The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1894-11-14

where the dead sleep. All awake, woe
awake, and forever. No pushing out OF
emigrant ship for foreign shore. Modelling
of bell as the funeral passes. Whole genera
lions 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
1annels cannot warm them. No rattle OF
sepuichral 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 word is hos
pItal. Scores of diseases, like vultures
contending for a carcass, struggle as 10
which shall have it. Our natures sre Inn
nitely 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 shrlll
cry of infancy as the lancet strikes into the
swollen gum. You see its head in consum-
ing fevers that take more than half OF them
into the dust. Old age passes, dizzy and
weak and short breathed and dim sighted.
On every northeast wind come down pleur-
ises and pneumonias. War lifts its sword
and hacks away the life OF whole genera
tons. The hospitals of the earth groan into
the ear OF God their complaint Asiatic
choleras and ship fevers and typhoids and
London plaques make the worlds knees
knock together.
Pain has gone through every street and up
every ladder and down every shaft. 1t is on
the wave, on the mast, on the beach.
Wounds from clip of elephants tusk and
adder's sting and crocodile's tooth and
horses hoof and wheels revolution. We
gather up the infirmities of our parents and
transmit to our children the Inheritance
augmented by our own sicknesses. and they
add to them their own disorders, to pass the
inheritance to other generations. In A. ID.
262 the plague in Rome smote into the dust
5000 citizens daily. In 544, in Constanti-
nople. 1000 gravediggers were not enough to
bury the dead. In 1918 ophthalmia seized
the whole Prussian army. At times the
earth has sweltered with suffering.
Count up the pains OF Austerlitz. where
$4,000 fell /; of Fontenoy, whore 100000 fella
of Chalons, where 100000 fell; of Marius''
fight, in which 300, 900 fell of the tragedy
at Herat. where Genghis Khan massacred
600. 900 men, and of Nishar. where he slew
1,T47, 900 people ;of the Is, 900, 900 this mon
ster sacrificed in fourteen years as he went
forth to do as he declared. to exterminate
the entire Chinese nation and make the em-
pire pasture for cattle.
Think o. the death throes OF the 5000. 900
men sacrificed in one campaign of Xerxes.
Yhink Of the 100, 900 that persisted in the
siege of Ostend. OF 800 900 dead at Acre, of
100. 600 dead in the siege of Jerusalem, of
1916, 900 of tbs dead at Troy. and then COM
plete the review by considering the stupen-
dous estimate OF e lmund Burke, that the
loss by war had been thirty-fve times the
entire then present population OF the globe.
Go through and examine the decorations,
the gunshot fractures, the saber wounds,
the gashes OF the battleax the slain ofbomb-
shell and exploded mine and falling wall
and those destroyed under the gun car
riage, and the hoof of the cavalry horse,
the burning thirsts, the camp feVers. the
frosts that shivered, the tropical suns that
smote Add it up, gather it into one line,
compress it into one word, spell it in one
syllable, clank it in one chain, pour it
cut in one gr0an. distill it into one tear.
Aye. the world has writhed in 5000 years
of SUFFERING Why doubt the possibility of a
future world OF suffering when we see the
fortunes that have been indicted in this? A
deserter from Sevastopol, coming over to
army Of the allies, pointed back to the fort
ress and said, "That place is perfect hell"
Our photographers, aware of the immense
necessity of having plenty of words to ex-
press the different shades Of trouble, have
strewn over their pages such WORKS as ''an-
noyance," "distress," "grief," "bitterness,"
'heartache," "misery," tstwinge." ''pang.."
''torture," "afitction," 'anguish," "tribu-
lation,' 'wretcnedness. ""woe." But have
glad sound for every hospital, for every
sickroom, for every lifelong invalid. for
more pain" Thank GodI Thank God
No malarias float in the air. No bruised
foot treads that street. No weary arm. No
painful respiration. No hectic flush. No
one can drink of that healthy fountain and
keep faint hearted or faint headed. HIS
whose foot touches that pavement becomes
an athlete. The first kiss of that su inner
air will take the wrinkles from the old mans
cheek. Amid the multitude OF songsters
not one diseased throat. The first fash
of the throne will scatter the darkness
of those who were born blind. See, the
lame man leaps as a hart and the dumb
sing. From that bath of infinite delight we
shall step forth, our WEAKNESS forgotten.
Who are those radiant ones? Why, that one
had his jaw shot off at fredericksburg that
one lost his eyes in powder blast : that one
had his back broken by fall from the ships
halyards !; that one died OF gangrene in the
here is Robert Hall, who never before
saw we'll day, and Edward Pay
son. whose body was ever torn OF
distress, and Richard Baxter, who passed
through untold physical torture. ALI we'll.
No more pain. Here, too, are the Theban
legion, great host OF $685. put to the sword
for Christ's sake. No distortion on their
countenance No fires to hurt them, or
floods to drown them, or racks to tear them.
All well. Here are the Scotch Covenanters.
none to hunt them now. The dark cave and
imprecations of Lord Claverhouse ex-
changed for temple service, and the pres
ence of Him who helped Hugh Latimer out
OF the fire. All we'll. No more pain.
set open the door of heaven until there
blows on you this refreshing breeze. The
fountains Of God have made it cool, and the
gardens have made it sweet. do not
know that Solomon ever heard on hot day,
the ice click in an ice pitcher, but he wrote
as If he did when he said, GAS cold waters
to thirsty soul, so is good news from far
country"
Clambering among the Green Mountains I
was tired and hot and thirsty and I shalt