Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-05-29
DEL, FRIDAY, MAY %, 1896.

from Rfar como softly into tho room one
by one, for she is too weak to see more
than one at "a time. She runs her dying
fingers lovingly through their hair and
tells them not to cry, and that she is going
now, but thoy viii meet again in a little
while in a better world, and then kisses
them gOodby and says to each, God bless
and keep you, my dCar childw The day
Of tho obscquics comes and tho officiating
clergyman tells tho story of wifely and
motherly endurance, and many hearts on
earth and in heaven echo the sentiment,
and as she is carried OF tho stage Of this
mortal life there arc cries Of, Faithful
unto DEATH" "She Eath done what sho
could !" Wliln overpOwrring all the voices
Of earth and heaven is tho plaudit Of Tho
God who watched her from fist to last,
saying: "Wel done, good and faithful
servant Thou hast been f,:i,hfGl over
few things. will make thee ruler over
many things. Enter thou into the joy OF
thy Lord"
Tho Choice.
But what became of tho father of that
household? Ho started rs young man in
business and Ind small income, and hay
ing got little ahead sickness in the fam
lily swept 1t all away. He went through
all tho business panics Of 40 years, met
many LOSSES and suffered many betraySls,
but kc right ON trusting in God, whether
business was good or poor, settling his chill
dron a good example and giving them IN,
best Of counsel, and nevor n prayer did he
offer for all those years bat they were
mentioned la it. He is old now and realizes
it cannot he long bcfnIa he must quit all
these scenes But he IS goir to leave his
III "a. 4
Christian principles which all tho dcfalca-
tions Of earth can neyor touch, and as he
goes out Of tho world the church Of God
blcsses him. and the poor ring his doorbell
to see II he is any better, and his grave is
surrounded by - multitude who went OH
foot and stood there before tho procession
Of carriages Uame up, and some say. There
will be no one to take his place. " md |
Others say "Who will pity mo nowg" and
others remarS, Ito shall DO held IN ovur-
lasting remembrance And as the drama |
of his lilo closes all the yociferntion and |
braves and rncoros that ever shook tho |
Of earthly spectacle were |
tame and fethl0 compared with tho long, /
loud thunders Of approval that shall break .
from the cloud OF witnesses in the piled up
gallery of the heavens. hose We between /
tho life that shall close by being Kissed of
the stage and the life that shall close amid
acolamations supeFnal and archangelic.
Oh, mon and women on the stage of life
many Of you in the first act of the drama.
and othurs in tho second, and some Of you
in tho third, and few in the fourth, ANA
here and there ono in the fifth, but all Of
you between entrance and Exit, quote to
Fpu rs tho leroration Of this sermon the
most suggestive passage that Shakespeare
ever wrote, although you never heard it
rooitcd. Thoauthur has often been claimed
as irhdal ard atheist, so the quotation
shall be net only roligiously helpful to
ourselves, but erandly vindicatory of tho
great dramatist l quote from his last
will and testamentl
''In the naho Of God, amen /, VII
lam Shakespeare Of Stratford upon-Avon,
N tho county Of Warwick, gentleman, in
perfect health and memory (God be prais-
ld), do mako this my last will ard testa-
nent, in manner and form following:
first, commend my soul into the hands
# God, my CItator, hoping and assuredly
through tho only merits Of Jesus
Christ, my Saviour, TO be made partaker
# lifo everlasting"