The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1896-11-20

5h,y wlu soften no wId beasts lair aud ail
AIthg asles Oh lhs forest wan Do coyerel
with their c8Tet aud thu steps uf The hiif
glow with q wealth of color and shape
that WHl Dolly tht looms 90 AKnlnEirr What
un could hold che ASHES 0i Nl thee tead
lgnvetY Who could count Che hosts ihW burn
ou th.s 'unfml pyr Of thc monnialnH
su we die in concert. The clock thni strikes
ihe hour 81 our going wlil sound mo COINS
30 many thousands. Keeping stem with the
Ieet 90 those who earry us cut win DO the
tram OF hundreds doing tho same orrand.
Between so and 20 people every day lie down
lu Greenwood That place hns over 100000
of the dead. said 60 the man nc the gates
"Fhen. W. there are s0 MANY here you must
have tbe larges. cemetery Tie said there
were two Roman Catholic cemeteries In the
city. each 90 which had more than this. We
are an dying London and PckIn are not the
great cities OF the world. The grave q the
great city. II hath mlghuor population,
longer streets, brighter lights thicker dark
nCsses.
Caesar IS there and an his subjects. Mere
g. there and an his Victims City OF kings
and paupersl IL has swallowed up Ia ltsim-
mlgrau0ns ThebCs and Tyre and Babylon
and viii swallow al our cities Yet city Of
silence No voice. No ho0L No wheel.
No CLASH. No shifting Of hammer No claek
Of flying loon. No jar No whisper. Great
city OF silencel OF a1 its million million
hands not one OF them Is lifted. OF an its
million million eyes not Que OF them
aparklCs. OF an 60 million million hearts
not one pulsates. The living are In small
minority.
II, 40 the movement O., time, some great
question between the living ami the dead
should be put. aud God called mp all tha
dead and the living 90 decide a. RS we lifted
our hands, aud from all the resting places OF
the dead they lifted their hands, The dead
would outvOie ne. Why tho multitude Of
the dying and dead aro ns these autumual
leaves drifting under our feet to-day. We
march on toward eternity. not by companies
Of 100, or regiments OF 1000. or brigade5 ot
10000 but ! 800 ,OO0,Jy0 ABREAST Marching
on. Marching on!
Again, as with variety Of appearances the
leaves depart, so DO we. You have noticed
that some trees at the hrst touch OF The frost
lose all their beauty They stand whitehead
and uncomey auu ragged Whiting for the
northeast storm 90 drive them into the
mire. The sun shining az nl0nduy gilds
them with no beauty. Ragged leaves. Dead
leaves. No one stands TO study thBm. They
are gathered In no vase. They are hung on
no wall SO death smites many. There Is
sharp frost o., sickness or ons blast
on the cold waters and they are gone.
No tings OF hope. No prophecy of
heaven. Their spring was aIl ablUOn with
bright prospects. Their Summer thick
folaced with opportunities. Bg. October
came, aud their glory went out. Frosted. In
early autumn the frosts come but DO not
seem to damage vegetation. They are light
frosts. But some morning You look out OF
d. do
frost last night" and You know that from
that day everything will wither. 50 men
seem to got along without religion amid the
annoyances and vexations OF life that nip
them slightly here and nip them there. But
after awhile death comes. II is black tros-
and all is ended,
Oh what whitening aud scattering death
makes among those not prepared to meet 1t.
They leave everything pleasant behind them
their house, their families, their friends,
their books, their pictures, and step out OF
! the sunshine into the shadow. They quit
! the presence OF bird and bloom and wave 70
| 90 unbeckoned and unwecomed. pne bower
| in which they stood and sang aud wOve
chaplets and made themselves merry has
! gone down under al awful equinOctical No
! bell can toll one-half the dolefulness Of their
! condition. Frosted!
But thank God. that is not the way peo-
! pie always die. Tell me on what day OF all
! the year the leaves of the woodbine are as
| bright as they are today So Christian
| character is never so attractive as in the dy-
ing hour. Such 90 into the grave, not rs IA
dog, with frown AMI harsh voice, driven in
to kennel, but they pass away calmly,
brightly, sweety, grandly. As the leaf! As
the leatl
Lastly, as the leaves fade an fail only to
rise, 50 do we. All this golden shower of tn
woods Is making the ground richer, an in
the juice aud sap and life of tho tr2e the
leaves will come up again. Next Nay the
south wind will blow the resurrection
trumpet, and they will rise. So we fall III
the dust only to rise again. "rhe hour
coming when ali who are in their graves
shall hear His voice and como forth" 1t
would be horrible consideration to think
that our bodies were always to lie ia the
ground. However beautiful the flowers you
plant there, We do not want to make oul
everlasting residence in such place.
have with these eyes seen so many 0
the Llories of the natural world AMI thf
radiant faces OF my friends, that do not
want to think thar when | close them in
death l shall meyer open them again. 1t i:
sad enough to have hand or foot ampu
tated. In a hospital, after IL soldier had ha
his hand taken of he said, "Goodby, dea
old hand. you had done me Il great deal o
good service, and burst into tears. Ii is 2
more awful thing to think OF having tn,
whole body amputatel from the soul for
ever. / must have my body Ag lin, to Sc.
with, 10 hear with, to walk with. With thi
hand must clasp he hand OF my loved one
when l have passed clean over Jordan ans
with it wave the triumphs OF my King. Aim
we shall rise again We shall rise agaiu A
the leafl AS the Leaf!
Crossing the Atlantic the ship may found
or amt our bodies be eaten by the sharks, bu
God tameth leviathaD, and wa shall com
again In awful explosion Of factory boile
our bodies may be shattered into hunlrs.
fragments in the air. but God watches tn
disaster, and we shall come again. He viii
drag the deep, and rdnsac6 the tomb, IA,
upturn the wilderness, and torture the noun
tain, but He will find us aud fetch Us out an
up 10 judgment aud TO vi tory.
We shall come up with perfect eye, wit
perfect hand with perfect foot aud with per
feet body. All our weaknesses left b hind