Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1895-04-26
IALMAGE'S SERMON
INTERESTING THEME IN TIE
MN NOaE PREACHER.
sabIect: after the Battle"

Some Of YOU were al south Mountain 0I
shiloh ~ Bali, B.uu ur Gatty-huug ur
Northern ar southern side ana I ask yuu On
there j. any -addeE sight than a battlefield
after the guns have -tupp-i firing walkei
across the Held 81 Anti-tam just aftes the
conflict. The scene was 81 sicksuins shat
not descrih. d. Every valuable thing ha1
been taken from the bodies 90. the dead. fut
thare are always yglturcs lowering over and
Hrouui about an army and they pi.S up
the Watrhr-. AMI tn memorandum books
AMI thr letters. aud .ha daCuerrentyIH's. aud
the hats, AMI tb" coats applying them g.
their own uses. The dead max" ua re-i~-
tuure. - There age always camp followers
going uu ami ate au array. ~ when : 1T
went down into NaNinn. a. when Napoleon
marched up toward Moscow. a- when Won
Moltke went To- Sedan. Their, Is a sim!-
lar scene in my text.
Saui aud his army had been horribly cut To
ptrrr-. Mount Giln.a was ghl-tly with the
dead. ON the morrow the -tms:iarS came
vu To- the iiei1, ani tacy lifted the latrh.t 1T
the helmet from Unier the chin Of the dead
they pirSel up the swords aud bent them ON
their knee 10 test the temper ~ the metal,
uul they opened the wallets aud counted the
coin. saul las dea ! along TIA" grpuud, eight
or min" feet in length. AMI / suppose the
cbWardiy Pnili-tiur-. IL show their bravery
lcGpei upon the trunk uf his carcass and
jccred at the fallen slain aud whistlei through
the mouth of his helmet Before night thOSf
cornorants had taken everything valuable
from the field. And il came t. PASS on the
, morrow. when the Philstines came 10 strip
the slain. that they found Saul aul his three
sons fallen in Mount Gilboa'
Before | get through to-day will show
Nou that tn" same process j. going ON all the
world over. AMI every day. and that when
men have fallen satan and the world 50 far
from pitying them or helping them. 90 T.
work remorScesSly to take what little there
is lett, thus stripping the slain.
There are tens OF thousands of young men
every year coming from the country 10 our
great cities. They come with brave hearts
and grand expectations. The country nls
iii down in the village grocery, with their
+ feet On the iron rod around the relhot
stove. in the evening, talking over tho
prospects OF the young man who has gone
F OF to the city Two or three of them think
/ that Ierhau~ he may get along very well and
succeed, hut the most of them prophcsy
failure. for it is very hard To think that
thI-" whom We knew in boyhopd will ever
/ make any great success in tn worll
But our young man has "a fine position in a
. dry goods -torr. The month is over He
gets his wages. He is not accustomed o.
have - much money belonging To himself
/ He is Il little excited and does not know
rNatly what to do with II, and he spends it
in some places whore he ought not. Soon
tLs-o ..5ma nm nov com ani0n. and on,.,,.i,t,
. uune- from thn harr,,r,. ana IN. -aI,''.,.s ,f
. tba ,itv So,n tbgt ,.,,,n,. ,,,a., I,,,,;,,s .,
,,.,v.r j., tho haiti - +rIT,+a,i,In ,,y -,
hi. .o,tl oIos down In , for. ',,,tba.r r,,,
years hr has fallen. He is morally dead He
l. mere corpse OF what he once was. The
harpies Of sin snuff NJ the faint and come
on the field His garments gradually give
is fsilin. lin, TUs rrasit ,ari.has ILL.,
loo moor Ia stay in the civ md he - tn-
l,.ar +, nav liz ,r,, b,,,,,., =, a., -.
. Dawn dawn WIZ 40 no lou. r,Il,.,,-
il. rity now st;,l, -, hin, -, ,l..,I,.y - +, :,
helm him haok tn a moral and snirituaI Iife.
on mo-. will toIi van yyhv tbnr st,,' Tber
are PEiIistinaa strir,in, tbG sIoiI
Do NOT look whore 7 nninf I,t vorJar
stands a man who once bad a L,,uttf,,l I,,rno
In mi. rity His house bai ala,,ant frrni.
ture. his children we're beaptiruiiy rIa1 L;-
name was SYNONYMOUS with honor and usn-
. fitness lut evil h9hit knn,l,aI II, I,is rr,pt
door Knocked nj hi. hanL d,nr EpDrgad NJ
his uarlor door knocked at his LnIrHnr,
door. Where is the piano. SoIi to nav thq
rent, Whore is the hatrarkg S,ld "a meet
the butchers bin. Where are the ro--,.ts.
Soldt, get bread. Where f. me yarIrohr.
Sold to get rum. Where are the daughters.
Working their fingers of in tr,iny to kcrr
the family together Worse ana worse until
everything is gone Who is that going up the
front steps Of that house, That is a creditor
hoping to lnd some chair or bed that has moi
been levied upon. Who are those two gen.
tlemen now going up the front stcpsy Th,
one is constable; the other is the shorif,
Why 10 they 70 there? The uufortuusta i.
morally dead. socially dead. financiallydoql
. Why do they 20 there? will tell Won WHY
the creditors and the constabics and tho
Shcritfs 20 there. They are. slnl, on th,ir
. own account and some On account Of th, law
stripping the slain
An eX-member Of Congress. one Of ia,
most eloquent men that ever stood in th,
House OF Representatives said in his las,
moments: This il the end. | am diving
diving ona borrowed bed covered l,v a bor
rOwpt sheet. in n house huilt Nv rublir
charity Bury me underthat tree inthe mid.
die Of the field, where | shall not becrowled
for have been crowded ali NV life Wbar,
were the Jolly politicians and the dis4ipatino
comrades who had been with him. lnIighinG
at his Jokes, apvlauding hi4 eloniarr9 ma
phlnging him into SIM Thny have Iaft wiz.
. His money is conc his rerI,+otin,, IL 49,
his wit is gone. his clothes are pana-e2ary.
thing is gone Why shonI5 tbav .-to,. mn,
longer? They have comnIet.J tiair yySri
| They have strinnad IN, slain
There is annthar ra, Ln,,.a,.ar 80 ,,,,i,
the same work Herr i = man who tbron,T
his sin. il prostrata He anrno,,lod[,aa ~
he has done wrong Now is tba tiTn,, -. WV,
to Oh to tbat nan md goI, .tThn,Iso,I w w
ne6nlr have bean y. far stra, a. ,,1,, -.
and cot hack " Now il the tina IN va, :" :,
N,n - tbnt ~, i - NJ siio ~ ~ sou y
fant grace Of God tbot IL i'', e{iant {n n,
noon, snnI v1,, r. 80 ~, W.
how gy,,norin,, T,h, Rnn,.ao ,tro,,,,L ~,
,,recn If Cod oftn1t.ari ct,o =, no GeIastin
1it Vow j. to G,', - , Inv M
ta him bon, rrngi,oto 49, ',+'' ,'m on,
thr,,,h ~ 1o ,UT'on ogtle
,raoo5n ~ rihton,,Sp
atonthot tIt - 'llo tIln
tttl't al i th ~ pee
hr",b vii II" +S ' stU l'''9 % otii "ti "'aSfe'
ba,,o a. Ga w ,ti y. p1'iUs4ol' a1 l7
n"n nav. llSon W Po'i'l'e uouI'hloA u mora
f" Von do ,ot tall hin, tho+ a,uo,,9 ",