Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-11-13

Of flying loor. NJ jar. NJ whisper. Great
city Of silence, OF al it, uI.lnu niiiien
hands not one % then h. uI-l OF ail ~
million million eye, not HHr oi them
sparkles. OF all IT, million Iilhoh heefis
not one pulsates The IyiuE azr ia smAA
minority.
n. ia the movement Of time. some Ereat
guesiiou between the living aut the tea1
should be- put, and God called up aug the
dead and the living o. decide b., ~ Ne lltfi
our hands and from all the resting places oi
the dead they lhel their hands. The dead
WoulH OutyOie us. Why, the muiliiuir oi
the dysug ami dead are a. the-r auiumnai
leaves drifting under our feet to-day. We
march on toward eternity. not by companies
Of 100. or regiments oi 1000. ur hrigale- OF
10000. but GOO, 010.OyO abreast. Marching
on. Marching gu,
Again, as with variety OF appearance lhs
leaves depart. so DO We You have nJiicel
that some trees az the first touch oi the iro-l
lose all their beauty. They stand wlthersd
and uncOmely ana ragged waiting Tor the
northeast storm 90 drive them into tue
mirr. The sun shiuin. al MONDAY gil1-
them with no beauty. Ragged leaves. Dead
leaves. No one stands to study them. Ihey
are gathered in no vase. They ara hung on
no wall. So death smiies many. There Is
no beauty in their departure. one
sharp frost OF sickness or one oiast
on the cold waters and they are gone.
No tlnsr Of hope. No prophecy OF
heaven. Their spring Sas all ubloom with
bright prospects. Then summer thick
foliaged with opportunities. Bur October
came, and their glory went out. Frosted! In
early autumn the frOsts coms, hut do not
seem TO damage vegetation. They are light
frnsts. But some morning you look out oil
the window and say, There wa. black
frost last night" and YOU know that from
that day everything will wither. so men
seem TO get along without religion amid the
anuoyances and veXntiOns Of life that MP
them slightly here aud nip them there. But
after awhile death comes Ii is Il black irOs.
and all is ended,
On, what whitening aud scattering death
makes among those not prepared to meet Il.
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 TO
20 unbeckOned and unwelcOmed. The bower
in which they stood and sang and wove
chapets and made themselves merry has
gone down under an awful equinOcticaL No
bell can toll one-hall the doiefulness 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 to-day. So Christian
character is never so attractive as in the dy-
ing hour Such 90 into the grave, not as Il
dog. with irown and harsh voice, driven in
to kennel. but they pass away calmly.
brightly, sweetly, grandly. As the leaf. As
the leaf,
Lastly. as the leaves fade and fall onlyto
rise, 50 do we. All this golden shower OF the
woods is making the ground richer, AMI in
the Juice and sap and life OF the tree the
leaves will come up again. Next May the
south wind will blow the resurrection
trumpet, and they will rise. So We fall in
the dust only to rise again. "The hour
coming when ali who are in their graves
shall hear His voice and come forth. 1t
would he a horrible consideration 10 think
that our bodies were always TO lie in the
ground. However beautiful the flowers you
plant there, wedO not want TO make our
everlasting residence in such place.
have with these eyes seen so many oil
the Ll0res of the natural world and the
radiant faces of my friends, that | do not
want to think that when / close them in
death | shall never open them again 1t Is
sad enough to have hand or foot ampu'
tated in hospital, after u soldier had had
his hand taken of he said, "G0odby, dear
old hand, YOU had done me 4 great deal OF
good service, and burst into tears II is a
more awful thing to think OF having the
whole body amputated from the soul for.
ever. | must have my body aglin, to sea
/ with, to hear with, to walk with. With this
/ hand l must claspthe hand OF my loved one.
when | have passed clean over Jordan and
with it wave the triumphs Of my King Aha,
we shall rise again We shall rise again! A
! the leaf. As the leaf,
Crossing the Atlantic the ship may found
/ er and our bodies be eaten by the sharks, but
/ God tameth leviathan, ami We shall come
+ again. In awful explosion Of factory boilel
/ our bodies may be shattered into hundred
/ fragments in the air, but God watches tn,
/ disaster, and we shall come again. He vii
/ drag the deep, and ransack the tomb, ant
/ upturn the wilderness and torture the noun
tain, but He will find us and fetch US out anC
up to Judgment and to victory.
/ We shall come up with perfect eye, will
/ perfect hand, with perfect foot and with per
/ feet body. All our weaknesses left behind
We fall, but we rise; we die. but we Ily
again. We moulder away, but we come Z
higher unfolding. As the leaf! As the leaf