The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-05-05

Lssors pslscans. Tee ars sslno y -
ven anyhow hefors lsag. asavsa y a.
old city. but hes nsvsr yse rsDetssd go
cass Of sickness - 90 biIl q mortal.
ity. No opAtAaimia for the sySs Ne
paeunonia for the lungs. No plsdriss
for the side. No neuralgia for the
nerves No Rheumatism for the mus
clsA The Inhabitants shall never say.
am sick" There shall b. no more
pain" -f i-
Again. you ought to make the best
OF life's finality. Now. you think have
. very tough subject. You DO not zee
how ! am to strike . spark of light
out Of the fiint Of the tombstone. There
are many people who have an Idea that
death h the submergence Of everything
pleasant by everything doleful. II my
subject could Close in the upsetting Of
all such preconceived notions. II would
close well. Who can Judge best Of the
features Of q man-thoss who are close
by him or those who are afar on? ''Oh.
you say. "those can Judge best Of the
features Of . man who are close by
him!"
Now. my friends. who shall Judge Of
the features Of death-whether they are
lsvely or whether they are repulsivs3
You? You are too far OF. II want to
get q Judgment a. TO what really the
features Of death are. will not ask
you. will ask those who have been
within . month of death. or . week Of
death, Or an hour Of death. or a minute
Of death. They stand 10 near the fea-
lures. they can tell. They give unani-
nous testimony. II they are Christian
people. that death. instead OF being de-
moniac.. is cherubic. OF all the thou
sands Of Christians who have been car
ried through the gates OF the cemetery,
gather up their dying experiences. and
you will fnd they nearly all bordered on
. jubilate. How often nave you seen a
dying man Join in ths psalm being sung
around his bedside. the middle Of the
verse opening to let his ransomed spirit
free. long after the lips could not speak
looking and pointing upward.
One week Of the year Ii called BIOS
som week-called 50 all through the
land because there are more blossoms in
that week than in any other week. Of
the year. Blossom week! And that is
what the future world u to which the
Christian Is invited blossom week for
ever. II Is as far ahead Of this world
as paradise Is ahead Of Dry Tortugas.
and yet here we stand shlvering and
fearing to go out and we want to stay
on the dry sand and amid the stormy
petreIs when we are invited to arbors
Of jasmine and birds of paradise.
Oh. what an ado about dying! We
get 80 attached to the malarial marsh
In which we live that we are afraid to
go up and live on the hilltop. We are
alarmed because vacation is coming.
Eternal sunlight and rest programme
no inducement. Let US stay here and
keep cold and ignorant and weak. Do
not introduce us to Elijah and John
Milton and .Bourdaloue. Keep our feet
on the, sharp cobblestones of earth in
stead OF planting them on the bank of
amaranth in heaven. Give us this
small island Of leprous world instead
of the immensities Of splendor and de-
light. Keep our hands full of nettles
and our shoulder under the burden and
our neck in the yoke and hopples on
our ankles and handouts on our wrists.
Dear Lord" we seem to say, keep US
stead of letting US UP where we might
live and reign and rejoice"
am amazed at myself and at your
self for this infatuation under which
we all rest. Men, you would suppose
would get frightened at having to stay
in this world instead Of getting fright
ened at having to go toward heaven.
congratulate anybody who has right
to die. BY that / mean through sick
ness you cannot avert or through acci-
dent you cannot avoid-your work con-
summated. where did they bury
Lily?" said one little child to another
"Oh," she replied. they buried her In
the ground" What! In the cold
ground?" "Oh. no. no; not in the cold
ground; but in the warm ground, where
ugly seeds become beautiful flowers u
But" says some one. 1T pains me
SO much to think that must lose the
body with which my soul has so long
Icompanioned." You do not lose 1t. You
no more lose your body by death thar
lyou lose yur watch when you send It tC
have It repaired. or your Jewel wher
you send 1t to have 1t reset. or tht
faded picture when you send It to hav'
1t touched up. or the photograph Of q
friend when you have II put In a new
locket. You do not lose your body
Paul will 90 to Rome to get his. Pay
son will go to Portland to get his. Pres
ident Edwards will 30 to Princeton I,
get his. George Goodman will 90 4
the bottom Of the Atlantic to get his
and we will 60 to the village churcl
yards and the city cemeteries to &c
ours, and when we have our perfec
spirit rejoined to our perfect body thel
we with be the kind Of men and womel
that the resurrection morning vii