Connecticut western news., 1891-04-01
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There and then was shattered the tomb so that it can never be rebuilt. All the trowels of earthly masonry can not mend it. Forever and forever it is 3 broken tomb. Death that day talk ing the side of the military received a horrible cut under the angels spear of dame, and must himself go down at the King of Terrors disappearing before the King of Grace. The Lord Is risen" Hosanna! Hosanna!
 Oh, weep no more, your comforts slain,
 The Lord is risen, he lives again.
 When one of the old Christians was dying he said he saw on the sky the letter 'V, 7 and he said, ''I cannot un- derstand what that is see against the sky; it is the letter "" A Christian beside him said, II know what it means; that letter " stands for vic tory" gather up all these flowers to-day, and I strew them over the graves of your Christian dead in the letter "V'' for victory" "R" for resurrection, "T' for triumph" ''H'' for C" eaven." "The Lord is risen" Hosanna!
 HONORS AFTER DEATH.
 While standing around the place where the Lord lay am impressed with the fact that mortuary honors cannot atone for wrongs to the living. If they could have afforded Christ such cost ly sepulcher they could have afforded him a decent earthly residence. Will they give a piece of marble to the dead Christ when they might have given a soft pillow to the living Christ. If they had put half the expense of that mau soleum in the making of Christ's life on earth comfortable the story would not have been so sad. He wanted bread; they gave him a stone. Christ. like every other benefactor of the world, was better appreciated after he was dead. Westminster Abbey and Greenwood are to a cer- tain extent the worlds attempts by mortuary honors to atone for neglects to the living. Poets Corner in Vest minister Abbey an attempt to pay for the sufferings of Grub street. go into that Poets Corner of Westminster Ab- bey, and there I find the grave of Han del, the musician from whose music we hear today as it goes down rever- berating through the ages. While l stand at the costly tomb of Handel cannot forget the fact that his fellow musicians tried to destroy him with their discords.
 go little farther in the Poets Cor ner of Westminster Abbey and I find the grave of John Dryden, the great poet. Costly monument, great mortu- ary honors; but I cannot forget the fact that at seventy years of age he wrote about the expressions of misfort- une, and that he made contract for a thousand verses at sixpence line. l go little farther on in the Poets Cor ner and I find the grave of Samuel Butler, the author of "Hudibras. :" Wonderful monument, costly nortuary 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 tedious volume on the fall of man. If it's length be no virtue, it has none." I go little farther on in the Poets Corner and I find the grave of Sheridan. Alas! for Sheri- dan. Poor Sheridan! Magnificent mortuary honors What pity it was he could not have discounted that monument for mouthful 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 tue 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- tions with which her legislature de. nounced the living senator. It 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 $2OO, 900 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 commem oration Costly mausoleum of the gen tleman in the suburbs of Jerusalem cannot atone for Bethlehern's manager and Calvarean cross and Pilates ruf fan judiciary.
 FLOWERS FOR THE DEAD.
 Again. Standing in this place where the Lord lay am impressed with the fact that floral and sculptural ornamen tation are appropriate for the places o1 tbe dead We are all glad that in the short time of the Saviour's inhumatior he lay amid flowers and sculpture. cannot quite understand what I see ir the newspapers where, amid the an
 nouncements of obsequies. the friends request send no flowers" Why, there
 is no place so appropriate for flowers al
 the casket of the departed. If you
 means alEow-I repeat, if your mean!