Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-04-16

uf letter was ever more easily broken
than that sea- 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 pavement, moves out of the
pOrticO, appears in the doorway, ad-
vances into the open air, comes up the
marble steps. Having left his mOrtu-
airy attire behind him, he comes forth
in workman's garb, as 1 take it, from
the fact that the women mistook him
for the gardener.
That day the grave received such
SCATTERING it can never be rebuilt. All
the trowels of earthly masonry can
never mend it. Forever and forever it
is a broken tomb. Death, taking side
with the military in that fight, received
q terrible cut from the Angels spear Of
fame, so that he himself shall go down
after awhile under it. The king of ter
rors retiring before the king of grace!
The Lord is risen! 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
tenn honors in contrast with ante NOR
tem ignOminies. If they could have af-
forded Christ such a costly sepulcher,
why could not they have given him an
earthly residence? Will they give this
piece of marble to a dead Christ in
stead of a soft pillow for the living Je-
sus? If they had expended half the
value of that tomb to make Christ COM
Portable, it would not have been so sad
a story. He asked bread; they gave
him a stone.
Christ, like most of the worlds bene-
factors, was appreciated better after
he was dead. Westminster abbey and
monumental Greenwood are the worlds
attempt to atone by honors to the dead
for wrongs to the living. Poets cor
ner 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 music
you hear today; but while 1 look at his
statue l cannot help but think of the
discOrds with which his fellow musi-
clans tried to destroy him. There is
the tomb of John Dryden, a beautiful
monument; but / cannot help but think
at 20 years of age he wrote of his be-
ing oppressed in fortune and of the
contract that he had just made for a
thousand verses at sixpence a line.
And there, too. you find the monument
of Samuel Butler, the author of ''Hudi-
braS;" but while l look at his monu-
ment in Poets corner I cannot but ask
myself where he died. In a garnet.
There l see the costly tablet in the Po-
cts corner-the costly tablet to one of
whom the celebrated Waller wrote:
1.-THE old blind schoolmaster John Mil
ton, has just issued tedious poem on
the fall of man. If the length of it be
no virtue, it has none'' There is a
beautiful monument to Sheridan. Poor
Sheridan! If he could have only dis
counted that monument for q mutton
chopI
Justice to the Living.
Oh, you unfilial children, do not give
your parents so much tombstone, but a
few more blankets-less funeral and
more bedroom! If per cent of the
money we now spend on Burns ban
quets 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 to-
ward 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-
lions with which her legislature de-
!iyinU
think that the tomb at Springfield can
pay for Booths bullet?
Oh, do justice to the livingi 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.
mausoIeum in the suburbs
of Jerusalem cannot pay for Bethle-
hem manger and CaIvarean cross and
Pilates ruffian judiciary. Post NOR
tenn honors cannot atone for ante NOR
tenn ignominies.
Again, standing in this garden of the
| am impressed with the
fact that floral and arborescent decora-
lions are appropriate for the place of
the dead. We are glad that among
flowers and sculptural adornments
Christ spent the short time of his inhu-
nation.
/ cannot understand what I some
times see in the newspapers where the
obsequies are announcedand the friends
say in connection with it, "Send no
flowers" Rather, if the means allow
I say if the means allow-strew the
basket with flowers the hearse with