Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-05-12
j. II. MILE & SONS.

ern politics as in the light of the gos-
pei of Jesus Christ. which has trans
formed them, and Samoa, and those
vast realms of New Zealand, and aus
tralia and Ceyion and India. / want to
see what Christianity has accomplished.
l want to see how the missionaries have
been lied about as living in luxury and
idleness.
/ want to know whether the heather
religions are really Is to,erable and as
commendable as they We're represented
by their adherents in the parliament of
religions at Chicago. / want to see
whether Mohammedanism and Bud
dhism would be good things for trans
plantation inAmerica, as it has again and
again been argued. / want to hear the
Brahmans pray. / want to test whether
the Pacific ocean treats its guests any
better than does the Atlantic. | want
to see the wonarous architecture of In
dia, and the Delhi and Cawnpore where
Christ was crucifed i'll the massacre of
his modern disciples, and the disabled
Juggernaut unwheeled by Christianity,
and to see if the TAI which the Emperor
Sha Jehan built in honor of his empress
really means any more than the plain
slab we put above our dear departed. |
want to see the fields where Havelock
and Sir Colin Campbell won the day
against the sepoys. / want to see the
world FROM all sides. How much of it
is i'll darkness, how much of it is in
light, what the Bible means by the
lends of tho GARTH, +" and get myself
ready to appreciate the extent of the
present to be made to Christ as spoken
CT in the Psalms, ASK of me, and ]
shall give thee the heather for thine in
heritance and the uttermost parts Of
the earth for thy possession, and SO |
shall be ready to celebrate in heaven
the victories of Christ in more raptur-
Gus song than Icould have rendered had
| never seen the heather denominations
before they We're conquered. And so l
hope to come back refreshed, re-enforcod
and better equipped, and to do in 10
years more cffectual work than 1 have
done in tho last 25.
A Garland and a Palm.
And now, i'll this t~wcnty-ffth ami
versary sermon, / propose to do two
things-first, to put q garland on the
grave of the generation that has just
passed off and then to put a palm
branch in the hand Of the generation
Just now coming on the field of action,
for my text is true, lone generation
passeth away, and another generation
cometh." Oh, how many we revered
and honored and loved i'll the last gem
Grafton that quit the earth! Tears fell
at the timc of their going, and dirges
were sounded, and signals of mourning
were put on, but neither tears nor dirge
nor somber veil told the half we felt.
Their going left a vacancy in our souls
that has never been filled up. We never
get used to their absence. There are
which they We're assoc1ated-a picture,
or a book. OF o garment, or a staff
breaks us down with emotion, but We
bear it simply because we have to bear
it. Oh, how snowy white their hair got,
and how the wrinkles multiplied, and
the sight grew more dim, and the hearing
less alert, and the step more frail, and
Ii day they We're gone out of the chair
by the fireside, and from the plate at
the meal, and from the end of the
church pew, where they w~orshiped with
US. Oh, my soul, how we miss theml
But let US console each other with the
thought that we shall meet them again
in the land of s~alutation and reunion.
And now l twist a garland for that
departed generation. Itneed not be cost
ly perhaps, just a handful of clover
blossoms from tho field through which
they used to walk, or as many violets
as you could hold between the thumb
and the forefinger, plucked out Of the
garden where they used to walk in the
cool of the day. Put these old fashion
ed flowers right down over the heart
that never again will ache, and the feet
that will never again be weary, and the
arm that has forever ceased to toll.
Peace, father! Peace, mother! Everlast-
ing peace! All that for the generation
gone.