The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1892-05-02
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bitterness of death is past"
So cried Agag. and the only objection
/ have to this text is that a bad man
uttered it. Nevertheless it is true, and
in higher and better sense than that in
which it was originally uttered. Years
ago legend something like this was told
me: In hut lived very poor woman
bv the name Of Misery. In front of her
door was pear tree, which was 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 door of
palaces and Of humble dwellings, Cold
and hungry and insufficiently clad, as
He 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 few crusts and
asked Him to warm Himself at the hand
full Of Goals, and she sat up all night
that the wayfarer 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 and
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 elm bling the tree, might
not be able to get down without consent
So it 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.
But she did not want to go, for, however
poor ones lot is. no one wants to 60 with
Death. Then she said to Death, Il will
go with you if you will first climb up
into my pear tree and bring me down a
few pears before l start" This he con-
sented to do, but having climbed 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 undertakers no busi-
ness, Lawyers no wills to make, the peo-
pie who waited for inheritances could
not get them, the old men staid in all
the professions and occupations so that
there was no rooT for the young who
wore coming on, and the earth got over
provided, and from all the earth the cry
went up: ''Oh, for Death. Where is
Death?" Then the people came to the
poor woman and begged her to let Death
descend from the tree. In sympathy for
the world, she consented to let Death
was that he should never modest or take
her away, and on that condition Death
was allowed to come down. and he kept
his word and never removed her, and for
that reason we always 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 resurrection-that one of the grand
est and mightiest mercies of the earth is
our divine permission to quit it Sixty
four persons every minute step off
this planet. Thirty million people every
year board this planet. AS steamer
must unload before it takes another car
60, ard as the passengers of a rail train
must leave it in order to have another
company of passengers enter it, so with
this world.
What would happen to an ocean
steamer if man, taking a stateroom,
should stay in it forever? What would
happen TO a rail train if one who pur-
chases a ticket should always occupy
the seat assigned him? And what
would happen to this world if all who
came into it never departed from it?
The grave is as much benediction as
the cradle. What sunk that ship in the
Black Sea 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 passengers. Now this
world is only ship which was launched
some six thousand years ago 1t is sail
Ing at the rate Of many thousand miles
an hour. 1t is freighted with mountains
nd cit fG.s nd has I'M so
steerage about six hundred million pas
SengerS. So many are coming aboard. it
is necessary that a good many disem-
bark.
Suppose that all the people that have
lived since the DAYS of Adam and Eve
were still alive. What a cluttered up
place this would be-no elbow room-no
place TO walk-no privacy-nothing to
eat or wear, or if anything were left the
human race would, like shipwrecked
crew. have to be put on small rations,
each of US having perhaps only bis
cult day. And what chance would
there be for the rising generations? The
men and women who started when the
world started would keep the modern
people back and down, saying: ave
are 1000 years old. Bow down. His
tory is nothing, for We are older than
history" What q mercy for the human
race was death! Within few years you
can get from this world all there Is in it.
Death also makes room for improved
physical machin srv. Oar bodies have
Wondrous powers, but they are very linn
tied. There are beasts that can outruu
US. outfit US, outcarry US The birds
have both the earth and air for travel.
yet we must stick to the one. In this
world, which the human race takes for
its own, there are creatures of God that
can far surpass US in some things.
Death removes this slower ana less
sdroit machinery and makes room for
something better. These eyes that can
see half mile will be removed for those
that can see from world to world. These
ears. which can hear a sound q few feet
o6, will be removed for ears that can
hear from zone TO zone. These feet will
be removed for powers OF loccmotion
swifter than the reindeer's hoof or eagles
plume Of lightning's fash.
Then We have only five senses and to
these Shnf Whv Eve