Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1894-11-09
No Tears Nor Grape.

thrown, ard Ten tT1nblo turns the
windlags roWId and round Until NO arc
utterly crushed AID hlte 10 moro ca
lAciiy to safer, AID wc stop crying be-
caase We have wept all orr tears.
On ever street, I'll every Goorsiop, hy
every couch, thcie f",c lee. raItinG''.
Bat once past tie heavenly portals, aud
you are thtUa-.. with s;.ca scenes for
Uvor. In that hama t:.2re aro many hand
claspinei and o:..Jraci,ig-, Lut only in
recognition. That great home circle
never breaks Once fud year comrades
there, and you have them forever. No
Grape floats from the door Of that bliss
full residence No clcit 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 flannels 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 surgeons
knife must cut. The dentists pinchers
must pull Pain is fought with pain.
The world is a hospital. Scores Of dis
eases, like vultures contending for n 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 fovers 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 gener-
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. 1t is on the wave, on the mast,
on the beach. Wounds from clip Of ele-
plants tusk and addor's sting and croc-
odile's tooth and horses hoof and
wheels revolution. We gather up the
inhrmities Of our parents and transmit
to our children the inheritance aug
mented by our own sicknesses, and they
add TO them their own disorders, to
pass the inheritance to other genera
tons In A. D. 2G2 the plague in Rome
smote into the dust 5000 citizens daily.
In 544, in Constantinople, 1000 grave
diggers wero not enough to bury the
dead. In 1918 ophthalmia seized the
whole Prussian army. At times the
earth has sweltered with suffering.
Count mp tho pains Of Austerlitz,
where 80, QUO fell; of Fontenoy, where
100, 00O fell; of Chalons, where 300, 900
fell; Of Marius' fight, in which 200, 900
fell; Of the tragedy at Herat, where
Genghis Khan massacred 1, 600, 600 men.
and Of Nishar, where no slew l. 747, 900
people; Of the IS, 600, 900 this monster
sacrificed IN IA years as ne went forth
to do rs he declared, to exterminate the
entire Chinese nation and make tho en-
pire pasture for cattle
Think Of the death throcs Of the
5000, 900 men sacrificed in one cam
paign of Xerxos Think of tho 100, 600
that persisted in the siege Of Ostend, Of
800. eco dead at Acre, Of LOO 900 dead
In the siege Ct Jer1salcn, Of l.SlG, 600
of the doad az Troy, and then complete
the review by considering the stupen-
dous estimate Of Z luiuni Burke, that the
loss by war had been - times tie en-
tire then present population OF tho globe
Go through and examine the laccra-
tons, the guneHot fractures, tine sahcr
wounds tho ga.Aci # the baitlcax,
the slain Of bOmAsholl ana exploded
mine anl falling wall ard those de-
strOyci under the gun carriage, and the
hoof Of the cavalry hcrso tie burning
thirsts, the camp fcvcrs, the frosts that
shiye, ed, tie tropical suns that smctc
Add it up, gather it INK one lino, COM
press it into one word, spell it in one
syllable. cl:nk it in one chain, pour it
out III one grouii. diatill it into one tear.
Ave, the world has writhcd in 5000
years Of suffering Why doubt the pos
sibility Of futarc world Of suffering
when we see the torturos that have been
inflicted in this? 4 dcscrtcz from Sovas-
typol. coming over to tho army IT the
pllics. pointed back to the fortress nnd
said, "fiaf place is a perfect hell. D" n
Oar photographers, aware Of tho inn
mense necessity Of having plenty OF
words to express the different shades Of
trouble, have strown over their pages
such words rs annoyance, " distress,
grief, " bitterness, " "hoartacho,
"misery," "twinge," "pang," tor
turc. " "afiliction, " anguish, " "tribu-
laiion, " "wrctchedness, " WOE" But
| have a glad sound for every hospital,
for every sicl;room, for every lifelong
invalid, for every broken heart. "There
shall DO no moro pain" Thank God
Thank Godl
Recognition.
No malarias float In the air. No
bruised foot treads that street No wea-
ry arm No painful respiration. No
hectic flush. No one can drink Of that
healthy fountain and keep faint hearted
or faint headed. lie whose foot touches
that pavement becometh an athlete
The first kiss Of that summer dir will
take the wrinkles from tho old mans
check Amid the multitude of songsters
not one diseased throat. The first flash
of the throne will scatter the darkness
of those who were born blind See, the
lamo man leaps as a hart and the dumb
aing. From that bath of infinite delight
we shall step forth, our WEAKNESS for:
gotten. Who are those radiant onesi
Why, that one had his jaw shot of at
Fredericksburg; that one lost his eyes
in a powder blast; that one had his
back broken by fall from the ships
halyards; that one died Of gangrene in
the hospital. No more pain. Sure
enough, here is Robert Hall. who never