Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-03-30
THE RESURRECTION
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earth comfortable, the story would no
have been so sad. He wanted bread
they gave him stone. Christ, lik
every other benefactor OF the world
was better appreciated after he wa
dead. Westminster Abbey and monu
mental Greenwood are to a certain ex
tent the worlds attempts by mortuar,
honors to atone for neglects to the liv
ing. Poets Corner in Westminster Alb
hey an attempt to pay for the suffering:
of Grub street, l 90 into that Poets
Corner oof Westminster Abbey ant
| there | find the grave of Handel, thu
musician, from whose music we hear TO
day, as it goes down revibrating through
the ages. While | stand at the costly
tomb OF Handel cannot forget the fact
that his fellowmuSicians tried 10 de
stroy him with their discords. | go ;
little further in the Poets Corner oil
Westminster Abbey and find the grav,
of John Dryden, the great poet. Costly
monument, great mortuary honors
but cannot forget the fact
that Eat seventy years Of age
he wrote about the expressions of mis-
fortune, and that he made contract
for a thousand verses at sixpence q line
go little further on in the Poets
Corner and | find the grave Of Samuel
Butler, the author OF "Hudibras.
Wonderful monument, costly mortuary
honorS. Where did he die? In a gar
ret. | move further on in the Poets
Corner, and find the grave Of poet OF
whom Waller wrote: can old school
master by the name of John Milton
has written a tedious volume on the fall
of man. II it's length be no virtue, il
has none" go a little further on in
the Poets Corner aud | find the grave
of Sheridan. Alas. for Sheridan. Poor
Sheridan. Magnificent mortuary hon
OrS. What Il pity it was he could not
have discounted that monument for a
mouthful of something 10 eat! o, un-
tilial children, give your old parents
less tombstone and more blankets,
less funeral and more bedroom.
Five per cent. Of the money
now expended at Burns ban
QuetS would have made the great Scotch
poet comfortable and kept him from
being almost harried TO death by the
drudgery OF an exciseman. Horace
Greeley, outrageously abused while he
lived, going out TO his tomb, was fol-
lowed 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. MaSSachu-
sets, at the tomb OF Charles Sumner,
tried TO atone for the ignominious reso-
lutions with which her Legislature de-
nounced the living Senator. 1t was too
late. The costly monument at Spring
field, ILL.,, cannot pay for Booths bull
let. Costly mortuary honors on the
banks of Lake Erie-honOrs that cost
between 5000, 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 Alb
erdeen granite, or TO read the words OF
epitaphal commemOration. Costly maui
solemn of the gentleman in the suburbs
of Jerusalem cannot atone for Bethle-
hem's manger and Calvarean cross and
Pilates ruilian 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 appoo pirate 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 announcements Of
obSequieS the friends request ''send no
flowers" Why, there is no place so APP
propriate for flowers as the casket OF
the departed II your means allow /
repeat, if you means allow let there
be flowers on the caSket, 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 garden. Flowers are
types of resurrection. Death Is sad
enough anyhow. Let conservatory and
arboretum do all they can in the way OF
alienation. Your little girl loved flow-
ers while she was alive. Put them In
her hands, now that she cannot go
forth and pluck flowers for herself. On
Sunshny days twist Il garland for her
still heart. Brooklyn has no grander
glory than her Greenwood, nor Boston
than her Mount Auburn, nor Phila-
delphia 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 pleaSure-groundf for the seX-
toms cattle. Are your father and
mother of so little account you have no
more respect than that OF 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 while, you yourself will want to
lie down TO the last slumber. IL you
have no regard for the bones OF your
ancestors, your children will have def
erence 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. Tnrn all your graveyards
into gardens.
MODEST oBsEQUIEs OF CHRIST.
Standing in this place where the Loro
Law. | am also impressed with the dig
nity of unpretending cbsequies. Joseph
that day was mourner, sexton, livery
man-hai the entire charge of all the
occasion. Four people only at the bur
ial OF the King Of the universe. Let
this be conSOlatory TO those who through
small means, or lack of large acquaint-
apce. have but little demonstration at
the grave of their dead. 1t is not nee
essarv. Long line OF glittering equl-
pages, two rows OF silver handles, cas-
ket of costly wood, pall-oearers
scarfed and gloved are not
necessary. Christ looks out
from heaven ut burial where there
are six in attendance and remembers
there are two more than he had at his
obseouies. Not recognizing this idea,
how many small! properties are scat
tered in the funeral rites, and widow
hood and orphanage go out to the cold
charity of the world. The departed
left enough property to have kept the
family together until they could take
care of themselves, but it is all absorbed
in the funeral rites. That went FOL
Grape which ought to have gone for
bread. A man of small means car
hardly afford to die in one OF our grea'
citiesI Funeral pageantry is not neces'
sary. No one was ever more lovingl!
and tenderly put into the grave thar
| CIT. h,, thara ware only four in the