The Canton times. (Canton, Miss.) 1893-1906, 1896-11-06
Roman Catholic cemeteries in the city.

homan catholic cemeteries In the CITY
each OF which had more than this. w
are all dying. London and Pekin ar
not the greatest cities of the world
Inc grave is the great city. 1t hail
mlghtier population, longer streets
brighter lights, thicker -darknesses
Caesar is there, and all his su biects
Nero is there, and all his vic
Tins. City of kings and paupers
IT has swallowed up in it's i'm
migratlons. Thebes, and Tyre ant
Babylon, and will swallow all GU,
cities. Yet, City of Silence. No voice
NO hoof. No wheel. No clash. Nc
shifting of hammer. No clack of flv,
ing loom. No jar. No whisper. Great
City OF Silence! OF all its million mil.
lion hands, not one of them is lifted,
" all its million million eyes, not one
OF them sparkles. OF all its million
million hearts, not one pulsates. The
Living are in small minority.
1t, in the movement of time. some
great question between the living and
the dead should be put, and God called
up all the dead and the living to decide
1t, as we lifted our hands, and from all
the resting places of the dead they
lifted their hands, the dead would out
vote US. Why, the multitude of the
dying and the dead are as these au-
tumnal leaves drifting under our feet
to-day. We march on toward eternity,
not by companies of 100, or regiments
OF 1000, or brigades of 10000, but ], 800.
o0O,0 abreast! Marching on! March-
ing on!
Again: As with variety of appear
ance the leaves depart, so do we. You
have noticed that some trees, at the
first touch of the frost, lose all their
beauty; they stand withered, and un-
comely, and ragged, waiting for the
northeast storm to drive them into the
mire. The sun shining at MONDAY
gilds them with no beauty. Ragged
leaves! Dead leaves! No one stands
to study them. They are gathered in
no vase. They are hung on no wall.
So death smites many. There is no
beauty in their departure. One sharp
frost of sickness, or one blast off
the cold waters, and they are
gone. No tinge of hope. No
of Heaven. Their spring
was all abloom with bright prospects;
their summer thick-foliaged with OPP
but October came, and
their glory went. 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 the window and say:
There was black frost last night,
and you know that from that day
everything will wither. So men seem
20 get along without religion, amid,
he annoyances and vexations that
zip them slightly here and nip them
here. But after awhile death comes.
t is a black frost. and all is ended.
Oh, what whitening and scattering
leath makes among those not pre-
Dared to meet it! They leave every.
hing pleasant behind them-their
louse, their families, their friends,
heir books, their pictures, and step
ut of the sunshine into the shadow.
hey quit the presence of bird, and
loom, and wave, to go un beckoned
nd unwelcomed The bower in
7hich they stood, and sang, and wove
haplets, and made themselves merry,
as gone down under an awful equi-
octial. No bell can toll one-half the
of their condition. Frosted
Lastly: AS the leaves fade and fall
My to rise, so do we. All this golden
lower of the woods is making the
round richer, and in the juice, the
Up and life of the tree the leaves will
'me up again. Next May the south
Ind will blow the resurrection trum-
1t, and they will rise. So we fall in the
lst only to rise again. THE hour is
ming when all who are in their ,
'aves shall hear His voice and come
rth." 1t would be horrible consid-
alton to think that only bodies were
lily to lie in the ground. However ,
'autiful the flowers you plant there,
e do not want to make our everlast,
G residence in such place.
have with these eyes seen so many
the glories of the natural world,
ID the radiant faces of my friends, =
at do not want to think that whep
close them in death shall never open !
EN- again. 1t is sad enough to have a
hand or foot amputated. In hos
tai, after soldier had had his hand I
ken off, he said: "Good-by, dear p
hand, you have done me P
eat deal of good service" 4
d burst into tears 1t is b
more awful thing to think of having c.
: whole body amputated from the CT
IL forever. l must have my body ii
ain, to see with, to hear with, to q
TX with. With this hand l must d.
sp the hand of my loved ones when fc
nave passed clean over Jordan, and IL
IN il wave the triu m mis- of NV Kino ar