Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1896-10-29

house on this street but from it a
Christian has departed? When your
baby died there were enough angels in
the room to have cha ted a ,ronation.
When your father die. you sat watch
ing. and a,,a. white islt of his wrist,
and then irt -rIr udnd under his
arm to see if ihrr .ysre any warmth
left, and placed ~ mirror to the
mouth to see iht'a O. ere any sign
of breathing; nd ,yHer all was over
you thought hagv &C.,. lily he slept
a giant resting If'sr BATTLE. Ohi
there are man, Christian deathbeds.
The chariots of God, come to take His
children home. are speeding every
whittier This one halts ut the gate
of the almshouse; that one at the gate
Of princes. The shout of captives
breaking their chains comes on the
morning air. The heavens ring again
and again with the coronation. The II
gates of Heaven are crowded with the
aScen ding righteous. | see the accum-
ulated glories of a thousand Christian
dcathbeds-an autumnal forest illum-
mated by an autumnal sunset! They
died not In shame, but in triumph. As
the leaf! As the leaf!
Lastly: As the leaves fade and fall
only to rise, so do we. All this golden
shower of the woods is making the
ground richer, and 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 trum-
pet, and they will rise. So we fall in
! the dust only rise again.
he hour is coming when all who
are in their graves shall hear his voice
| and come forth" II won Il be a horri-
| BILE consideration tn think that our bod
| les were always to lie in the ground
| However beautiful the fiDwcrs you
plant there, we do not want to make
our everlasting residence in such a
place.
I,have with these eyes seen so many
of The glories of the natural world,
and the radiant faces of my friends,
that do not wan to think that when
| close them in death | shall never
open them again. 1t is sad enough to
have a hand or foot amputated. In a
| hospital after soldier had had his
hand taken off, he said, "Goodby. dear
old hand, You have done me n great
deal of good service" and burst into
tears 1t is a more awful thing to think
of having the whole body amputated
from the soul forever. | must have my
body again, to see with, to hear with,
to walk with. With this hand | must
clasp the hand of my loved ones when
| have passed clean over Jordan, and
with it wave the triumphs of my King.
Aha. we shall rise again-we shall rise
again. As the leaf. As the leaf.
Crossing the Atlantic the ship may
founder. and our bodies be eaten by
the sharks; but God tameth leviathan
and we shall come again. In awful
explosion of factory boiler our bodies
may be shattered into hundred frag.
ments in the air; but God watches the
disaster. and we shall come again.
lie will drag the deep, and ransack
the tomb, and upturn the wilderness,
and torture the mountain, but lie will
find u.s.. and fetch us out aud up to
Judgment and to victory. We shall
come up with perfect eye, with perfect
hand, with perfect foot, and with per-
feet tsdy. All our weaknesses left be-
hind.
We fall, but we rise, we die but we
live again! We molder away, but we
come to higher unfolding! AS the
leaf! As the leaf.