The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1894-11-07
but anyhow and anyway you make it
70 10 q " III.
No Tears Nor Crane.

but anyhow and anyway you make i
it is awful.
No Tears Nor Grape.
On steamboat wharf and at rail ca
window we may smile when We sa,
farewell, but these goodbys at the death
bed-they just take hold Of the hear
with iron pincbers and tear it out b,
the roots until all the 6bers quiyer ant
curl in the torture and drop thick blood
These separations are wine presses, init
which our hearts, like red clusters, art
thrown, and then trouble turns the
windlass round and round until we are
utterly crushed and have no more ca
pacity to suffer, and we stop crying be-
cause we have wept all our tears.
On every street. on every doorstep, by
every couch, there have been partings.
But once past the heavenly portals, and
you are through with such scenes for
ever. In that land there are many hand
claspings and embracings, but only in
recognition That great home circle
never breaks Once find your comrades
there, and you have them forever. No
Grape floats from the door of that bliss
full residence No cleft hillside where
the dead sleep. All awake, wide awake,
and forever. No pushing out of emf
grant ship for foreign shore. No tolling
of bell as the funeral passes. Whole
generations in glory. Hand to hand,
heart to heart, JOY to JOY. No creeping
up the limbs Of the death chill, the feet
cold until hot fannels cannot warm
them. No rattle Of sepulchral gates. No
parting, no pain
Further, the heavenly city will have
no pain Of body. The race is pierced
with sharp distresses. The surgeons
knife must cut. The dentists pinchers
must pull. Pain is fought with pain.
The world is hospital Scores Of dis
eases, like vultures contending for car
cass, struggle as TO which shall have it.
Our natures are infinitely susceptible to
suffering. The eye, the foot, the hand,
with immense capacity of anguish.
The little child meets at the entrance
of life manifold diseases. You hear the
shrill cry of infancy as the lancet strikes
into the swollen gum. You see its head
toss il consuming fevers that take more
than half of them into the dust. 81 ~
age passes, dizzy anaseaFand seaF and shor
bssnse; bFsn1 a1alm Jim sighted. On ever,
northeast wind come down pleurisie
and pneumonias. War lifts its swort
and hacks away the life Of whole gener
ations. The hospitals of the earth groal
into the ear of God their complaint
Asiatic choleras and ship fevers and ty
'phoids. and London plaques make tn
worlds knees knock together.
Earthly Suffering.
Pain has gone through every stree
and up every ladder and down ever.
shaft. It is on the wave, on the mast
on the beach. Wounds from clip Of ele
plants tusk and adder's sting ard croc
odile's tooth and horses hoof ant
wheels revolution. We gather up th
infrmities of our parents and transmi
to our children the inheritance aug
mented by our own sicknesses, and the.
add to them their own disorders, Il
pass the inheritance to other genera
tions In A. D. 262 the plague in ROM
snote into the dust 5000 citizens daily
In ga, in Constantinople, 1000 grave
diggers were not enough to bury th'
dead. In 1913 ophthalnia seized th'
whole Prussian army. At times th'
earth has sweltered with suffering.
Count up the pains of Austerlitz
where 80, QUO fell; Of Fontenoy, wher'
100, 900 fell; of Chalons, where 300, O0t
fell; of Marius' fight, in which 290, o0(
fell; of the tragedy at Herat, wher'
Genghis Khan massacred 1900, 900 0nen
and of Nishar, where he slew I, TAI, O0(
people; of the $4,000, 900 this monste:
sacrificed in IA years rs he went fortt
to do as he declared, to exterminate th'
entire Chinese nation and make the EN-
pire pasture for cattle.
Think of the death throes Of th'
5,000,0 600 men sacrificed In one cam
paign Of Xerxes. Think Of the 120, 00(
that perished in the siege of Ostend, O
800, 900 dead at Acre, of l, 100, 900 deat
in the siege of Jerusalem, Of 1916, O0(
of the dead at Troy, and then complete
the review by considering the stupen
dous estimate of Edmund Burke, that th'
loss by war@ had been 50 times the en-
tire then present population Of the globe
Go through and examine the lacera
tions, the gunshot fractures. the sabe
wounds, the gashes of the battleax
the slain Of bombshell and exploded
mine and falling wall and those de
stroyed under the gun carriage, and tn
hoof of the cavalry horse, the burning
thirsts, the camp fevers, the frosrs tina
shivered, the tropical suns that smote
Add it up, gather it into one line, com
press it into one word, spell it in on
syllable, clank it in one chain, pour /
out in one groan, distill it into one tear
8, Aye, the world has writhed in 6, 00(
years Of suffering Why doubt the pos
sibility of a future world of suffering
when we see the tortures that have beer
inflicted in this? A deserter from Sevas
topol, coming over to the army of th'