The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1893-10-21

viii sit beside you by day, and whisper
over your pillow night after night
1 want to assure you that you are not
left alone, and that your weeping is
heard in Heaven. You will wander
among the hills and say: 'yp this
hill. last year, our boy climbed with
great glee, and waved his cap from the
top" or "This is the place where our
little girl put flowers in her hair, and
looked up in her mothers face" until
every drop of blood in your heart
tingled with gladness, and you thanked
God with thrill of rapture; and you
look around as much as to say: "Who
dashed out that light? Who filled
this cup with gall? What blast
| froze up these fountains of
the hearth Some of you have
lost your parents within the last twelve
months. Their prayers for you are
ended. You take up their picture and
try to call back the kindness that once
looked out from those old, wrinkled
faces, and spoke in such q tremulous
voice: and Won say it is good picture,
but all the while you feel that. after
all, it does not do justice; and you
would give almost anything-you
would cross the sea, you would
walk the earth over-to hear just one
word from those lips that a few months
ago used to call you by your first
name, though SO long you yourself
have been parent Now, you have
done your best with your grief. You
smile when you do not feel like it. But
though you may deceive the world,
God knows He looks down upon the
empty cradle, upon the desolated
nursery, upon the stricken home, and
upon the broken heart, and says: This
is thesway thresh the wheat, this is
the way scour my jewels! Cast thy
burden upon my arm and will sus-
tain you. All these tears have gath
cred into my bother
But what is the use of having SO
many tears in Gods lachrymatory? In
that great caskct or vase, why does
God preserve all your troubles?
Through all the ages of eternity,
what use of great collection of tears?
l do not know that they will be kept
there forever. / do not know but that
in some distant age of Heaven an angel
of God may look into the bottle and
: find it as empty of tears as the Zachary
mails of earthenware dug up from the an
: Gent city? Where have the tears gone to;
[ What sprite of hell hath been invading
J Gods palace, and hath, robbed the
lachrymatories? None. These are
' sanctified sorrows, and those tears were
changed into pearls that are now SCI
: | in the crowns and robes of the ran
: somed. / walk up to examine thi.
$ heavenly coronet, cleaning brighter
than the sun, and cry: From wha'
river depths of Heaven were those gem
a gathered?' and thousand voices
reply: These are TRANSMITTED
r tears from Gods bottle" se'
e scepters of light stretched dow
4 from the throne of those WIZ
f on earth were trod on of men, and il
i every scepter-point, and inlaid in ever.
! ivory stair of golden throne / behol'
n an indescribable richness and luster
e and cry, From whence this streamin,
/ light-these flashing pearls?" and tn
g voice of the elders beneath the throne
i and of the martyrs under the altar
= and of the hundred and forty and fou
e thousand radiant on the CLASSY sea ex
|! claim: TRANSMITTED tears from God
r bottle"
Let the ages of Heaven roll on-th
is story of earth's pomp and pride lon
h ago ended; the Koh-i-noor diamond
It that make kings proud, the preciou
% stones that adorned Persian tiara an
r. famed in the robes of Babylonian PR
lie cessions, forgotten; the Golconda mine
p charred in the last confagration; b'
N firm as the everlasting hills, and pun
l. as the light that streams from tn
" throne, and bright as the river tina
n flows from the eternal rock, sha
Is pleam. shall sparkle, shall flame TO
1t ever. these transmitted tears OF God
so bottle.
at Meanwhile, let the empty lachrym'
~ tory of Heaven stand forever. Let J
IL hand touch it. Let no wing strike
o. Let no collision crack it. Purer tina
a beryl or chrysoprasus. Let 1t star
n on the step of Jehovah's throne al
as under the arch of the unfading raj
0u bow. Passing down the corridors
~ the palace, the redeemed of earth shs
cd glance at it, and think of all the cart
ps " troubles from which they were d
ld livered, and say, each to each: THAT
cd what we heard of on earth" THAT
US what the Psalmist spoke of. "The
ID, once were put our tears" '.That
RS. Gods bottle And while standil
res there inspecting this richest inlaid va
ne of Heaven, the towers of the pala
he dome strike up this silvery chime: &c
no hath wiped away all tears from
to faces. Wherefore comfort one anott
ill with these words"
IN, -----------
of EARLY American Scuiptors.
np 1t is worthy of special notice tt
rat when Rush began to model in clay
,ur one of the artists who have Civ
ri celebrity to our native sculpture b
,he seen the light of day. Frazer was
nd born until 1890, nor Ezekiel Augur,
lis New Haven. until 1901. The lat
s. was originally in the grocery ira
but, falling in that, took up model
re- and wood-carving without any gu
coo o~,.x,< his n n fural Instincts. but