Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1894-11-22

away, and walk around about the house
and find it desolate, sometimes feeling
rebellious, and then to resolve to feel
differently, and to resolve on self-con-
troll, 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 o, my God, how
hard it is to part, TO close the eyes that
never can look merry at our coming, to
kiss the hand that will never again do
US kindness. | 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.
On steamboat wharf and at rail car
window we may smile when we say
farewell; but these good byes at the
death bed they just take hold of the
heart with iron pincers, and tear II
out by the roots until all the fbers
quiver 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 capacity to suffer
and we stop crying because we have
| wept all our tears
ON every street, at every doorstep, by
every couch, there have been partings.
But once past the heavenly portals and
4 you are through with such scenes for
i ever. In that land there arc many hand
claspings and embracings but only in
recognition. The 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 bells as the funeral passes. Whole
generations in glory. Hand to hand
heart to.heart, joy to joy. Nocreeping
up the limbs of the death chill, the feet
cold until hot fannels cannot warm
them. No rattle of sepulehral gates.
No parting, no pam.
Further the heavenly city will have
no pain of body. The race is pierced
with sharp distresses. The surgeons
knife must cut The dentists pincers
must pull Pain is fought with pain.
The world is a hospital. Scores of dis
eases like vultures contending for a
carcass, struggle as to which shall have
it. Our natures are infinitely suscepti-
BILE to suffering The eye, the foot, the
hand. with immense capacity of an
guish.
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 -breathed and dimsighted. |
On every northeast wind come down |
pleurisies and pneumonias. War lifts
its sword and hacks away the life of |
whole generations 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,
anu Il GNNtN AAAANANA anu NtRNh NN1A y
shaft 1t is on the wave, ON the mast
on the beach Wounds from the clip of
elephants tuslI, and adder's sting. and
crocodile's tooth, and horses hoof and
wheels revolution. We gather up the
infrmities of our parents and transmit
to our children the inheritance aug
mented by our own sicl1nesses, and
they add to them their own disorders,
to pass the inheritance to other genera
tions. In A. ID 262 the plague IN Rome
smote into the dust 5000 citizens daily.
In 544, in Constantinople, 1000 grave
diggers 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 30, 600 fell; of Fontenoy, where
100 900 fell; of Chalons. where 5000
fell of Marius' fight, in which 100000
fell; of the tragedy at Herat, where
Khan massacred 900, 600 men.
and of Nishar. where he slew l, 747, 900
people: of the 1s,OOO.OO0 this monster
sacrificed in fourteen years, as he went
forth TO do as he declared, to extermi-
ldIe IilC EuLlG NHlIe lidliOu anu
the empire pasture for cattle. Think
Of the death throes of the 5000 900 men
sacrificed in one campaign of Nerxes.
Think OF the 10000 that persisted in
the siege of Ostend, of 800, 600 dead at
Acre; of /, 100 600 dead in the siege of
Jerusalem; of 1,s16,OO0 of the dead at
Troy and then complete the review by
the stupendous estimate OF
Burke, that the loss by war
lad been thirty-fve times the entire
hen present population of the globe. Z
Go through and examine the lacera /
ions, the gunshot fractures, the saber !
wounds, the gashes of the battle ax !
he slain of bombshell and exploded a
nine and falling wall, and those de- /,
troyed under the gun carriage and the 4
roof of the cavalry horse, the burning /
hirsts. the camp fevers, the frosts that i
hivered, the tropical suns that smote. >
Kidd it up, gather it into one line. COM :
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