The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1892-05-27
EASTER SERMON.
You Must Not Desire to Live For
ever.
Death Not Half so Had as re IL Painted
when old and Gray Get on the
Earth-Discourso by Rev. r.
Dewitt Talmage, DID.

So cried Agag, and the only objection
I have To this text is that n bad man ut
tered il. Nevertheless it is true, and in
n higherand better sense than that in
which IL was originallycuttcred. Years
ngo a legend something like this was
told me:
In n hut lived very poor woman by
the name of Misery. In front of her
door was pear tree, which was her
only resource for a living 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 dwellings. Cold
and hungry and insufliciently clad, as
lie was, none received Him. But com
ing one day to the hut of this woman,
whose name was Misery. she received
Him, and offered Him n few crusts and
asked Him to warm Himself at the
handful Of Goals, and she sat up all
night that the wayfarcr might have
pillow To rest on. In the morning this
divine being asked her as lie departed
what she would have Him do in the way
of reward. and told her that He
owned the universe and would give
her what she asked. All she asked was
that her pear tree might bc protected.
and that the boys who stole her fruit.
once climbing the tree, might not be
able TO get down without her consent
So il was granted, and all who climbed
the tree were compelled TO stay there
After awhile death came along and told
the poor woman She must go with him.
i, 70, f,,,.
ever poor ones lot is, no one wants to
60 with death. Then she said to death
81 will go with you If you will first
climb mp into my pear tree
and bring me down few pears before
| start" This he consented to do, but,
having climbing into the tree, he
could not again come down. Then the
troubles of the world began, for Death
did not come. The physicians had no
patients, the undcrtakers no business,
lawyers no wills To make, the people
who waited for inheritance could not get
them. the old men stayed in all the pro-
LESSONS and occupations so that there
was no room for the young who were
coming ON, and the earth got over
crowded, and from all the earth the cry
went up: "Oh, for DEATH Where is
Dcath?" Then the people came to the
poor woman and begged her TO let
Death descend from the tree. In sym
patty for the world, she consented TO
let Death come down on one condition,
and that was that he should never mo-
lest or take her away, and on that con-
dtion Death was allowed to come
down, and he kept his word and never
removed her. and for that reason we al
ways have Misery with us.
In that allegory some one has set
forth the truth that mean to present
on this Easter morning, which celebrates
the resurrection of Christ and our com. |
Ing rcSurrection-that one OF the grand |
est and mightiest mcrCies of the earth is |
our divine permission 10 quit it. Sixty |
four persons every minute step off this |
planet, Thirty million people every |
year board this planet, AS q steamer |
must unload before il takes another car
go, and as the passengers of a rail train |
must leave il in order to have another |
company of passengers enter it, so with |
this world. What would happen to |
an ocean steamer If man, taking
state-room, should stay in it for
ever? What would happen to rail
train if one who purchases a ticket |
should always occupy the seat assigned |
himH And what would happen to this
world il all who came into il never de-
parted from it? The grave is rs much
n bcnediction as the cradle. What sunk
that ship in the Black sea n few days
ago? Too many passengers What was
the matter with that steamer on the
Thames, which a few years ago went
down with 600 lives? Too many passcn-
gers. Now, this world is only a ship,
which was launched some SIN 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 it's state-rooms and steeragc
about sixteen hundred million passen-
gers. So many are coming aboard, II
Is necessary that good many dis
embark, Suppose that all the people
that have lived since the days of Adam
and Eve were still alivc-what n clut-
tered up place this world would be-no
elbow room-no place To walk-no
privacy-nothing TO cat or wear, or II
"' 'H'HR Ntrc lclt, lllc human iaNN
would, like shipwrccked crew, have TO
be put on short rations, each of us
having, perhaps, only biscuit day.
And what chance would there be for the
rising generations? The men and women
who started when tho world started
would keep the modern people back
and down, saying; 1--WE are 5000
years old. Bow down. History Is
nothing for we are older than