The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-12-27


a chapter of annual decadance, and the
third a chapter of chronological introduce
ton, and this last chapter we have reached.
In olden times there was style or closing
was very suggestive. The family would
sit up until II o'clock at night. and when
the clock struck Il the family would all
go to the front door Of the house, take down
the, bar and turn back the LOCK LOCK
to q let the he old year arr out IT, and the new
year in. And that is what we, are gong
to do. With the same measured step that
time has kept since it started, 1T VIII come
to our door in the closing night OF THIS week.
in! I have already indicated that u is
ology. "Why?" you ask. Have you any
forebodings or premonitions? No. Are r.,
you expecting the millennium this year
No! "Why, then say this about the coming
year," For the simple reason that | find
as the years go by they become more and
more eventful. Compare the nineteenth
century with the eighteenth century. Com
pare the first half of this century with the
are rolling higher and higher. The forces
of right and wrong are rapidly multiplying
and their struggles must be intensified.
1t is chronological fact that we are All
the time coming nearer the worlds Edenl-
cation first and then to its incarceration, to
expect that 1893 will be greater year than
1892. It's wedding bells will be merrler.
Its obsequies will be sadder. Its scientific
discoveries more brilliant. Its properties
more significant. Its opening more grand.
Its termination more stupendous. Look
out for 1893! Let printers have in their
cases of type plenty of exclamation points
to set up a sudden paragraph, Let the con
ServatOrieS have profuslOn OF flowers that
can be twisted into garlands. Let churches
N of
blageS Let men and women have more re-
liGiOn to meet the vacillation3 and the exc
gencies and the demands and the raptures
and the woes of this coming 1898. In what
Year? With faith, strong faith, bouyant
faith, triumphant faith. God will see you
through. His grace will be sufficient if
you will trust him. You can go to him at
any time and find sympathy. My little
mothers absence We looked after the the case
as well as we could. Toward night her
mother returned, and for the first time the
child cried and cried vociferously. Some
one said to her, What do you cry for? You
did not cry all day Her reply was There
was no one to cry to- And so you some
times suppress your trouble because there
is no full resource of earthly sympathy.
But | rejoice to tell you that in God you al
ways have some one to cry to. III will condole
and help in every crisis. Come now and let
shoulders. Come prosperity or adversely,
come wedding or burial, come health or
sickness, come life or death, come time or
eternity. AIS we'll! Ais well! Keep your
heart right and all else will be right. Men
and women have sometimes given strange
and whimsical directions in regard to what
shall be done with their heart after dea tn.
Robert Bruce ordered his heart 10 be sent
to tho hold land for burial. The earl of
Leicester ordered mis- heart to be sent to
Brackiey hospital. Isabella, the daughter
of the earl of Pembroke. died at Berkham-
stead, but ordered her heart to be taken to
TeWkSbury cathedral. Lord Windsor dying
in foreign land, ordered his heart enclosed
III lead and sent to England for burial in
the chapel of Brakeman Now, what
shall we decree for our heart? That it be
the Lords. and then it makes no difference
what else becomes of it. Living and diving
may it all be his.
Thus in three chapters I have coun-
seled that the holidays be grouped. May
nothing interfere with their feicities.
May they be 50 spent that they will be
food for peasart; "Reminiscences further on.
You know thai after while the old home
stead will be II oxen up. For years and
years the children come home to spend the
holidays and tn house is rumaged from gar
ret to cellar, ana the scenes of childhood are
rchearsed. and we laugh till the tears come
as we talk over some boyish or grlish freak
or cry over some old trouble ended but the
heart swings back again to mirth for it
does not take n half second for tear of
the eye to strike the smile of the lip. For
few years the grandchildren make the
holidays merry One of the many uses
of grandchildren is to keep old folks young.
Then after a few years the annual gather
ing at the Old homestead is half broken up,
for father or mother is gone. About two
years after, for there are generally about
two years between the time of their going
the other half of the holiday season is
broken up. Then the old house goes into
the possession of strangers and the sons
and daughters by that time have homes of
their OWL They plant their own Christ
mas trees and hang up their own children's
stockings and tH-lne their own holly and
mistctoe and have their own good times
They will PERHAPS be riding out on some of
those holidays, t,Iher in sleigh or carriage
twenty or thirty years from along
the places where we slumber the last sleep
and may we have been so considerable and
sympathetic i'll cur demeanor toward them
now, that they will then say one to an
other as hey pass the silent mounds Of the
village graveyard or city cemetery There
rests as kind a fa her and as kind a mother
as ever wished thPit children merry
Christmas or happ5 New Year"
Meanwhile we their parents and grand
parents will, | hope, through the atonement
of our blessed Lord be keeping holidays
liveler and higher up in the presence of
the very Christ whose birth the earthly
Christmas commentaries, and of the AN
Gent of Days who saw the first year open
and will see the last year close in compan-
ionship with the ever widening circle of
heavenly hlndred, many already there and
many soon to COME. and the tables of that
festivity will purple with the grapes Of
Eschol and re(dc" with the new wine Of
the kingdom. aud glow with twelve man
ner of fruits" fl ON the trees of life, and the
gifts of those holidays will be mansions and
thrones and crowns of glory that never fade
away. Oh. that these delightful holidays
of earth may f. us fo1 those mnre delight
full holidays of heaven!
THE HOMESTEAD POISONING CASE.
Doctors and Druggists viii Be Brought
Into 1t.
Pittsburg December 19.-Warrants were is
sued this afternoon for the arrest of Hugh
Dempsey, district master Workman of the
knights Of Labor, and j. NJ. Davidson, for
completely i'll the Homestead poison plot. 1t
is thought that tomorrow District Attorney
Buregh will take action in the cases of the
DOCTOR druggist and others whose names have
been connected with the Homestead poisoning
cases. Thus far those mentioned are DR..
Purnan Druggist Schaefer, David Lynch and
Thomas Crawford all Of Homestead.
District Attorney Burleigh, in speaking Of
his move in the case. said; 'Fhere has been
enough publicity given to this case to warrant
Il judicial investigations This is an awful