Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-08-01


or with much that we hear uttered in re
gard to departure from this life to the
| next. There is commonsensical idea or
| this subject that you and l need to consid
er-that there are only two styles of de
| parture.
A thousand feet underground, by light
| of torch toiling in a miners shaft, ledge
of rock may fall upon us and we may die q
miners death. Far out at sea, falling
| from the slippery ratlines and broken~on
| the halyards we may die a sailors death
On mission of mercy in hospital, amid
broken bones and reeking leprosies and
raging fevers we may die philanthro
| phist's death. On the field of battle, serv.
ing God and our country, the gun carriage
may roll over us and we may die PATRIOTS
DEATH But after all there are only two
styles of departure-the death of the right
eous and the death of the wicked, and we
all want to die the former.
God grant that when that hour comes
you may be at homel You want the hand
Of your kindred in your hand. You want
your children to surround you. You want
the light on your pillow from eyes that
have long reflected your love. You want
the room still. You do not want any curl
| GUS strangers standing around watching
you. You want your kindred from afar to
hear your last prayer. think that is the
wish of all of us. But is that ALP Can
earthly friends hold us when the pillows of
death come up to the girdlef Can human
voice charm open heavens gatep Can hui
| man hands pilot us through the narrows of
death into heavens harborp Can an earthly
friendship shield us from the arrows of
death and in the hour when satan shall
practice upon us his internal archery?
No. no, no, mol Alas poor soul, IL that is
all. Better die in the wilderness, far from
tree shadow and from fountain, alone,
vultures circling through the air waiting
for our body, unknown to men, and to have
no burial, if only Christ could say through
the solitudes, 81 will never leave thee, /
will never forsake thee" From that pill
low of stone ladder would soar heaven
ward, angels coming and going; and
across the solitude and the barrenness
would come the sweet notes of heavenly
minstrelsy.
DEATH OF THE CHRISTIAN.
Gordon Hall, far from home, dying in
the door of heather temple, said, "Glory
to thee, o GodW What did dying Will
berforce say to his wifeS "Come and sit
beside me, and let us talk of heaven. l
never knew what happiness was until
found Christ" What did dying Hannah
More sayf ITO go to heaven; think what
that isl To go to Christ, who died that
might livel Oh, glorious gravel Oh, what
a glorious thing 1t is to diei Oh. the
love OF Christ, the love Of Christi" What
did Mr.. Toplady, the great hymn maker,
say In his last hourf "Who can measure
the depth of the third heavenp Oh, the
sunshine that fills my soull l shall soon
be gone, for surely no one can live in this
world after such glories as God has mani
tested to my SOUL"
What did the dying Faneway sayf 81
can as easily die as close my eyes or turn
my head In sleep. Before few hours have
passed shall stand on Mount Zion with
the one hundred and forty and four thou
sand, and with the just men made perfect,
and we shall ascribe riches and honor and
glory and majesty and dominion unto God
and the Lamb" DR.. Taylor, condemned
to burn at the stake, on his way thither
broke away from the guardsmen and went
bounding and leaping and Jumping toward
the fire, glad to go to Jesus and to die for
him. Sir Charles Hare in his last moment
had such rapturous vision that he cried,
Upward, upward, upwardp'
And so great was the peace of one OF
Chr1st's disciples that he put his fingers
upon the pulse in his wrist and counted 1t
and observed it; and so great was his
placidity that after awhile he said,
stopped" and his life had ended here to
begin in heaven. But grander than that
was the testimony Of the worn out first
missionary when in the Mamartine dun
geon he cried: 81 am now ready to be Of
fered, and the time Of my departure is at
hand; have fought the good fight, have
finished my course. have kept the faith;
henceforth there is laid up for me a crown
OF righteousness, which the Lord, the
righteous Judge, will give me in that day,
and not to me only, but to all them that
love his appearingr' Do you not see that
Christ is above all in dying alleviationsf
Toward the last hour of our earthly resi-.
dence we are speeding. When / see the
sunset l say, "One day less to live" When
see the spring blossoms scattered I say,
Another season gone forever" When
close this Bible on Sabbath night say,
Another Sabbath departed" When
bury friend l say, Another earthly at.
traction gone forever" What nimble feet
the years havel The roebucks and the
nghtnings run not so fast. From decade
to decade. from sky to sky, they go at
bound.
There is place for us, whether marked
or not, where you and will sleep the last
sleep, and the men are now living who
will, with solemn tread, carry us 60 our
resting place. Aye, IL Is known in heaven
whether our departure will be a corona
ton or a Punishment. Brighter than
banqueting hall through which the light
feet of the dancers go up and down to the
sound Of trumpeters will be the sepulcher
through whose riffs the holy light OF
heaven streameth. God viii watch you.
He will send his angels to guard your
slumbering ground until, at Christ's be-
hest, they shall roll away the STONE.
So also Christ is above all in heaven.
The Bible distinctly says that Christ II
the chief theme Of the celestial ascription,
all the Thrones facing his throne. all the /
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