The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-11-07

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 foods 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 1t, 1t 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 1t
out by the roots until all the hbers
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 utetrly 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, py
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. 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. No creeping
up the limbs of the death chill, the feet
cold until hot fannels cannot warm
them. No rattle 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 pincers
must pull. Pain is fought with pain.
The world is hospital. Scores OF dis
eases like vultures contending for
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 short-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
JOPeLner.
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 the clip of
elephants tusk, 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 sicknesses, and
they add to them their own disorders,
to pass the inheritance to other genera
tions In A. d 1852 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 $4,000 fell; of Fontenoy, where
100, 900 fell; of Chalons, where 100000
fell; Of Marius' fight, in which 100000
fell; of the tragedy at Herat, where
Genghis Khan massacred 1000, 900 men,
and of Nishar, where he slew 1,747, 00C
people; of the 100000 this monster
+ sacrificed in fourteen years, as he went
forth to do as he declared, to eXtermi'
:; nate the entire Chinese nation and make
4 the empire pasture for cattle. Think
of the death throes of the 5000, 900 men
sacrificed in one campaign of Xerxes.
Think Of the 1901 that perished in
the siege of ostend, of 100000 dead at
!, Acre; of /, 100, 900 dead in the siege oi
Jerusalem; of 1,s16,0OO of the dead al
, Troy. and then complete the review by
considering the stupendous estimate Of
: Edmund Burke, that the loss by waI
had been thirty-five times the entire
: then present population of the globe.
Go through and examine the lacera-
: tions, the gunshot fractures, the sabe1
wounds, the gashes of the battle AK,
: the slain of bombshell and exploded
= mine and falling wall, and those de-
: stroyed under the gun carriage 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, com
press it into one word, spell it in one
! syllable, clank it in one chain, pour il
out in one groan, distill II into one tear.
Ay, the world has writhed in six
thousand years Of suffering. Why doubt
: the possibility of future world of suf
fering when we see the tortures that
have been inflicted in this. A desertei
; from Sebastopol coming over to the
!, army of the allies pointed back to the
, fortress and said: "That place is Q
perfect hell"
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