits fly
ing west. Crash! goes Westminster
Abbey, as all its dead kings and orators
and poets get up.
Strange commingling of spirits search
ing among the ruins. William Wilber-
force, the good, and Queen Elizabeth,
the bad. Crash! 60 the Pyramids, and
the monarchs of Egypt rise out of the
heart of the desert. Snap go the iron
gates of the modern vaults The coun-
try graveyard will look like a rough
plowed field as the mounds break open
All the kings of the earth; all the sena-
tors; all the great men; all the beg
CARS; all the armies -victors and van
pushed; all the ages-barbaric and
civilized; all those who were chopped
by guillotine, or simmered in the fire
or rotted in dungeons; all the infants
of day; all the octogenarians all !!
ALL Not one straggler left behind
All all
| And now the air is darkened with
the fragments of bodies that are com
ing together from the opposite corners
of the earth. Lost limbs finding their
mate-bone to bone, sinew to sinew-
until every joint is reconstructed, and
every arm finds its socket, and the am
putated limb of the surgeons table
shall be ,set again at the point from
which it was severed. A surgeon told
me that after the battle of Bull Run
he amputated limbs, throwing them
out of the window, until the pile
reached up to the window-siH. All
those fragments will have to take their
places. Those who were born blind
shall have eyes divinely kindled; those
who were lame shall have limb sub
stituted. In all the hosts of the resur-
rected not one eye missing; not one