The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-11-09
away know il is tho last time, and

Oh, the long agony of earthly separa-
toni 1t Is awful to stand In your nurs.
cry fighting death back from the couch
of your child, and try to hold fast the
little one, and see all the time that he is
getting weaker, and the breath is short
or, and make cutlery to God to help us
and to the doctors to save hiSl and sec
II is Of no avail, and then to know that
bis spirit is gone and that you have
jewel, and that in two or three days
you must even put that away and walk
around about the house and find it des-
olate, sometimes feeling rebellious, and
then to resolve to feel differently and to
resolve ON self control, and just as You
have come to what you think is perfect
self control to suddenly come upon some
little coat or picture or shoe half worn
out and how all the floods of the soul
burst in one wild wall Of agony Oh,
my God, how hard it is to part, to close
the eyes that never caii look merry at
our coming, to kiss the hand that will
never again do us a kindness! l know
religion gives great consolation in such
an hour, and we ought to be comforted,
but anyhow and anyway you make it
it is awful.
No Tears Nor Grape.
On steamboat wharf and at rail car
window we may smile when wo say
farewell, but these goodbys at the death
bed--they Just take hold of the heart
with iron pinchers and tear it out by
the roots until all the flbers culver and
curl in the torture and drop thick blood
These separations are wine presses, into
which our hearts, like red clusters, are
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 ont 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 hannels cannot warm
them. Norattle 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 surgeon S
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 a 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 in consuming 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 pleurisies
and pneumonias. War lifts its sword
and hacks away the life of whole gcner-
ations. The hospitals of the earth groan
into the ear of God their complaint.
Asiatic choleras and ship fevers and ty-
phoids and London plaques make the
worlds knees knock together.
Earthly Suffering
Pain has gone through every street
and up every ladder and down every
shaft It is on the wave, on the mast,
on the beach. Wounds from clip of ele
plants tusk and adder's sting and croc
odile's tooth and horses hoof and
wheels revolution. We gather up the
infirmities of our parents and transmit
to our children the Inheritance aug
mented by our own sicknesses, and they
ada TO GQeu GQ6lT OWL ulSOTueTs, u
pass the inheritance to other genera
lions. In A. D. 26a the plague in Rome
smote into the dust s. 900 citizens daily
| In 644, in Constantinople, 1000 grave
diggers were not enough to bury thu
dead. In 1918 ophthalmia seized tn,
whole Prussian army. At times the
earth has sweltered with suffering.
Count M the pains Of Austerlitz
where 80. 900 fell: Of Fontenoy. wher,
100. 900 fell: Of Chalons, where 800. OOt
fell: of Marius' fight, in which 900, O0(
fell: Of the tragedy at Herat. wher,
Genghis Khan massacred /, 600, 900 men
and of Nishar. where he slew 1, TAT, OOt
people: of the IS. 900. 900 this monste
sacrificed In IA wears as he went fortl
to do as he declared to exterminate tn
entire Chinese nation and make the EN-
nire a pasture for cattle
Think of the death throes of tn
< 00O O0O men sacrificed in one cam
na;pn of Xerxes. Think Ct the 800. OO
that nerished in the siege of Ostend. O