Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-04-21

morning, the Brooklyn Tabernacle congre
cation had been invited to bring flowers
the night before, and bank of them was
ON the front of the pulpit and wreaths OF
them over the pulpit. The word "Resur-
rectionn was spelled out in letters of white
lilies. Especial music was added TO the
great congregational singing. Text,
Samuel XIV, -, surely the bitterness of
death is past"
So cried Agag, and the only objection /
have 10 this text is that bad man uttered
IL. Nevertheless it is true, and in "a higher
and better sense than that in which it was
originally uttered. Years ago a legend
something like this was told me; In a
hut lived very poor woman by the name
of Misery. In front of her door was a pear
tree, which was her only resource for a liv-
ing. Christ, the Lord, in poor garb was
walking through the earth and no one
would entertain him. In vain he knocked
at the door of palaces and of humble dwell
lings. Cold and hungry and insufiieiently
clad, as he was, none received him. But
coming one day to the hut of this woman,
whose name was Misery, she received him,
and offered him a few crusts and asked
him To warm himself at the handful of
Goals and she sat up all night that the
wayfsrer might have pillow to rest on.
| In the morning this divine being asked
her as he departed what she would have
| him do in the way Of reward, and told her
| that he owned the universe ana would give
| her what she asked. All she asked was
that her pear tree might be protected, and
that the boys who stole her fruit, once
climbing the tree might not be able to get
down without her consent. SO it was
granted, and all who climbed the tree
were compelled 20 stay there. After
awhile Death came along and told the poor
woman she must go with him. But she
did not want to 60 for, however poor ones
lot Is, no one wants to 20 with DEATH
Then she said to Death, II will 20 with
You il you win first climb up into my pear
tree and bring me down few pears before
start This he consented TO do, but
having climbed into the tree he could not
again come down.
Then the troubles Of the world began,
for Death did MOI come The physicians
had no patients, the undertakers no bust
ness, lawyers no wills to make the people
who waited for inheritances could not get
them, the old men staid in all the profes
sions aud occupations so that there was no
room for the young who were coming on
and the earth got overcrowded, and from
all the earth the cry went up: "Oh, Tor
Deathl Where is Deatht" Then the peo-
pie came TO the poor woman and begged
her Co let Death descend from the tree. In
sympathy for the world, she consented 10
let Death come down on one condition, aud
that was that he should never modest or
take her away, and on that condition Death
was allowed TO come down, and lac kept his
word and never removed her, and for that
-eason we always have Misery with us.
THE RESURRECTION.
In that allegory some one has set forth
the truth that | mean TO present on this
Easter morning. which celebrates the res
direction OF Christ and our coming resur
reetion-that one Of the grandest and
mightiest mercies Of the earth is our divine
permission to quit il. Sixty-four persons
every minute step OF this planet. Thirty
million people every year board this planet.
As steamer must unload before it takes
another cargo and as the passengers Of
rail train must leave it in order TO have an
other company of passengers enter il, so
with this world.
What would happen to an ocean steam
er il man, taking a stateroom, should |
stay in il forever What would happen to |
a rail train ii one who purchases a ticket
should always occupy the seat assigned |
him? And what would happen to this |
world ii all vino came into il never depart. |
ed from it. TIE grave is as much a bene. |
diction as the cradle What sunk that 4
ship in the Black sea a few days agoy Too |
many passengers What was the matter |
with that steamer on the Thames which, a |
few years ago, went down with 600 lives? |
Ioo ms ~ - q
only a ship, which was launched some six 1
thousand years ago. 1t is sailing at
the rate of many thousand miles an
hour 1t is freighted with mountains and
cities, and has in its staterooms and steer
age about sixteen hundred million pasSen-
gers So many are coming aboard, it Is /
necessary that good many disembark
Suppose that all the people that have
lived since the days of Adam and Eve were
still alive. What a cluttered up place this
world would be--no elbow room-no place |
to walk-no privacy-nothing to eat or
wear, or ii anything were left the human
race would, like shipwrecked crew, have
to be put on small rations, each Of us hay
ing perhaps only a biscuit day. And
what chance would there be for the rising |
generationss The men and women who /
started when the world started would keep /
the modern people back and down, saying: L
1--WE are six Thousand years old. Bow
down. History is no5hing, for we are older
than history What a mercy for the hui
man race was DEATH Within few years
you can get from this work. all there is
in it.
After you have had fifty or sixty or
seventy springtimes. you have seen enough
blossoms. After fifty or sixty or seventy
you have seen enough of gorgeous
foliage. After fifty or sixty OF seventy
winters, you have seen enough snowstorms
and felt enough chills and wrapped your
self in enough blankets In the ordinary
length of human life you have, carried
enough burdens, and shed enough tears,
md suffered enough iniustices, and felt
enough pangs, and been clouded by enough
doubts, and surrounded by enough mys-
ieries. We tax about the shortness of
life, but if we exercised good sense we
would realize that life is quite long enough. 5
If we are rhe chil1rpn of Cod we ara at a I