The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-05-11

or q book, or garment, or Il staff
breaks us down with emotion, but We
bear it simply because we have to bear
it. Oh, how snowy white their hair got,
and how the wrinkles multiplied, and
the sight grew more dim, and the hearing
less alert, and the step more frail and
one day they were gone out Of the chair
by the fireside, and from the plato at
the meal, and from the end Of the
church pew, where they worshiped with
us. Oh, my soul, how we miss them
But let us console each other with the
thought that we shall meet them again
in the land of salutation and reunion.
And now twist garland for that
departed generation. 1t need not be cost
ly perhaps, just a handful of clover
blossoms from the field through which
they used to walk, or as many violets
as you could hold between the thumb
and the forefnSer, plucked out of the
garden where they used to walk in the
cool of the day. Put these old fashion
ed flowers right down over the heart
that never again will ache, and the fest
that will never again be weary, and tie
arm that has forever ceased to toll.
ing peace! All that for the generation
gone.
The Moving Throng.
But what shall we do with the palm
branch? That we will put in the hand
of the generation coming on. Yours is
to be the generation for victories. Tho
last and the present generation have
been perfecting the steam power, and
the electric light, and the electric forces.
To these will be added transportation.
1t will be your mission to use all these
forces. Everything is ready now for you
to march right up and take this world
for God and heaven. Get your heart
right by repentance and the pardoning
grace of the Lord Jesus, and your mind
right by elevating books and pictures,
and your body right by gymnasium and
field exercise, and plenty of ozone and
by looking as often as you can upon the
face of mountain and Of sea. Then starti
In God name, start! And here is the
palm branch. From conquest to con-
quest, move right OH and right up. You
will soon have the whole field for your
self. Before another 25 years have gone,
we will be out of the pulpits, and the
offices, and the stores, and the factories,
and the benevolent institutions, and you
will be at the front Forward into the
battle! If God be for you, who can be
against you? HE that spared not his
own Son, but delivered him up for Us
all, how shall he net with him alsG
freely give us all things?"
And, as for us who are now at t
front, having put the garland on the
grave of the last generation, and having
put the palm branch in the hand of tie
coming generation, we will cheer eaca
other in the remaining onsets and go l..
to the shining gate somewhere about liz
same time, and greeted by. the gonof
alton that has preceded us we will have
to wait only little while to greet the
generation that will come after us. AMI
will not that be glorious? Three genera
lions in heaven together-the GRANDPA
ther, the son and the grandson; T..
grandmother, the daughter and the
granddaughter. And so with wider
range and keener faculty we shall re-
ize the full significance of the text, "Ons
generation passeth away, and anothf!
! generation cometh "