The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-07-21

went out after her, but ! am mos.
affected by the story of history tha'
on that day there were 10000 OF inc
poor of France who followed her COZ
fin, weeping and wailing until the ar
rang again, because when they lost
Josephine they lost their last earthiy
friend. Oh, who would not rather
have such obsequies than all the tears
that were ever poured in the lach-
rymals that have been exhumed from
ancient cities? There may be no mass
for the dead; there may be no cosby
sarcophagus; there may be no clad
crate mausoleum, but in the damp Gel
lars of the city and through the lonely
huts of the mountain glen there VIII
be mourning, mourning, mourning De-
cause Dorcas is dead: 'Blessed are
the dead who die in the Lord; they
rest from their labors, and their
works do follow them"
| speak to you of Dorcas the resnr-
rected. The apostle came to where
she was and said: "Arise, and she
sat up!" In what a short compass
the great writer put that "She sat up
Oh, what a time there must have been
around that town when the apostle
brought her out among her ola
friends! How the tears of JOY must
have started! What a clapping OF
hands there must have been! What
singing! What laughter! Sound it
all through that lane! Shout 1t down
that dark alley! Let all Joppa hear
it! Dorcas is resurrected!
You and l have seen the same thing
many a time; not dead body re-
suscitated. but the deceased coming
up again after death in the good ac-
complished. If man labors up to 30
years of age, serving God, and then
dies. we are apt to think that his
earthly work is done. No. His in
fuence on earth will continue till the
world ceases. Services rendered for
Christ never stop. A Christian wom-
an tolls for the upbuilding of church
through many anxieties, through
many self-denials, with prayers and
tears, and then she dies. 1t is Is
years since she went away. Now the
spirit of God descends upon that
church. hundreds of souls stand up
and confess the faith of Christ. Has
that Christian woman, who went away
Is years ago, nothing to do with these
things? I see the Towering out of
her noble heart. ! hear the echo of
her footsteps in all the songs over sins
forgiven, in all the prosperity of the
church. The good that seemed to be
buried has come up again. Dorcas is
After awhile these womanly friends
of Christ will put down their needle
forever. After making garments for
others, some one will make garment
for them; the last robe we ever wear
the robe for the grave. You will have
heard the last cry of pain. You will
have witnessed the last orphanage.
You will have come in worn out from
your last round of mercy. l do not
know where you will sleep, nor what
your epitaph will be, but there will be
a lamp burning at that tomb, and an
angel of God guarding it, and through
all the long night no rude foot will dis
lurb the dust. Sleep on, sleep on.
Soft bed, pleasant shadows, undis-
turbed repose! Sleep on
Asleep in Jesus! Blessed sleep
From which none ever wake to weep!
Then one day there will be sky
rending and whirr of wheels and the
fash of pageant, armies marching,
chains clanking, banners waving, thun-
1ers booming. and that Christian wom-
an will rise from the dust, and she will
be suddenly surrounded-surrounded
oy the wanderers of the street whom
she reclaimed, surrounded by the
souls to whom she had adj
Daughter of God, so
strangely surrounded, what means
his? 1t means that reward has come,
that the victory is won. that the crown
S ready, that the banquet is spread
Shout it through all the crumblng
Earth. Sing it through all the flying
Heavens. Dorcas is resurrected.
In 1855, when some of the soldiers
came back from the Crimean war to
london, the queen of England distrib-
tied among them beautiful medals
Jailed Crimean medals. Galleries were
erected for the two houses of parlia-
nent and the royal family to sit in.
There was great audience to witness
he distribution of the medals. A |
colonel who had lost both feet in the |
)attle of Inkermann was pulled in on |
/ wheel chair; others came in limping |
IN their crutches. Then the queen of |
England arose before them in the name |
If her government and uttered words |
If commentator to the officers and |
men and distributed those medals, in
'cribed with the four great battlefields
Alma, Balaklava Inkermann and Sc |
Tastopol. AS the queen gave these to
he wounded officers the bands of music |
struck up the national air, and the
people, with streaming eyes, Joined in
he song
God save our gracious queen!
Long live our noble queen!
God save the queen!
And then they shouted: "Huzza,
luzza!" Oh, it was proud day for
hose returned warriors! But bright
r, better and gladder day will come
when Christ shall gather those who
lave toiled in His service, good soldiers
If Jesus Christ. He shall rise before
hem, and in the presence of all the glo-
flied of Heaven he will say: "Weu
lone, good and faithful servant" and
hen He will distribute the medals of
ternal victory, not inscribed with
works of righteousness which we have
lone, but with those four great battle