The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1900-04-20
diers from the tower of Antonio is
detailed to stand guard.
shattered beyond Repair.

diers from the tower of AntoniA IL
detailed to stand guard.
shattered beyond Repair
At the door OF the mausoleum {
fight takes places which decides the
question for all graveyards and GENE
teries. Sword of lightning against
sword of steel, Angel against mill
tary No seal Of letter was ever more
easily broken than that seal OF the
sanhedrin on the door of the tomb
The dead body in the niche in the
rock begins to move in its shroud OF
fine linen. slides down upon the pave
ment, moves ont of the portico, APP
pears in the doorway, advances into
the open air. comes up the marble
steps. Having left his mortuary at
tire behind him, he comes forth in
workmans garb, as | take 1t, from the
fact that the women mistook him for
the gardener.
That day the grave received such
shattering it can never be rebuilt. All
| the trowels of earthly masonry can
never mend it, Forever and forever
ii Is a broken tomb. Death, taking
side with the military in that fight,
received a terrible cut from the an
gels spear of flame, so that he him
self shall go down after awhile under
| it. The king of terrors retiring be-
fore the king of grace. The Lord is
rlsen Let earth and heaven keep
Easter today! Hosanna!
Some things strike my observation
while standing in this garden with a
new sepulcher. And, first, post NOR
TEN honors in contract with ante-mor-
TEN ignominies. If they could have
afforded Christ such a costly sepul-
cher, why could not they have given
him an earthly residence? Will they
give this piece of marble to dead
Christ instead of soft pillow for the
living Jesus? If they had expended
half the value of that tomb to make
Christ comfortable. it would not have
been so sad a story He asked bread;
they gave him stone.
Christ, like most of the worlds
benefactors, was appreciated better
after he was dead. Westminster alb
hey and monumental Greenwood are
the worlds attempt to atone by hon
ors to the dead for wrongs to the liv-
ing. Poets corner in Westminster
abbey attempts to pay for the suffer-
ings of Grub street.
Go through that poets corner in
Westminster abbey. There is Han
del, the great musician, from whose
music you hear today; but while
look at his statue | cannot help bur
think of the discords with which his
fellow musicians tried to destroy him.
There is the tomb of John Dryden,
beautiful monument; but | can not
help but think at 70 years of age ne
wrote of his being oppressed in for
tune and of the contract that he had
Just made for a thousand verses at SIX
pence a line. And there. too, you find
the monument of Samuel Butler, the
author of "Hudibras; but while |
look at his monument in poets corner
cannot but ask myself where he died.
In a garrett There see the costly
tablet in the poets corner-the costly
tablet to one of whom the celebrated
Waller wrote THE old blind school
master, John Milton, has just issued
a tedious poem on the fall of man. Ii
the length of it be no virtue, 1t has
none" There is a beautiful monu-
ment to Sheridan. Poor Sheridan. If
he could have only discounted that
monument for a mutton chop!
Make the Living Happy.
Oh, you unfilial children, do not give
your parents so much tombstone, but
few more blankets-less funeral and
more bedroom! If per cent of the
money we now spend on Burns ban
ouets could have been expended in
making the living Scotch poet comfort
able. he would not have been harried
with the drudgery of an exciseman.
Horace Greeley, outrageously abused
while living, when dead is followed
toward Greenwood by the president OF
the United States and the leading men
of the army and navy. Massachusetts
tries to atone at the grave of Charles
Sumner for the ignominious resolu-
tions with which her legislature de-
nounced the living senator. Do you
think that the tomb at Springfield can
pay for Booths bullet?
Oh, do justice to the living! All the
justice you do them you must do this
side the gates of the Metropolis. They
cannot wake up to count the number
of carriages at the obsequies or to no.
tice the polish of the Aberdeen granite
or to read epitaphal commemoration.
Gentleman's mausoleum in the suburbs
of Jerusalem cannot pay for Bethle-
hem's manger and Calcarean cross and
Pilates ruffian judiciary. Post NOR
TEN honors cannot atone for ante
mortem ignominies.
Again, standing in this garden of the
sepulcher, | am impressed with the
fact that floral and arborescent decor
ations are appropriate for the place OF
.ha daad We ora Glad that among