Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1892-04-27
EASTER SERMON.
You Must Not Desire I, Live For
ever.
peath Not isan so Dad as We IL Painted
when old and Gray Get on the
IarfL-Discoursc by Rev. r.
Dewitt Talmage. AID.

bitterness Of death Is past"
So cried Agag. and the only objection
have To this text is that u bad man ut
tered II. Nevertheless il is true. and in
a higher and better sense than that in
which !, was originnlly uttered. Years
ago legend something like this was
told me;
In hat lived very poor woman by
the name Of Misery. In front of her
door was pear tree. which wns her
only resource FOR living. Christ. the
Lord. in poor garb was walking through
the earth and no one would entertain
Him. In vain he knocked at the doorof
palaces and of humble dwellings Cold
and hungry and insufiicicntly clad. rs
He was, none received Him But COM
ing one day 10 the hut OF this woman.
whose name was Misery. she received
Him. and offered Him n few cruSts and
asked Him 10 warm Himself at the
handful OF Goals. and she sat mp all
night that the wayfarcr might have n
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 hcc that lie
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 bc
able To get down without her consent
So II 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 30 with him.
But She did not want To 90. for. how
ever poor ones lot is, no one wants 10
60 with death. Then she said 20 death:
81 viii go with you IL you viii first
climb up into my pear tree
and brig me down few pears before
start This he consented 20 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 undertalScrs no business
lawyers no wills 10 make. the people
who waited for inheritance could not ret
them. the old men stayed in all tho pro-
fessions 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 Dcathl Where Is
Deathp" Then the people came TO the
Noor woman and begged her 20 let
Death descend from thc.trcc. In SYM
nathv for the world she consented TO
ct Death come down on one condition
and that was that he should never mo-
lest or take her away, and on that con-
dition 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.
I'm flint olleuprNr Soma ono hoe ~.
forth the truth that mean TO present
on this Easter morning, which celebrates
the resurrection OF Christ and our com
ing resurrcction-that one OF the grand
est and mighticst mcrcics of The earth Is
our divine permission TO quit IL. Sixty
four persons every minute step off this
planet. Thirty million people every
year board this planet AS n steamer
must unload before IL takes another car
go and rs the passengers of rail train
must leave it in order 10 have another
company Of passengers enter IL, so with
this world. What would happen To
an ocean steamer IL man, taking a
statc-room. should stay in il for
ever? What would happen TO n rail
train II one who purchases n ticket
should always occupy the seat assigned
iilis anu WIN womb nUpptn 10 TINS
world IL all who came into e. never de
parted from IL? The grave is as much
n benediction as the cradle. What sunk
that ship in the Black sea few days
ago? Too many passengers. What was
tho matter with that steamer on the
Thames, which few years ago went
down with 600 lives? Too many passen-
rers. Now. this world is only n ship,
which was launched some SIX thousand
years ago. II is sailing Mt the rate Of
many thousand miles an hour. 1t is
freighted with mountains and cities.
and has in it's state-rooms and stccrage
about sixteen hundred million pnssen-
gers. So many are coming aboard, IL
Is necessary that a good many dis
embark. Suppose that all the people
that have lived since the days OF Adam
and Eve were still alive-what clut-
tered mp place this world would be-no
elbow room-no place 10 walS-no
privacy--nothing 90 eat or wear, or IL
anything were left, the human race
would. like a shipwreclScd crew. have 20
bc put on short rations. each OF MS
having. perhaps, only n biscuit day
And what chance would there be for the
rising generationsp The men and women
who started when the world started
wouldtkccp the modern people back
and down, saying: eve are 5000
years old. Row down. History Is
nothing for we are older than
history" What mercy for the human
race was death. Within few years
You can get from this world all there is
in a. After you have had fifty or sixty
or seventy sprinR-times you have seen
enough blossoms. After fifty or sixty
or seventy autumns you have seen
enough Of gorgeous foliage. After fifty
or sixty or seventy winters you have
seen enough snow storms and felt
enough chills and wrapped yOuself in
enough blankets. In the ordinary
length Of human life you have carried
enough burdens and shed enough tears
and suffered enough injustices and felt
enough pangs and been clouded
by enough doubts, and surrounded by
enough mysteries. We talk about the
shortness Of life. but II we exercised
good sense we would realize that life is
quite long enough. II we arc the chill
drcn Of God, we arc ut n banquet, and
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