Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-04-04

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All the trowels OF earthly masonry can
not mend it. Forever and forever 1t Is
broken tomb. Death that day taking
the side of the military received hoi-.
rible cut under the angels spear OF
flame, and must himself 20 down ut the
last-thc King OF Tc"rors disappearing
/ before the King OF Grace. THE Lord
is risen" Hosanna. Hosanna.
While standing around the place
where the Lord lay am impressed with
the fact that moriuary honors can not
atone for wrongs TO the living. II they
could have afforded Christ such Il cost
" sepulchre they could have Afforded
Him decent earthly residence. VIII
they give piece Of marble to the dead
Christ when they might have given a
soft pillow TO the living Christ? II
they had put half OF the expense OF that
mausoleum in the making OF Christ $
life on earth comfortable the story would
not have been SO sad. He wanted
bread they gave Hin stone. Christ
like every other benfactor OF the world
was better appreciated after He was
dead. Westministry Abbey and monu-
mental Greenwood are to certain ex-
tent the worlds attempt by mortuary
honors to atone for neglects to the llv-
ing. Poets corner in Westminster Alb
hey, an attempt to pay for the suffer-
ings OF Grub street. | go into that
Poets corner OF Westminster Abbey
and there find the grave OF Handel.
the musician from whose music we hear
to-day, as it goes down reverberating
through the ages. While l stand Mt the
costly tomb OF Handel, can not forget
the fact that his fellow musicians
tried to destroy him with their 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 hon
ors. but can not forget the TACT that ut
20 years OF age he wrote about the op-
pressions OF misfortune aid that he
made contract for 1000 verses at six
pence q line. | go little further on
in the Poets corner and | find the grave
of Samuel Butler, the author OF "Hudl-
Bras" Wonderful monument, costly
mortuary honors. Where did he die:
In q garnet. | move further on in the
Poets corner, and find the grave OF a
poet of whom Walter wrote; IAN old
schoolmaster by the name OF John
Milton has written tedious volume on
the fall OF man. If its length be no vir-
tue, it has none" | go u little further
on in the Poets corner and find the
grave OF Sheridan. Alas. for Sheridan.
Poor Sheridan! Magnificent mortuary
honors. What pity it was he could
not have discounted that monument FOR
a mouthful OF something 10 eat.
o, unfilial children, give your old pa
rents 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 comfortable and kept
him from being harried to death by the
drudgery OF an exciseman. Horace
Greeley, outrageously abused while he
lived-going out to his tomb was fol-
flowed by the president of the United
States and the leading mon OF the army
and the navy. Some people could not
say bitter things enough about him
while he lived; all the world rose up to
do him honor when he died. Massa-
chusetts at the tomb OF Charles Sumner
tried to atone for the ignominious reso-
buttons with which her legislature de-
nounced the living senator. 1t was too
late. The costly monument at Spring
field, ILL.,, can not pay for Booths bullet.
Costly mortuary honers on the banks Of
LakeE rie-honors that cost between
600, 900 and $500, 000-can not pay for
the assassination OF James A. Garfield.
Do justice to the living. All the JUS
tice you do you will have to do this side
the gates Of the metropolis. The dead
can not 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 commemor-
alton. Costly mausoleum Of the gentle
man in the suburbs OF Jerusalem can
not atone for Bethlehem's manger and
Calvarean cross and Pilates ruffian ju-
dietary.
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 SaviOr's inhumation
He lay amid flowers and sculpture.
can not 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. II your
means allow-I repeat II your means al
low-let there believers on the casket,
flowers on the hearse, flowers on the
grave. Put them on the brow; itmeans
coronation. Put them on the head; it
means victory. Christ was buried in a
parterre. Christ was buried in q gar
den.
Flowers are types OF resurrection.
Death is sad enough anyhow. Let con-
servatory and aborteum 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
can not go forth and pluck flowers for
herself. On sunshiny days twist gar