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

work and get more adaptedness Why
do / go? For educational purposes. j
want to freshen my mind and heart
by new scenes, new faces, new mar
ners an customs. / want better to I'M
derstand what are the wrongs to be
righted and the waste places to be re-
claimed. I Twill put all learn in SER
mons to be preached to you when re-
turn. / want to see the Sandwich Is
lands, not so much in the light of mod
ern politics as in tho light OF she Cos
pei of Jesus Christ. which has trans
formed them, and Samoa, and those
vast realms of New Zealand, and Aus
tralia and Ceylon and India. l want to
see what Christianity has accomplished.
want to see how the missionaries have
been lied about as living in luxury and
idleness.
want to know whether the heather
religions are really as tolerable ard as
commendable as they were represented
by their adherents in the parliament of
religions at Chicago. l want to see
WuclutI LUZ
dhism would be good things for trans
plantation i'll America, as it has again and
again been argued. want to hear the
Brahmans Pray. want to test whether
| the Pacific ocean treats its guests any
better than does the Atlantic. want
| to see the wondrous architecture Of In
dia, and the Delhi and Cawnpore where
Christ was crucifed in the massacre of
his modern disciples, and the disabled
Juggernaut unwheeled by Christianity,
and to see if the TAI which the Emperor
Sha Jehan built in honor of his empress
really means any more than the plain
slab we put above our dear departed. l
want to see the fields where Havelock
and Sir Colin Campbell won the day
| against the sepoys. | want to see the
world from all sides. How much of it
| is in darkness, how much of it is in
light, what the Bible means by the
lends of the earth," and get myself
ready to appreciate the extent of the
present to be made to Christ as spoken
| of in the Palms, "Ask Of me, and
| shall give thee the heather for thine in
heritance and the uttermost parts of
the earth for thy possession, and SO l
shall be ready to celebrate i'll heaven
the victories of Christ in more raptur
Gus song than Icould have rendered had
| l never seen the heather denominations
before they were conquered. And so
hope to come back refreshed, re-enforced
and better equipped, and to do i'll 10
years more effectual work than have
done in the last 25.
| A Garland and a Palm.
And now, in this twenty fifth ami
versary sermon, | propose to do two
things-frst, to put a garland on the
grave of the generation that has just
passed OF aud then to put a palm
branch i'll the hand of the generation
just now coming Oh. the field Of action,
for my text is true, zone generation
passeth away, and another generation
cometh" Oh, how many we revered
and honored and loved in the last gen
Grafton that quit the earth! Tears fell
at the time of their going, and dirges
We're sounded, and signals of mourning
were put Oh, but neither tears nor dirge
nor somber veil told the half we felt
Their going left vacancy in our souls
that has never been filed up. We never
get used to their absence. There are
times when the sight of something with
/ which they were assoc1ated-a picture,