The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-06-22

last funeral procession come. In. No breath
OF air disturbing the dust where Persepolis
stood and Thebes and Babylon. No winking
OF the eyeiids long closed IN darkness. No stir
ring ofthe feet that once bounded the hillside.
No opening OF the hand that once pluckcd
the Hover out OF the edge OF the wild
wood. No clutchirg OF swords by the men
who went down when Persia battled and
Rome fell Silence from ocean beach 10
mountain cliff and from river TO river. The
sea singing the same old tune. The lakes
hushed to sleep IN the bosom OF the same
great hills. No hand disturbing the
gate OF tho long-berred sepulcher. All
the nations OF the dead motionless
In their winding sheets. Up the side
OF the hills. down through the trough
OF the valleys, far out In the cav
erns; across the fields, deep down into the
coral palaces OF the ocean depths where
leviathan sports with his fellows-every-
where. layer above layer. height above
height, depth below depth-deadl dead !!
dead But In the twinkling OF an eye. as
quick ns that, as the nrcbangel's trumpet
comes pealing. rolling, reverberating, crash
ing across continents and seas: the earth will
give one fearful shudder and the door OF the
family vault, without being unlocked,
VIII burst open, and nll tho
graves OF the dead will begin TO
throb and heave like the waves OF the sea.
and the mansolcum Of princes will fall into
husts anu OStenu anu HcDHttOpOl ana AUS
terlitz and Gettysburg stalk lorth in the
lurd air. and the shipwrccked rise from tho
deep, their wet locks looming above the bill
low. and oil the land and all the sea become
one moving mass Of life-ail generations. all
ages with upturned countennnccs-som
kindled with rapture and others blanchcd
with despair, but gazing In ono direction.
upon ono object, and that the throne OF
resurrection.
Or that day you will get back your Chris
tian dead. There IL where the comfort comes
In. They will come up with the same hand.
the same foot and the same entire body, but
with perfect hand. and "a perfect foot and
perfect body. corruption. mortality having
become immortality. And, oh. the reunion
Oh, the embrace after 40 long an absence!
Comfort one another with these words.
While present these thoughts this morn
ing docs II not seem that heaven comes very
near to us, ns though our friends. whom we
thought u great way of. arc not IN tho dis
tance, but close by2 You have sometimes
come down to a river at nightfall, and you
have been surprised how easily you could
hear voices across that river. You shouted
over 10 the other side of the river. and they
shouted back. IL is said that when George
White0eld preached in Third street, Phila-
dclphia, one evening time his voice was
heard clear across to the New Jersey shore.
When was a little while chaplain IN the
army | remember how nj cvcntidc we could
easily hear the voices OF the pickets across
the Potomac just when they were using or
dinnry tones. And ~ we come to-day and
stand 10y the river Of Jordan that divides us
from our friends who are gone II seems to me
we stand on one bank. and they stand on the
other. and IL is only narrow stream.
and our voices 20. and their voices come
Hark Hush hear distinctly what
they say. These are they who came out of
great tribulation and had their robes washed
and made white In the blood Of the Lamb"
still the voice comes across the water, and
hear, "We hunger no more; We thirst no
more neither shall the sun light on US nor
any heat for the Lamb which IL In tho midst
Of the throne. leads US 20 living fountains Of
water, and God wipeth away all tears from
Our eyes ~