Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-06-19

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h6rly suitable TO the
rs, the title being "Grapes
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came into the brook OF
cut down from thence q
Ia one cluster Of grapes,
bare it between two upon
Iii"
The long trudge Of the Israelites
across the wilderness was almost ended.
They had come TO the borders or the
promised land. or the six hundred
thousand adults who started from Egypt
for Canaan, how many do you suppose
got there? Five hundred thousand?
Oh. no. Not TWO hundred thousand,
not one hundred thousand, nor nifty,
nor twenty, nor ten; but only two men.
Oh. il was q ruinous march that Gods
peoule made; but their children were
living and they were on the march, and
now that they had come up 20 the oor-
ders of the promised land, they were
very curious TO know what kind OF
place il was, and whether it would be
safe to go over.
so 4 SCOUTING PARTY
is sent out to recOnnoitre, and they ex-
anime the land, aud they come back
bringing specimens Of its grOwths. just
As YOU came back from California,
bringing to your family a basket OF
pears, or plums, or apples, TO show what
mOpstrOus fruit they have there, so
this scouting party cut of the biggest
bunch Of grapes they could find 1t
was so large that one man could not
carry it, aud they thrust pole through
the cluster, and there was one man at
either end Of the pole, and so the bunch
OF grapes was transported. l was, some
time ago, 10 a luxurian vineyard. The
ne.dresser had done his work The
vine had clambered up and spread It's
wealth al over the arbor. The sun and
shower had mixed a cup which the vine
drank until with flushed cheek It lay
slumbering 10 the light cluster against
the cheek Of cluster. The rinds OF the
grapes seemed almost bursting with the
Juice 10 the warm lips OF the autumnal
dav. and Il seemed as il all you had 10
do was TO lift chalice toward the clus-
ter and It's life-bloOd would begin TO
drip away. But, my friends In these
rigorous climes, we know nothing about
large grapes. Strabo states that Ia Bible
times and In Bible lands there wero
Rrape-vines 50 large that IL took two
men with Outstretched arms 20 reach
round them, and be says there were
clusters two cubits in length, or twice
the length from the elbow 70 the tip OF
the long finger.
But this morning bring you a larger
cluster from the heavenly Eschol-a
cluster OF hopes, cluster Of prospects,
q cluster Of
CHRISTIAN CONSULTATIONS;
and I am expecting that the one taste
OF It will rouse up your appetite for the
heavenly Canaan. During the past
winter some OF this congregation have
gone away never TO return. The aged
have but down their staff and taken up
4 - sceptre. Men in mid-life came
Zone from oilice or shop, and did not go
back again. and never will 90 back
again. And the dear children, some OF
them, have been gathered In Chrisrs
arms.
I console you with the divinely sane
toned idea that your departed friends
are as much yours now as they ever
were. know you sometimes get the
idea IN your mind, when you have this
kind OF trouble, that your friends are
cut of from you, and they are no longer
yours, but the desire to have all our
loved ones In the same lot IN the ceme-
Ntery Is natural desire, and, therefore, q
Rod-implantsd desire, and Is nightly
SuggestiVe Of the fact that death has no
hover to break up the family relations.
iii our loved ones 20 away from our pos
session, why put fence around our lot
In the cemetery. Why the gathering Of
four or five names on one family mOnu-
ment9 Why the planting OF one cypress
vine so that il covers all the cluster Of
graves? Why put the husband beside
she wife, and the children at their feet?
Why the bolt on the gate Of our lot, and
the charge to the keepers Of the ground
TO see that the grass Is cut, aud the vine
attended 10 and the flowers planted?
Why not put our departed friends in
one common field or grave? On, IL is
because they are ours.
Inc AuhNLluAl AUaNuo buuk VI iAh uNAOoa
your graves will drift across theirs;
the blrd-songs that drop on their
mound will drop on yours; and then, In
starless winter nights, when the wind
comes bowling through the gorge, you
will be com2aiiy for each other. The
child close up 10 the bosom OF its moth
err. The husband and vile remarked; on
their lips the sacrament Of the dust.
Brothers and sisters, who used in sport
70 ding themselves on the grass, now
again reclining side by side in the grave,
In fecks OF sunlight sitting through
the long, 1.-the willows. Then at the
tkumpet OF the archangle to rise side
BY side. shaking themselves from the
dd6t Of ages. The
PAGES TRAIT WE'RE CHASTITY
and fixed when you saw them last all
aaush with the light Of interruption.
The father looking around on his
children, and saying: "Come, come,
my darlings, this Is the morning Of the
resurrection" Mrs. SigOurnrney wrote
beautifully with the tears and blood Of
her own broken heart;
There was a shaded chamber
A silent, watching band
on u low couch a suffering chud
Grasping her mothers hand
But mid the gasp and struggle,
With shuddering lips she csie>.
mother, on. dearest mother,
bury me Oy your side"
Only one wish she uttered,
AS life was ebbing fast,
asleep by nay side, dear mother,
Aud rise with me az last"
Oh, yes, we want 70 be buried togeth-
er. Sweet antelope Of everlasting resi-
dence in each others mpaniOnship.
But l console you again with the fact
Of your present acQuaintGnceShip and
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