The Penn's Grove record., 1894-11-09

| weak and short breathed and dim sighted.
| On every northeast wind come down pleur-
| Uses and pneumonias. War Hts its sword
| and hacks away the life OF whole genera
lions. The hospitals OF the earth groan into
| the ear OF God their complaint. Asiatio
choleras and ship fsvers 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. It is on
the wave, on the mast, on the beach.
Wounds from clip OF elephants tusk and
adder's sting and crocodiIe's tooth and
horses hoof and wheels revolution. W,
gather up the inarmities Of our parents and
transmit to our children the inheritance
augmented by our slcknesses, and they
add to them their own disorders, to pass the
Inheritance 10 other generations. In A.. D.
262 the plague in Rome smote into the dust
5000 citizens daily. In 544, in Constants
nople, 1000 gravediggers we're not enough to
bury the dead. In 1913 ophthalmia seize1
the whole Prusstan army. At times the
earth has sweltersi with suffering.
Count up the pains OF Austerlitz. where
$4,000 fell of Fontenoy, where 100, 900 fells
Of Chalons, where 900. 900 fell; OF Marius'
light, in which 900, 900 fell OF the tragedy
Ut Herat, where Genghis KHAN massacred
l,600, 900 men, and OF Nlshar. where he slew
l,747,000 people ;of the 5000, 900 this mon
ster sacrificed in fourteen years as he went
forth to do as he declared. to extermina,s
the entire Chinese nation and make the en-
pire a pasture for cattle.
Think OF the death throes of the 5000. 900
men sacrificed In one campaign of Xerxes.
Think of the 100, 600 that perIshed in the
siege of Ostend, OF 500, 900 dead at Acre, OF
LOO, 900 dead in the siege of Jerusalem, of
l,Sl6,000 OF the dead at Troy, and then com-
plete the review BY considering the stupen-
dous estimate OF Edmund Burke, that the
loss by war had been ~thirty-Avs times the
entire then present populatiGd of the gIoha.
Go through and examine the lAcerAt.nns.
me gunshot fractures, the saber wounds,
the Rashes OF the b~attleax, the slain ofbomb-
shell n exploded mine and falling wall
and those destroyed under the gun car
riaga, and the hoof of the cavalry horse,
the burning thirsts, tho camp fevers, the
frosts that shivere " tropical suns that
smote. Add It UP. aer 1t into one line,
compress it into Il word, spell It In one
syllable, clsnk It in one chain, pour ID
out 10 one groan. disttl 1t into ono 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
tortures that have been inflicted In this2 A
deserter from Ssvastopol, coming over to
army of the allies, pointed back to the fort
ress and said, ''Thst place Is a perfect HE'LL"
Our photographers, aware of the immense
necessity OF having plenty of words to ex-
press the different shades Of trouble. have
s~trewn'oyer their pages such words as tam
noyance,' - "distress," s.grlef," bitterness"
''heartache." "miserv" "twinea." "nane."
'forture,~ .amTction," "anguisn," 'tribu-
iation, +" ''wretchedness !" ''woe." But l have
= glad sound for every hospital. for every
,ickroom, for every lifelong invalid. for
every broken heart. "There shall be no
m - ant1 ~ Thn-b na1 TbanL Cad .
No mslarias 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. He
whose foot touches that pavement becomes
an athlete. The first kiss OF that summer
air will take the wrinkles from the old mans d,
not one diseased throat. The first dash
of the throne will scatter the darkness
of those who were born blind. See, h
man leaps as a hart and the dumb
sing. From that bath Of infinite delight we
shall step forth, our weariness forgotten
Who are those radiant ones2 Why, that one
had his jaw shot OF at Fredericksburg that
one lost his eyes in a powder blast that n
had his back broken by a fall from the ships
halyards that one died OF gangrene In the
hospital. No more pain. Sure enough,
here is Robert Hall, who never before
saw a well day, AMI Edward Pay
whose body was ever torn of
distress, and Richard Baxter, who passed.
through untold physical torture. Ali well.
No more pain. Here, too, are the Theban
legion, a 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 Lstiner out
OF the fire. ALI well. No more pain.
l set open the door of heaven until there
blows on you this refreshing bresze. The
fountains OF God have made 1t cool, n the
gardens nave made 1t sweet. l do not
know that Solomon ever heard on a hot day,
the ice click in an ice pitcher, but he wrote
as il he did when he said, "As cold waters
to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far
country"
Clambering among the Green Mountains I
was tired and hot and thirsty, and I shall
not forget how refreshing 1t was when, after
awhile. I heard the mountain brook tumb-
ling over the rocks. I had no cup, no chalice,
so I got down on my knees and face 10
drink. Oh, ye climbers IN the journey, with
cut feet and parched tongues and fevered
temples, listen 10 the rumbiing OF sapphire
brooks, amid lowered banks, over golden
shelvings. Listen | "The Lamb which is in
the midst Of the throne shall lead them unto
living fountains OF water" / do not offer 1t
to you in a chalice. To take this you must
bend. Get down on your knees and on your
face. and drink out OF this great fountain OF
Gods consolation. Sand, 10, 1 heard q
voice from heaven, as the voice OF many
waters"