St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1896-11-21

picked up and handed down for other
kin9s to wear. Let the blasts come.
They only make room for other life.
So. when We GO, others take our
spheres. We do mot Grudge tho fu.
ture generations their places. We will
have had our good time. There i NO
sighing among these leaevs to-day, be-
cause other leaves are to follow them.
After : lifetime Of preaching. doctor
ing, selling, sewing or digging, let Us
cheerfully give way for those who
come on to do the preaching, doctor
Ing. sewing and digging. God grant
that their life may be brighter than
ours has been! As we get older, do not
let Us DO affronted II young men and
women crowds NJ . little. We will
havo had our day, and We must
let them have theirs. When our
voices get cracked, let MS not
snarl 1T those who can MARBLE. When
our knees are stif1ened, let Ms have
patience with those who 20 feet as the
deer. Because our leaf Is fading. do
not lot us despisc the unfrosted.
Autumn must not envy the spring.
Old mon must DO patient with boys
DR.. Guthrie stood up in Scotland and
said: "You need not think am old
because my hair is white; never was
% young as am now" look back to
my childhood days, and remember
when, in winter nights, in the sitting
room, the children played, the blithest
and the gayest Of all the company was
father and mother. Although reach.
ing fourscore years of sge, they never
got old.
Do not be disturbed rs you see good
and great men die. People worry when
some important parsonage passes OF
the stage and say: "llis place will
never be TAKEN" But neither the
church nor the state will suffer for it.
There will be others to take the places.
When God takes one man away He
has another right back of Him. God
10 SO rich in resources that lie
could spare 5000 Summeriields and
Ssurins, il there were 80 many.
There will be other leaves as green.
~ exquisitely veined, rs grace
fully etched, rs we'll pointed. How
ever prominent the place we fill, our
death will not jar the world. One fall
ing leaf does not shake the Adiron-
dacka A ship is not well manned un.
less there be IN extra supply OF
hands: some working on deck; some
sound asleep in their hammocks. God
has manned this world very well.
There will be other seamen on deck
when you and are down in the cabin,
sound asleep in the hAmmocks.
Again: As with the leaves, we fade
and fall and myriads of others. One
can not count the number OF plumes
which these frosts are plucking from
the hills. They will strew all the
streams; they will drift into the cav.
ems; they will soften the wild beasts
lair. and ill the eagles eyrie.
All tho aisles Of the forest will be
covered with their carpet, and the
steps of the hills glow with . wealth
Of color and shape that will defy the
looms of Administer. What urn could
hold the ashes of all these dead leaves?
Who could count the hosts that burn
on this funeral pyre of the mountains?
So we die in concert. The clock that
strikes the hour of our going will
sound the going of many thousands.
Keeping step with the feet of those
who carry W out will be the tramp Of
hundreds doing the same errand. Be.
tween 50 and 20 people every day lie
down in Greenwood. That place has
over two hundred thousand If the
dead. said to the man 1T the gate:
Then il there are SO many here,
you must have the largest GENE
terry" He said there were two
Roman Catholic cemeteries in the city,
each of which had more than this. We
are all dying. London and Pekin are
not the greatest cities OF the world.
The grave il the great city. It hath
mightier population. longer streets
brighter lights. thicker darknesses
Caesar is there, and all his subjects.
Nero is there, and all his vic
TINS. City of kings and paupers
It has swallowed up in its i'm
migrations. Thebes, and Tyre and
Babylon, and will swallow all our
cities. Yet, City of Silence. No voice
No hoof. No wheel. No clash, Nc
emitting of hammer. No clack Of ny
ing loom. No jar. No whisper. Great
City of Silence! OF all Its million mil
lion hands, not one of them is lifted.
OF al! its million million eyes, not one
of them sparkles. OF all its million
million hearts, not one pulsatea The
living are in small minority.
If, in the movement of time. some
great question between the living and
the dead should be put, and God called
up all the dead and the living to decide
it, as We lifted our hands, and from I'll
the resting places Of the dead they
lifteu their hands, the dead would out
vote us. Why, the multitude of the
dying and the dead are rs these au
tumnal leaves drifting under our fee,
to-day. We march on toward eternity
not by companies of 100, or regiment,
of ]. O0O, OK brigades Of 1O. 900. but l, 600.
O00, 600 abreastl Marching ON! March
ing on!
Again: A with variety of appear
ance the leaves depart, SO do we. Yot
have noticed that some trees, At the
first touch of the frost. lose all shei,
beauty; they stand withered. and Nm
eonely, and ragged. waiting for tn,
northeast storm to drive them into tn,
mire. The sun shining Ut MONDAY
Rilds them With no beauty. Ragset
leaves! Dead leaves! No one staLd
to study them. They are gathered il
no vase. They are hung ON NO wall
So death smites many There 10 NJ
beauty in their departure. One sharI
frost Of sickness, or one blast Of
the cold waters, and they ar
gone. No tinge Of hope. N
prophecy Of Heaven. Their spring
was al abloom with bright prospects
their summer thick-folisged with op
portunities; but October came, ant
their glory went. Frostedl In early
| autumn tho frosts come, but do no
seem 10 damage vegetation. They m
light frcots. But some morning 20,
look ont Of the window and ssy
"There wss . black frost last night,
and you know that from that d.!