The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-04-21

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spear OF flame, so that he himself shall
go down after awhile under it. The
KING OF terrors retiring before the
King of Grace! The Lord is risenl
Let earth and Heaven keep Easter to-
day! Hosanna!
Some things strike my observation
while standing in this garden with a
new sepulcher. And, first, post NOR
TEN honors in contrast with ante NOR
tenn ignominies. If they could have af-
forded Christ such a costly sepulcher.
why could not they have given Him an
earthly residence? viii they give this
piece OF marble to dead Christ in
stead of soft pillow for the living
Jesus? If they had expended half the
value of that tomb to make Christ COM
Portable, it would not have been SO sad
story. He asked bread; they gave
Him a stone.
Christ, like most of the worlds bene-
factors, was appreciated better after
lie was dead. Westminster abbey and
monumental Greenwood are the
worlds attempt to atone by honors
to the dead for wrongs to the living.
Poets corner in Westminster abbey
attempts to pay for the sufferings of
| Grub street.
Go through that Poets corner in
Westminster abbey. There is Handel
the great musician, from whose mu-
sic you hear to-day; but while look
at his statue l cannot help but think
of the discords with which his fellow
musicians tried to destroy him. There
is the tomb of John Dryden, beauti.
full monument; but cannot help but
thing at 10 years of age he wrote OF
his being oppressed in fortune and OF
the contract that he had just made
for thousand verses at siXpence a
line. And there, too, you find the
monument of Samuel Butler. the au.
thor of "Hudibras;" but while | look
at his monument in Poets corner
cannot but ask myself where he died
In garnet. There | see the costly
tablet in the Poets corner-the costly
tablet to one of whom the celebrated
Waller wrote: 1.-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, it has
none" There is beautiful monument
to Sheridan. Poor Sheridan! If he
could only have discounted that mon
ument for a mutton chop!
Oh, you unf1lial children, do not give
your parents so much tombstone, but
few more blankets-less funeral anC
more bedroom! If five per cent. Of
the money we now spend on Burns
banquets could have been expended
in making the living Scotch poet com
Portable, he would not have been har
ried with the drudgery of an excise
man. Horace Greeley, outrageouslN
abused while living, when dead is fol
lowed toward Greenwood by the pres
ident 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 ig
nominious resolutions with which hel
legislature deounced the living sen
ator. Do you think that the tomb al
Springfield can pay for Booths bull
let?
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 tt
note the polish of the Aberdeen gran
lite or to read epitaphal commemora
ton. Gentleman's mausoleum in the
suburbs of Jerusalem cannot pay fol
Bethlehem manger and Calvarear
cross and Pilates ruffian judiciary
Post norton honcrs cannot atone fol
ante norton ignominies.
Again, standing in this garden Of
the sepulcher, l am impressed with
the fact that floral and arborescent
decorations are appropriate for the
place of the dead. We are glad that
among flowers and sculptural adorn'
ments Christ spent the short time Of
His inhumation.
cannot understand what I some
times see in the newspapers where the
obsequies are announced and the
| friends say in connection with it:
"Send no flowers" Rather, if the
means allow-I say if the means al
| low-strew the casket with flowers
the hearse with flowers, the grave
| with flowers. Put them on the brow
it will suggest coronation; in their
hand-it will mean victory.
Christ was buried in a garden
Flowers mean resurrection. Death is
sad enough anyhow. Let conservatory
and arboretum contribute to its al
deviation. The harebell will ring the
victory; the passion flower will ex'
press the sympathy; the daffodil will
kindle its lamp and illumine the dark
ness. The cluster of asters will be
the constellation. Your little child
loved flowers when she was living
Put them in her hand now that she
can 90 forth no more and pluck them
for herself. On sunshiny days take a
fresh garland and put it over the still
heart.
BROOKLYN has no grander glory than
it's Greenwood, nor Boston than Its
Mount Auburn, nor Philadelphia than
its Laurel Hill, nor Cincinnati than It's
Spring Grove, nor San Francisco than
it's Lone Mountain. But what shah we
saw of those country graveyards, with
the vines broken down and the SLABS
aslant and the mound caved in and the
grass pasture ground for the sections
cattle? Indeed, were your father and
mother of so little worth that you can
not afford to take care OF their ashes
Some day turn out all hands and