The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-06-05

an honor DO themselves ana lhoIr partnta.
Afier awhile enc mothers lnFt sickness
comes. children and grandchildren. mm-
mouol from nilr, como softly into iho room
one hy one, lof Shea Too weak t0 eco moro
than one nt "a time. Hhn unH Der dying
fingers lovingly through lhoIr hair aad teln
them NOT 90 cfy, und iial aho q e0lnr nog.
bias they will mool again ina iiitlo while in
q beltor world. ana then kisses thom g0odhy
ana says to each, "0od biea and keep YOU.
my dear child" Hho dag of tho obaalniai
a1mo.. and the officiating clergyman tells
iha story 0i Wii1lV and m0therV endurance.
aud many helria On earth ana ln beaver
echo the sentiment, aud al She o. carried az
She stage 0l this mortal lli8 there arh cries
ol "ralthiul unto death, "Aho hath done
what she could. while ogerpoWerlue ali tho
voices oi earth aud heaven is the plaudH OF
the God who watched her from nul t0 lasf.
saying, "Well done. good aud faithful aar-
want, thou hast been faithful over n few
things. / win mako thee ruler over many
things, enter thou into tho Joy OF thy Lord"
But what became of the father of that
houchold2 He started as q young man I'm
business and had q small income, aud having
got o little ahead sickness ln the family
swept Il an away Ho went through all tho
business pauies of forty years, met many
losses, and suffered many boimyals. but
kept right on trusting Ina God, whether bus
iness was good or poor, settling his children
n good example, and giving them the best OF
counsel, and never prayer dld he Offer Tor
al those years but they wore mentioned an
A. Boi5 old now and realizes 4 cannot DO
long before he must quit all these scenes
Bat be Is going 10 leave his children un 10
hefitlnee Of prayer and Christian principles
which an the deinlcatiOns of earth can never
touch, and a8 no goes out OF the world tho
church Of God blesses him aud tho poor ring
his dOorbell 20 SEQ il he Is any better. and
his grave IS surrounded by multi
tudo who went on foot and stood
there before the procession oil carriages came
up. and some say, "Inera will be no one 20
take HIS place" and others say, "Who will
pity me now2' ana others remark, "He shall
be held in everlasting remembrance" And
as the drama Of his life closes, all the yoeii-
Grafton and braves anG enc0res that ever
shook the amphitheaters Of earthly spectacle
were tame aud feeble compared with the
long, loud thunder5 OF approval that shall
break from the cloud OF witnesses in tho
piled up gallery Of the heavens. Choose 20
between the life that shall close by being
Kissed on the stage and the life that shall
close amid aceamations supegnal and arch
angelic
oh, men AMI women on the stage OF life
many OF you IN the first act OF the drama,
and others In the second, aud some OF you In
the third. aud a few in the fourth. aud here
and there one in the NTH, but all Of you be-
tween entrance and exit, quote 10 you as
the peroration Of this sermon the most sug-
gestive passage that Shakespeare over wrote.
although you never heard Il recited. The
author has often been claimed as infldel and
athoistie, 50 the quotation shall be not only
religiousy helpful to ourselves, but grandly
vindicatory OF the great dramatlst. quote
from his last will and testament
"In the name Of God, Amen. l, William
Shakespeare Of Stratiorl-upon-Ayon, in the
county of Warwick. gentleman. In perfect
health and memory (God be praised), do
make this my last will and testament, in
manner and form following; First, l COM
mend my soul into the hands OF God, my
Creator, hoping and assuredly believing
through the only merits Of Jesus Christ, my
Saviour. to be made partaker Of life ever
lasting" zise