Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1893-10-27
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land:' and when the vessel is completed
and the electric button that starts the
vessel on her journey to the water is
pressed, and he sees her glide smoo .hly
into the harbor and become a floating
city, he says, 'Just what expected she
was not built for land" So it is with
the highest product of Gods creative
power, whom we call man. Here he is
a babe on the mothers breast, helpless,
yet with latent possibilities that none
can measure; here he is a school boy, to
whom life is one long to-day, with no
thought or care of the morrow; here he
is n man with a soul that has reached up
to God by the grace OF him who reached
down to man to save him, here he has
grasped the eternal yereties, and real
ICES liie's proioundest meanings; here he
lies in your home or in mine, corpse.
No, he does not lie there, for as we have
followed this life we have said as did the
western boy, "This being was never in
tended to remain here, he belongs some-
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great universe is at fault if this life be
all. ] raise a cry for help to-day. IN
iidel materialst, tell us where the friend
we loved has gomez From its gloomy
caverns of doubt comes the dismal "no-
where" Philosophers, can you afford
an answer to our cry for helpP Sadly they
reply, ave don't know" Bright winged
angels from around the throne OF the
eternal, tell us the home OF our departed
dead nothing but the echo OF our pite-
Gus wall dying away fainter and fainter
amid the painful silenccs, is the response
to our call ; even angel lips seem sealed.
Again we raise the cry, "Whcre, Oh!
where are our friends gone before? Give
us the touch OF vanished hand, and
the sound OF a voice that is STILL Down
through the ages comes the voice OF him
who stood by the tomb OF Lazarus in the
far away Orient, not like the human
voice growing fainter and fainter with
the lapse of time, but augmented force
with the roll OF the centuries. Hearken
81 am The resurrection and the life; he
! that believcth in me, though he were
dead, yet shall he live, and who-oeyer
| liveth and beleveth in me shall not die"
Listen again. Let no precious word es-
cape. ''ln my fathers house are many
mansions, if it were not 80 would have
told you, go to prepare place for
you, and ii go to prepare place for
YOU ! will come again and receive you
unto myself, that where | am there ye
may be also" Here is the voice OF pow
er, Of authority, attested to by wondrous
miracles, here is the voice OF God.
Brethren and sisters, friends, fellow
townsmen! We are gathered together
to-day to pay the last tokens Of respect
| to one oi our number who has been sud-
| denly called from time into crnlty.
| We are not here to eulOgize. | would
rather have the bouquet OF sweet flowers
given in 0 my living hands, than with
held Tor my grave. Thank God tor the
boundless charity that forgets the vices
OF the dead and remembers only their
virtues, but it is better so say the kind
words to the living than over the deadi
It's better to impress the kind words on
the warm, throbbing heart oi the living,
than to chisel them on the cold marble
slab. Funeral sermons are not Tor the
dead. | knew MIR. Cooper as friendly,
sunshiny man; some OF you have known
| him in the closer fellowship OF the broth
erhoOd to which you and he belong; one
at least here knew him as friend OF the
heart, a warm, bosom friend. This ls
not his call, not his sermon. He re-
ceiyed his summons into eternity by the
hand OF the fell assassin, and even IN
this holy place the blood boils with hon
est. podly wrath. The dead we leave
with the great Judge, who always tenn
pers Justice with mercy, whose Judg-
ments are true and righteous altogether.
| speak to the living. This IS our call to
repentance, to Righteousness, to holiness,
to God. Will you heed tins caliT Ihere
is an immortal life beyond this; what
that immortal life shall be Tor you ana
me. depends not on the arbitrary wall OF
Goa INT ON the decision of the human
will the choice we make. Motives or
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make our actions good or bad. Actions
have their fruits in habits OF life; habits
make characters, character decides des--
tiny. Have you been sowing the seed
Of a life OF sin and shame? 1t will lead
to destiny OF sorrow. BY the short.
ness OF time and the boundlessness OF
eternity, exhort you to righteousness.
Bv the uncertrinty OF life and the GER
tainty Of death, command you to i'm
mediate choice for God. BY the sacrl-
flee in life and death OF Jesus Christ,
who made it possible for sinful man to
return to God, beg you TO Immediately
repent and turn to him. By the plead
inas OF the word OF God, by the warn
J inees OF the providence OF God as he speaks
to us through this coflined clay, by the
gentle wooings OF the spirit OF God, by
fhe memory OF the loved ones you have
laid away which this scene recalls, by
the voices OF the loved ones in the angel
choir as they call you to meet them IN
t the land OF the blessed which is not very
= lar off, by the mercy OF God, by the love
of Christ, by all that is holy, beg you,
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