The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1891-04-01
the King Of Terrors disappearing before
the King Of Grace. 1.-The. Lord is risen"
Hnsannal Hosanna!

The Lord is risen, He lives again.
When one of the old Christians was
dying he said he saw on the sky the let
ter ~" and he said: 81 cannot under
stand what that is see against the sky;
1t is the letter W" Christian stand
ing beside him said: 81 know what it
means; that letter w stands for vic
tory" | gather up all these flowers
to-day, and ! strew them over the graves
Of your Christian dead in the letter "V"
for victory" "R" for resurrection
''T" for triumph" III" for "Heaven."
''The Lord is risen," Hosanna
While standing around the place where
the Lord lay, am impressed with the
fact that IN ortuary honors can not
atone for wrongs to the living If they
could have afforded Christ such costly
sepulcher they could have afforded Him
a decent earthly residence. Will they
! give piece of marble to the dead Christ
when they might have given soft pill
low to the living Christ? II they had
put half the expense of that mausoleum
in the making of Christ's life on earth
comfortable, the story would not have
been SO sad. He wanted bread; they
| gave Him stone. Christ, like every
other benefactor Of the world, was bet.
ter appreciated after he was dead.
Westminster Abbey and monumental
Greenwood are to certain extent the
worlds attempts by mortuary honors to
atone for ne elects to the living. Poets
/ Corner in Westminster Abbey, an at
tempt to pay for the sufferings of Grub
street. go into that Poets Corner OF
| Westminster Abbey and there
find the grave of Handel, the mu-
sician whose music we hear to-
day, as it goes down reverberating
through the ages. While stand at the
costly tomb of Handel, cannot forget
the fact that his fellow-musicians tried
to destroy him with cir discords. go
little further in the Poets Corner OF
Westminster Abbey and find the grave
Of John Dryden, the great poet. Costly
monument, great mortuary honors, but
cannot forget the fact that at seventy
years Of age he wrote about the oppres.
sions of misfortune, and that he made
contract for n thousand verses at six
pence line. go little further on in
the Poets Corner and find the grave
Of Samuel Butler, the author of "Iludi-
bras" Wonderful monument, costly
mortuary honors. Where did he dieP
In q garret. move further on in the
Poets Corner, and find the grave Of
poet of whom Waller wrote: "An old
schoolmaster by the name of John Mil
ton has written a tedious volume on the
fall of man. II its length be no virtue,
II has none" go little further on in
the Poets Corner and find the grave
of Sheridan. Alas! for Sheridan. Poor
Sheridan! NJ agnifcent mort airy honors.
{ What a pity IL was he could not have
discounted the monument for a mouth
full of something 10 eat! o, un-
filial children, give your old par
ents less tombstone and more
blankets, less funeral and more
bedroom. Five per cent. of the money
! now expended at Burns banquets would
; have made the great Scotch poet COM
Portable and kept him from being al
most harried to death by the drudgery
Of an exciseman. Horace Greeley, out
rageously abused while he lived-going
out 10 his tomb was followed by the
/ president of the United States and the
leading 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 resolutions with which her
legislature denounced the living sena-
tor. was too late. The costly monu.
ment at Springfield, ILL.,, cannot pay for
Booths bullet. Costly mortuary honors
on the banks of Lake Erie-honors that
cost between 100000 and 5000, ,OO0-can-
not 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
TO see the polish on the Aberdeen gran
ite, or 10 read the words OF epitaphal
commemoration. Costly mausoleum
of the gentleman in the suburbs OF
Jerusalem cannot atone for Bethlehems
manger and Calvarean cross and Pilates
rufian judiciary.
Again: Sta ding in this place where
the Lord lay, 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 inhumation
he lay amid flowers and sculpture.
cannot quite understand what / see in
the newspapers where amid the an
nouncement o. obsequies the friends re-
quest 'send no flowers" Why, there
Is no place so appropriate for flowers as
the casket Of the departed. II your
means allow-I repeat, II your means
allow, let there be flowers on the cas-
ket. flowers on the hearse, flowers on
the grave. Put them on the brow; Il
means coronation. Put them in the
handj itmeans victory. Christ was
buried In q parterre. Christ was buried |
In q garden Flowers are types OF
resurrection. Death Is sad enough any
how. Let conservatory and arboretum |
do all they can in the way of alleviation.
Your little girl loved flowers while |
she was alive Put them In her hands, |
now that she cannot 60 forth and
pluck flowers for herself On sum
shiny days twist garland for her still |
heart. Brooklyn has no grander glory
than her Greenwood, nor Boston than
her Mount Auburn. nor Philadelphia